Energy and Climate

Berlin’s economy minister talks of a pivot point in global trade — and an opportunity for the continent to forge new alliances.

“We are now preparing for further countermeasures,” says European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

The EU is weighing reopening rules on renewables, energy efficiency and green renovations — despite warnings that it could be opening Pandora’s box.

European Union joins China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea in U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade sin bin.

Brussels is poised to retaliate after the U.S. president’s announcement, which is expected to contain double-digit American tariffs on all EU exports.

The outcome of a key vote on environmental laws in the Parliament this week could set the stage for the next five years.

EU officials had hoped to catch Trump’s interest with offers to buy more American gas. Here’s how they hit a wall of bureaucracy and disinterest.

Brussels sees America’s transatlantic trade surplus in services as its Achilles’ heel.

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

The European Commission wants to keep a 90 percent emissions-cutting target but to change how countries calculate their progress.

Once the great hope of the European climate movement, Germany’s Greens are now confronting their relative powerlessness.

In NBC interview, U.S. president threatens to blacklist companies trading with Russia if the Kremlin doesn’t agree to a Ukraine ceasefire.

Top leaders meeting in Paris want to show the U.S. and Russia can’t carve up the continent by cutting out the EU and Ukraine.

EU countries are against reviving the ruptured gas links, which experts say will also prove legally difficult — even if there’s an American buyout.

It’s ours, end of story, Moscow says.

For Emmanuel Macron, it wasn’t enough that Luc Rémont turned around France’s state-owned nuclear firm. He wanted a CEO who put French industry first and built local reactors faster.

The tariff is expected to take effect April 2.

The proposal would allow Bratislava to rake in lost gas transit fees — but experts are doubtful it would work without subsidies.

Ukraine isn’t dismissing the U.S. president’s latest plan to provide a semblance of long-term security — but says Russian troops must first leave a city near the plant.

Saving and greening European steel mills is now a key part of the EU’s defence strategy.

The bloc’s 27 leaders met to tackle defense spending, support for Ukraine, competitiveness, the Middle East and migration.

Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis stressed the flexibility is a stop-gap until countries reframe budgets around higher defense needs.

A week after the tanker crash off the English coast, officials are trying to work out the damage done — and who is going to pick up the bill.