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UK confirms electric vehicle quotas for 2024

September 28, 2023 3:41 pm CET

Quota comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak watered down several of the U.K.’s short-term environmental targets.

EU and US leaders set for October 20 summit

September 27, 2023 6:37 pm CET

Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel will travel to Washington.

France isolated on post-Brexit electric vehicle tariffs

September 27, 2023 6:30 pm CET

London has found an ally in Germany in its push for a stay of execution on tariffs due to kick in next January.

UK-India trade deal won’t have binding worker or environment pledges

September 27, 2023 2:08 pm CET

Angry firms and trade unions fear being undercut and say they were shut out of Britain’s biggest trade talks.

After Brexit, Britain and Europe embrace ever-closer union

September 26, 2023 10:00 pm CET

Rishi Sunak has fundamentally changed the nature of the post-Brexit relationship.

Donald Trump calls Rishi Sunak ‘smart’ for easing climate targets

September 24, 2023 9:01 am CET

Former US president says British leader wouldn’t ‘destroy and bankrupt his nation for fake climate alarmists.’

Keir Starmer says UK Labour doesn’t want to ‘diverge’ from EU if it wins power

September 21, 2023 5:45 pm CET

‘There’s a lot more common ground than you might think,’ says UK opposition leader.

The EU lost a trade war with China 10 years ago. Has it learned? 

September 21, 2023 4:50 pm CET

Brussels wants to act more decisively on electric vehicles than it did a decade ago, when China split the EU in a fight over solar panels.

Surprise fall in UK inflation eases pressure on Bank of England

September 20, 2023 9:13 am CET

Easing food prices bring an end to interest rate hikes in sight — and offer a boost to Conservative government.

Kemi Badenoch cools talk of imminent UK-India trade deal

September 19, 2023 5:44 pm CET

‘We will get there when we have a deal which is mutually beneficial for India and the UK,’ says British trade secretary.

UK foreign secretary confirms China invite to AI summit

September 19, 2023 3:51 pm CET

The invite to Beijing has ruffled feathers, especially among the UK’s allies in the G7.

UK won’t stop India trade talks despite row over murder of Sikh leader

September 19, 2023 2:38 pm CET

Britain is in negotiations over a UK-India trade deal.

I will renegotiate Brexit deal, UK Labour’s Keir Starmer says

September 18, 2023 10:23 am CET

Labour leader says he will seek a ‘much better deal’ with the EU at 2025 review.

EU-US steel row in focus ahead of fall trade summit

September 18, 2023 6:00 am CET

Brussels and Washington inch toward broad understanding on steel and aluminum to avoid a replay of their 2018-21 trade war.

Keir Starmer: UK needs to ‘wean itself off’ China

September 17, 2023 8:37 am CET

‘We need to be absolutely clear about the security of the UK,’ Labour leader says in interview with POLITICO’s new Power Play podcast.

Biden rep Joe Kennedy says Northern Ireland ‘ripe’ for US investment despite deadlock

September 13, 2023 5:09 pm CET

But Biden’s economic envoy comes empty-handed to an Investment summit overshadowed by the failure of power-sharing.

Von der Leyen hits China with electric vehicle subsidy probe

September 13, 2023 9:18 am CET

‘Europe is open for competition. Not for a race to the bottom,’ says European Commission chief in annual address.

EU work permit rules lead to exploitation, migrant workers say

September 12, 2023 7:25 pm CET

Research shows the EU’s Single Permit Directive locks migrants into jobs — regardless of their occupation.

Let the US in to EU arms deals, says Lithuanian minister

September 12, 2023 7:18 pm CET

But powerful EU countries such as France argue that European defense money should go to the Continent’s companies.

Britain wants to loosen rules and boost its arms exports

September 12, 2023 6:01 pm CET

The UK is already a large weapons seller; it wants to get even bigger.

UK minister: China wins unless EU budges on post-Brexit electric car trade

September 12, 2023 1:08 pm CET

Nus Ghani’s comments come ahead of looming tariff on EVs traded between the U.K. and the bloc.

We won’t cut China out of AI summit over spying scandal, UK says

September 11, 2023 3:05 pm CET

Hawks demand ban as Beijing espionage row grows.

France puts screws on EU chief to hit back against Chinese electric vehicles 

September 11, 2023 11:14 am CET

Brussels and Berlin are increasingly annoyed by the French demand, which could spur a tariff war with China.

Horizon Brexit row fixed? Now let’s sort electric vehicles, Rishi Sunak tells EU

September 8, 2023 7:01 pm CET

Research deal ‘demonstrates that our relationship with our European partners is positive, it’s constructive,’ says British PM.

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