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Right-wing MEPs loathe the Green Deal — but have no plan of attack

The surging faction has yet to offer a concrete strategy. It’s not even clear everyone can put up with each other.

July 3, 2024 5:22 pm CET

The Netherlands has a new government. Here are 3 things to know.

After the far right won the most votes, it’s now also a powerful force in the Dutch government.

July 2, 2024 7:08 pm CET

China targets Morocco as launchpad into Europe’s green auto market

As Brussels gets tougher on Chinese imports, Beijing is diversifying its strategies to maintain access to key markets.

June 26, 2024 6:00 am CET

What if Macron is enemies with his next prime minister?

A liberal president constantly fighting a far-right prime minister would be a recipe for political catastrophe.

June 26, 2024 4:00 am CET

Denmark sets first carbon tax on agriculture

The country wants to cut 70 percent of its total emissions by 2030.

June 25, 2024 10:58 am CET
The Home Front

For Geert Wilders, ‘housing’ is code for ‘immigration’

The Dutch firebrand promised to cut waiting lists by freezing out foreigners.

June 20, 2024 4:00 am CET

Political pork: China probes, Spain scrambles

Madrid is already squealing as Beijing launches anti-dumping investigation of EU pork.

June 17, 2024 6:39 pm CET

How Brexit’s fallout doomed climate action in Northern Ireland

Politicians shut down the Stormont Assembly for two years. Among the casualties: Northern Ireland’s hopes of greening its economy.

June 16, 2024 6:00 pm CET

EU’s last-ditch bid to pass nature law sputters

Negotiators are banking that environment ministers can produce a last-minute twist of fate on Monday.

June 14, 2024 12:01 pm CET

Wilders coalition talks yield new hard-right Dutch government

Euroskeptic Geert Wilders could be sending his new prime minister to Brussels on his first day at work.

June 13, 2024 7:34 pm CET

‘Farmer Wants a Wife’ contestant to become Dutch agriculture minister

Femke Wiersma married the dairy farmer she met on the TV reality show before going into politics.

June 13, 2024 4:45 pm CET

China threatens to challenge European EV duties at WTO

European Commission on Wednesday unveiled plans to impose duties of up to 38.1 percent on electric vehicle imports from China.

June 13, 2024 10:52 am CET
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Greens woo von der Leyen: We’re your only choice

The Greens say the EU’s top executive needs them to form a pro-European coalition — and claim they’ll make it worth her while.

June 12, 2024 8:30 pm CET

France’s farmers helped the far right win. Now they’re regretting it.

The National Rally’s success in the European election cost farmer unions’ centrist allies their seats in the European Parliament.

June 12, 2024 7:40 pm CET

EU election exit poll: Far-right Wilders makes big gains in Netherlands, but narrowly beaten

Poll suggests Wilders’ party on track for seven seats in European Parliament, but Labor-Green alliance is set for eight.

June 6, 2024 9:38 pm CET

Von der Leyen is campaigning hard — against the wolf

Ever since the Commission president’s pony, Dolly, was killed by a wolf in 2022, the large carnivore has been in von der Leyen’s sights.

June 6, 2024 2:16 pm CET
Explainer

How to watch the European election like a pro

4 days. 27 votes. Here’s our ultimate playbook for how to keep tabs on this ballot-box bonanza.

June 6, 2024 4:01 am CET

Surrounded by colonial history, Wilders campaigns against migration before EU vote

In his first and only offline campaign event, Dutch radical right politician Geert Wilders vows to change the EU from within.

June 5, 2024 6:46 pm CET

Militant farmers vent fury in Brussels on eve of EU election

But only 1,000 show up to a protest boycotted by mainstream farming organizations.

June 4, 2024 6:00 am CET

The next great flood is coming. Britain isn’t ready.

Rainy old England is getting wetter and the seas are rising. Does either party duking it out in the election know what’s about to hit it?

May 31, 2024 7:15 pm CET

UK farmers feared a Brexit flood of cheap Aussie beef. It hasn’t happened yet.

One year after post-Brexit trade deals with Australia and New Zealand came into force, farmers’ worst fears have yet to materialize.

May 30, 2024 7:14 pm CET

Why the Dutch will stop worrying about free trade and start to love France

Under radical right-winger Geert Wilders, the Netherlands is likely to swing behind France’s defensive trade agenda.

May 30, 2024 6:00 am CET

Geert Wilders eyes former spy chief Dick Schoof as Dutch prime minister

“It will be a surprise to many that I’m standing here,” said likely new PM at press conference.

May 28, 2024 3:33 pm CET

A beginner’s guide to the EU election

373 million voters are eligible to choose 720 MEPs in the Brussels bubble. This is how the election works and why it matters.

May 27, 2024 4:01 am CET
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