How the Trump-Vance platform could win or lose

Donald Trump never stops talking about immigration, trade and the economy. Those policy areas have animated all three of the former presidentโ€™s campaigns for the White House, and he often finds ways to morph other topics into border security, tariffs, taxes and inflation when heโ€™s riffing on the campaign trail. And for years โ€” amid [โ€ฆ]

Macron and Trudeau: The downfall of a pair of liberal bros

As the French president visits Canada, both he and Trudeau are grappling with declining popularity and the rise of right-wing movements that challenge their political legacies.

EU environment commissioner to face tough crowd in Parliament

Sweden’s poor environmental record has some MEPs worried about commissioner choice.

Meet the commissioners: Class of 2024

Everything you need to know about Ursula von der Leyen’s team for her second term.

EU farm chief drafts secret law on food security in last hurrah

Departing Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski breaks protocol by concocting his own food security law.

Where Harris and Walz stand on 2024โ€™s biggest policy issues

The rise of the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket filled an already chaotic campaign year with โ€œbratโ€ and โ€œweirdโ€ and flipped the Democratic Partyโ€™s misery into a cautious euphoria.ย  Now, the pair has 11 weeks to sell voters on what a Harris-Walz administration might actually mean.ย  There are areas where the duo are effectively in lockstep [โ€ฆ]

Musk might be the only person Trump listens to on climate

The billionaire Tesla CEO has Trumpโ€™s ear. Hereโ€™s what he might tell the former president about rising temperatures, clean energy and making money.

Yellen says $3T of fresh capital is needed annually to fight climate change

The Treasury secretary called the shift to a low-carbon global economy โ€œthe single greatest opportunity of the 21st century.โ€

Les Ecologistes vont-ils disparaรฎtre du Parlement europรฉen ?

Selon les derniers sondages, la liste de Marie Toussaint risque la dรฉbรขcle aux รฉlections dimanche. Un tel rรฉsultat pourrait faire les affaires dโ€™Ursula von der Leyen.

French Greens risk extinction. That could benefit von der Leyen.

The environmental movement in France is bracing for an EU election debacle, according to the latest polls.

Prospect of another lefty EU climate boss has center right wincing

Peter Liese, the EPP’s top green policy MEP, told POLITICO he was “not enthusiastic” about Spanish socialist Teresa Ribera’s campaign to run the EU’s Green Deal.

EU election results threaten Green Deal, sustainability experts say

The forthcoming European elections (6 to 9 June 2024) and the implementation of the texts adopted as part of the Green Deal are in jeopardy for a majority of experts questioned by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP).

New UK climate minister voted against key Tory green plan

Justin Tomlinson rebelled against government plans for phasing out diesel cars just four months ago.

The โ€˜mirror measuresโ€™ loop

Introduced into the EU debate by the French EU Council presidency in 2022, the concept of ‘mirror clauses’ – or โ€˜measuresโ€™ – has become ubiquitous in all discussions of EU trade, agricultural, and environmental policy.

Greens try to flip the script: Blame conservatives, not the Green Deal

‘The farmers are protesting decades of conservative farming policy,’ one official argued. That case will be a hard sell amid a cacophony of green-bashing.

Germanyโ€™s rude political awakening

The country’s domestic politics are becoming dysfunctional just when Berlin’s leadership on the world stage may be needed most.

Crunch time for EU conservativesโ€™ push to kill nature law

Whether the EU’s nature restoration bill lives or dies lies largely in the hands of the European Peopleโ€™s Party.

Bring the full value chain to the table for Circular Economy success [Promoted content]

Achieving Circular Economy success demands value-chain collaboration. The 4evergreen alliance unites experts from design to recycling, targeting a 90% fibre-based packaging recycling rate by 2030. This effort promotes circular design, improved collecti…