Benjamin Fox
The same Morocco that just clashed with Spain over mass migrant crossings is now at the centre of a murky World Cup final deal that could keep Infantino in charge until 2031.
As African and Latin American negotiators push for a radical tax overhaul that could unlock billions, EU diplomats in New York are quietly fighting to dilute key provisions.
After loudly demanding more oversight of the EU’s €300bn Global Gateway scheme, national ministers are now skipping its own board meetings. “It’s a major part of the budget, but it’s not really understood,” said the Irish liberal MEP Barry Andrews, who chairs the parliament’s development committee.
About €1.4bn in interest from more than €210bn in frozen Russian central bank assets will be channelled to finance Ukraine’s war effort and economy, after a deadly Russian missile attack on Kyiv.
The EU’s migration chief rallied behind Spain on Tuesday following an emergency meeting on the border storming of the Spanish enclave Ceuta, saying that there was “full solidarity” with Madrid.
The mass crossing of thousands of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta could damage years of increasingly close relations between Brussels and Rabat.
International flights arriving in Europe from destinations within 5,000 km will be required to pay for their CO2 emissions from 2029 as part of a major overhaul of the EU’s emissions trading system announced on Friday.
Andy Burnham has gone from the “King of the North” to Downing Street in a matter of weeks. But what does this mean for the UK and its relationship with the EU?
India is set to join the EU’s Horizon programme in October, the latest incentive offered by Brussels as it aims to boost trade ties with Delhi.
The EU Commission has set up a series of ‘work streams’ on trade policy with China, but says that ‘dialogue will not suffice’ and is still planning to take a series of measures to control its trade deficit with Beijing.
Missing the wood for the trees – the EU’s unloved deforestation law reaches endgameThe EU’s deforestation law may not be as popular as when it was passed with massive majorities in 2023 – but has already spawned imitation from the UK.
EU foreign ministers have imposed a ban on Sudan’s gold trade in a bid to curb financing of its civil war – but they ignored MEPs’ demands to designate a militia accused of genocide as a terror group.
Faced with the end of the EU’s post-pandemic fund, the bloc’s leaders are using the cash to finance new sovereign investment funds.
MEPs have also warned against the EU’s new corporate ’28th regime’ being used to create a European equivalent to the US state of Delaware.
A group of leading university professors have urged the Irish EU presidency to sit out of negotiations on EU tax and digital laws, pointing to “insurmountable conflicts of interest”.
Brussels just dodged a Brexit‑fuelled airport meltdown with its biometrics U‑turnThe EU Commission says that the EES will reduce the average time spent at passport control from 90 seconds to 20 seconds per person. Airlines have warned of five-hour queues at airports.
Chinese oversupply still poses a major threat to the EU’s car industry, single market commissioner Stephane Séjourné told MEPs on Tuesday.
New research has found that most strawberries contain significant residues of pesticides that disrupt the body’s natural hormones.
Officials say that, to appease the US, ‘burden-shifting’ rather than simply ‘burden-sharing’ will be one of the main themes in Ankara as the EU and others face pressure to ramp up their own production of defence and security equipment.
MEPs want to make it easier for aerial spraying of pesticides, typically by drones, to be authorised by member states, and 15-year licences for approved pesticides, rising to 25 years for renewals.
