The EU is now the fifth-largest sovereign or supranational borrower in Europe, surpassing Belgium and 22 other member states, and trailing only Italy, France, Germany and Spain. Brussels has quietly entered the fiscal big leagues. www.euractiv.com/opinion/euro...

Last Rapporteur of the year. We’ll be back in your inboxes on 5 January! @eddywax.bsky.social

The EU canceled a meeting of ambassadors today about Mercosur, the third such delay in a week www.euractiv.com/news/mercosu...

What a disaster, that this man owns an online (& global) kingdom Private Eye

Scoopito: after 26 years, the EU has a new date for signing the Mercosur trade deal. 12 January. www.euractiv.com/news/eu-to-s...

The Justus Lipsius renovation saga continues.. w/ @eddywax.bsky.social

Le bluff du prêt de réparation

Who’s bluffing? Bart De Wever or the member states considering ramming the reparations loan over his head? www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...

Old-new Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš flies into Brussels today for meetings with the very institutions he trashed on his route back to power. www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...

Fresh details about the tender for the Diplomatic Academy under criminal investigation in today's newsletter Rival bidders felt it was unfairly weighted toward the College www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...

Rapporteur is out. In Friday’s edition: Ukraine ‘reparations loan,’ College of Europe, Vance attacks, book lobbyists, trade-preferences scheme www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...

Remigijus Žemaitaitis, leader of Lithuania’s populist Dawn of Nemunas ruling coalition party, has been found guilty of incitement to hatred against Jews and downplaying the Holocaust in a decision by the Vilnius Regional Court.

Rule number one of crisis comms: put everything out there. Yet it's hard not to conclude that one of these two people, Commission senior official Sannino or anonymous spokesperson, is being deliberately misleading here. (from @eddywax.bsky.social and @nicolettaionta.bsky.social)

new: Mogherini resigns as College of Europe rector amid fraud probe www.euractiv.com/news/mogheri...

Good piece. (My take is that the deregulation drive started in late 2022 with the Business Europe Stockholm declaration and massive financing from the Swedish Confederation of Enterprise) www.euractiv.com/news/counter... @eddywax.bsky.social @kennethhaar.bsky.social

Dondé está Teresa Ribera (episode 2)

A must read, from my star colleagues @eddywax.bsky.social and Thomas Moller-Nielsen

Why is the commissioner standing inside a doll’s house?

I truly do find it sad and maddening that the EU’s top court wasted four years of its time having to reject this Commission official’s grubby attempt to claw back extra special money he was never owed - a spurious demand at best www.euractiv.com/news/top-eu-...

Could Roberta Metsola be carried by a right-to-far right majority into a third consecutive term as European Parliament President? Today in Rapporteur, the Patriots for Europe name their price. www.euractiv.com/news/patriot...

It's not just on Ukraine where the EU and US aren't seeing eye-to-eye lately. As we reported last week, American officials failed to show up to a big conference in Brussels for supporting the Palestinian Authority, despite being invited and expected to attend. www.euractiv.com/news/us-a-no...

We've published the full text of a European counter-proposal to the U.S. 28-point Ukraine peace plan, seen by Reuters. The document, drafted by Europe's E3 powers of Britain, France and Germany, takes the U.S. plan as its basis but goes through point by point with suggested changes & deletions.

In today’s Rapporteur: an interview with Cyprus’ top EU official, the latest on the EU Council’s Justus Lipsius renovation saga, and more budget.. w/ @eddywax.bsky.social

Amazon has offered that a US-based senior vice president could remotely address members of Parliament’s employment committee in a new attempt to defuse tensions with MEPs. Read @eddywax.bsky.social’ and my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...

Packed edition of the newsletter today: the wizard of the Berlaymont, Mercosur, budget scoop, Palestine Donor Group, Markus Pieper, EPP protects Meloni and much much more! www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...

After months of debate, the @ec.europa.eu has officially proposed delaying rules for high-risk AI systems. That’ll now kick off new months of debate in Council and especially in Parliament. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Italians are on the rampage after “Italian style” foods were found to be sold in the European Parliament’s shop. The president Roberta Metsola has been contacted to investigate! My colleague @nicolettaionta.bsky.social reports www.euractiv.com/news/rome-fu...

Lots to unpack in the latest Chattering Classes - The alleged Chinese spy who worked for Politico - Coked-up senior official at European Patent Office - Jean Quatremer ripping off Euractiv - And the Kurz-Epstein-Bannon triangle www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...

Great write up by @eddywax.bsky.social @euractiv.com of my latest podcast chat (with former European Commission Secretary General, Catheine Day): www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Need to place a high ranking political aide somewhere in the civil service? Just create a new directorate! www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...

Cracking scoop on #Frontex by my ace Euractiv colleague @nicolettaionta.bsky.social She is a scoop machine. If you're not following her, what's wrong with you!? www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...

Still way too much US news on here

One wall in Brussels shows how Europe has changed in one year. From federalist mural to private banking advert

Who ombuds the ombudsman? Go read. Via @eddywax.bsky.social and @elisabraun.bsky.social

There's internal dissent at the EU ethics watchdog after the boss Teresa Anjinho promoted her head of cabinet to the office's most senior position, secretary general. Read our scoop here. www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...

Rapporteur is out: today I write about the Ukraine funding option no one in the EU wants to talk about - simply giving Ukraine money www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...

There are two views on what the European summit on Thursday means for Mercosur. Macron, Costa, Stocker say there was a mere technical step On the other Merz and now Kallas - as we exclusively reported - claim that a significant political step happened www.euractiv.com/news/kallas-...

Diplomats with chainsaws: “Simplification” has overtaken the political agenda in Brussels. We look ahead to the leaders’ summit on Thursday and discover that special Simplification diplomats are working overtime to slash eu laws www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...

Rapporteur is out! When Maroš Šefčovič announces the Commission’s 2026 policy agenda, its grandiose title “Europe’s Independence Moment” is unlikely to convince anyone www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...

Today’s Rapporteur is out Read it here👇 www.euractiv.com/news/rapport...

#EUPolitics: Once, twice, three times? #Metsola said to eye another term as EP president, by @eddywax.bsky.social, and Sarantis Michalopoulos | Euractiv www.euractiv.com/news/once-tw...

Could Roberta Metsola be in line for an unprecedented third term as EU parliament president? It’s what everyone is talking about. What would it mean for the socialists and Costa…? Read our story. www.euractiv.com/news/once-tw...

Overheard in Strasbourg: " C'est incro-fucking-yable putain"

“Babiš emphatically repeated that his first cabinet meeting will officially reject the European migration pact, European carbon emissions trading scheme, and focus funding on social security and health care rather than support for Ukraine”

The Brief – French MEPs push to topple ‘Ursula von der Macron’

French MEPs push to topple ‘Ursula von der Macron’ My column on how French domestics politics is setting the agenda for the EU www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...

🚨 Scoop: The EU Commission is rushing to save its annulled deal with Morocco covering Western Sahara. Leaked docs show Brussels plans to swap Sahrawi consent for “verifiable benefits,” let Moroccan customs certify goods, and apply the deal before MEPs vote - a move insiders call a “fait accompli.”