Category: 3. Europe

Some in the bloc agree. With this plan, “the 2040 targets seem to be less and less feasible,” said one EU diplomat, granted anonymity to speak candidly.  “It is pragmatic, and energy security seems to be a much more burning question than climate,” the diplomat added. “We’ll… Continue Reading

“I don’t think Ukrainian exports are destroying the EU farming sector,” Nivievskyi said. “It’s the CAP that undermines competitiveness. What we have right now in EU farming — I wouldn’t call it communism, but it’s definitely central planning.” Smooth path to accession?… Continue Reading

BRUSSELS — The European Union said on Thursday it was ready to deploy its strongest trade weapon against the U.S. after President Donald Trump threatened to impose sweeping tariffs and scorned the EU as having been created to “screw” America. “We have an Anti-Coercion Instrument, and… Continue Reading

Both the EU and the U.S. are drawing up measures to bolster their domestic drug production, but both are currently hugely reliant on Asia for medicines and their compounds, especially cheaper generics. The U.S. has one advantage: When supply issues arise in China or India,… Continue Reading

More recently, under Macron, there hasn’t been a “sustained effort from France to put its money where its mouth was, spend on [military] capability and equipment and put a diplomatic effort to convince others.” France only reached NATO’s target of spending 2 percent of GDP on defense… Continue Reading

But for Trump and his supporters, all this is overblown. It’s NATO’s eastward expansion that provoked Russian aggression, Trump said just days before his inauguration this year. And anyway, Russia doesn’t have the capacity to strike against a NATO country beyond Ukraine. “I don’t… Continue Reading

Close race Nawrocki is trying to catch the centrist mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, who is the candidate of the Civic Platform party led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk. In a recent opinion poll, Trzaskowski had the support of 34.1 percent of those surveyed, while Nawrocki was second… Continue Reading

But none of that mattered for Lindy the prodigy. Surely, polls were wrong. They have been completely off in so many other elections around the world. No way his party was about to be absolutely destroyed at the ballot box, he did this for freedom and to save his own party (let alone his own……

Amid an atmosphere of blame, recrimination and suspicion that the government isn’t being honest with its citizens, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis faces his biggest challenge since taking office in 2019. Given public concerns over the administration’s commitment to democracy and legal… Continue Reading

With Keir Starmer recently forced to promise his Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, would stay on until the next election, Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan talks to former Chancellors and advisors who have worked in No 10 and No 11 Downing Street over the last 30 years to… Continue Reading