🎙️Unpacking EU parties’ economic strategies

In a joint Bruegel- Financial Times event, EU political parties debated on EU economic issues. Rebecca Christie invites Andrew Bounds & Heather Grabbe to unpack the views they gathered from the debate.

Listen now
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When amazing colleagues bring you cake in the press room 🥳 thanks Lili Bayer & Henry Foy #EUCObirthday

ECB's Lagarde strongly warns G7 against using Russian assets for Ukraine: “Moving from freezing the assets, to confiscating them, to disposing of them [carries the risk of] breaking the international order that you want to protect; that you would want Russia to respect” via Financial Times

It’s big vs small at the EU leaders’ summit today, as a majority rebel against a France-led plan to push ahead with a centralised plan to better integrate the continent’s capital markets

ft.com/content/6164fb… via @ft w Paola Tamma

The EU court is a gold mine

On day X-50, Andrew Bounds & alicemhancock weight up the likelihood of a second term for Ursula von der Leyen as EU commission president.

Spoiler alert: still option A, but not a given.

EU weighs expanded Iran sanctions after Israel attack, targeting drone and missile programs that supply proxies in the wider region, but will stop short of designating Revolutionary Guards as a terror group ft.com/content/d77fe0…

Latest @ft w Paola Tamma Andrew England Guy Chazan

Let stress week begin:

EUCO
Moving flats
Birthday
+ insomnia (constant)

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At this week’s EU summit, former Italian PM Enrico Letta will tell leaders to go deeper in EU market integration or face economic insecurity & decline. Read our interview with him below, with Henry Foy

The US has proposed raising tens of billions of euros in debt for Ukraine secured against the future profits generated by Russian state assets frozen by western countries, ⁦Isobel Koshiw⁩ ⁦Guy Chazan⁩ ⁦Paola Tamma⁩ ⁦Laura Dubois⁩ report on.ft.com/3Q1wqKh

US proposes debt to fund Ukraine using profits from frozen Russian assets, with @IKoshiv Guy Chazan Laura ft.com/content/6cb210… via @ft

'The Berlin Wall has been replaced with a ring of fires around us,' EU foreign affairs chief told FT Europe bureau chief. Sobering reading.

The European Public Prosecutor's Office said that a multinational crime group successfully applied for €600mn in EU grants between 2021-23 by setting up fictitious companies. ft.com/content/5e3552… via Amy Kazmin Paola Tamma

As Europe wrestles with how to finance its biggest rearmament since the Cold War, France and Germany are deeply divided over proposals for the EU to issue joint defence bonds

ft.com/content/451d93… @ft w crack Manu-Scholz crew Paola Tamma Leila Abboud & Guy Chazan

SCOOP as EU preps first restrictions on Russian grain after surge with Paola Tamma Raphael Minder ft.com/content/438dce… via @ft

“I understand that my vote won’t change anything, but I think it’s an important event to observe and to see how many of us are there,' says Russian expat in Armenia as Putin is about to extend his rule til 2030
ft.com/content/5aa91e… max seddon Anastasia Stognei Polina Ivanova

Nato’s European members need to find an extra €56bn a year to meet the alliance’s defence spending target, but the shortfall has halved in the past decade
Martin Arnold Paola Tamma Henry Foy

Europe faces €56bn Nato defence spending hole via ⁦Martin Arnold⁩ ⁦Paola Tamma⁩ ⁦Henry Foy⁩ on.ft.com/4adptO0

Brussels proposal to fast track up to €3bn for Ukraine from frozen Russian assets set to be put to member states in the coming days, could see money spent on arms for Kyiv as soon as this summer ft.com/content/036b82… via @ft w Laura Dubois & Paola Tamma

Europe's competitiveness lag vis à vis the US is THE top concern among EU politicians aiming to revive the continent's fortunes amid flagging demographic & economic growth. Good analysis from Sam Fleming (FT) Martin Arnold Delphine Strauss Valentina Romei ft.com/content/22089f…