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Swiss minister eyes ‘opportunity’ after US tariff talks

Sat, 09/06/2025 - 18:44
Swiss businesses worry that competitors in other wealthy economies will have an edge. The EU, which landlocks the country, and Japan, have negotiated a 15% tariff and the UK secured a 10% rate
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

EU trade commissioner hails Trump’s “crucial step” on car tariff reduction

Sat, 09/06/2025 - 16:01
"We now look forward to the US swiftly implementing the agreed tariff adjustments," the Commission said in a statement obtained by Euractiv
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Belgium appeals to US not to destroy contraceptives stockpile

Sat, 09/06/2025 - 12:45
The contraceptives were purchased by the US foreign aid agency USAID under former president Joe Biden to be provided to women in some of the world's poorest countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Alleged shadow-fleet captain denies intentionally cutting Baltic cable

Sat, 09/06/2025 - 12:00
Several undersea Baltic cables were damaged last year, with many experts calling it part of a "hybrid war" carried out by Russia against the west
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Seizing Russian assets would risk ‘terrible systemic shock’ to euro, Belgian foreign minister

Sat, 09/06/2025 - 11:15
"We're not going to take the risk for everyone with a friendly pat on the back" Prevot said
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

US to cut military aid for Baltic states

Sat, 09/06/2025 - 10:39
Estonia's Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur said the US move is "especially symbolic, in a negative way"
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

Belgian prime minister makes pitch to fix a ‘worn out’ Europe

Sat, 09/06/2025 - 08:00
"Europe has been lulled to sleep over the past decades. And now we're being rudely awakened... Postmodern Europe has become hypersensitive and morally conceited."
Categories: European Union, Swiss News

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Pence calls on Europe to take ‘additional action’ on Russia

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 20:29
Former US vice president echoes Trump's call to sanction countries importing Russian energy
Categories: European Union

Parliament environment chief to quit Brussels for Italian politics 

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 18:52
Antonio Decaro had long been suspected of harbouring domestic ambitions
Categories: European Union

Commission ‘welcomes’ Putin’s blessing of EU membership for Ukraine

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 18:39
Putin said Russia “never objected to” Ukraine’s EU bid – but warned that NATO “is a different matter”
Categories: European Union

Belgian ex-anticorruption chief charged over secrecy breach

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 18:20
Police has searched Hugues Tasiaux house over leaks connected to the Qatargate scandal earlier this year
Categories: European Union

The Brief – 5 September 2025: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 17:31
Whilst some of the Schuman denizens returned fresh-faced, others spent the summer steering Europe through a series of fraught negotiations that challenged the bloc's authority and exposed divisions among members

Commission slaps down Ribera over Israel genocide claim

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 16:37
Whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza can only be settled by courts, according to the EU executive

Denmark gets personal with new medicines strategy

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 14:55
The personalised medicines strategy could set an example for the rest of Europe, enabling a new generation of innovative treatments at scale

UK Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigns over tax error

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 14:48
Rayner disclosed on Wednesday that she had underpaid on the so-called stamp duty on a flat in southern England

Finland to sign declaration on two-state solution for Israel, Palestinians

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 14:38
The country's right-wing coalition government is split on the question of recognising Palestinian statehood

Europe’s most powerful supercomputer comes on-stream in Germany

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 13:27
The high performance computer, called Jupiter, will also provide AI training capacity to European companies

Europe’s monstrous mistake

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 13:12
This week's summit in Tianjin showed that many of the world's largest economies still want to trade with Russia - and that Europe's plan to force the Gremlin in the Kremlin to the negotiating table is doomed

Putin threatens to target any Western troops in Ukraine

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 10:28
Kyiv says security guarantees, backed by Western troops, are crucial to any agreement, in order to ensure Russia does not re-launch its offensive in the future

Ukraine gains allies as Trump presses for oil sanctions

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 07:15
In today’s edition: Donald Trump urges the EU to starve Russia of oil money as 26 nations back security guarantees, Ursula von der Leyen plans to restructure the Commission, and Israel calls Commissioner Teresa Ribera a 'mouthpiece for Hamas'

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