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France’s Fifth Republic is on the ropes

France’s Fifth Republic is on the ropes

The eligibility ban on presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen and the market-wrecking tariffs of U.S. President Trump are just the latest challenges roiling Emmanuel Macron’s second term.

April 9, 2025 4:01 am CET
Ceasefire? What ceasefire? Killer Russian drones rain down across Ukraine
US announces Black Sea deal with Russia and Ukraine
Trump aid freeze decimates UN food agency: ‘It’s catastrophic.’
Czech farmers lead fresh EU border protests over Ukraine, LatAm trade deals
Trump wants Europe to buy more US farm goods. It can’t.
Angry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine

Angry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine

February 17, 2025 4:44 am CET
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Russia strikes Kyiv as UK’s Starmer arrives to sign 100-year treaty with Zelenskyy

British leader’s trip comes at a key moment, with peace talks on the horizon as Donald Trump returns to power and threatens to shake up the dynamics of war.

January 16, 2025 7:11 am CET

Europe’s biggest dietary problem? Lobbyists, says Nutri-Score creator.

France’s Serge Hercberg warns that disinformation is shortening the lives of consumers.

December 20, 2024 4:22 am CET

Poland expected to slow-walk Ukraine trade talks until election

On the eve of its EU presidency, Warsaw plans to only tackle trade talks with Ukraine after a presidential election in May, diplomats tell POLITICO.

December 18, 2024 4:19 pm CET

Europe’s farmers should calm down about Mercosur

The EU’s trade deal with South America is small potatoes for agriculture.

November 17, 2024 5:19 pm CET

Global money laundering body to consider blacklisting Russia

Lowering Russia’s ranking requires consensus from the Financial Action Task Force’s multilateral membership.

October 15, 2024 6:52 pm CET

Europe’s soil emergency

Amid drought and flood disasters, inaction on restoring soil health is increasingly leaving farmland waterlogged and heat-cracked.

September 27, 2024 6:00 am CET

David Cameron’s barefoot warrior bids for glory in California

Britain’s disrupter-in-chief and Trump admirer now has his eye on the Golden State’s governor’s mansion.

September 4, 2024 10:04 pm CET

Ukraine wants peace talks in wake of Russia incursion, but not directly with Putin

Kyiv is increasingly looking to the model of the Black Sea grain deal, where Russia and Ukraine struck separate agreements with intermediaries.

August 19, 2024 5:38 pm CET

This burger could kill the EU

Farmers furious about lab-grown meat are taking their fight to the heart of the European project.

July 22, 2024 6:00 am CET

Ukraine seizes cargo ship, alleging grain shipments via Crimea

The vessel under flag of Cameroon is suspected of visiting Sevastopol in November 2023 and May of this year.

July 11, 2024 5:43 pm CET

Kyiv hopes to achieve peace with Russia through intermediaries

Ukraine will not talk to Moscow directly, but hopes Putin’s friends will help to push him toward peace.

June 16, 2024 11:04 am CET

Inside the ill-fitting, occasionally chaotic, decidedly solid Biden-Macron relationship

The two leaders will meet in France, with a number of thorny issues and a potential return of Donald Trump, looming in the air.

June 7, 2024 6:53 am CET
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China is threatening EU agriculture. Should farmers squeal?

Beijing’s threat of tariffs on EU agricultural imports comes as trade volumes are already falling.

June 7, 2024 6:00 am CET

Zelenskyy accuses China of helping Russia sabotage peace summit

Ukrainian president unleashes on Beijing, saying it’s helping Moscow threaten countries with higher food and fuel prices to convince them not to attend June 15-16 meeting.

June 2, 2024 9:00 am CET

EU plots new ways to cut Russia’s cash as sanctions stall

Officials are discussing novel methods to target Russian exports — including fossil fuels — without the support of countries like Hungary.

May 30, 2024 9:09 pm CET

5 of the wackiest things Putin’s demoted security chief has said

Ukraine is trafficking in orphans and organs; a secretive global elite is causing multiple crises; and Madeleine Albright wanted to wipe out Russia — those are just some of the greatest hits of Vladimir Putin’s longtime security adviser.

May 17, 2024 4:00 am CET

Czech MEP mounts last-minute bid to stop Ukraine free-trade extension

Ally of ex-PM Andrej Babiš pulls maneuver that could upset fragile compromise, and leave Kyiv out in the cold.

April 18, 2024 7:38 pm CET

Farm trade rift puts Ukraine’s EU aspirations in limbo

If Ukraine wants to join the EU, it may have to leave its agricultural sector out in the cold.

April 8, 2024 8:58 pm CET

New EU rules to curb deforestation add to farmers’ red tape woes

European farmers say the legislation will saddle them with more obligations that they can ill afford.

April 5, 2024 1:47 pm CET

Russia’s friends beg EU to leave frozen assets alone

From China to Saudi Arabia, countries want the EU to reject pressure to confiscate over €200 billion of Russian assets.

April 2, 2024 9:32 pm CET

EU to reintroduce tariffs on Russian, Belarusian grain

The European Commission will reintroduce tariffs on some Russian and Belarusian agricultural imports on Friday in a bid to curb growing demand for them in some EU …

March 21, 2024 11:34 pm CET

Farmer fury puts EU support for Ukraine to the test 

European leaders are torn between appeasing farmers angry at import competition and backing Kyiv in its struggle against Russian aggression.

March 21, 2024 8:33 pm CET

Top Zelenskyy adviser condemns EU protectionism

Mykhailo Podolyak warns Russia is seeking to wear down the West with a long war.

March 20, 2024 4:44 pm CET

EU ambassadors flinch at Ukraine free-trade compromise

Compromise struck overnight unravels within hours as France and other countries balk.

March 20, 2024 1:52 pm CET
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