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    Alice Hancock

    EU Correspondent

    Alice Hancock covers energy and climate policy in Brussels for the FT, as well as the European Parliament. She was previously leisure industries reporter based in London reporting on hospitality, tourism and leisure during Covid. Before joining the FT, Alice was the staff writer and online editor for Homes & Antiques.

    Alice regularly contributes to the FT's Europe Express newsletter.

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    • Sunday, 10 December, 2023
      COP28
      Saudi Arabia piles pressure on UAE to shift COP28 focus away from oil and gas

      EU ministers criticise Opec over attempts to switch emphasis to emissions as tensions mount at climate talks in Dubai

      1 hour ago
    • Saturday, 9 December, 2023
      Climate change
      Eastern European nations pave way for Baku to host COP29

      Azerbaijani capital set to hold next climate summit after Bulgaria drops own bid in face of Russian bar on EU members

      Baku
    • Friday, 8 December, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      EU to give member states power to block Russian gas imports

      New law will stop companies in Russia and Belarus from accessing European pipelines and LNG terminals

      A Baltic Sea LNG Terminal in Lubmin, Germany
    • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why Slovakia and the Czech Republic want to continue using Russian oil Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Italy impounds a German-funded migrant rescue ship

      A general view of a section of the Slovnaft Oil Refinery on May 31, 2022 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Slovnaft, Slovakia
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      Europe Express
      Belgium’s De Croo calls for end to civilian casualties in Gaza Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: The race for who will lead the EIB comes to a head

      Alexander De Croo, Benjamin Netanyahu and Pedro Sánchez
    • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
      EU trade
      EU trade chief cancels Brazil trip as prospects of Mercosur deal recede

      Opposition from French president is latest setback to EU agreement with South American bloc

      Valdis Dombrovskis
    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      ExplainerCOP28
      COP28: Five other things from ‘leaders day’ at UN climate summit

      Global action day one: Japan, UK, Climate Club, women shortage, and banks volunteering their own standards

    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      Europe Express
      How Portugal’s departing PM Costa hopes to clear his name Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Brussels to crack down on illegal pet trade

      Antonio Costa
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why Blinken avoided meeting Lavrov at a fraught OSCE meeting Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: How much money can the EU spare for climate compensation?

      Antony Blinken
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Special ReportManaging Climate Change
      EU faces conflict over rewilding plans

      Bloc is split on conservation law as green industries demand trade-offs

      View of the lake Bajip Njuorajavri and the mountain Beaivvejietnja
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      COP28
      EU to lobby for tax on aeroplane fuel at COP28

      ‘We tax everything alive . . . but not aviation’, says climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra

      Passengers wait for their flights at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      COP28
      COP28 president denies using UN climate summit to pitch oil deals

      UAE’s Sultan al-Jaber says documents showing talking points are ‘false’ but acknowledges being asked to ‘engage’

      Sultan al-Jaber
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      EU energy
      EU ports help sell on over 20% of LNG imports from Russia

      ‘Transshipment’ of liquefied natural gas, crucial for Moscow’s Arctic fleet, is banned by UK and Netherlands

      The tanker Rudolf Samoylovich, sailing under the flag of the Bahamas, at the Montoir-de-Bretagne LNG terminal in France in March last year
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      Agricultural commodities
      Coffee and cocoa stored in EU warehouses at risk of destruction under new rules

      Anti-deforestation law passed in June restricts non-compliant stocks from being sold in the bloc

      Workers stack sacks of cocoa beans
    • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
      EU trade
      EU states call on Brussels to rethink shipping emissions charge

      Southern European shipping nations say measures risk diverting business away from European ports

      A cruise ship docked near a container terminal at Port of Barcelona, Spain
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      What EU countries fight about when they fight about the budget Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: France’s selective bashing of Chinese electric vehicles

      Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      EU and Canada preparing show of friendship at joint summit Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Austria’s foreign minister calls for elections in Ukraine

      Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      EU agriculture
      EU parliament strikes down pesticide law

      Rightwing politicians muster majority against proposed rules to limit use of agricultural chemicals

      A farmer sprays pesticides
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      News in-depthWaste management & recycling
      EU lawmakers back plan to cut packaging waste

      Brussels’ proposals led many industries from plastic producers to Camembert makers to push for exemptions

      Pile of packaging waste
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      EU lawmakers put bloc’s green ambition to the test Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: How Forza Italia wants to recover its strength after Berlusconi’s death

      A view of the chamber of the European Parliament in Strasbourg
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      Differences over Israel-Hamas war cloud Erdoğan visit to Berlin Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: How Brussels is working to defuse cheesemakers’ concerns over packaging rules

    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Deforestation
      Food industry calls for more time to implement EU deforestation rules

      Producers and traders call for more details and say rules will fail to deliver environmental benefits

      This aerial view shows people walking on a deforested and burning area of the Amazon rainforest in Autazes, Brazil
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Airlines
      EU pressures airlines over soaring fares

      Transport commissioner says Brussels needs ‘detailed explanation’ after ticket prices rose 30% over summer

      A silhouette of an aeroplane taking off
    • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
      Climate legislation
      EU farmers should pay for their carbon emissions, says Denmark

      Climate minister steps up calls to bring agriculture under bloc’s CO₂ trading system

    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Climate change
      Western countries clash with Saudi Arabia over UN climate fund

      Kingdom resists efforts to broaden base of donors for poorer countries coping with consequences of environmental fallout

      People walk past the entrance of the convention centre before the opening session of the Middle East and North Africa Climate Week in October
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