This week: - From Tirana to Ottawa, with love - Fifteen years of ESMA, zero years of central market supervision - Stopping trucks costs money, stopping people wins votes

This week: - National governments want to pause the EU sausage machine - Budget: leaders can look forward to a December sleepover - The slow-burn climate risk nobody notices until its explodes

This week: - Forget about saving the climate, let’s just save ourselves - Sweden moves left, but how far? - EU bends its own rules for good manners (and raw materials)

This week: - Buy European with our taxpayer money please - Bank capital: not lower, just "modern realities" - Macron and von der Leyen aim for the stars

This week: - Gold is geopolitics - Metsola's third term means German Realpolitik - Pensions: the EU gold rush

This week: - It's game over for teens on TikTok - Banks step up fight against capital requirements - Commission simplifies the Commission

This week: - Please Do No Significant Harm with my tax spending - Internal combustion engine cars are here to stay - Heat wave? Just relax by the pool in your garden

This week: - Irish Presidency to the rescue - EU Inc. OK, but make it S.O. please - Why a package fee is good for you

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This week: - If bank stress test fails, who will pay for climate risk? - Can the EPP hold the EP together? - Due Diligence Guidelines: from paper to practice

This week: - Big on big things: stop killing video games (and give me a blue passport) - Cyprus presidency opens EU funding pandora's box - Omnibus IV agreed: beware of the SMC

This week: - Don’t touch my Schengen - Trump saves EU forced labour rules - Parliament prepares for total war on greenwashing

This week: - The great European Parliament USA tour - EU enlargement: Merz has a plan for everyone - Now it’s time for consumers to ride the Omnibus

This week: - The big boys club: from G7 to E6 - Parliament's arm twisted into EU-US trade deal - Rolling over the common debt

This week: - Some political parties are out there to destroy civil society - The G7 is back - Draghi: from 'whatever it takes' to a European vision

This week: - Commission can't see forest for the trees - The never-ending story of central financial supervision - Single train ticketing might finally leave the station

This week: - NGOs staying alive as EU budget battle unfolds - Reusable kitchen cutlery is the next big thing in sustainability - It's spring cleaning time in Brussels

This week: - What happens in Strasbourg, stays in Strasbourg - EU keeps kicking the can on Gaza - Cold shower for One Europe, One Market plan

This week: - Damage of Omnibus I finally documented - EU budget: the two trillion euro question - But we have the euro

This week: - ECB climate tsar warns for fossil fuel dependence - Magyar to lead Magyar - Forget PEPP, here comes Europe Pensions

This week: - Rule of law: shrinking space, shrinking NGOs? - Chop chop for dismantling climate laws - ECB dreams about one financial supervisor for Europe

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This week: - First EU own goal ahead of World Cup - Digital euro goes online but not online yet - Left block wins in Denmark, but at what price?

This week: - EU Summit: Show us the money - ...and the bring the popcorn please - An EU budget on a budget

This week: -Trump sidelines Draghi at EU Summit -Special housing crisis committee disappoints -Baby steps on EP right of initiative

This week: - Made in Europe... or made with Europe? - Sánchez challenges the deregulation push? - Financial markets infra debate becomes political

This week: - Made in Europe now really coming next week - Ukraine 2027 - Another shield for our democracy

This week: -EU-US trade agreement: we’re friends again -MFF: big ambitions, small consensus -Eurogroup: Euro is the new dollar

This week: -Elections: relief in Portugal, popularity tests ahead elsewhere -Munich’s security crowd can’t ignore climate anymore -Leaders meet in a castle to avoid taking decisions

This week: - The return of the Warborn - Europe plays bamboo diplomacy - Crunch time for public procurement

This week: -Von der Leyen slapped in the face on trade deals -Will Parliament buy the digital euro? -Here comes the Societas Europaea Unificata

This week: -Parliament strikes first in ECB war of succession -Digital Omnibus: big tech’s new year’s gift -The return of the Strasbourg censure show

This week: - The political meeting that wasn’t - Santa’s securitised surprises - Brussels is back…sort of

This week: -Mercosur: Farmers 1 – Free Trade 0? -Just give us the retail money please -Final Parliament clap for 2025

This week: - A Master plan for EU financial integration - Beyond Growth– The Return - Simplification already saved us 8 billion euros

This week: - A Master plan for EU financial integration - Beyond Growth– The Return - Simplification already saved us 8 billion euros

This week: -Omnibus is maladministration -Deforestation déjà vu -Strasbourg: support for Ukraine

This week: -COP30 shows divided EU climate front -Europe’s democracy moment? -Commission kills financial sector due diligence

This week: -EPP gets away with deregulation dance -Can procurement still deliver a social and green ambition? -Digital euro: big ambitions, slow decisions

This week: -Europe’s 2040 climate target: 5% credits, 0% credibility -Commission Democracy Package to the rescue for civil society -Big chocolate is actually fine with EU deforestation rules

This week: -Deforestation law faces yet another delay -Digital euro moves ahead -Dutch abroad to decide on options for Jetten I government

This week: -No holidays for Omnibus negotiators -Socialists double down on affordable housing -COP30: big goals, bigger contradictions

This week: -28h regime for workers or for companies? -EU summit might cause traffic jams -Forests burn, banks earn

This week: -EPP uses far-right flirt to weaken sustainability rules -Ban on veggie burgers finally in sight -Further delay of deforestation rules imminent

This week: -Click here for financial advice -Copenhagen deadlock -Parliament blocks the Deregulation Express

This week: -First Omnibus agreement, but not the last -Trade first, forests later -EU green voice fades at Climate Week

This week: -Albania’s ambitious sprint to accession -Better Regulation – the Commission strikes back -Draghi takes centre stage