Category: EuroActiv

Europe has endured a decade of disruption, with strong growth following the Great Recession short-lived before the economic and social disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The human toll of the pandemic, which touched every community throughout the EU, no sooner abated than the war on Ukraine began — with people throughout Europe responding in […]

The European Court of Auditors’ new president vowed that “lessons have been learned” after a spending controversy ousted his predecessor, calling for the EU’s spending watchdog to meet the high standards of “ethical conduct.” In an interview with POLITICO, Tony Murphy, who was chosen to head the Luxembourg-based institution last month, said the auditor “should […]

Jamie Collier is an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and a senior threat intelligence advisor at Mandiant. Jamie MacColl is a research fellow in cyber threats and cyber security at the Royal United Services Institute.  The recent leak of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline has demonstrated the vulnerability of European energy […]

As Britain’s central bank boss, tasked with managing inflation and setting interest rates, Andrew Bailey likes targets. Now he is one. Markets are dumping U.K. assets amid chaotic policymaking from Liz Truss’ new government — but Bailey’s rocky stewardship of the Bank of England is getting a growing share of the blame. His harshest critics […]

An overwhelming majority of countries castigated Russia on Wednesday over its claims to have annexed Ukrainian territory, with 143 voting in favor of a critical U.N. resolution after heavy lobbying by the U.S., Britain and the European Union. Five countries voted against the resolution — Russia, and four other dictatorships: North Korea, Syria, Belarus and […]

BERLIN — EU countries on Wednesday extended a deadline for deciding on financial sanctions against Hungary by two months — but several countries, including Germany, issued rule-of-law warnings. It was yet another snub from Berlin for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who received a frosty welcome there earlier this week. The sanctions delay, which had […]

The EU’s energy crisis response is getting bigger, slowly. But so, too, is the threat posed by Russia’s freeze on Europe’s gas supply. A new package of measures to bring down the price of gas and protect consumers this winter and beyond — including plans to fully leverage the EU’s collective buying power — will […]

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday that France would deliver air defense systems to Ukraine, including radars and missiles, in the coming weeks, during an interview with French TV channel France2. Macron said France was intensifying its help in the wake of recent Russian airstrikes on Ukraine. “Everywhere on Ukrainian soil, civilians […]

KYIV — Ukraine is giving short shrift to increased posturing from Belarus’ authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who this week pledged to conduct joint deployments with Russian forces and triggered fears that Minsk could be seeking to engineer a false flag operation on the border. Belarus’ chief strategic significance in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against […]

BRUSSELS — NATO is developing a 10-year plan to rebuild the Ukrainian defense industry, with the first meeting between the alliance and Kyiv slated for next week. The meeting will be the start of a long process hinted at for weeks by U.S. and NATO officials of a long-term commitment to Ukraine to bring it […]