FILE - Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra holds his headphones during joint press statements with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu in Bucharest ...

Today closes the COP25 climate summit in Madrid. Frans Timmermans is in charge of the climate brief in the European Union, and has formulated a “Green Deal” to make his the first climate neutral ...

Washington Post opinions editor-at-large Michael Duffy speaks with Andrea Meza Murillo, Costa Rica's Minister for Environment and Energy, and Frans Timmermans, the executive vice president of the ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — All nations have a responsibility to ensure that no one gets left behind and that changes are as fair as possible in the transition to a greener economy that's needed to ...

BRUSSELSBRUSSELS — The European Union’s climate chief quit his job in the EU’s executive arm Tuesday and will lead a broad center-left coalition of social democrats and greens going into the Dutch ...

VALLADOLID, Spain (Reuters) - European Union climate chief Frans Timmermans did not rule out a potential return to Dutch politics on Tuesday, following the collapse of Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European voters will abandon the fight against climate change unless the wealthy help fund the cost of going ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans is the only candidate to lead a merged campaign between two left-leaning parties in the Dutch general election in November, ...

European Union climate chief Frans Timmermans will step aside from his role as he leads the Dutch left alliance ahead of elections in November. Timmermans, 62, will leave his position as the EU’s ...

The Dutch election for all 150 seats in the lower Second Chamber of parliament is forecast to be a close race between the shock winner of the last election, Geert Wilders' populist, anti-Islam Party ...