The world is changing — and not in Europe’s favor
Mark Leonard is director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and author of “The Age of Unpeace.” EU leaders will be gathering in Granada tomorrow for an informal discussion on the future of...
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Beijing squares up for big fight with Brussels over EV probe
BRUSSELS — China reacted with anger on Wednesday to the European Union’s announcement that it was going ahead with an investigation into its subsidies for electric vehicles, upping the stakes in a...
View ArticleRishi Sunak slows Mexico and Canada trade talks as he eyes pre-election UK/US...
LONDON — Crucial talks on Britain’s future trade with Canada and Mexico have been deprioritized as Rishi Sunak’s government pursues a pre-election agreement with Joe Biden’s U.S. administration....
View ArticleSweden’s winter drug stockpiling plan risks backfiring
The message is loud and clear. Adverts across Sweden tell patients with chronic diseases to make sure they have at least a month’s supply of medicines at home. “Self-preparedness is part of society’s...
View ArticleLabour wants to decarbonize UK power by 2030. Mission impossible?
LONDON — Keir Starmer’s Labour Party heads into its annual conference in Liverpool with a big, bold green promise: net zero electricity in Britain by 2030. There’s just one problem with the...
View ArticleNetwork innovation: we need a stronger EU ecosystem
Open RAN must sound like the latest tech acronym. It is not. As telecoms operators embark on a €174 billion investment challenge to bring gigabit connectivity to all Europeans, Open RAN is a...
View Article‘Planes have already taken off’: US sends Israel air defense, munitions after...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is surging weapons to Israel, rapidly sending air defenses and munitions in response to Israeli officials’ urgent requests for aid, a senior Pentagon official...
View ArticleGovernment advisers to Rishi Sunak: You’ve put UK climate goals at risk
LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spent the week listening to the opposition Labour Party pull apart his green policies. Now another damning verdict has arrived — this time from his own...
View ArticleEurope’s health resilience relies on its ability to innovate
In the face of continued global geopolitical uncertainty, Europe is paying increasing attention to its sovereignty, security and resilience. The availability of critical medicines and vaccines is...
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To ban or not to ban: Fixing the EU’s global plastic waste mess
The EU has vowed to clean up its act and cut back on dumping its waste elsewhere. For communities in low-income countries bearing the brunt of Europe’s trash, that can’t come fast enough. A joint...
View ArticleRishi Sunak set to invite China to new global AI research body
LONDON — China will be invited to join a new global AI research body which Rishi Sunak hopes to establish at next month’s summit at Bletchley Park, a U.K. official involved in discussions has told...
View ArticleBiden has a new message about the war. There’s an America First twist.
President Joe Biden is making a new case to the American public for shipping arms, ammunition and other military supplies to the wars in Ukraine and Israel. His argument: many of those supplies are...
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Eyeing China, EU rushes to inflate sagging wind sector
Europe was once the world’s leader in producing the wind energy increasingly needed to power the world for decades to come. But persistently high inflation, supply chain bottlenecks, and hold-ups in...
View ArticleBiosimilar matters
Biosimilar competition is getting fierce. A biosimilar is a biological medicine highly similar to another already approved biological medicine, or also known as the reference medicine. With eight...
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US isn’t ready for a war of great powers
Andrew A. Michta is senior fellow and director of the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative at the Atlantic Council of the United States. United States President Joe Biden’s recent Oval Office address marked...
View ArticleMoscow scoffs at new US sanctions, saying Washington ‘shouldn’t hold its breath’
Moscow on Friday dismissed a sweeping new round of sanctions imposed by the U.S. over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, saying Washington “shouldn’t hold its breath” in...
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Crunch time for EU conservatives’ push to kill nature law
Europe’s conservatives are at it again. After attempting to kill off a major pillar of the EU’s Green Deal earlier this year, the center-right European People’s Party has come back to the negotiation...
View ArticleUkraine defies Russian attacks to continue Black Sea exports
KYIV — Ukraine is still shipping hundreds of thousands of tons of grain and other agricultural products through its self-declared safe waterways in the Black Sea, despite heavy Russian strikes on the...
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Decarbonizing heavy-duty can’t be only based on an early-stage technology
On November 21, 2023, the plenary vote for CO2 emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) will take place in the European Parliament. Growing evidence about potential raw materials shortages,...
View ArticleEU agrees on first-ever law to curb methane emissions
The European Union struck a deal on a law to tackle methane emissions from fossil fuels, paving the way to impose rules on the bloc’s foreign energy suppliers like the United States. MEPs and EU...
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