Month: September 2022

Times must be hard in London: Brexit Britain wants to rejoin Europe’s political community. According to two officials present at a meeting on Thursday, the United Kingdom told its European partners that Prime Minister Liz Truss is not only willing to attend the first gathering of the European Political Community in Prague next week, but […]

DUBLIN — Bank of Ireland was hit with an Irish-record €100.5 million fine Thursday for overcharging nearly 16,000 mortgage customers and failing to redress the wrongs for more than a decade. Bank of Ireland admitted 81 regulatory breaches as part of regulators’ investigation into its refusal to keep providing low-cost “tracker” mortgages to customers, even […]

Only a state actor could have carried out attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines and the most likely culprit is Russia, said the former head of Germany’s federal intelligence agency. “An unnoticed, conspiratorial damage to pipelines at a depth of 80 meters in the Baltic Sea requires sophisticated technical and organizational capabilities that clearly point […]

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher Acast We discuss the implications of Italy’s election last weekend and what its probable next prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, could mean for Europe. Our special guest is Stavros Lambrinidis, the EU’s ambassador to the United States. POLITICO’s Suzanne Lynch and our team covering […]

The European Commission announced Thursday that it will take legal action against Malta’s investor citizenship or “golden passport” scheme. Under the scheme, Malta offers EU citizenship to foreigners in exchange for an investment in the country of about €1 million. As this sort of citizenship is issued without “any genuine link to the Member State […]