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  • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
    Brussels seeks €12bn annual revenues from EU carbon trading scheme

    Commission makes pitch for fresh revenue streams from member states to repay pandemic recovery fund debts

  • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
    EU eastern tensions
    Poland and Hungary face threat to EU regional aid over human rights concerns

    Brussels weighs use of powers that link cohesion funds to bloc’s values

  • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
    Brexit
    UK and Brussels clash over £40bn Brexit divorce bill

    London challenges calculation tied to commitments from when Britain was EU member state

  • Tuesday, 25 May, 2021
    Maria Demertzis
    Europe must fix its fiscal rules

    The pandemic has shown that the EU’s spending framework reflects an outdated economic orthodoxy

  • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
    Greek economy
    EU fund gives ‘Greece 2.0’ chance to reset economic model

    Brussels to scrutinise Athens’ rebuilding plan in wake of financial crises and pandemic

  • Monday, 12 April, 2021
    News in-depth
    Brussels faces battle on new pan-EU revenue sources

    European Commission aims to raise at least €13bn a year to service post-pandemic borrowing

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    German politics
    Germany’s highest court blocks ratification of EU recovery fund

    Law challenged by Eurosceptic group over fears of European fiscal union

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    News in-depthItalian politics
    Italy crisis raises concerns about EU recovery spending

    Instability caused by resignation of PM Conte casts shadow over reform plans

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    Interview
    Wolfgang Schäuble issues warning on EU recovery fund

    Governments must implement tough reforms, says Germany’s former finance minister

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    News in-depthSpanish politics
    Spanish pension reforms increase strains within coalition

    Changes form part of commitments Madrid must make in return for EU recovery funding

  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
    EU recovery plan faces bottleneck, economists warn

    Biggest beneficiaries from fund have poor record in using cash from Brussels

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    Spanish economy
    Spanish companies jostle for EU recovery fund billions

    Wish list for likes of Telefónica, Iberdrola and Seat include 100% broadband coverage and car-charging network

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    InterviewVera Jourova
    Brussels warns on corruption threat to taxpayer trust

    Top commission official says safeguards essential as ‘river of money’ flows from pandemic recovery deal

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    Global InsightBen Hall
    EU still lacks a ‘silver bullet’ for bringing autocrats to heel

    Budget stand-off over rule of law ends in neither victory nor defeat for Hungary and Poland

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    EU economy
    EU recovery deal to ‘alter permanently’ bloc’s crisis-fighting approach

    EU leaders surmounted divisions to achieve historic €750bn package involving common borrowing

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    EU economy
    EU countries agree historic €1.8tn budget and recovery package

    Leaders of Hungary and Poland drop vetoes on rule of law mechanism linked to bloc budget

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    EU seeks accord to end impasse on rule of law and budget

    Polish deputy PM says agreement within reach but draft needs signing off by member states and parliament

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Poland and Hungary will be losers from a budget veto

    Angela Merkel should take a firm stand on behalf of EU in battle over values

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    News in-depthEuropean Union
    Angela Merkel faces final challenge at EU summit

    Failure to settle budget stand-off could tarnish German chancellor’s legacy

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Europe Express
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    Eastern countries are demanding money and guarantees for signing up to the EU’s new 2030 emissions goal

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
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    EU’s budget warning, Brexit complications, Boeing 737 Max order

    The EU budget commissioner warns Poland and Hungary that Brussels is ready to cut them out of the recovery fund

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Brussels warns Poland and Hungary they cannot stop EU recovery fund

    Bloc drawing up plans to push through €750bn project over two nations’ objections

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    EU eastern tensions
    Hungary and Poland harden stance in EU budget stand-off

    Viktor Orban and Mateusz Morawiecki restate opposition to plan that ties bloc funds to rule of law

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    Romania
    Romania PM berates Poland and Hungary over EU budget veto

    Ludovic Orban says their stance on rule of law ‘is against the whole of Europe’

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    EU scrambles to resolve rule of law stand-off as economy suffers

    Hungary and Poland insist Brussels will have to offer concessions to break deadlock

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