Category: 3. Europe

The EU wants to lend €140 billion in cash from frozen Russian funds to Ukraine; Belgium is afraid it will be the one on the hook for paying it back. That’s just one of the tough topics EU leaders discussed as they gathered in Brussels at a meeting devoted to fighting the…

“It’s a bit sour for me that we are finger-pointed, now, as the unwilling country,” De Wever told reporters. He described the idea of Belgian taxpayers ending up on the hook as “completely insane.”

Donald Trump’s ambiguous attitude to how to deal with Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine,…

Ahead of the summit, which touched on climate targets, the housing crisis and defense as well as the assets issue, POLITICO said De Wever, Slovakia’s Robert Fico, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz were likely to be the biggest thorns in the EU side.

As it…

Belgium held its ground during a summit of European Union leaders, preventing a breakthrough on an audacious plan to issue a €140 billion loan to Ukraine using the immobilised assets of the Russian Central Bank.

The bulk of the assets is held at Euroclear, a central securities depository in…

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Apple said today that it might be “forced” to disable a key anti-ad tracking feature in the European Union, reports DPA International.

“Intense lobbying efforts in Germany, Italy and other countries in Europe may force us to withdraw this feature…

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Across the two days, discussions covered electricity market reform, grid flexibility, gas security and European cooperation, highlighting a sector where technical progress and policy ambition are…

Ukraine and Russia have dominated today’s talks, with Belgium playing hardball on the EU’s plan to use frozen Russian assets for a €140 billion loan for Ukraine.

• Belgium, which holds most of the assets, fears legal and financial retaliation from Moscow and wants…

• FedEx has launched five additional weekly Boeing 777 freighter flights from China to Paris, enhancing its Asia–Europe network in response to rising demand ahead of the year-end shopping season.

• The new routes depart from two strategic…