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  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Andy Haldane
    Blessed are the bean counters — except when it comes to growth

    Accounting rules are holding back investment just as it needs to meet growth and net zero requirements

    New Yorkers celebrate Christmas in 1931
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    EU trade
    EU capitals set to back tariffs on Chinese electric cars, trade chief says

    Valdis Dombrovskis confident measure will enter into force in November

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    EU energy
    Hungary rejects Croatian offer for alternative to Russian oil

    Viktor Orbán’s government defies EU pressure to reduce reliance on fossil fuel from Moscow

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    EU foreign policy
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    Officials to assess possible impact on bloc’s trade and defence policies if former president returns to White House

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  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Brussels tells Hungary and Slovakia to wean themselves off Russian oil

    European Commission rejects complaints that Ukrainian sanctions on Lukoil threaten security of supply

    Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, left, and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Automobiles
    VW and BMW chiefs warn on EU’s China EV tariffs amid falling profits

    German carmakers say the threat of a trade war between Europe and Beijing is looming

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  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
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    Inflation and interest rates tracker: see how your country compares

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  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Brexit
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    Brussels claims Britain has failed to implement key Brexit divorce deal

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  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
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    Giorgia Meloni sours on Brussels

    Italian premier abstained to vote for Ursula von der Leyen and said European Commission peddles ‘fake news’

    Ursula von Der Leyen and Giorgia Meloni
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    EU and US race to prevent Mideast war after Israeli assassinations

    Diplomats hold crisis talks in effort to stop full-blown war in reaction to killing of Hizbollah and Hamas leaders

    Iranian protesters wave Iranian, Palestinian and Hezbollah flags in a demonstration to condemn the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Eurozone inflation
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    European Central Bank’s vote in September now ‘very close call’, after price pressures tick up

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  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Bribery and corruption
    EU corruption probe targets Chinese LNG project in Cyprus

    Brussels seeks explanations from Nicosia on funding for gas terminal that China Petroleum Pipeline failed to build

    oil pipes extending towards the VTT Vasiliko oil storage terminal
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Laurence Boone
    France’s political impasse threatens a decade of solid economic progress

    Parliamentary manoeuvres aimed at denying influence to extremist parties risk causing a backlash in the future

    Marine Le Pen takes a selfie with supporters at a market in Henin-Beaumont, northern France
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Viktor Orbán
    Hungary’s visa move opens door to Russian spies, warns largest EU party

    Budapest’s decision to loosen restrictions for visitors from Russia is ‘national security’ risk, says European People’s party

    Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Eurozone economy
    Eurozone economy grows 0.3% over second quarter

    Economists say data marginally raises chances of ECB cutting rates again at next meeting

    Robotic arms move batteries in a car factory in Germany
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Italian economy
    Italian beachgoers face threat of sunbed rental strike

    Coastal businesses are threatening to stop working for some of August to protect their lucrative concessions

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  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Trade Secrets
    Small isn’t beautiful when you’re paying EU carbon tariffs Premium content

    Countries like Trinidad and Tobago lack capacity and finance to cope with Brussels’ border measure

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  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Global trade
    EU prepares two-step trade plan to tackle Trump

    If the Republican candidate returns to the White House, Brussels will offer a quick deal then threaten retaliation against tariffs

    Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    EU-China relations
    Italy’s Meloni pledges ‘relaunch’ of ties with China

    Prime minister seeks to stabilise relations during visit to Beijing but also insists trade must be ‘more fair’

    A TV news broadcast about the two leaders’ meeting is shown on a large screen on a building in Beijing
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    EU trade
    Trade links between UK and Germany stage post-Brexit recovery

    Lift comes amid Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s bid to improve relationship with EU

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  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    EU defence
    European defence in need of big financial boost, says Saab chief

    Micael Johansson says region’s industrial strategy should have backing of €100bn rather than the €1.5bn envisaged

  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    EU diplomats ordered to cancel parties after budget crunch

    Overspending triggers expenses crackdown on bloc’s external action service, hitting travel plans and functions

    VIP parking sign in Brussels
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    EU energy
    Plan to send Azeri gas to Europe may simply disguise Russian fuel, say experts

    Kyiv examining plan to replace Russia gas supplies with fuel from Azerbaijan

    A worker inserts a drill tube into a rotary mantle on a gas rig
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    Martin Sandbu
    Brave thinking can restore some broken links between the EU and UK

    The pre-Brexit economic relationship is out of reach but closer ties are possible if each side moves from entrenched positions

    President of France Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    European Medicines Agency rejects breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug

    Eisai and Biogen face uphill battle to win EU approval for Leqembi after committee’s ruling

    Bottles and packages of the drug Leqembi
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