EU struggles to balance its green and growth goals
Welcome back. This has been a big week in Brussels, with new details on how the European Commission aims to breathe fresh ...
EU to keep climate goals but loosen rules for companies, says green chief
Brussels has estimated the cost of complying with EU rules at €150bn per year, an amount it wants to slash by €37.5bn by 2029 ...
Why the EU is reaching out to India in search of new friends
US President Donald Trump last night threatened to slap 25 per cent tariffs on imports from the EU, claiming the bloc “was formed to screw the United States.” Today, our trade and competition ...
Europe at a crossroads: can the EU meet its challenges?
Leading FT correspondents in European capitals discussed how Europe will respond to its economic, political and security challenges in the wake of Donald Trump’s dramatic shift away from long-standing ...
EU and UK in talks about Europe-wide defence funding amid fear of US pullback
The US president’s rapid re-engagement with Russia, a country that most European countries see as an existential threat, has ...
Bringing fruits to Trump’s volcano: Starmer edition
Anyone who wants to learn about Silicon Valley’s lurch to the right should read Gil Duran’s Substack, “The Nerd Reich”. His ...
Donald Trump says he will impose 25% tariffs on imports from EU
Donald Trump said he had decided to slap 25 per cent tariffs on imports from the EU, as he lashed out at the bloc, saying it “was formed to screw the United States”. “We have made a decision and we’ll ...
What would a European defence fund actually do?
The dedicated fund should be focused on “areas of European strategic interest like a European integrated air defence, deep- and precision strike capabilities, drone and UAVs, missiles and ammunition ...
Why Germany’s debt rules are a bellwether for EU defence spending
These safeguards — keeping annual deficits below 1.5 per cent in the long term, and reducing excess debt by at least half a percentage point per year — “bite more” for the likes of Germany, Finland ...
Tesla buys assets from insolvent German engineering group
Tesla has agreed to buy assets of embattled German engineering group Manz as the US electric vehicle maker expands its ...
Indian economy and business: your questions answered
India’s unemployment problem does not have a magic fix. Government-funded infrastructure projects are significant generators of jobs, but the government’s spending on infrastructure is not growing ...
The border where Starmer is targeting people-smuggling gangs
Irregular migrants that manage to cross into Bulgaria along the 271km border with Turkey can then travel through the EU to the northern coast of France and onward to Britain, although several Schengen ...