Eddy Wax

Eddy Wax

Newsletter Editor

Eddy Wax has over seven years of journalistic experience in the EU capital. He joined Euractiv in April 2025 from Politico where he wrote the morning Brussels Playbook newsletter, covered the European Parliament and spent over three years as a policy reporter on the food and farming beat. Eddy also worked at BBC News in Brussels on and off in 2017-2018. He studied modern languages at Cambridge University and co-founded a satirical student magazine - the Porter’s Log - that continues today. Eddy is British and - as of 2024 - also a proud Belgian.

Location: Brussels
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Expertise: European and British politics, EU institutions, agriculture and trade policy
Location expertise: United Kingdom, Paris and Brussels

Latest posts from this author

Politics

Dead on arrival

17/07/2025

9 min. read

Politics

A huge new EU competitiveness fund?

16/07/2025

11 min. read

Politics

Commission toys with massive €522 billion competitiveness budget

15/07/2025

2 min. read

Politics

New budget shows who runs Europe

15/07/2025

9 min. read

Politics

I don’t regret backing von der Leyen, says Greens chief Eickhout

15/07/2025

4 min. read

Politics

Trump escalates, Ursula hesitates

14/07/2025

8 min. read

Economy

EU to tax tobacco, large companies to fund next budget

12/07/2025

2 min. read

Politics

Meloni’s pro-Ukraine stance masks her allies’ anti-EU rebellion

11/07/2025

4 min. read

Politics

Von der Leyen easily survives far-right-led censure vote

10/07/2025

4 min. read

Politics

The president who wasn’t there

10/07/2025

10 min. read

Economy

EU trade chief says Europe will have to swallow US tariffs

09/07/2025

2 min. read

Politics

Socialists’ budget brinkmanship

09/07/2025

9 min. read

Politics

Von der Leyen sidesteps scrutiny by casting censure as far-right ambush

09/07/2025

4 min. read

Politics

Starmer and Macron hit migration headwinds

08/07/2025

8 min. read

Politics

Much ado about censure

07/07/2025

8 min. read

Politics

Arrests over antisemitic posters in Brussels

04/07/2025

9 min. read

Politics

Denmark’s pro-climate, anti-migrant PM

03/07/2025

7 min. read

Politics

Merz vs Tusk vs Weber

02/07/2025

11 min. read

Politics

The quest for leverage

01/07/2025

9 min. read

Politics

Eurozone leadership battle

30/06/2025

9 min. read

Politics

Macron’s summit curveball

27/06/2025

10 min. read

Politics

EXCLUSIVE: Meloni’s EU allies split on bid to bring down von der Leyen

26/06/2025

4 min. read

Politics

Can anyone stop Manfred Weber?

26/06/2025

11 min. read

Politics

INTERVIEW: EPP chief Manfred Weber on defence, the Green Deal and his future ambitions

26/06/2025

7 min. read

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