Category: 3. Europe

Published on
25/11/2025 – 6:00 GMT+1

The Estonian ride-hailing platform Bolt is partnering with the Chinese self-driving company Pony.ai to bring autonomous vehicles to Europe.

The…

Kaum zurück aus Afrika, muss Kanzler Friedrich Merz in Berlin in den Ring: Beim Arbeitgebertag trifft er auf seinen aktuell lautesten Kritiker, JU-Chef Johannes Winkel. Es geht um die Zukunft der Rente. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert, ob ein neues Rentenpaket den Aufstand der…

Insiders say a drawn-out fight over the future of drilling in the U.K.’s Scottish oil and gas heartlands is finally reaching its conclusion. 

It is a row which has split the governing Labour Party, pitted Miliband against the all-powerful Treasury, and will, some of Labour’s own MPs…

While the DMA was designed to centralize digital enforcement in Brussels, it has not boxed out national regulators from pursuing Big Tech cases. 

Responding on Monday, the Commission welcomed Google’s Italian settlement and said the changes it foresees would be rolled out…

One small manufacturer based in England said: “We are ready to go; we have built factories that could start making equipment tomorrow. But we can’t until an order is placed.”

Armored vehicle maker Supacat has said that while its business is stable, suppliers will suffer without a…

It’s just, “they want to be the ones setting those standards,” Chen said.

The Trump administration pressured Brussels to tone down its tech regulation during heated trade talks this summer, POLITICO previously reported.

That the EU followed through with scaling back its tech laws…

I saw this more closely than most. Within a single extraordinary fortnight, I went from serving Liz Truss’ first Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to working with his successor Jeremy Hunt, moving from the budget that blew up the bond markets to the one built to calm them.

Few advisers get to…

No breakthrough on assets

Talks are now intensifying among officials in the European Commission and EU governments, especially the Belgians, but there has as yet been no breakthrough, according to multiple officials granted anonymity, like others, to speak candidly about sensitive…

Aides argue her path has been clear and unwavering throughout the budget preparation process — even as businesses lament a longer-than-usual run-up to the setpiece moment and an extraordinary number of leaks.

At the first scoping meeting Reeves held last summer, the chancellor set three…