
EU Council Leak: Europe’s Plan To Win Back Key Global Partners
Trade deals, visa-free travel, and “more migration opportunities” are just a few of the proposed EU strategies to prevent countries from defecting to Beijing’s camp.
Trade deals, visa-free travel, and “more migration opportunities” are just a few of the proposed EU strategies to prevent countries from defecting to Beijing’s camp.
Measures about mandatory reporting by companies to the Commission will be significantly changed, if not deleted.
Some MEPs want the EU to enforce an “adequate minimum income” across the union. They clearly have not considered the serious economic and moral price tag for their idea.
Iranian officials responded to the fifth round of EU sanctions with reciprocal sanctions and a declaration that the European restrictions had no basis in international law.
Despite having claimed that his comments were made in jest, Brussels’ urban planning chief drew the ire not only of trade unions representing EU staffers but also of EC President Charles Michel.
Both leaders discussed the EU’s response to recently announced American subsidies with Michel praising Italy’s role in protecting Europe’s southern frontier.
The political agreement sets the goal of reducing carbon pollution by 62%, one percent over the Commission’s original proposal.
Charles Michel is growing increasingly impatient with Ursula von der Leyen’s failure to come up with measures to blunt the pain of high energy costs inflicted on EU citizens and companies.
Member states have been deeply divided on the best way to handle the energy crisis, and the meeting kept all options on the table, with Germany finally giving in to the possibility of price caps.
Energy analysts warn of the dangers that market intervention tools, such as price caps, present. For the EU, it is “unchartered territory.”