Category: 3. Europe

Donald Trump’s erratic tariff policies combined with low river levels are causing Europe’s worst supply chain congestion since the coronavirus pandemic, shipping and logistics companies warn.

Barges have been left waiting days to pick up goods…

Er wollte schnell handeln – und hinterlässt ein Milliardenproblem: Jens Spahn steht unter Drucks, weil neue Details zur Maskenbeschaffung während der Corona-Pandemie bekannt geworden sind. Gordon Repinski analysiert, was der Sudhoff-Bericht offenlegt: organisatorisches…

The question isn’t whether globalization will continue, but who will lead it and on what terms, says BMW’s Frank Niederländer.

With geopolitical tensions and uncertainty in the world market on the rise, the EU has an opportunity to shape the global trade agenda — if it…

Voluntary reporting is unlikely to bridge this data gap, both in terms of the number of companies that will effectively report and regarding the quality of information reported. Using basic, voluntary questionnaires that were designed for very small entities would result in piecemeal…

Such credits will allow the EU to pay for emissions-slashing projects in other, usually poorer countries, and count the resulting greenhouse gas reductions toward its own 2040 target, rather than the climate goals of the country hosting the project. The draft proposal envisages using them…

Now, the survival of EU supply chain oversight rules is part of the new coalition agreement between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats (SPD) in Berlin. In principle, the agreement binds the German chancellor to protect the bill,…

Expert Forum’s Nuțu said austerity measures would be “terribly unpopular” if the government doesn’t reduce unnecessary public expenditures such as high pensions for former civil servants. “People will be very angry and we will continue to see, in the next elections, that they will…

Starmer’s government has been open to the idea of the bloc and EU teaming up. “I do think that it’s [a] difficult environment, but there are significant opportunities if we’re agile about it, if we understand the world we’re living in, and get ahead of the curve,” the prime…

Officially, the Strait of Messina lies outside Italy’s only designated NATO military mobility corridor — which begins at ports in the Puglia region on the heel of the Italian boot, crosses the Adriatic to Albania, and continues on to North Macedonia and Bulgaria. It is also unclear…

A government aide, granted anonymity to speak freely, said their focus was on “re-shoring” defense manufacturing — also seen as a priority by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte — and described this “a Keynesian and a left-wing thing to do.”

“We’re putting state money into…