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What Roswall’s Clean Industrial Deal means for environmental policy
Today, the Commission unveils its rebranded Green Deal, signalling a new approach to industrial policy. The draft of the proposal obtained by Euractiv last week sugges...
Why the German election is still not over
Yesterday, fifty-nine million voters cast their ballots in what is considered a defining election for Europe’s future. It was a big night for the Christian Democrats, ...
EU top diplomat Kallas on 'Russian traps' and European red lines
The first round of US-Russia talks on a potential Ukraine peace deal kicked off yesterday in Riyadh – behind closed doors and without a single European or Ukrainian re...
Europe’s desperate bid to shape Ukraine’s Trump deal in Munich
Last weekend, Munich hosted the world’s premier geopolitical forum amid shifting alliances and rising tensions across country lines. In the Bavarian capital leaders c...
Why Valentine’s Day will taste more bitter this year
Are you looking forward to celebrating the day of love? You’re not the only one. For food producers, the day is a test of how far consumers are willing to stretch thei...
What a supermarket boycott has to do with the Romanian election
Across the Western Balkans and beyond, the eye watering prices of food products have led citizens to successfully boycott supermarkets in the past two weeks. In Croat...
What the EU can expect from NATO talks
NATO members are meeting in Brussels today for the first time since Trump took office to discuss defence spending pledges, GDP targets, and weapons delivery to Kyiv. T...
Macron’s plan to push Europe’s AI policy ahead
Eighty world leaders are in Paris for the final day of the AI Summit, a key forum for Europe’s renewed push to close the gap with AI powerhouses—the U.S. and China.For...
How Brexit's legacy limits Starmer's EU relationship
Five years after the Brexit referendum, the UK has undergone its biggest change in a century. In Westminister, five prime ministers have tried – and failed – to stabil...
How a budget bill could end the French left
For the first time in 60 years, France started the year without a budget bill after December’s vote triggered the collapse of Prime Minister Barnier’s three-month-old ...
Making sense of Trump’s tariffs, what should the EU expect?
After Canada, Mexico, and China, the EU could be next to face the threat of tariffs as Donald Trump’s latest remarks suggest levies on European goods may be imminent. ...
After California, DeepSeek makes the EU nervous
The new Chinese AI model DeepSeek R1 is making waves worldwide as the start up behind it says it runs at a fraction of the cost of all existing models on the market. T...
Why the Commission is failing to ease farmers' worries over MERCOSUR
Concerns over the EU’s trade deal with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay have stalled negotiations for two decades. Now, the agreement is signed – but its oppos...
An interview with EVP Teresa Ribera, on the political tensions against the Clean Industrial Deal
Less than a month before the publication of the Clean Industrial Deal, executive commissioner Teresa Ribera speaks to host Giada Santana and EET editor Donagh Cagney a...
What the uprising toppling Serbia’s PM means for the country’s EU accession
Not many could have guessed that the 2024 railway accident in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second-largest city, would spark some of the largest protests in the country’s post-So...
Von der Leyen’s Competitiveness Compass explained
European Commission's President von der Leyen unveils today her 'North Star' of economic strategy: the Competitiveness Compass. Beyond the motto of simplifying and uni...
How Alice Weidel redefined Germany’s far right
By becoming the moderate face of the AfD, Alice Weidel helped transform the party from a fringe movement into a dominant force, forcing its rivals to rethink their ele...
Why the EU’s new crisis force won’t be deployed just yet
The European Union approved its first-ever crisis response unit, a 5,000-strong force designed to address threats outside its borders. However, as EU foreign ministers...
Everybody wants Greenland, but what does Greenland want?
Greenland has come into the limelight after Donald Trump suggested buying the island in late December. The controversy reignited a wish for independence in the world's...
Von der Leyen's Davos economic vision for Europe
As European leaders and the world's most powerful companies descended upon Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum this week, Commission President Ursula von ...
How a spy scandal exposed EU's failure to protect its officials
The EU is facing some serious questions about the lack of robust counter-intelligence measures after an investigation revealed that Hungarian secret forces spied on th...
What the EU stands to lose from Trump 2.0
For his first full day in office as 47th president, Donald Trump is expected to sign as many as 100 executive orders on climate, tariffs and national security. Meanwhi...
What makes 2025 the lucky year for EV buyers
German carmakers are under pressure. They must meet new EU carbon emission targets. Chinese manufacturers are gaining ground with cheaper, subsidized electric vehicles...
Why Brussels is excluded from the Israel-Hamas peace talks
Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks are hanging by a thread, despite months of brokering from Qatar, Egypt and the United States. Talks are stalling over how far Israeli troo...
The EU’s next move as Big Tech gets behind Trump
The incoming Trump presidency is changing the rules of the game for big tech compliance with digital EU regulation. Meta axed its fact-checking team in the United Stat...
Unpacking the Polish Presidency with diplomat Sobkowiak-Czarnecka
For the next six months, Poland will chair the Presidency of the Council of the EU and coordinate the 27 member states under the motto ‘Security, Europe!’. But even ju...
Why Russia wants to leave the Baltics in the dark
Leaders meet today to coordinate on how to better defend the Baltic Sea after the latest incident saw the cutting of four internet and one power transmission cable on ...
How Austria’s new leader could test the EU and what Brussels can do to push back
The bloc of populists within the European Union might soon expand to include Austria. Herbert Kickl is likely to become Austria’s next Chancellor. Until recently, even...
Top10. How Musk’s White House appointment could test the EU
In this episode, we revisit a significant development in the transatlantic tech landscape: Elon Musk’s controversial appointment as head of the US Department of Govern...
