4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (343+ words) They say the Commission announced a revision in December 2025 while developing its critical-minerals and simplification agenda, before gathering the evidence needed to define the options. The complaint concerns procedure, not the legality of a final amendment. The Commission’s call for…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (378+ words) Stéphane Séjourné, the executive vice-president responsible for industrial strategy, withdrew the aluminium proposal from the Commission’s agenda after internal discussions concluded that it would cover only about half of exports. His office now intends to use a delegated act under…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (493+ words) More than €200 billion of Russian central-bank assets are immobilised in the EU, most of them held through the Brussels-based securities depository Euroclear. Belgium has resisted proposals that could expose the company and the Belgian state to litigation, retaliation or a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (853+ words) There is something revealing about the European Union’s latest attempt to tackle Europe’s housing crisis. Faced with an acute shortage of affordable homes in some of the continent’s most popular cities, Brussels appears once again to have reached for the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (923+ words) Kallas, who died on 22 August at the age of 77, served as governor of Estonia’s central bank, foreign and finance minister, prime minister and vice-president of the European Commission. He also founded the liberal Reform Party, which became one of the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (639+ words) The provisional Federal Statistical Office figures show a €36.6 billion year-on-year increase in the deficit. Revenue rose by 2.8 per cent to €1.0732 trillion, but expenditure increased by 6.1 per cent to €1.1445 trillion. That gap between revenue and spending growth is the central fact....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (745+ words) Eurostat recorded exports of €680.0 billion and imports of €701.8 billion. Compared with the first quarter, exports increased by 5.4 per cent, or €34.9 billion, while imports rose by 9.9 per cent, or €63.4 billion. The headline reversal is important, but its composition is more revealing....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (532+ words) The Council’s programme opens with meetings in Bratislava and Tallinn on 25 August, followed by visits to Latvia and Lithuania on 26 August and the Czech Republic on 27 August. The wider tour is due to continue until 17 September. Costa said the 2028–34 multiannual…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (597+ words) Customer-service operators contacted by Russian media said Gazprom Neft was limiting purchases at automated Moscow stations to 40 litres per vehicle. Tatneft was reported to be capping petrol at 50 litres and diesel at 60 litres, while the Neftmagistral network said on Monday…...