French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne resorted to a special legal procedure to adopt an unpopular pension reform bill without a vote in the National Assembly on Thursday (16 March), but opened itself up to a potential fall in the face…
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 that pose risks to humans. Send any friend a story…
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 Grand Duke, Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, Economy Minister Franz Fayot,…
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 Friday because of contractual reasons. In a brief encounter, the…
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 national politics looks like it will stymie reform of the…
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, to make this war even more bloody and in such…
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 Prime Minister António Costa said on Wednesday. At the closing…
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. The formal signature came after the government and the Commission…
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 of chemicals has crossed safe planetary boundaries, as these pollutants…
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 weeks before the elections. While Bulgarians are set to go…