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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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  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    EU-China relations
    EU plywood dumping probe opens new front in China trade dispute

    Investigation into cheap wood exports follows producers’ claim the products originated in Russia

    A circular saw going through some plywood
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Carbon tax
    India denounces ‘stifling’ EU carbon tax on imports

    Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman says tariffs to be imposed in 2026 will impede energy transition

    India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    EU eastern tensions
    Von der Leyen lambasts Orbán over Russia

    European Commission president lashes out at Hungarian leader in unusually blunt address

    Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán looks on as European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen speaks at the European parliament, in Strasbourg on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    Viktor Orbán meets his domestic nemesis in Strasbourg Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: The EU’s €35bn Ukraine loan moves from idea to implementation

    Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    EU-China relations
    China targets EU brandy imports with anti-dumping penalties

    Trade retaliation comes after bloc voted to approve steep tariff increases on Chinese electric cars

    Frederic Barbot, a producer of Cognac, smells a barrel of ageing cognac at Domaine Marcadier-Barbot in Segonzac, south-western France
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    EU court to hear case on von der Leyen’s texts with Pfizer next month Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How greener corporate car fleets could boost competitiveness and the climate goals

    Ursula von der Leyen
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    EU-China relations
    EU member states agree to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

    China’s carmakers have been increasing market share in Europe

    New vehicles are being loaded on to special frame transports at the International Container Terminal in Taicang Port, Suzhou, China.
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    EU countries set to greenlight tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: European governments ramp up evacuations from Lebanon

    An aerial photo of BYD electric cars awaiting export
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Brexit
    UK and EU pledge to hold regular leaders’ summits from 2025

    Von der Leyen and Starmer agree closer co-operation between London and Brussels

    UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at her headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Deforestation
    EU moves to delay anti-deforestation rules

    Green groups condemn proposed one-year postponement to give exporters more time to prepare

    A woman with a wheelbarrow full of oil palm fruit at a plantation in North Sumatra, Indonesia
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Red lines remain as Starmer and von der Leyen attempt to reset UK-EU relations

    Old arguments over energy trading and fishing rights are a potential stumbling block in the talks

    Ursula von der Leyen and Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Reeves set to attend meeting of EU finance ministers

    Chancellor expected to participate in event involving Eurozone countries

    UK chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Global trade
    Paint makers say EU tariffs on Chinese imports risk bankrupting them

    Industry pushes for rethink on anti-dumping measures against China’s exports of titanium dioxide

    Paint cans
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Starmer must set clear goals for UK-EU reset, warn diplomats

    UK prime minister will meet European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on Wednesday

    Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) speaks with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on the sidelines of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    European manufacturing
    European steelmakers plead with Brussels to tackle flood of Chinese exports

    European prices drop below cost of production as world market is deluged

    Bundles of steel tubes at a trading market on the outskirts of Shanghai
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    EU defence commissioner calls for obligatory ammunition stockpiles

    Andrius Kubilius, named as the bloc’s first military head, says western Europe must prepare for Russian attacks

    An employee of Mecar, a Belgian weapons and ammunition manufacturing company, working on 120mm shells
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    EU-China relations
    China’s electric carmakers warn of EU investment cuts over tariff threat

    Statement comes as talks continue between Beijing’s commerce minister and European trade commissioner

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Agricultural commodities
    Coffee producers fear being cut off from EU by new land protection law

    Drinks company JDE Peets pleads for year’s delay on ban on supplies from deforested areas over lack of guidelines

    Coffee being harvested on a farm in Brazil
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    What the EU’s new competition tsar thinks about Chinese EV tariffs Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How the Greens got their man into von der Leyen’s office

    Commissioner-designate for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition Teresa Ribera
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    How to make sense of Brussels’ new tangled commission web Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Friedrich Merz finally throws his hat in the ring for German chancellor

    Wopke Hoekstra
  • 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
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