Romania asks EU to investigate TikTokโs election handling after ultranationalistโs stunning win
Bucharest authorities found โvarious irregularitiesโ with election campaigns on TikTok.
Level playing field
Competition poses the toughest test for climate chief Ribera
Climate expert Teresa Ribera’s second job policing subsidies and deals is real head-scratcher with some big political risks.
Brusselsโ global infrastructure plan isnโt challenging Beijing โ itโs relying on it
EU-funded projects abroad are being built by Chinese companies.
EU opens probe into Chinese e-commerce platform Temu
The Commission will look into whether the Chinese e-commerce company has failed to crack down on illegal products and addictive designs.
China wonโt like the sound of commissioner hearings. Hereโs why.
China will be everywhere in the EU’s policymaking machinery for the next five years. Expect more turbulence ahead.
Amid EU censure, Orbรกn plans Georgia visit to celebrate contested vote
The Hungarian PM is set to visit Tbilisi on Monday, highlight his split with other leaders of the bloc.
How the European cement industry can become competitive and clean [Promoted content]
Europe trails other regions on cement decarbonisationโincluding the US, Latin America, and Canadaโbecause of outdated industry standards that are not are not technology neutral. This blocks innovative low-carbon technologies from the market and prevent…
Europeโs e-commerce strong growth challenges China, US dominance
“We need to ensure a level playing field and effective enforcement of EU,” says Luca Cassetti, secretary general of Ecommerce Europe.
Macron: EU has only 2 or 3 years to stave off total US, China dominance
โThe EU could die, we are on a verge of a very important moment,โ the French president added.
Former Poland PM: โWeโre living under the illusion of environmentalismโ
We arenโt reducing global emissions, just depriving ourselves of jobs, profits, raw material sovereignty and, therefore, security.
In the hydrogen battlefield, Europe tries to stay ahead of China
Terrified Beijing may come to dominate yet another clean tech market, the EU aims to impose regulations โ and is looking to Japan for help.
Microsoft clinches deal to avert EU cloud probe
Software giant’s truce with cloud providers ends a two-year dispute and the threat of an antitrust probe.
US Big Tech lobby challenges EU Commissionโs telecoms โinvestment gapโ
Doubts on the European Commission’s claim of an investment gap of at least โฌ174 billion to meet Europe’s 2030 connectivity targets have been shed in a document shared with Euractiv by lobby association CCIA Europe, representing Amazon, Google and Meta,…
Large EU telcos call for more regulation on Big Tech
An association representing the largest European telecom operators threw yet another punch in their intensifying fight with US Big Tech over regulation in Europe, in a position paper.
EU to delay Basel bank trading reforms as US revisits plans
Mairead McGuinness says one-year deferral of market risk rules will preserve โlevel playing fieldโ
EU presents China with clear way to avert EV duties โ good luck with that
Beijing would have to overhaul its subsidy-driven export model to meet European Union demands.
Top Chinese official visits Brussels next week amid trade tension
EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles are expected to feature prominently in the talks.
EU shocks China with EV duties of up to 38 percent
Beijing has threatened to retaliate against European aviation, farmers and spirits makers if Brussels targets its electric vehicle makers with punitive tariffs.
As the far right surges, Europe heads toward its Donald Trump momentย
If the polls are correct, this weekโs European Parliament election will reorder the Continentโs political landscape.
EU shouldnโt leave newer members behind, Dombrovskis says on enlargement anniversary
Twenty years after 10 countries in Central and Eastern Europe joined the EU, itโs time for Ukraine and Moldova to join the club too, commissioner argues.
At last a Directive protecting platform work โ Now what?
Catherine
Jacqueson, Professor of EU law and Alberto Barrio, post-doc on the WorkWel-project, Law Faculty, University of
CopenhagenPhoto credit: conceptphoto.info, via Flickr
Finally, the European Parliament formally
adopted the directiv…
Why business is calling for global rules in plastics treaty
As the world prepares for the fourth round of negotiations to create the first treaty to end plastic pollution, a dedicated global business coalition shares its insights with negotiators.
โSignificant consequencesโ if Chinese firms help Russiaโs war in Ukraine, USโs Yellen warns
US Treasury secretary’s admonition comes after Blinken said China is aiding Moscow’s war effort.
Stop regulating biosolutions as chemicals, requests Novonesis CEO [Advocacy Lab Content]
Fresh from a company merger, Novonesis CEO Ester Baiget came to Brussels with an important ask โ to create a level playing field for biosolutions; arguing it makes no sense to treat enzymes and proteins as if they were manmade.
Serbia election featured stuffed ballot boxes, watchdog says
Positive coverage of the ruling party by national broadcasters and the ‘central role’ of President Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ tilted the electoral playing field.
Germany and EU face a new trilemma
The green transition and economic security are complimentary phenomena that can create a positive feedback loop.
How to get tech right in Europe?
A European strategy for EU tech to nurture and support its valuable assets โ tech companies.
Italy confronts its toxic culture of violence against women
PM Giorgia Meloni and opposition party leader Elly Schlein join forces to fight domestic violence after the brutal killing of a young student.
EU energy ministers break deadlock on power market reform
Talks had stalled for months due to Franco-German dispute.
France set to regulate cloud market more than EU
A comprehensive bill aiming to secure and regulate the internet in France aims to strictly respect the new digital European regulations and, when it comes to cloud regulation, will go even further.
Trumpโs return strikes fear into the heart of Brussels
The Republican frontrunner is threatening to impose across-the-board import tariffs if heโs re-elected. EU negotiators are already freaking out.ย
Making reusables rockโnโroll: Festivals struggle with switch to sustainable
Major Belgian festivals say they’re not ready ‘to run entirely on reusable cups.’
French rejection of top American economist is a blow to liberal Europe
Emmanuel Macron’s effective veto of the hiring of Fiona Scott Morton shows just how much France rules the roost in Brussels.