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La future majorité au Parlement, la candidature d’Ursula von der Leyen, son rêve de Mario Draghi, le rôle déterminant de Giorgia Meloni, l’eurodéputé livre ses réflexions sur l’après 9 juin à POLITICO. May 24 7 mins read
By Euronews with AP Published on 13/02/2026 – 6:05 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump has reversed a scientific finding that underpins US efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, marking Trump’s biggest effort to dismantle climate regulations. The Environmental Protection Agency or EPA’s new rule cancels a 2009 “endangerment finding” which says that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The Obama-finding is the legal basis for most climate rules under the Clean Air Act covering emissions from cars, power plants and other sources that warm the planet. Court challenges are expected. The repeal wipes out all greenhouse gas standards…
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Pool photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/AFP via Getty Images That’s why Moscow’s reaction to the Trump-Xi meeting was predictably bellicose, with Kremlin-friendly television channels trumpeting the fact that Russia’s new nuclear-capable missiles could plunge the world into ecological disaster or wipe out millions of people in a heartbeat — a sure sign Putin was rattled. True, the China-Russia relationship has strengthened significantly since 2022, and China has done little to rein in Putin’s aggression so far. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also reportedly told EU High Representative Kaja Kallas that his country didn’t want to see Russia defeated in Ukraine, as…
European leaders must “toughen up” and lead the continent, rather than wait for direction from the U.S. or even the EU institutions, Sweden’s Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch said. In an interview with the EU Confidential podcast on the eve of the Munich Security Conference, Busch, who leads the Christian Democrats in Sweden’s center-right coalition government, added: “Europe has to be saved from itself” by becoming more agile and not being slowed down by an increasingly powerful bureaucracy. She said that instead, European leaders need to “toughen up and need to stop waiting for the Commission to take a lead”…
That contrasts sharply with the view of pro-EU Prime Minster Donald Tusk, who said the loans were being issued on “very favorable terms, unavailable on the market in any other way.” SAFE provides low-interest, long-term loans with a 10-year grace period for principal repayments, raised by Brussels on capital markets and offering significant savings compared to national borrowing. Those terms are crucial for Poland, which plans to devote 4.8 percent of its GDP to defense this year, one of the highest levels in NATO. The country’s public finances are under pressure due to its long-term effort to build up its military…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez lodged a protest with Rome over the decision, according to newspaper El Mundo. Joking he was meeting journalists outside the castle “in splendid isolation” while others breakfasted, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin said “we weren’t invited” and “I don’t get the necessity” of a private club convening separately. Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, however, denied there was a rival clique forming. “I think everyone was invited,” he told journalists. “We don’t want the perception that there is a large group of countries that wants to impose its will on other countries, like Spain. That is…
With the bloc buffeted by multiple geopolitical crises, it’s starting to realize that it can’t come to grips with them if it only acts when all 27 member countries agree. From defense to energy to investment, the European Commission, which makes the rules, and national governments, which are supposed to implement them, are finding themselves hamstrung. Meanwhile, businesses talk of being strangled by red tape and high energy costs. Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland and his wavering on helping Ukraine fend off Russia, combined with China’s strategy of flooding Europe with artificially cheap goods, have provided an impetus to…
European leaders floated a two-speed union as the fastest way to break a political impasse over economic reforms needed to reboot the European economy, as French President Emmanuel Macron set a summer deadline for a broad deal. “What we decided today is that between now and June, we will have to finalise the agenda,” Macron said upon departing the castle. “If in June we don’t have concrete prospects and concrete progress, we will continue with enhanced cooperation.” While the EU is built on consensus at 27, frustrations about the pace of reforms prompted calls to work in smaller groups of…
Spanish farmers have driven approximately 500 tractors through Madrid to protest against low incomes and an EU trade deal with South America. The protest took place Wednesday, causing traffic disruptions as the tractors moved toward the Ministry of Agriculture. Farmers are demanding immediate action to protect Spanish food security. They say rising costs and strict regulations are squeezing their earnings. They also oppose the EU-Mercosur trade deal, fearing it will flood the market with cheaper imports.