In last week’s column I wrote about the EU’s economic security strategy and how it isn’t really working. Now, let’s be fair about this: an iterative rule- and process-based (some might say “bound” ...

China has imposed tariffs of up to 42.7 per cent on certain dairy imports from the EU, after a 16-month anti-subsidy investigation that ratcheted up trade tensions between Brussels and Beijing.

The UK is set to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus+ student exchange scheme, in the latest move by Sir Keir Starmer’s government to try ...

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has threatened to walk away from a blockbuster trade deal with the EU after key ...

The EU has agreed measures to boost investment by private individuals in stocks and bonds in the bloc, as part of long-standing efforts to strengthen the wider economy by encouraging retail investment ...

It also watered down rules that required carmakers to hit zero tailpipe emissions by 2035, a flagship part of the bloc’s ambitious Green Deal climate law. Instead, manufacturers will be allowed 10 per ...

Howls of protest over a modest penalty from the EU contrast with Europe’s silence over far bigger punishments levied on its ...

Stellantis says Brussels’ rule change on climate policy fails to deliver ‘roadmap for growth’, making investment boost difficult ...

EU leaders were able to agree to new common borrowing to help Ukraine because Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic secured a carve-out, a sign of the growing band of countries opposed to helping ...

At a little after 9pm on Thursday, the EU’s 27 leaders were presented with an updated version of a proposal, championed by Germany, to use Russia’s frozen assets for a €90bn loan to Ukraine. But the ...

As details have become clearer, executives warn the easing of the combustion engine ban would lead to more expensive vehicles ...

The agreement to borrow against EU taxpayer funds rather than Russia’s cash is a political blow to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, who had ...