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German defense giant Rheinmetall overtakes VW in market value
Germany’s economic agenda is shifting from cars to defense as the United States retreats and Russia threatens.

Saving steel: The fight to keep Europe’s industrial waste on its shores

Trump reignites Europe’s Franco-German engine

Europe’s great battery hope Northvolt files for bankruptcy in Sweden

How Britain’s slickest energy lobbyist wooed Labour

Europe’s automakers caught up in Trump’s trade war

Trump wants to destroy the EU — and rebuild it in his image
Trump celebrates disruption and defies backlash in Congress speech
“The people elected me to do the job, and I’m doing it.”
He wasn’t bluffing: Trump’s trade war sparks broad backlash
He levied sweeping tariffs on key trading partners Mexico, Canada and China early Tuesday morning.
Commission agrees to water down automotive emission targets
The executive will put forward an amendment that calculates the target over three years, making it easier to reach.
Tesla’s plummeting sales risk its lucrative emissions credit earnings
CEO Elon Musk has angered European customers and governments, undercutting his EV brand.
EU to Trump on tariffs: Go ahead, make our day.
Brussels threatens to use its trade bazooka after President Donald Trump says the European Union was created to “screw” America.
Money alone can’t stop Europe’s industrial twilight
Subsidies are no panacea for the continent’s economic decline and social unrest.
Europe’s impossible choice: Which industries should survive the green transition?
One German aluminum factory decided to go green and close its smelter. The EU faces a similar choice, with Europe’s future at stake.
Trump wants Europe to buy more US farm goods. It can’t.
There are insuperable market, phytosanitary and political obstacles — and it could get worse.
Trump indicates Canada, Mexico tariffs will take effect next week
President Donald Trump indicated on Monday that he intends to go ahead with plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian and Mexican goods beginning …
France still looking to block EU-Mercosur trade deal, Macron says
Farmers should not be “an adjustment tool for purchasing power … nor an adjustment tool for trade agreements,” French president says.
The three big roadblocks on the way to a UK-India trade deal
Britain’s trade chief travels to Delhi Monday to resurrect the long-drawn-out talks. POLITICO’s trade reporters set out the challenges ahead.
The end of Germany’s climate crusade
One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a likely chancellor who says green policy went too far.
EU and India to inch closer on trade, EVs and chips at upcoming meet
Ursula von der Leyen is leading her new College of Commissioners on their first visit to India.
EU ready to negotiate on car tariffs with Trump, trade commissioner says
EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said the bloc is “ready to discuss” reducing its 10 percent tariff as part of broader negotiations.
Germany’s economy is driving off a cliff. The car industry is behind the wheel.
The incoming chancellor will inherit a host of problems buffeting carmaking, including high energy and labor costs along with a looming trade war.
Europe’s peace offerings to Trump: Gas, cars and guns.
The European Union’s top trade official brings a suitcase full of proposals to persuade President Donald Trump to call off his trade war threats.
UK’s Starmer to attend emergency European summit in Paris
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the “main European countries” would meet on Monday to discuss European security.
Trump suggests he might impose auto tariffs on April 2
The move would further strain trade relations with Europe and the rest of the world.
Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ tariffs could target EU’s value-added taxes
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a reciprocal tariff executive order Thursday.
EU’s red tape bonfire stokes tech patent rows
A move by the European Commission to kill its standard essential patent rules has alarmed companies that license connectivity technology.
PMQs: Starmer wins it as Badenoch fumbles border attacks
The PM batted off Kemi Badenoch’s charges on Britain’s asylum system — though wasn’t exactly doling out the details.
European carmakers in crossfire of US-EU trade war
German automakers would face increased costs while already under pressure from heightened competition.
Musk’s shadow hangs over Macron’s AI summit
France’s president tried to nurture a special relationship with the tech billionaire — but it failed to bear fruit.