Payments

African Union chief urges EU to ease food payments to Russia

June 19, 2022 1:32 pm

‘We ask the Europeans for the same mechanism as for gas and oil,’ Macky Sall tells Le Journal du Dimanche.

Russia puts the gas squeeze on France and Italy

June 17, 2022 3:55 pm

Cuts come as countries formally put Ukraine on the track to EU membership.

Hungary’s tax veto leaves EU adrift and Bruno Le Maire burned

June 17, 2022 1:51 pm

A tax deal was a top priority for the French Presidency.

4 EU countries to state concerns on Polish recovery plan approval

June 15, 2022 5:56 pm

Warsaw is now set to get up to €36 billion in grants and loans.

Crypto industry fears regulatory backlash over lending crisis

June 14, 2022 3:45 pm

The meltdown of Celsius Network has rattled crypto companies already on high alert.

Apple’s dating-app payment conditions now ‘in line,’ Dutch regulator says

June 11, 2022 1:02 pm

App Store operator unveiled latest changes to payments mechanism late Friday.

Google gets UK antitrust probe into app payments

June 10, 2022 12:05 pm

CMA will probe Google’s requirement for apps to use Google’s own payment system.

Cyprus has gas for Europe. A decades-old conflict is keeping it untouched

June 9, 2022 6:23 pm

Europe is looking for ways to wean itself off Russian gas. But Turkey and Greece can’t agree on how to extract gas from Europe’s own territory.

work reloaded

Retirement dreams, busted

June 7, 2022 7:06 pm

Public pension systems are stretched thin by an aging demographic, but political bias prevents solutions from emerging.

Putin’s war is forcing Moldova to escape Russia’s gas trap

June 3, 2022 12:00 pm

Chișinău wants closer ties with the EU, but first has to get out of a toxic relationship with Moscow’s energy exports.

Orbán wins again as furious EU envoys take church patriarch off Russian sanctions list

June 2, 2022 4:08 pm

Russian Orthodox leader Patriarch Kirill removed from EU sanctions list after objections from Budapest.

Chelsea Manning dances with the crypto devil

May 31, 2022 4:10 pm

The US whistleblower is working on a privacy project with funding from a digital token.

After Orbán pipes up, Hungary skips Russian oil ban

May 31, 2022 3:52 am

To win approval of new sanctions, EU leaders give Budapest a pass.

The illusion of Russia’s economic stabilization

May 24, 2022 4:32 pm

The country’s current account has profited enormously in the last 2 months from sky-high prices for oil and gas.

Brussels’ next lobbying dogfight: Big Tech vs. Big Telecoms

May 17, 2022 3:21 pm

Both sides prepare for battle over who should bear the cost of developing infrastructure.

Crypto crash leaves Brussels split on response

May 13, 2022 6:18 pm

Some stablecoins ‘broke the buck,’ triggering panic among crypto investors — especially the young.

EU drafts plans to send cash to Hungary if Orbán agrees to Russian oil ban

May 10, 2022 4:14 pm

Brussels could pay Budapest to move away from Russian fuels as the impasse over sanctions deepens.

How the left is tackling crypto

May 10, 2022 4:02 pm

While Greens and leftists disagree on the finer points, policymakers are tightening the regulatory screws.

Thought sanctions on Russian oil were hard? Try gas

May 6, 2022 4:28 pm

Bitter negotiations over oil sanctions indicate that the next fight, likely over gas, will be even tougher.

Dirty Dozen

12 Germans who got played by Putin

May 5, 2022 4:05 am

There’s no shortage of politicians, business leaders and intellectuals who have appeased Moscow over the years. Here are a few of them.

Dutch antitrust authority probes Google’s app payment rules

May 4, 2022 5:02 pm

ACM says dating app Match has complained about terms for Google Play Billing service.

Analysis

On sanctions, von der Leyen speaks as Putin’s prosecutor and EU’s wartime leader

May 4, 2022 2:17 pm

European Commission president tells Kremlin warmongers: ‘You are not getting away with this.’

EU targets Putin’s oil, banks and propaganda in new sanctions plan

May 4, 2022 10:49 am

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warns oil ban won’t be easy for Europe.

Russia’s Sberbank will ‘finally’ be cut off from SWIFT, says von der Leyen

May 4, 2022 10:07 am

‘We hit banks that are systemically critical to … Putin’s ability to wage destruction,’ says Commission president.

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