Benjamin Fox

After two weeks of European Parliament hearings for the new EU commissioners, lawmakers will return to Brussels for a week dominated by the bloc’s foreign policy priorities.

EU leaders are under pressure to make good on commitments to back Brazil’s plan to tax billionaires at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday and Tuesday (18-19 November).

The extra €20m for Rwanda to support an anti-terror mission in Mozambique comes just weeks after the Rwanda Defence Force was accused of violently suppressing opposition protests there against October’s presidential elections.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that bans on EU nationals living in the Czech Republic and Poland from being able to join domestic political parties illegally prevents them from utilising their rights to vote and stand in local and European elections.

MEPs and EU governments are heading for a major dispute over the fate of the bloc's maligned deforestation law, after diplomats signalled their opposition to radical changes demanded by MEPs.

Having been dubbed the ‘finance COP', cash was always likely to dominate negotiations at the UN Conference of the Parties (COP29) climate summit in Baku.

Morocco’s foreign minister Nasser Bourita laid down the gauntlet to the European Union earlier this week, giving a clear warning that the EU cannot count on its relationship.

The European Union has hedged its bets on a new UN tax convention designed to draw up new global rules on tax transparency despite diplomats voting by a wide majority to set up the new body.

Italy has led a group of seven EU countries in demanding that the bloc row back on a key part of its green transition, in a bid to defend Europe’s beleaguered car industry.

The decision by Chad to end its military cooperation deal with France in the coming weeks is a new blow to the EU’s hopes of rebuilding its influence in Africa’s Sahel region.