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Safeguarding Europe’s Sustainable Transition: Why Construction Needs Coherent Rules

8 hours 15 min ago
The Industrial Accelerator Act aims to boost low-carbon industrial production, but new “green” labelling schemes risk disrupting Europe’s construction sector. Policymakers must ensure legal coherence with existing frameworks like the Construction Products Regulation to advance decarbonisation without destabilising vital markets.

FIREPOWER: European preference risks stalling defence omnibus

8 hours 22 min ago
Plus Poland in PURL, shadow fleet surveillance, and NATO 'eyes' Saab

Small island, big agenda

9 hours 5 min ago
In today’s edition: Cyprus’ Europe chief insists the bloc’s smallest member is ready to steer its toughest files as the presidency looms, the Council lines up a €960m loan to overhaul its ageing headquarters, and US pointedly skips EU’s donor conference for Palestine

Fifty years after Franco: Sánchez frames democracy against today’s right

11 hours 10 min ago
Some historians warn that Sánchez’s framing blurs the facts

The day Brussels stood still

11 hours 16 min ago
The first lockdown in Brussels took place on 21 November 2015. Given the vast reduction in numbers and size of terrorist attacks over the last decade, it is worth reflecting on the successes of the security services in France and Belgium

ANALYSIS: Are Greek ports becoming the first front in US-China new Cold War?

11 hours 16 min ago
A Chinese shipping giant bought 67% of the Piraeus port authority in 2016, making it the majority operator

Inside Big Tobacco’s push to sway the World Health Organization

11 hours 16 min ago
A meeting in Geneva should close with revised global rules for tobacco

Global climate talks ‘down to the wire’ as last day of COP30 kicks off

11 hours 16 min ago
In what could be seen as a symbolic warning, fire broke out in the venue as world leaders wrangled over the latest global agreement on climate action
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Stability without progress: Bosnia remains the Balkans’ unfinished EU mission

11 hours 16 min ago
After 30 years, the EU has not yet built a credible strategy to move Bosnia from peacekeeping to nation-building
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

French uranium expansion earmarked largely for US and Ukrainian buyers

11 hours 16 min ago
Brussels needs to restrict imports of Russian uranium before Orano can invest in further enrichment capacity, CEO says
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

US drug maker to withdraw anti-addictive drugs from Sweden

13 hours 56 min ago
Swedish doctors worry that heavy drug abusers will lack acceptable alternatives
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

EU can learn from Greek road concession model, says motorway chief

14 hours 7 min ago
The Greek model demonstrates how smart concessions deliver safer roads with impact on public finances
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Shopping phenomenon ‘Double 11’ is adapting to EU digital oversight

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 22:53
‘Double 11’ massively outsizes Western counterparts such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but to advance in Europe AliExpress is having to adapt to the EU’s rules-driven market
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

US a no-show at EU donor conference for the Palestinian Authority

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 20:08
US absence raises questions over transatlantic coordination on Middle East diplomacy
Categories: European Union

Brussels stands firm on tobacco tax hike despite industry pushback

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 19:57
Industry and researchers clash with EU officials over excise hike and rules for new nicotine products
Categories: European Union

Berlin, Warsaw part of coalition pushing for tariffs on Russian steel, fertilisers

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 19:19
The countries demand tariffs on potassium, currently imported at a zero tariff within a quota of 837,000 tonnes per year
Categories: European Union

MEPs prepare objection to Commission’s fast-tracked Morocco trade move

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 18:41
MEPs from across the political spectrum questioned the act’s legality and its provisional application
Categories: Afrique, European Union

Germany says China promised ‘reliable’ rare earth supply

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 18:04
German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said he had received a "clear commitment from the Chinese side that there will be reliable access and supply chains for rare earths and critical raw materials"
Categories: Afrique, European Union

Netherlands calls for stronger financial tools in future Biotech Act

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 18:04
The document warns that biotech start-ups still lack late-stage finance and depend on foreign investors
Categories: Afrique, European Union

Trade tiffs aside, EU membership is Iceland’s best defence, says foreign minister

Thu, 11/20/2025 - 17:47
“We see a responsibility to get into a deeper love affair now," said Iceland's Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
Categories: Afrique, European Union

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