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SPONSORED CONTENT FROM C40 Cities

City climate action is a path to economic transformation

Europe’s climate and industrial policies are inextricably linked — cities are at the heart of both 

April 23, 2025 5:00 am CET

US Mideast allies face ‘worst-case scenario’ with Trump aid cuts and tariff whiplash

The withdrawal of aid by the U.S. and Europe could feed extremism and lead to a surge in emigration, experts warn.

April 17, 2025 4:01 am CET

Postwar Russian energy return ‘illusory,’ Belgium says

Belgian Energy Minister Mathieu Bihet told POLITICO he wants to phase out the country’s Russian gas imports — but didn’t back an outright ban.

April 16, 2025 4:32 am CET

Shootings, debt and political paralysis show Brussels is falling apart

Losing €4 million a day and without a government, Belgium’s capital is in desperate need of leadership.

April 14, 2025 4:37 am CET

How Trump is forcing Europe to get real on steel

The EU wants to rearm, reindustrialize and refinance as Donald Trump’s United States abandons the role of global policeman.

March 31, 2025 4:39 am CET

Finland’s Stubb boosts Trump ties over golf

The two presidents discussed Ukraine and icebreakers in Florida.

March 30, 2025 10:40 am CET

Myanmar earthquake death toll tops 1,600

The number of people killed by the 7.7-magnitude temblor could go up to 10,000, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates.

March 29, 2025 1:59 pm CET
SPONSORED CONTENT FROM POLISH CEMENT ASSOCIATION

Call for help: Eastern cement imports are killing EU industry

Cement imports from Ukraine to Poland surged 540 percent, from 101,700 tonnes in 2022 to 652,300 tonnes in 2024, threatening Poland’s and Europe’s cement industries.

March 26, 2025 9:30 am CET

Saving steel: The fight to keep Europe’s industrial waste on its shores

EU steelmakers, facing steep decline, want Brussels to intervene to give them more access to scrap metal. Recyclers aren’t happy.

March 13, 2025 6:00 am CET

ECB set to cut interest rates again as inflation takes a back seat to Trump

But is it enough for the central bank just to take its foot off the brake?

March 3, 2025 4:20 am CET
Living Cities

‘Housing crisis is as big a threat to the EU as Russia,’ Barcelona mayor says

“We’re running the risk of having the working and middle classes conclude that their democracies are incapable of solving their biggest problem.”

February 27, 2025 3:00 pm CET

Musk trolls Trump’s €500B AI mega plan

The tech billionaire and close ally of the U.S. president sniped at one of the White House’s first major proposals.

January 22, 2025 2:23 pm CET
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Dutch government ordered to cut nitrogen pollution — or face €10M fine

Greenpeace’s victory means that PM Dick Schoof must achieve emission-reduction targets by 2030 or face the penalty.

January 22, 2025 12:24 pm CET

Serbia hit with double whammy on gas supply

New U.S. sanctions against Russia target Serbia’s main gas company, at the same time that Azerbaijan claims to not be able to deliver its supply.

January 11, 2025 7:29 pm CET

The method in Trump’s Greenland madness

The climate skeptic is responding to the reality of the Arctic’s melting ice: more resource extraction, faster trade routes, new military bases.

January 9, 2025 4:35 am CET

Serbia charges 13 in railway station tragedy, critics allege cover-up

Belgrade government is trying to “throw dust in the eyes of the people,” former Novi Sad Mayor Boris Novaković says.

December 30, 2024 10:21 pm CET

Westminster’s top books of 2024

POLITICO asked politicians and chroniclers of SW1 to tell us the book they most enjoyed reading this year — here are the results, in their own words.

December 26, 2024 11:00 am CET

Inside the floating 80s relic that wants to be Britain’s energy future

POLITICO spent the afternoon on a soon-to-be-abandoned North Sea gas plant that’s hoping to ditch fossil fuels with government help.

December 10, 2024 4:01 am CET

Do Syria’s liberators still deserve the terrorist label?

Assad’s downfall was met with unbridled joy and relief among Syrians and Syria’s expatriate community.

December 10, 2024 12:47 am CET

Will Donald Trump kill US-UK-Aussie sub defense deal?

The landmark defense agreement between the U.S, U.K. and Australia could be in jeopardy with the maverick Republican back in the White House.

December 9, 2024 4:00 am CET

Belgium’s Romanians poised to propel the far right into power

Frustrated with mainstream parties and unable to return home, Romanians abroad are emerging as staunch supporters of ultranationalist presidential hopeful Călin Georgescu.

November 30, 2024 10:37 am CET
SPONSORED CONTENT FROM EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVES AND REFORMISTS GROUP (ECR)

Defenders of the Romanian nation and all Europeans

A strong European Union is built on protecting each of its members’ interests equally. The AUR is ready to collaborate.

November 28, 2024 5:00 am CET

Biden inks billion-dollar climate deals to foil Trump rollbacks

The administration is accelerating the approval of large loans for clean technologies that the president-elect attacked on the campaign trail.

November 20, 2024 10:58 pm CET

Trump picks Lee Zeldin to lead EPA

If confirmed, Zeldin would lead the Republican effort to roll back Biden’s key climate change regulations — including rules tightening the pollution from power plants and tailpipes.

November 11, 2024 10:30 pm CET
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