Toxic Chemical Rules Pose Test for Biden
Key industries — including some that the White House is backing through other policies — are lobbying to water down the first major new rules in a generation on chemicals…
March 2023
Grand Duke dismisses accusations of mistreatment
Grand Duke Henri dismissed accusations of staff mistreatment within the Grand Ducal Court when asked during a press conference at the end of his four-day Latvia trip on Wednesday. The…
Finland unable to donate high-speed trains to Ukraine
Finland will not be able to donate four of its Allegro high-speed trains Ukraine requested for transporting people between liberated areas during Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Kyiv one-day visit on…
The (bad) politics of the pact
Dear readers, Welcome to EU Politics Decoded where Benjamin Fox and Eleonora Vasques bring you a round-up of the latest political news in Europe and beyond every Thursday. In this edition, we look at why…
China wants Russia to continue war in Ukraine, says Lithuanian president
China’s role in Russia’s war in Ukraine is “more destructive than constructive”, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has said. “Unfortunately, I see the aim of China is to continue this war,…
Portugal hopes Spain will focus EU trade on ‘Atlantic side’
Spain taking over the EU Council presidency in July could create “new momentum” for EU trade policy, particularly with regard to the trade agreements with Mexico, Chile and Mercosur, Portuguese…
Spanish employer’s associations reject ‘historic’ pension reform pact
Spain’s employers’ association CEOE rejected the ‘historic’ pension reform agreement, signed by the government and the country’s main trade unions on Wednesday despite the Commission previously giving its green light.…
Corporate lobbying and the delay of the EU’s Reach directive
BASF and its industry allies have been running a war of words to water down the Green Deal (Photo: Alex Kondratiev) The world is waking-up to how the human use…
Bulgarian government mulls one-time 33% tax on excess profits
Bulgaria’s caretaker government announced that it is looking into a windfall tax of up to 33% to drastically reduce the current budget deficit for the year announced just a few…
Dutch regional elections send shockwaves
The 15 March regional elections in the Netherlands showed a historic success of the self-declared agrarian interest party BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB), a relatively young party founded in 2019. The Ipsos exit…