‘Stunned, sidelined and disunited’: how war in the Middle East paralysed the EU

Amid fears the conflict will strengthen Russia, Ursula von der Leyen’s embrace of US-backed regime change already looks like a doomed strategy • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The message from Ursula von der Leyen was blunt. “Europe can no longer be a custodian for the old-world order” and needs a “more realistic and interest-driven foreign policy”. In a major foreign policy speech this week, the European Commission president said the EU would always “defend an...

By Jennifer Rankin, in Brussels

Iran war deepens EU’s internal divisions following Von der Leyen’s world order remarks

Governments and members of the European parliament have criticized the Commission president for overstepping her bounds on foreign policy

By María Sahuquillo

What is the Essential Commodities Act, invoked by the Centre amidst the West Asian crisis?

Why Centre has invoked Essential Commodies Act amid US-Iran war

The government invoked the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, which allows authorities to regulate the production, supply, and distribution of essential goods.