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Frans Timmermans

  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Rich must pay for others to go green, says EU environmental pioneer

    ‘Green Deal’ architect Frans Timmermans warns of boost to radical right from rising costs

    Frans Timmermans
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    Dutch election
    Far-right’s Geert Wilders wins big in Dutch election

    Anti-EU politician pledges to curb ‘asylum tsunami’ but will need other parties for coalition

    Geert Wilders
  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
    Europe Express
    Why the battle for next year’s European elections begins now Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: why Big Tech barely flinches at EU fines

    Donald Tusk
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    Climate legislation
    EU’s new Green Deal chief to reach out to industry and voters

    Maroš Šefčovič has promised ‘intensive’ talks amid a growing backlash against bloc’s climate agenda

    Maroš Šefčovič
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    European Union
    EU climate commissioner resigns to run in Dutch elections

    Frans Timmermans to head recently formed Green-Labour alliance leading in the polls

    Frans Timmermans
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    Netherlands politics
    Frans Timmermans plots return to Dutch politics

    EU climate commissioner will bid for leadership of leftwing coalition ahead of November’s general election

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Green solutions
    EU’s net zero plans will fail without more money, warn industry chiefs

    Proposal to counter US green subsidies lacks ‘clarity and funding’ of Washington initiative, say executives

    The sun sets behind wind turbines at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, off the coast of the Guerande peninsula in western France
  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    EU economy
    Europe cannot afford to engage in tit-for-tat with the US

    We should not allow our response to the Inflation Reduction Act to threaten functioning markets and fair competition

    A man in a white lab suit inspects a glass frame with a micro chip within it
  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    EU energy
    EU plans to cut Russian gas imports by two-thirds in a year

    LNG and coal use will need to be offset by increased renewable energy to meet climate targets, says commissioner

    A coal-fired power plant in Germany
  • Sunday, 4 July, 2021
    InterviewElectric vehicles
    EU green policy chief sets out plans to drive electric car uptake

    Proposals include deadline for combustion engine phaseout and pollution charge for automakers, says Frans Timmermans

    An electric car charging in Germany. The EU aims to increase infrastructure after research showed 70% of vehicle charging points in the bloc were in France, the Netherlands and Germany
  • Wednesday, 29 April, 2020
    Climate change
    EU grapples with melding pandemic recovery and climate agenda

    Leaders say vast rebuilding funds are chance to create greener economy but some insist fighting virus is priority

  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2020
    Climate change
    EU warned of ‘tectonic’ shift as economy goes green

    Citizens unprepared for impact of carbon neutrality drive, says Frans Timmermans

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by PATRICK SEEGER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10525181ao) First Vice-President of European Commission Frans Timmermans of the Netherlands delivers his speech during the debate on sustainable investment plan, just transition fund and Roadmap on Social Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 14 January 2020. European Parliament in Strasbourg, France - 14 Jan 2020
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2019
    News in-depthEuropean Union
    The von der Leyen commission: key appointments for a more assertive EU

    Gender-balanced team already causing controversy

  • Friday, 5 July, 2019
    FT CollectionsEU swaps top team
    How Emmanuel Macron won the battle over the EU’s top jobs

    The French president went from anger to jubilation as he manoeuvred his choices into the key seats of power

  • Sunday, 30 June, 2019
    European Union
    Emerging compromise over EU top jobs runs into fierce opposition

    Suggestion socialist Frans Timmermans heads commission sparks centre-right backlash

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by ARIS OIKONOMOU/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10324824at) German Chancellor Angela Merkel during arrivals for a Special European Council in Brussels, Belgium, 30 June 2019. Heads of states or governments from EU member states meet to continue discussions on the possible candidates for the heads of EU institutions, namely European Council President, President of the European Commission, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (Foreign Policy Chief), and President of the European Central Bank. Special meeting of the European Council On nominations for the EU's top jobs, Brussels, Belgium - 30 Jun 2019
  • Saturday, 29 June, 2019
    European Commission
    EU closes in on plan for European Commission and ECB top jobs

    Frans Timmermans emerges as front runner under a possible compromise

    Frans Timmermans’ economically liberal profile makes him palatable to centre-right leaders
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2019
    European Commission
    Sánchez sides with Macron to thwart Weber’s European Commission bid

    Spanish prime minister launches intense round of contacts with leaders

    Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez, left, and French president Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace on Monday
  • Friday, 24 May, 2019
    European Parliament elections
    Frans Timmermans welcomes Dutch voters’ backing for pro-EU parties

    Voters turned out in bigger numbers for European Parliament elections

    Frans Timmermans: ‘I hope that this gives a tailwind for a lot of other social democrats in Europe’
  • Friday, 3 May, 2019
    European Parliament elections
    German support for EU army leads to dissent at candidates’ debate

    European Commission president contenders in rigorous discussion over future of bloc

    Ska Keller of the Greens during the debate: ‘The biggest danger that right now we have to democracy is the lack of rule of law and civil liberties within the member states’
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2019
    EU eastern tensions
    Brussels steps up rule-of-law dispute with Poland and Romania

    European Commission calls for tougher measures to tackle growing autocracy

    European First Vice-President Frans Timmermans speaks during a press conference on further strengthening of the rule of law in the EU at the European Commission in Brussels on April 3, 2019. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images
  • Wednesday, 3 October, 2018
    World
    Romania dispute highlights EU fears of creeping autocracy

    Bucharest warned it risks reversing gains on corruption and rule of law

    A man holds a poster that reads "The Social Democracy Party (PSD) - Impaled" near a depiction of Romanian medieval ruler Vlad the Impaler, during a protest joint by thousands against a government decree that dilutes what qualifies as corruption, in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. Huge protests erupted in the capital and spread to cities around Romania in the past two nights after the government changed the law — one of the biggest protests in Romania since communism ended in 1989. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
  • Friday, 20 July, 2018
    World
    EU’s champion idealist stands firm in fight against autocracy

    Frans Timmermans points to greater dangers within the bloc than Trump’s hostility

    European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans delivers a speech during a debate on the Future of Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, June 13, 2018. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler - RC17B99E6010
  • Thursday, 14 June, 2018
    Gender politics
    Polish activists hail ‘gay rights’ banner ruling

    Supreme court finds against printer who refused work for LGBT group

    Participants of a gay pride parade hold a giant flag in rainbow colors as they walk through the streets of Warsaw on June 9, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKIJANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images
  • Monday, 9 April, 2018
    World
    EU says Poland needs to take further action on rule of law
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2017
    News in-depthWorld
    EU set for unprecedented rebuke to Poland over ‘authoritarianism’

    Fears that sanction would strengthen ruling Law and Justice party

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