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Germany's center-right opposition criticized a plan by the Social Democrats to build a coalition of willing EU states to take in asylum applicants, saying it would divide the European Union on important migration issues.
The NextGenerationEU programme and its Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) have broken new ground for the Union, and MEPs are keen not to blunder t...
The carrot, or the stick? The European Commission no longer wants to put up with economic blackmail such as that exerted...
The carrot, or the stick? The European Commission no longer wants to put up with economic blackmail such as that exerted by China. And it has new tools at hand to fight it, as Bernd Riegert reports from Brussels.
(Own report) - With an infrastructure initiative worth up to €300 billion, the EU attempts to compete with China's New Silk Road (Belt and Road Initiative, BRI). The initiative named "Global Gateway" was officially presented last Wednesday after bumpy preparations that were widely criticized as largely inadequate. It is intended to provide finances for the construction of roads, railways and digital links – infrastructure projects worldwide to be mainly undertaken by companies from EU countries. The pressure on Brussels to launch the initiative has recently increased. Despite tem...