Category: EuroActiv

Ada Colau is the mayor of Barcelona. Giuseppe Sala is the mayor of Milan. They are vice-chairs of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. As temperatures start dropping across the Continent, we’re collectively bracing for a winter season during which millions of residents won’t be able to pay their energy bills or keep their homes […]

It was all smiles as EU Values Commissioner Věra Jourová received a gift of Krówki, a special kind of Polish cream fudge, from Poland’s new European Affairs Minister Sekretarz Stanu at their first meeting in Luxembourg earlier this week. But it’s going to take more than a box of fudge to rebuild the increasingly acrimonious […]

Will the real Emmanuel Macron please stand up!? Beset by populists at home and darkening economic clouds abroad, the French president is learning to embrace his country’s protectionist tradition. Clea Caulcuttand Sarah Anne Aarup Illustration by Pierre Buttin for POLITICO PARIS — When EU leaders gather to hash out a response to the energy crisis […]

Başak Çalı and Philip Leach are representing Osman Kavala at the European Court of Human Rights. When war, geopolitics, energy squeezes and inflation take center stage on the Continent, is there a risk of human rights and rule of law being forgotten? In such a context, does the credibility of the European Court of Human […]

Europe is waking up to a troubling reality: It may soon lose its NATO benefactor in Ukraine.  With conservatives poised to make gains in the upcoming U.S. elections, NATO’s most generous donor to Ukraine’s war effort may suddenly seem much more parsimonious in 2023. The possibility has put the spotlight on the gap between American […]

Western countries are speeding up shipments of winter clothing, new rounds of artillery and counter-drone defenses to Kyiv as Ukrainian and Russian forces prepare for a months-long grind amid the mud and ice. Both sides have fought to gain advantage before the freeze sets in, but Ukraine has moved fast and with discipline since the […]

The EU’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager is taking a second shot at forcing Amazon, the world’s biggest retailer, to redesign its website in a way that’s fairer for small vendors, after her first settlement deal in July flopped. The European Commission’s antitrust police are locked in a long-running battle with Amazon over how to rejig […]

DUBLIN — Brexit has inflicted deeper opportunity costs on U.K.-EU trade than previously estimated, according to a new Irish study that compares the weakness of actual post-2020 goods flows to a parallel universe where Britain stayed within the single market. The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Dublin found that Britain’s exit has cut […]

PARIS — Emmanuel Macron’s government triggered an emergency political mechanism Wednesday to push through France’s 2023 budget, overruling the parliament’s lower chamber in a contentious standoff in what is the clearest sign yet of the president’s weakened position in his second term. The government cut short debates and activated article 49.3 in the National Assembly […]

VIENNA — A central figure in the scandal that forced Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to resign last year has agreed to testify against his former boss, marking a dramatic turn in a sweeping probe that has exposed systemic corruption in the Alpine nation’s political system. In testimony to federal prosecutors, Thomas Schmid, a former senior […]