A French Commission veteran with scars from the eurozone crisis, Brexit and the EU’s pandemic recovery, Riso has quietly become one of the bloc’s most influential — and polarizing — civil servants. At 49 she’s heading up the mother of all assignments: steering the EU’s next…
You say potato, I say tomato?
Turns out one helped create the other: Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and potato-like plants in South America gave rise to the modern day spud around nine million years ago, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Cell.
Co-author…
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More on Cambodia now – deputy prime minister Sun Chanthol has thanked Donald Trump for his understanding in Cambodia’s negotiations to reduce a tariff rate to 19%…
Campari Group CEO Simon Hunt says pending U.S. tariffs on European products isn’t the only challenge facing the global maker of premium spirits, wines and aperitifs like Aperol.
In addition to an expected 15% tariff, the weakening…
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country’s Legislative Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite…
Bardella told French newswire Agence France-Presse after the July raid that “no French bank wanted to lend money to the National Rally to finance its election campaigns,” and that the party should therefore not be blamed for “financing itself and taking out loans that are perfectly…
You may have read reports about an interstellar object hurtling through your solar system. Well, that’s where I work with my fellow alien explorers, on board 3I/ATLAS. I know, I know, it’s a rubbish name. We wanted to call it Spacey McSpaceface but we couldn’t get approval from the…
This week, we’re taking a breath. EU Confidential is stepping away from summits, trade battles, and late-night trilogues — and turning to something more refreshing: books.
Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by audio producer (and self-confessed book nerd) Dionisios Sturis for…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump touted the expansive new tariffs on imports he imposed on global trading partners Thursday night, telling NBC News in a phone interview that it all was going “very well, very smooth.”
He also said that with…
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has provided clarification regarding the law passed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on mandatory annual leave days for military personnel.
According to Ukrinform, the General Staff announced this on Facebook.
“The…