Italy aligns with Germany by cooling on Macron’s joint EU debt plan
BRUSSELS — Rome is again aligning with Berlin by saying that it’s not the time to discuss European joint debt…
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Leaders push toward Ukraine loan deal as ‘risk-sharing’ compromise comes into view
Follow all the action on POLITICO’s live blog here. BRUSSELS — Twelve hours into a make-or-break summit in Brussels, national…
D-day for EU’s battle plan to rival Wall Street
The EU will on Thursday unveil plans to supercharge its finance industry, tearing up swathes of rules in a bid to…
Belgium lays out red lines on €140B Ukraine loan
BRUSSELS — Belgium has laid out its red lines for using Russian assets to fund a €140 billion reparations loan…
ECB’s Šimkus backs EU plan to mobilize Russian cash for Ukraine’s defense
VILNIUS — Europe shouldn’t be squeamish about seizing frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine keep fighting, according to Lithuanian central…
Rome gloats as France becomes Italy and Italy becomes France
PARIS — Giorgia Meloni’s allies are taking a victory lap as French politics takes on an increasingly Italian flavor. With…
EU floats ‘creative’ new way to send billions of euros of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine
BRUSSELS — The European Commission is floating a new idea of how to send billions of euros of frozen Russian…
Draghi: EU needs reform to tackle Trump’s ‘brutal wake-up call’
The European Union needs to do a better job of defending itself in a new world dominated by war and…
France’s budget bombshell is a wake-up call for Europe as it veers toward bankruptcy
French Prime Minister François Bayrou’s budget bombshell on Tuesday wasn’t just a wake-up call for France. Rather, it was the clearest and…
France’s budget bombshell is a wake-up call for Europe as it veers toward bankruptcy
French Prime Minister François Bayrou’s budget bombshell on Tuesday wasn’t just a wake-up call for France. Rather, it was the clearest and…