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Andy Bounds

EU Correspondent

EU correspondent covering Brexit, trade, health and European politics, including the European parliament. He is also Netherlands correspondent and a frequent contributor to the agenda-setting Europe Express newsletter.

Andy has worked for the Financial Times since 1997. He covered the Brexit vote in the UK as Northern correspondent and was previously posted in Brussels from 2004-08.

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  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Europe Express
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    Also in this newsletter: Friedrich Merz finally throws his hat in the ring for German chancellor

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  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    European Commission
    Von der Leyen gives top economic jobs to interventionist EU countries

    France, Italy and Spain to share influential portfolios in next European Commission

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    How von der Leyen made sure the next commission dances to her tune Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: floods in central and eastern Europe flesh out reality of climate change

    Ursula von der Leyen
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    News in-depthEuropean Commission
    The backroom deal to parachute Macron loyalist into Brussels

    Stéphane Séjourné has backed French president since 2017 and replaces European Commission’s biggest rebel

    President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen with Stephane Sejourne
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    World Trade Organization
    Global carbon pricing needed to avert trade friction, says WTO chief

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warns of disruption to commerce from EU and other unilateral green taxes

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    EU-China relations
    EU rejects Chinese EV makers’ bid to avert hefty tariffs

    Commission dismisses offers to adjust pricing of allegedly subsidised vehicles

    BYD electric cars for export are parked in rows, waiting to be loaded on to a ship at a port in Shandong province, China
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Deforestation
    WTO chief urges EU to rethink deforested goods ban

    Call from Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala adds to pressure from exporters including Brazil to ‘reassess’ rules

    Coffee cherries are dumped into a truck on a farm in Minas Gerais state, Brazil
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Russian oil and Ukraine spurred Spain to block a Hungarian M&A deal Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How Brussels can make itself €30bn a year richer

    A logo of Spanish train manufacturer Talgo is displayed at its factory in Las Rosas, Madrid
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    European Commission
    Forming a European Commission runs into delays and roadblocks Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Why the EU has not joined western powers in sanctioning Iran over arms deliveries to Russia (yet)

    Ursula von der Leyen
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump escalates tariff threat in vow to protect dollar

    Ex-president’s latest broadside warns countries to stick with US currency in trades or face 100% levy

    Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
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    Brussels considers sanctions on Slovakia over backsliding on rule of law

    European Commission could withhold funds as Robert Fico targets judiciary and political opponents

    A large crowd of people participate in a nighttime demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia, holding various signs and banners, some of which are critical of the government's penal code amendments.
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    EU industry chief to berate Europe’s carmakers on slow EV drive Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Why Dublin airport’s passenger cap is provoking the US

    European Union Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    European Commission
    Spanish candidate in frame for EU’s top competition job

    Ursula von der Leyen is considering Teresa Ribera for European Commission’s powerful antitrust portfolio

    Teresa Ribera, pictured in May 2022
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    Eleven EU countries push for conclusion of Mercosur trade deal Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Brussels changes tack on Italy’s beach bonanza.

    Foreign ministers from the Mercosur group
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Brexit
    EU rules out loosening post-Brexit curbs on UK touring musicians

    Internal briefing documents deal early blow to pledges made by Sir Keir Starmer

    Anti-Brexit musicians play instruments as they demonstrate outside of the Houses of Parliament
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why the battle over the EU’s next €1.2tn budget has already begun Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: the Netherlands refuses to donate mpox vaccines to Africa

    Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President, smiles while looking to the side after delivering her speech at the GLOBSEC regional security forum in Prague on August 30, 2024. She is standing in front of a blue backdrop with "GLOBSEC" logos.
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Starmer warned he cannot sidestep Brussels in bid to reset UK-EU relations

    British prime minister’s trips to Berlin and Paris are the latest in a flurry of European diplomacy since entering Number 10

    French President Emmanuel Macron, left, gives a thumbs up as he stands next to Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer outside the Elysee Palace in Paris on August 29 2024. A guard in ceremonial uniform stands in the background.
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    EU-China relations
    China says EU companies dumped brandy but holds off on tariffs

    Shares in Pernod Ricard and Rémy Cointreau jump after preliminary ruling but industry ‘disappointed’

    A hand pours cognac spirit from a bottle into a tulip-shaped glass in a distillery house cellar. The liquid is amber-colored, reflecting the light as it fills the glass.
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    European Union
    Spanish environmentalist poised to take charge of EU’s green agenda

    Teresa Ribera likely to become next commissioner for climate and environment

    Teresa Ribera
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Medical science
    EU rules threaten to cut new treatments for rare diseases

    Pharma groups and patients say guidance prioritising mass trials threaten drug development

    A doctor gives a patient a vaccination
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    EU trade
    EU inches closer to trade deal with South America

    Decades in the making, agreement with Mercosur nations nears finishing line

    Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña, centre, speaks during the Mercosur summit at the former port of Asuncion on July 8, 2024
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Trade Secrets
    Who could be the next EU trade commissioner? Premium content

    New chief must tackle resistance to bloc’s green agenda, strike right balance on tariffs and reckon with potential Trump win

    European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis speaks about European trade policy at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    EU trade
    EU capitals set to back tariffs on Chinese electric cars, trade chief says

    Valdis Dombrovskis confident measure will enter into force in November

    Geely Zeekr electric car
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    EU energy
    Hungary rejects Croatian offer for alternative to Russian oil

    Viktor Orbán’s government defies EU pressure to reduce reliance on fossil fuel from Moscow

    Viktor Orbán
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Brussels tells Hungary and Slovakia to wean themselves off Russian oil

    European Commission rejects complaints that Ukrainian sanctions on Lukoil threaten security of supply

    Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, left, and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán
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