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  • 2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Tommaso Lecca

    AMSTELVEEN, Netherlands — Winnie de Wit is very familiar with jet engines — between 400 and 700 airplanes roar over her house in Assendelft, a small town 30 kilometers north of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, every day and night. Enraged local neighbors want the noise cut. Airlines and the city want it to remain a crucial hub.

  • 3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Tommaso Lecca

    BRUSSELS — EU airports are pushing the European Commission to follow in the tracks of the U.K. and scrap rules limiting European air passengers passing through high tech security checkpoints to 100-milliliter mini bottles. ACI Europe, the main airport lobby, sent a letter — seen by POLITICO — to Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas on Thursday calling for a rethink of the bloc's more restrictive approach.

  • 4 weeks ago | politico.eu | Tommaso Lecca

    BRUSSELS — A bid to restart a long-stalled update of the EU's scheme to compensate air passengers for delayed or canceled flights is in trouble thanks to blowback from a group of countries led by Germany. The Polish Council presidency hoped to make progress on a file that has been moribund since 2013, but a text negotiated over the last few months did not receive enough support during Wednesday's meeting of EU ambassadors, several EU diplomats told POLITICO.

  • 1 month ago | flipboard.com | Tommaso Lecca

    17 hours agoThe steep fines are part of Trump’s aggressive push to get immigrants in the U.S. illegally to leave the country voluntarily, or “self deport.” Wendy Ortiz was surprised to find out she was being fined by U.S. immigration authorities for being in the country illegally — but it was the amount that …

  • 1 month ago | politico.eu | Tommaso Lecca

    BRUSSELS — Business travel bookings from Europe to the United States crashed by more than a quarter in April compared to the same month in 2024, a sign of the widening collapse of positive views of America under Donald Trump. Data shared with POLITICO by London-based HotelHub, a platform specialized in the business travel sector, found that bookings in April were down by 26 percent from a year ago.

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