Frans Timmermans, the European Union’s climate chief, will leave his position in Brussels to become a candidate in coming elections in the Netherlands, the European Commission announced on Tuesday.

Former European Union climate chief Frans Timmermans, a prime minister candidate in Dutch elections later this month, backtracked on his commitment to the 2030 deadline of halving nitrogen ...

AMSTERDAM — Frans Timmermans wants a top job in Brussels. But he’s got a problem: Brussels. In an election in which his center-left Labor Party is on track to take yet another historic drubbing, the ...

EU climate Chief Frans Timmermans’ potential candidacy for the joint list of the Labour Party (PvdA/S&D) and GroenLinks (GL/Greens) caused a stir among right-wingers, including from the ...

EU climate chief Frans Timmermans on Thursday said he wants to become the next Dutch prime minister and will contest a parliamentary election in the Netherlands in November.

Frans Timmermans, a Dutch politician, was the European Commission’s Executive Vice President for the European Green Deal from 2019 to 2023, which he helped design and pass. In this role he also ...

He may have lost his bid to become the EU's next president, but Frans Timmermans has today been given a task that's no less challenging: implementing the European Green Deal, a package of policies ...