Month: August 2022

The EU’s best-laid plans are being put to the test and found wanting — again. With the bloc now facing two health emergencies — the COVID-19 pandemic and monkeypox — it’s become clear that it’s ill-equipped to buy medicines and vaccines for its 450 million people in short order. The European Commission’s newest authority — […]

LONDON — Margaret Thatcher famously declared in 1987 that she would go on and on as prime minister. Soon after she was ousted — but that hasn’t stopped her dominating the Conservatives’ leadership race 35 years later. Wannabe British prime ministers Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are, despite their different economic and political approaches, competing […]

Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column.   PARIS — The Continent is facing the specter of stagflation, with European Union inflation hitting 9.6 percent in June and growth forecasts slashed for both this year and 2023 due to the war in Ukraine, the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, drought and global […]

The European Commission’s antitrust enforcers are investigating Google’s app store rules, according to two people close to the matter.  Google’s rivals have received confidential questionnaires from Brussels, probing billing terms and developer fees for the U.S. tech giant’s Play Store, the two people, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. An investigation in the Netherlands […]