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Trade war averted? Macron gets Biden to ‘tweak’ his industrial subsidies
The US president conceded there were ‘glitches’ in the roll-out of America’s multi-billion-dollar package of green subsidies.
License to kill: How Europe lets Iran and Russia get away with murder
For rogue states, solving a problem by removing it often proves irresistible.
Half a year later, EU still squabbling over citizen reform project
The EU on Friday will hold its first follow-up event on the project, which aimed at getting Europeans’ input on reshaping the EU.
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Toad King vs. Pooh Bear: Jiang Zemin’s death spells trouble for Chinese ruler Xi Jinping
The risk is that a new generation of malcontents will latch on to Jiang as a symbol of opposition to Xi’s more repressive rule.
Target Crimea
Partisans are mobilizing, and Russians are trying to sell their holiday homes — as fear grows that the war is closing in on the peninsula.
Are China’s lockdown protests the beginning of the end for Xi Jinping?
Here’s what you need to know about the demonstrations that swept across China in recent days.
US tries to break EU deadlock over Russian oil price cap
As time runs short to get a deal, Poland, Estonia and Lithuania are pushing to hit Putin’s oil revenue with a tougher cap on prices.
The Kremlin’s friends in the sky: The EU satellites carrying Russian propaganda
Europe wants new sanctions and tougher oversight to stop Russian propaganda on its airwaves.
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Watchdogs wanted an EU ethics cop. They might get a scolding
Without enforcement or investigation powers, a new ethics body ‘misses the point,’ experts say.
EU play puts ‘diabolical’ food industry lobbyists center stage
Europe Connexion is a cautionary tale of a corporate career in the Brussels bubble.
Snus-gate: Swedes threaten ‘Swexit’ over snus tax report
A tabloid report about snus taxes started a furor in Sweden. Brussels is doing its best to set the record straight.
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Germany’s Habeck backs ‘Buy European’ response to US trade threat
Berlin’s economy minister says EU may need to enforce controversial rules to expand state subsidies.
Berlin warms to France’s ‘Buy European’ plans as global trade rules erode
Germany fears losing industrial champions because of unfair competition from state-backed US and Chinese rivals.
Germany and France join forces against Biden in subsidy battle
EU’s top economies leave behind their recent tensions to push for EU action amid trade war fears.
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