Benjamin Fox

EU countries are trying to limit the ambition of a new UN tax convention during negotiations in New York, despite research indicating that the agreement could generate billions of euros in additional tax revenue for them.

The EU's plans to liberalise rules on pesticide use at home contrast with new restrictions on imports of produce containing pesticide residues. Yet the EU continues to sell banned pesticides to countries outside the bloc.

Emboldened by support from the US, Morocco could be exploiting its border crisis with Spain to push for new concessions on the status of two Spanish enclaves in North Africa.

Tumbling cocoa prices risk slowing preparations for the EU's deforestation regulation (EUDR), as farmers and industry groups struggle to bear the costs of new measures to trace where cocoa beans were produced.

The BRICS group of countries has doubled down on its critique of the EU's new carbon tax describing it as “unilateral, punitive, discriminatory and protectionist”.

EU officials have pointed to major irregularities in Zambia's presidential vote in the African country which hosts the flagship project under the EU's Global Gateway scheme.

The EU has been urged to hit back at Donald Trump's administration's sanctions campaign against the International Criminal Court – by invoking a

There is no evidence that Morocco bears any responsibility for the migrant surge in Ceuta in late July that led to close to 75,000 migrants crossing the border into the Spanish enclave.

The EU's ban on imports of Brazilian meat and other animal products from Thursday (3 September) could be short-lived if audits later this week

EU trade officials are drafting new rules to require companies in critical sectors to increase their number of suppliers in order to reduce reliance