Frans Timmermans

Fit for 55 climate change plan aims to reduce emissions by 55% of 1990 levels by 2030

Irish farming bodies demand Government secures flexibility on implementation of deal

Ryanair and Aer Lingus members of group pushing case for airlines

All hinges on how to reconcile massive subsidies currently weighted in favour of intensive farming with the EU’s new green deal

Government’s best hopes are staked on flexibility it could have on imposing change

Forestry and biomass inclusion leads to calls to reject green investment system

Europe Letter: Critics say proposed amendments water down climate ambitions

‘I don’t want to be the scold,’ says US climate envoy John Kerry

Details of global ‘net-zero’ summit announced in advance of COP26 gathering

Ryanair backs move to cut aviation emissions but argues that all carriers must play their part

Europe Letter: States aim to agree 55% emissions cut and vaccine co-ordination

For climate action to be fast it ‘must be fair’, says Mary Robinson

New strategy has major implications for natural gas imports and agriculture

Lessons from the continent

Coronavirus scuppers Glasgow meeting but activists say it may lead to better outcome

Vice-president of European Commission says Britain ‘unnecessarily damaged’ by Brexit

Still pending are details of how to implement pact to avoid catastrophic global warming

Ireland must support ‘higher 2030 ambitions’ in attempt to avert looming chaos

EU agency predicts Europe will not achieve its 2030 environmental goals

Concerns about ‘systemic’ violation of judiciary’s independence

Nine-country coalition unhappy air travel gets away without any tax on fuel

Next commission president Ursula von der Leyen circumspect on Commons approval

Ambition to reach ‘net-zero’ by 2050 is being resisted by a small number of countries

Ursula von der Leyen’s balancing act is quite an achievement

Brussels offers to talk but indicates unwillingness to revisit withdrawal agreement

It would be in Johnson’s interest to try to tweak the backstop, exit the EU and call an election

Move aims to complement article 7 as lever against Hungary and Poland interference

Europe Letter: European Commission president hopes to give MEPs new powers

Ursula von der Leyen in combative form as she appealed to MEPs to back her agenda

European Commission president-designate on charm offensive in bid to secure top post

Europe Letter: European Commission president-in-waiting sees no change in policy on backstop

German politician accuses French president of making common cause with Hungary’s Viktor Orban

For Emmanuel Macron, the outcome of this week’s wrangling could scarcely have been better

Europe Letter: Visegrád Group’s victory in the top jobs race is mainly symbolic

German defence minister’s nomination by Macron breaks deadlock over top EU jobs

Donald Tusk to put forward new compromise list of possible nominations

Europe Editor Patrick Smyth sets the scene and looks at the runners and riders

Macron says there were ‘too many hidden agendas’

Likelihood of rapid accord disappears as EPP sinks deal on commission president

Europe Letter: Ruling on Polish state interference a reminder of EU principles and law