Friday

29th Mar 2024

Ticker

Chief negotiator: UK will not align with EU standards

The UK will not align its standards with those of the EU, the UK's chief negotiator, David Frost said at a Brussels university Monday. "To think that we might accept EU supervision on so-called level playing field issues simply fails to see the point of what we are doing," he said, even arguing that London might set higher standards, yet it does not want to make the bloc follow them.

Read and decide

Join EUobserver today

Get the EU news that really matters

Instant access to all articles — and 20 years of archives. 14-day free trial.

... or subscribe as a group

Opinion

EU Modernisation Fund: an open door for fossil gas in Romania

Among the largest sources of financing for energy transition of central and eastern European countries, the €60bn Modernisation Fund remains far from the public eye. And perhaps that's one reason it is often used for financing fossil gas projects.

'Swiftly dial back' interest rates, ECB told

Italian central banker Piero Cipollone in his first monetary policy speech since joining the ECB's board in November, said that the bank should be ready to "swiftly dial back our restrictive monetary policy stance."

Join EUobserver

EU news that matters

Join us