Under Ursula von der Leyen’s second presidency, the European Commission will abandon its previous ‘cordon sanitaire’ policy towards the ‘far right’. Leyen’s new Commission will include...
Brussels argues that tariffs of up to 45% are necessary to counteract what it calls Beijing’s “harmful” subsidies. The tariffs, which took effect on Wednesday and...
The Greek government is to press ahead with plans to build a new fence on its border with Turkey to prevent ‘illegal migration’, with or without...
Geert Wilders, leader of the PVV in the Netherlands, has announced his government’s formal request to the European Commission to withdraw from the EU’s migration policy....
There are signs that the free trade agreement between the European Union and the Latin American trade bloc Mercosur, which has been a saga for years,...
Germany, backed by a group of countries including Hungary and Poland, is leading opposition to new EU legislation aimed at shedding light on foreign influence in...
The EU’s lending arm, the European Investment Bank (EIB), announced on Wednesday (8 May) that it was changing its long-standing policy of not investing in military...
The European Commission has sided with ‘fiscally conservative’ governments, led by Germany, in resisting calls to finance spending through more borrowing and to attach new conditions...
Although increasing EU defence production has been on the agenda of EU leaders since the start of the war in Ukraine, the issue has been slow...
