British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited wartime Kyiv on Friday (12 January) to sign a new security agreement and announce an increase in military funding for Ukraine to buy drones, including surveillance, long-range strike and sea drones.

Italy's hard right government is scrapping the crime of abuse of office, setting Rome on a collision course with Brussels over a law supporters say is essential to fighting corruption.

The Brussels agri-bubble is on hold, in a kind of suspended animation. As business picks up after the winter holidays, the question on everyone's lips is when the 'structured dialogue' announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in her State of the Union address on 13 September will start.

The French government reshuffle on Thursday (11 January) marked the end of the pairing of the Ecology and Energy Ministries, with commentators suggesting this marks a shift to an industrial conception of energy primarily focused on the relaunch of France's nuclear industry.

According to NATO codenames, Soviet submarines of the S-363 type were called “Whiskey class”. When one such submarine got stranded close to the Swedish coast in October 1981, the English-language press worldwide humorously called the incident “Whiskey on the rocks”.

The EU should support more funding initiatives targeted to deep tech and quantum technologies, according to founders and strategists working within the quantum field in France.

EU member states are expected to discuss a potential new naval operation, which would aim to re-establish security and freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, as Yemen’s Houthis continue to attack ships in the vital international trade route.

France's draft 'energy sovereignty' law, recently unveiled by the government, has caused quite a stir for its apparent dismissal of renewable energies, which are placed at the bottom of the list of low-carbon energies, behind nuclear.

Last month, a coalition of EU countries blocked the provisional agreement on the Platform Workers Directive. But while the Belgian EU Council presidency wants to use the political deal as the starting point for future discussion, Paris wants a more comprehensive file reshaping.

Since Brexit, the UK Competition and Markets Authority has regained its status as a prominent competition enforcer. As the British Parliament is set to adopt a bill that will increase the CMA’s powers and introduce new obligations on tech companies.

European biofuel producers have praised the European Commission’s decision to launch an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese biodiesel imports, calling it a positive step to stop the economic devastation of the domestic EU biofuel sector.

The Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs Committee (EMPL) gave the green light for agreement to step up workers’ health protection by lowering limit values for lead and diisocyanates, which was reached in interinstitutional trilogues last year.

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Teresa Ribera, Spain's third deputy prime minister and minister for energy and climate, is prepared to take on a job in the European Commission after the EU elections in June, if she is nominated by her government.

As demonstrated by farmers protests this week, subsidies are addictive and create inefficiency. Still, the biggest economic transformation since the industrialisation might not work without them.

The European Investment Fund (EIF) launches €175 billion fund named Defence Equity Facility to boost defence innovation around the bloc, it announced on Friday (12 January).

Rows of white concrete barricades and coils of razor wire stretch across an open field for more than a kilometre. Trenches with rudimentary living quarters are being dug under cover of darkness. Artillery rumbles not far away.

London's mayor called Thursday (11 January) for closer ties with Europe and a better debate about immigration as he branded Brexit a "key contributor" to Britain's cost-of-living crisis.

Finnish presidential frontrunner Alexander Stubb said on Thursday (11 January) NATO should become "more European" and that his country would remain an important partner for the United States whether or not Donald Trump is re-elected.

The subsidy race triggered by the energy crisis in 2022 showed how electricity policy is central to industrial policy. Addressing this at EU level will become even more important in the coming years as Europe moves to electrify transport and other sectors, argue Ben McWilliams, Giovanni Sgaravatti, Simone Tagliapietra, and Georg Zachmann.