Benjamin Fox
International flights arriving in Europe from destinations within 5,000 km will be required to pay for their CO2 emissions from 2029 as part of a major overhaul of the EU’s emissions trading system announced on Friday.
Andy Burnham has gone from the “King of the North” to Downing Street in a matter of weeks. But what does this mean for the UK and its relationship with the EU?
India is set to join the EU’s Horizon programme in October, the latest incentive offered by Brussels as it aims to boost trade ties with Delhi.
The EU Commission has set up a series of ‘work streams’ on trade policy with China, but says that ‘dialogue will not suffice’ and is still planning to take a series of measures to control its trade deficit with Beijing.
Missing the wood for the trees – the EU’s unloved deforestation law reaches endgameThe EU’s deforestation law may not be as popular as when it was passed with massive majorities in 2023 – but has already spawned imitation from the UK.
EU foreign ministers have imposed a ban on Sudan’s gold trade in a bid to curb financing of its civil war – but they ignored MEPs’ demands to designate a militia accused of genocide as a terror group.
Faced with the end of the EU’s post-pandemic fund, the bloc’s leaders are using the cash to finance new sovereign investment funds.
MEPs have also warned against the EU’s new corporate ’28th regime’ being used to create a European equivalent to the US state of Delaware.
A group of leading university professors have urged the Irish EU presidency to sit out of negotiations on EU tax and digital laws, pointing to “insurmountable conflicts of interest”.
Brussels just dodged a Brexit‑fuelled airport meltdown with its biometrics U‑turnThe EU Commission says that the EES will reduce the average time spent at passport control from 90 seconds to 20 seconds per person. Airlines have warned of five-hour queues at airports.
Chinese oversupply still poses a major threat to the EU’s car industry, single market commissioner Stephane Séjourné told MEPs on Tuesday.
New research has found that most strawberries contain significant residues of pesticides that disrupt the body’s natural hormones.
Officials say that, to appease the US, ‘burden-shifting’ rather than simply ‘burden-sharing’ will be one of the main themes in Ankara as the EU and others face pressure to ramp up their own production of defence and security equipment.
MEPs want to make it easier for aerial spraying of pesticides, typically by drones, to be authorised by member states, and 15-year licences for approved pesticides, rising to 25 years for renewals.
China is set to face tougher restrictions on its steel exports to Europe under a new formula set out by the EU Commission.
The EU finds itself Trumped in north AfricaThe US is emerging as the main partner for Libya and Morocco, with the EU likely to see its own influence in North Africa diluted in the process.
After months of rhetorical disputes and the threat of new trade defence measures, top EU and Chinese trade officials have set themselves an October deadline to resolve their disputes.
THIS WEEK: China trade clash, Ebola health push, and Ireland’s turn at the EU helm Trade talks with China and a forum on global health policy in Brussels will be followed by a trip to Dublin and Cork for the launch of the Irish EU presidency.
Monday’s meeting between Chinese commerce minister Wang Wentao and EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič in Brussels has been billed by EU officials as a make-or-break event for the future of Europe’s trade with the manufacturing superpower.
The risks of Ebola cases in the EU is still “very low”, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has said. But it has still urged EU states to boost their preparedness.
