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First, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney argued at Davos, economic strength starts at home — and “home” means national capitals. Poland, Spain and the Netherlands are growing solidly, while Germany is stagnating, and France and Italy are continuing to underperform. What is seen as a European failure is actually a national one, as many […]

Culleton has been Ireland’s top news story since the Irish Times on Monday reported on his case and on the allegedly appalling conditions he faces in Camp East Montana, the ICE facility inside Fort Bliss army base near El Paso. The same day, Culleton appeared live on air on Ireland’s RTÉ radio to describe conditions […]

Chemical investments in Europe collapsed by more than 80 percent in 2025 from the year before, according to a recent report from CEFIC, while capacity closures continue to outpace new projects — turning Europe into a place to shut plants, not build them. Analysts say China’s rapid expansion into chemicals production is adding pressure. “European […]

Among difficult items, lawmakers agreed to a clause mandating the European Commission to review the deal six months after its entry into force if the U.S. has not lowered tariffs to a 15 percent baseline level on EU products containing steel, instead of the current 50 percent. “If the United States is not reducing the […]

His push comes amid a flurry of comments from EU leaders seeking to shape the meeting’s agenda, with French President Emmanuel Macron advocating for joint debt and a European preference policy in an interview with several media outlets published Tuesday morning. The Austrian chancellor’s comments echo other leaders including Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and […]

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In January, the Bavarian arm of the AfD said it would put forward plans in regional parliament for a police unit focused on deporting immigrants who have entered the country illegally, as part of an array of steps to curb unauthorized immigration, according to an internal party document reported by German media. “In addition to […]

“We think that, in view of the agenda [at the EU leaders summit], this distracts a little from what it’s actually all about, namely that we have a productivity problem,” a senior German government official, who is close to the chancellor and was granted anonymity to speak candidly, said Tuesday. “It is true that we […]

“It will probably not be sufficient for many of these fully innovative products,” he said. “We need to remember the risk, not only the cost, but the risk involved in the development.”  Ministers have ramped up their lobbying efforts — including a visit by health minister Seema Malhotra to AstraZeneca’s Cambridge site last week – […]

The European Union must implement an ambitious package of reforms covering labor mobility, capital markets and simplified bureaucracy by the end of 2026, a discussion paper backed by the governments of Germany, Italy and Belgium said. The one-page document obtained by POLITICO is meant to serve as the basis for discussions between 15 leaders to […]