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Once Europe’s most influential fiscal hawk, Berlin is now leading the charge for greater fiscal flexibility.

Paris is looking into whether Russia’s €200 billion can be used to guarantee new loans to Ukraine.

To raise money for an increase in defense spending, Paris is looking at tapping into “those with substantial savings.”

Hours after Trump suspends aid to Ukraine, von der Leyen unveils blueprint to help countries rearm and send weapons to Kyiv.

François Bayrou calls U.S. president’s treatment of Zelenskyy “a staggering scene marked by brutality.”

Tensions around defense spending will take center stage during an emergency meeting of EU leaders on Thursday.

Controversial move to make green investment standards voluntary sparked “huge fight” within the EU executive.

4 of 5 companies would be exempt from EU corporate sustainability reporting as part of Brussels’ anti-red tape drive.

The strategy is a response to mounting competition from China and the U.S. and argues Europe can win on green technology.

France, Italy and Poland support the move, but others fear it might prompt Donald Trump to retaliate in anger.

Eyeing Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Europe scrambles to ramp up production of military equipment and boost its defense capabilities.

Greek central bank chief says the ECB can discuss support for the defense industry if the EU declares higher spending is a goal.

Europe has significant leverage after being left out of key talks on ending the war in Ukraine, but will it use it?

The relief aims to support “an inclusive political transition in Syria,” says Council of the European Union.

Many businesses would be exempt from complying with sustainability reporting under the hotly anticipated omnibus proposal.

The push by the Trump administration creates a “big risk” for financial stability, Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau tells Alternatives Économiques magazine.

Proposal to scrap so-called “double materiality” rule led to a fight within the EU executive.

Divisions inside Europe’s centrist coalition risk derailing the Commission’s green simplification package.

A draft of the Clean Industrial Deal obtained by POLITICO reveals EU plans to drive climate-friendly manufacturing.

But Donohoe acknowledged that it is “inevitable that in the years ahead, Europe will have to increase its defense expenditure.”

It’s “definitely coming,” he tells POLITICO ahead of the Feb. 23 election.

Ukraine doesn’t have to accept whatever peace plan Russia and the United States present, Scholz added.

The bloc is grappling with a need to increase defense spending, amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s sudden move to end the war in Ukraine.

A European Commission draft sets out ways for governments to subsidize and boost clean-tech investments.