Category: 3. Europe

Europe’s fragility on defence is giving leeway to Washington, which has been pressuring the EU to ease environmental laws and trying to create friction between the bloc and China, as the ousting of Nexperia’s CEO revealed.

The European Union is stuck between US economic coercion and…

“It’s a great appointment, it’s also a great honor for Belgium,” Peter Piot, until now the first and only Belgian to have served as a U.N. undersecretary-general, told De Morgen. “UNDP is the most important organization of the U.N. when it comes to general development. There has…

Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at Norges Bank’s Climate Conference in Oslo, Norway

Oslo, 21 October 2025

It is a pleasure to be at Norges Bank again.

When I last visited the central bank, back in the summer of 2016, the world…

Deportations to Afghanistan have been controversial. Pro-asylum groups consider it an unsafe country where deportees could face the threat of persecution by the Taliban, which has not been officially recognized as the ruling government by any EU country.

According to the Austrian public…

A Chinese-born woman has been charged for the theft of six gold nuggets worth about 1.5 million euros ($1.75m; £1.3m) from the Museum of Natural History in Paris last month, French prosecutors have said.

The woman was arrested in Barcelona while trying to dispose of some melted gold, according…

As of October 2025, European markets have shown mixed performance, with the pan-European STOXX Europe 600 Index inching higher amid dovish signals from U.S. Federal Reserve officials and easing trade tensions between the U.S. and China. While…