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Aspen forum attendees admit there’s no return to a pre-Trump world order
The U.S. president has revamped trade, aid and military force to an extent that attendees here say will have effects for decades to come.
Energy security or green revolution: Can the EU have both?
Farm subsidy chaos dumped onto EU capitals
EU resolve grows to hit back at Trump’s tariff hike — but no action yet
Trump’s war on multinationals tests Ireland’s economic miracle
Labour MPs challenge UK fiscal watchdog after welfare debacle
The great Benghazi blunder: How a Libyan warlord humiliated Brussels
Two visions of European finance clash at elite Italian banking gathering
A bitter clash between the EU and Rome over a proposed bank merger reveals two contrasting visions for Europe.
Brussels farm shake-up plan revealed
A draft impact assessment reveals the European Commission’s thinking on a long-rumored CAP overhaul — and why it could satisfy no one.
Treat Iranian kidnap and murder plots as an attack on Britain, government urged
Report by Britain’s intelligence watchdog urges government to get serious about Iran-backed attacks on dissidents and critics of the state.
There’s a new hope for the euro, but the dollar empire is striking back
A new U.S. law threatens to cement the dominance of a shape-shifting dollar over the euro — and every other currency.
‘Time to go,’ Orbán tells von der Leyen on eve of confidence vote
Hungary’s leader slams the Commission president over “competence, results, and the future of Europe.”
Trump banking cop threatens global financial security, warns top US Democrat
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren wants Randal Quarles sacked from the global watchdog, warning he will unwind post-2008 reforms.
Brussels backs Romania’s drastic fiscal recovery plan
Bucharest avoids the nightmare scenario of losing EU financial support.
Why France holds all the cards in nuclear deal with Britain
“France isn’t in a hurry, and it’s not its turn to pay,” one French union official said.
Von der Leyen — finally — defends herself over ‘Pfizergate’
“The implication that these contracts were somehow inappropriate against the European interests is, by any measure, simply wrong,” von der Leyen says.
Court clears former French PM and health ministers of Covid-19 mismanagement
Top court decided against prosecuting the former officials after four-year-long judicial inquiry.
Romania faces reckoning with Brussels over soaring budget deficit
EU ministers will pile pressure on Bucharest to impose austerity measures and bring the deficit under control.
The Spanish upstart who wants to shock the eurozone back to life
Eurozone countries shouldn’t wait for all EU27 members before driving financial integration forward, argues Spain’s economy minister.
Borrell accuses EU institutions of inaction over Gaza
Brussels recently found Israel guilty of human rights abuses and plans to revisit its association agreement with the country.
EU comes to Moldova’s defense against Russian hacking
Europe is working to send a “cyber reserve” to help Chișinău ahead of elections in September.
Joint EU debt for defense is the way to go, says Lithuanian central bank chief
The spending could supercharge Europe’s capital markets unlocking innovation and boosting growth, he said.
Giorgia Meloni wants more people in jail. Italy’s prisons are already on the brink.
Rome’s sweeping new security decree looks set to put more people behind bars, but overcrowded prisons can’t cope.
Macron urges Putin to agree ceasefire with Ukraine, in first talks since 2022
French and Russian leaders agree the crisis around Iran’s nuclear program must be solved by diplomatic means alone.
Europe’s politicians suffer through heat wave — with or without air conditioning
While some politicians go red in the face trying to make their contemporaries pay attention to climate change, others are trying to make political hay while the sun is shining.
Top of Eiffel Tower closed due to extreme heat
Paris landmark’s highest level shut as France swelters.
Global climate science body roiled by controversies stoked by Saudis, US
The proposed selection of a Saudi Aramco oil company staffer as one of the authors of a key science report has been denounced as “political capture.”
Labour still hasn’t bought off Britain’s unions
Public sector pay rises and ambitious new employment rights don’t mean Britain’s center-left government can rest easy.
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We aren’t ‘worthless’: Europe faces up to its irrelevance in the Middle East
Trump’s bombing of Iran reduced Europe’s biggest players to the status of decoy ducks as they pursued talks hours before the raid began.
Pope Leo looks to MAGA megadonors to shore up Church finances
Wealthy American conservatives hint they’re ready to cough up again to rescue the scandal-ridden Church from going broke.