Europe News 'Fossil fuels still needed during green transition' - Timmermans In an exclusive interview with Euronews, the European Commission's Executive Vice-President and person responsible for the bloc's Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, explained that some countries will still need to use fossil fuels during the continent's move towards renewable energies. 22/10/2020
View The EU’s Green Deal plans to restore nature must include our largest ecosystem - the ocean ǀ View While we appreciate that all-night EU AGRIFISH negotiations may necessitate tough political decisions, agreeing to continue overfishing is in the long-term interest of no-one - least of all the fishing industry - and should be lamented, not celebrated. 28/01/2020
United Kingdom Britain is always 'welcome to come back', writes EU official EU official soothes fears of anti-Brexit voters saying Britain is always "welcome to come back". 26/12/2019
Europe News The Brief: Day 6 hearings - old hands, new jobs The VPs face MEPs - Vestager, who made her name fighting big tech, Timmermans who will be in charge of the Green New Deal and Dombrovkis who has to make an 'economy that works for people'. 08/10/2019
Belgium Timmermans meets Bulgaria's PM to boost support for EU top job Timmermans met with Bulgaria's prime minister Boyko Borissov to gather support for the his bid for the EU's top job - but what would usually be a private meeting, was broadcast live on Facebook. 01/07/2019
Europe News MEPs blast Tusk over controversial nominee to lead EU Commission The German Defense Minister was tapped by EU leaders to replace Jean-Claude Juncker at the end of his mandate later in the year, but her nomination needs to be approved by MEPs. 30/06/2019
Netherlands European elections in Netherlands taking place in climate of polarisation European elections in The Netherlands are taking place in a climate of polarisation as the far right populists battle with the conservative-liberals 23/05/2019
United Kingdom Brexit division has left UK 'looking like Game of Thrones on steroids' "Look at what the divisiveness of Brexit has done to the UK. Today, the UK looks like Game of Thrones on steroids." 15/05/2019
World Raw Politics in full: Turkey's election re-run and EU minimum wage Watch the full episode of Tuesday night's Raw Politics. 07/05/2019
Italy Candidates seeking to succeed Juncker as EC President outline EU vision The four candidates seeking to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president spoke about their vision for the European Union 03/05/2019
Good Morning Europe Commission candidates clash over EU army proposal With just three weeks to go elections for the European Parliament, four candidates for the continent’s top job went head to head in a debate at the European University Institute in Florence. 03/05/2019
world news EC presidency candidates cross swords during Maastricht Debate 2019 Frans Timmermans won initial impressions at the Maastricht Debate 2019, where five candidates for the European Commission presidency crossed swords 30/04/2019
Europe News The Brief: Socialists and Democrats - a closer look As the European Parliament elections draw near, we look at the political groups in the chamber, this time it's the turn of the socialists. 29/04/2019
world news 'Political predators preying on migration crisis,' says Timmermans Frans Timmermans, the Socialist candidate for the EU's top job, told Euronews that political predators were taking advantage of the so-called migration crisis. 26/04/2019
world news 'EU needs CO2 tax,' says Brussels top job hopeful Frans Timmermans In an interview with Euronews, EU's top job candidate Frans Timmermans made the case for a CO2 tax at the European level. 26/04/2019
Europe News Watch: 'Far-right rising because people fed up with banks' behaviour' "I believe one of the reasons why the extreme right is on the rise in many parts of Europe is people are fed up with the way the financial sector has been behaving." 26/04/2019
Europe News Who is Frans Timmermans? And what does he stand for? EU Elections 2019: Who is Frans Timmermans? And what does he stand for? 25/04/2019
world news What the top EU presidential hopefuls think about Brexit The two main candidates to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission, Manfred Weber and Frans Timmermans, said how they felt about Brexit in a France 24 TV debate. 18/04/2019
Romania EU chief Timmermans piles pressure on Romania over corruption reforms "We want to make sure that the fight against corruption isn’t abandoned, that we continue this fight because it’s very important for the future of this country," said Timmermans. 13/03/2019
