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German defense giant Rheinmetall overtakes VW in market value

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.

March 14, 2025 4:24 am CET
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
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Trump celebrates disruption and defies backlash in Congress speech

“The people elected me to do the job, and I’m doing it.”

March 5, 2025 6:38 am CET

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.

March 4, 2025 9:16 pm CET

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.

March 4, 2025 4:18 am CET

Tesla’s plummeting sales risk its lucrative emissions credit earnings

CEO Elon Musk has angered European customers and governments, undercutting his EV brand.

March 3, 2025 4:18 am CET

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.

February 28, 2025 4:20 am CET

Money alone can’t stop Europe’s industrial twilight

Subsidies are no panacea for the continent’s economic decline and social unrest.

February 27, 2025 4:29 am CET

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.

February 26, 2025 4:26 am CET

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.

February 25, 2025 4:28 am CET

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 …

February 24, 2025 11:44 pm CET

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.

February 22, 2025 2:33 pm CET

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.

February 20, 2025 7:26 pm CET

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.

February 20, 2025 6:50 pm CET
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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.

February 20, 2025 1:55 pm CET

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.

February 19, 2025 9:31 pm CET

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.

February 19, 2025 4:16 am CET

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.

February 17, 2025 6:17 pm CET

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.

February 16, 2025 11:22 am CET

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.

February 14, 2025 11:17 pm CET
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Germany’s disappearing green agenda

The country once seen as a climate trailblazer is in danger of becoming a laggard, as the party almost certain to lead the next government is on a mission to dilute environmental targets.

February 13, 2025 4:00 am CET

Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ tariffs could target EU’s value-added taxes

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a reciprocal tariff executive order Thursday.

February 13, 2025 1:00 am CET

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.

February 12, 2025 7:21 pm CET

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.

February 12, 2025 2:19 pm CET

European carmakers in crossfire of US-EU trade war

German automakers would face increased costs while already under pressure from heightened competition.

February 11, 2025 4:20 am CET

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.

February 10, 2025 8:20 pm CET
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