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"A strong and effective trade defence is of key importance to protect our companies and jobs against unfair trading practices and to ensure diversity of supply. Making sure our companies operate in fair market conditions will be even more crucial in the times of post-corona crisis recovery..."

Trade defence report: restoring the level playing field for European producers

By: EBR | Monday, May 4, 2020

EU trade defence measures are effective in reducing unfair international trading practices, according to an annual report published today by the European Commission

The European Union is facing a great challenge: how to quickly re-build Europe’s economy in the context of COVID-19 while ensuring to keep itself on the path to become climate neutral by 2050.

We must invest today in the buildings of tomorrow

By: EBR | Monday, May 4, 2020

In the COVID-19 aftermath, making our buildings energy efficient is key to reconcile Europe’s climate objectives with rapid economic recovery

After a difficult start, NATO’s crisis management is working. But such praise deflects attention from the long-term economic, strategic, and political risks that the pandemic carries for the defense sector.

Saving European Defense From the Coronavirus Pandemic

By: EBR | Thursday, April 30, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic will harm European defense strategically, politically, and financially. To mitigate these consequences, Europeans must start shaping joint and immediate answers

According to EU diplomats, the number of countries in favour of more voucher leeway swelled to as many as 20 countries, including Germany and Spain. The development means that if a proposal were to be drafted, there would be sufficient support in Council to pass it.

Twelve countries demand passenger rights suspension

By: EBR | Thursday, April 30, 2020

Twelve countries have asked the European Commission to suspend the law requiring airlines to offer passengers a full refund for cancelled flights, championing the idea of time-limited vouchers as an alternative

Deepening key trade and investment links beyond Brexit will be even more vital against a backdrop of COVID-19 to support economic recovery, according to TheCityUK and economiesuisse

UK and Swiss finance industries join forces to urge new trade model beyond Brexit

By: N. Peter Kramer | Thursday, April 30, 2020

Given the comparability of the Swiss and UK approach to financial market regulation and overall supervisory frameworks, the principle of financial services equivalence as applied by the EU would not be suitable for a bilateral arrangement between Switzerland and the UK.

The UK prime minister is expected to open lines of communication with Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission and tell her that ‘the EU’s mandate is clearly not a realistic solution’.

Boris is back and takes charge of Brexit talks

By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Boris Johnson is to take personal charge of Brexit negotiations on his return to work

The 65% target proposed by Guteland is much higher target than the 50-55% emission cuts promised by the European Commission as part of its Green Deal initiative.

EU lawmaker puts 65% emissions cut on the table

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 29, 2020

The European Parliament is gearing up for tough talks on the EU’s climate target for 2030, with a 65% emissions cut now firmly on the table

Costs are top of most airlines’ worries at the moment. Lufthansa says that it is losing €1 million an hour due to lack of business, while others like Scandinavian and Norwegian have furloughed workers en masse.

Europe’s airlines rebel against social-distancing jet set

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Coronavirus social-distancing measures will not work on board aircraft, Europe’s airlines say, as the aviation industry and governments consider how to get planes back in the sky. But carriers elsewhere are willing to trial new ideas

“There is only one and very clear way to consider lifting sanctions – if Russia ceases its intervention and aggression against Ukraine,” Lithuanian MEP Andrius Kubilius (EPP) told.

EU should consider ‘flexible’ Russia sanctions over Ukraine: report

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 28, 2020

The EU should reconsider its ‘all or nothing’ approach on sanctions imposed on Russia for its role in the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, as well as its annexation of Crimea, a new report from the International Crisis Group suggests

What if European governments become so hard-pressed for money, that moderately sized investments by interested external powers could turn the tide?

Saving Europe from corona’s nasty geopolitics

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Four months into the corona crisis and one month into the nerve-racking spectacle of social and economic shutdown, it becomes clear that the big geopolitical loser of the pandemic is likely going to be Europe

When the European External Action Service (EEAS) was putting the finishing touches to a report about how Russia and China are stepping up their disinformation campaigns throughout Europe, Beijing piled on the pressure on some of its diplomats.

The Cost of Europe Bowing to China’s Disinformation and Pressure

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Overcoming the coronavirus pandemic is also about the EU defending its own principles of transparency and truthfulness, both of which China is aggressively challenging

"The Member States have already taken a range of measures to cushion the immediate impact of the crisis. We are well aware, however, that the combined efforts made thus far by the European Union and the Member States will not be enough to address what is an unprecedented crisis."

Sassoli’ s speech to the European Council

By: EBR | Friday, April 24, 2020

"Reconstruction is in our common interest. Europe must save everyone"