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PARIS – French and German leaders rolled out a catalogue of joint projects on Friday in Toulon, vowing to prove their partnership still drives EU policy. Trumpets sounded and smiles flashed as Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz opened the 25th Franco-German Council of Ministers, which the French president hailed as a “turning point” in bilateral […]

All of Europe must realise the “urgency” of resisting Russia and the “predator” Vladimir Putin, Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday, in one of her most vociferous criticisms yet of the Russian leader. Speaking in Riga alongside Latvia’s Prime Minister, Evika Siliņa, the Commission president said that Moscow’s “hybrid warfare” on Europe and increasingly […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Hungary’s signature is missing from a European statement condemning this week’s Russian strikes on Ukraine. The large-scale Russian attack, coming a day before a meeting of European Union foreign and defence ministers in Copenhagen, severely damaged the bloac’s own delegation in Kyiv and the British Council’s offices, among other civilian buildings. The […]

The French government has confirmed industry warnings that supermarkets in France sold Ukrainian eggs containing antibiotic residues that are prohibited in the EU, and is pressing Brussels to tighten border controls. French retail giants Carrefour and Leclerc sold hundreds of thousands of such eggs, the National Committee for the Promotion of Eggs (CNPO), which represents […]

Europe is a largely secular place. But if there is one person whom EU leaders deem a modern-day deity, it’s Mario Draghi. The former European Central Bank president – widely credited as the “man who saved the euro” from the dustbin of history during last decade’s eurozone crisis – has conspicuously returned to the European […]

MADRID – The digital ministry has cancelled a multi-million-euro contract with telecoms giant Telefónica to expand Huawei equipment in the national academic and research network, El País reports.  According to the contract, its purpose was to supply, install and manage Huawei-made routing equipment operated by Telefónica, in order to expand RedIRIS-NOVA’s IP connectivity services. RedIRIS-NOVA […]

Russia on Friday warned that the reimposition of sanctions against Iran risked “irreparable consequences”, after Britain, France and Germany moved to reintroduce curbs over Tehran’s failure to comply with the 2015 nuclear deal. “We strongly urge them to reconsider and review their erroneous decisions before they lead to irreparable consequences and further tragedy,” Russia’s foreign […]

When François Bayrou convened his ministers at 3:30 pm on Monday, few knew what was coming. By 4 pm, the French prime minister stunned many of his own allies by publicly announcing that he would seek a confidence vote in parliament. Bayrou’s €44 billion austerity package, meant to rein in France’s ballooning deficit, is deeply […]

The Just Transition’s Democratic Gap The European Green Deal (EGD) commits the EU to climate neutrality by 2050. To mitigate the socio-economic impact on regions dependent on coal, steel, cement, chemicals, and fossil fuels, the EU created the Just Transition Fund (JTF). Access to this fund requires the development of Territorial Just Transition Plans (TJTPs), […]

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