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3 weeks ago | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer |Aurélie Pugnet
by Aurélie Pugnet
BRUSSELS – NATO members have long been expected to rethink their relationship with Moscow, but talks have been halted for months, several diplomats told Euractiv.
Last year, the 32 Alliance leaders said they wanted to "develop recommendations on NATO’s strategic approach to Russia, taking into account the changing security environment” by their next summit this July.
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1 month ago | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer |Théophane Hartmann
by Théophane Hartmann
The 27 EU Foreign Affairs Ministers discussed Ukrainian accession to the EU’s roaming zone, clearing the way for a formal vote later this year.
The discussion coincided with a broader show of support by the EU to Ukraine, which today marked three years since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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2 months ago | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer |Faisal Islam
by Faisal Islam
China’s success in technology has not come out of thin air, even given the unlikely origins of the DeepSeek deep shock.
The obscure Hangzhou hedge fund that coded a ChatGPT competitor as a side project it claims cost just $5.6m to train emerges from a concerted effort to invest in future generations of technology.
This is not an accident. This is policy.
The raw materials of artificial intelligence (AI) are microchips, science PhDs and data.
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2 months ago | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer |Nikolaus J. Kurmayer
by Nikolaus J. Kurmayer
Norwegian politicians are resisting attempts to implement critical EU energy laws, which would integrate the country more tightly into European power markets.
The EU’s expanded free trade region (EEA), of which Norway is a key member, is being rocked by Oslo wrestling with its role in Europe ahead of September elections.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer |Barbara Lima Machado |Bárbara Machado
by Barbara Machado
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is compensating political, business, academic, and celebrity elites who travel to next week’s Davos summit by low-emission rail, but delegates seem happier to stick with their private jets to go to Switzerland.
Transport is the main source of emissions from the WEF’s annual Davos summit, where leaders from different walks of life meet to discuss the most pressing global issues.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer |Maia Wyn Davies |André Rhoden-Paul |andre rhoden-paul |Thomas Copeland
by Maia Davies and Andre Rhoden-Paul & Thomas Copeland
Spain is planning to impose a tax of up to 100% on the value of properties bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK.
Announcing the move, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the "unprecedented" measure was necessary to meet the country’s housing emergency.
"The West faces a decisive challenge: To not become a society divided into two classes, the rich landlords and poor tenants," he said.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer |Thomas Moller-Nielsen
by Thomas Moller-Nielsen
Relations between China and the EU are worsening – and could rapidly deteriorate when Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday.
The pledge by the self-proclaimed “Tariff Man” to impose steep duties on all US imports may have prompted Brussels and Beijing to ease trade ties to limit the potential impact on their export-oriented industries.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer
by Dimitar Bechev*
Believe it or not, European integration is on the march forward. Romania and Bulgaria joined the Schengen Area on January 1, 2025, and border checks on the two countries’ land borders with the rest of the EU were lifted. This marks a rare bright spot at a time of deep domestic political crisis in both countries and geopolitical and economic challenges in Europe.
Yet Schengen’s overdue extension into southeast Europe highlights its travails.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer
by Giles Merritt*
Europe stands on the threshold – some would say brink – of a make-or-break quarter-century. In Brussels, optimists speak of the continuity around Ursula von der Leyen’s second term as Commission President, and point towards a return to the EU’s golden uplands. Others fear the European project now teeters on the edge of irremediable decline.
The EU’s first quarter of this century has been mixed, at best. Public approval is waning when it’s not evaporating.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
europeanbusinessreview.eu | N. Peter Kramer
N. Peter Kramer’s Weekly Column
The European Investment Bank, world’s biggest multilateral lender by assets, phased out all fossil fuel investments from its €500bn loan book of more than and branded itself ‘the climate bank’. But in a confidential message, seen by the Financial Times, one of the EIB directors warned of a ‘major reputational risk’ from changed EU sustainable reporting rules, which require a taxonomy classifying green investments.
