Public payouts, such as state pensions, account for around two-thirds of the income of people aged 65 and over in Europe.
Category: 3. Europe
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Surviving retirement: Where do older Europeans get their money?
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Cheap and sleek Chinese EVs turn European heads
HAMBURG, Germany — European leaders can complain to Beijing all they want about cheap Chinese electric cars flooding the continent, but their resistance may be futile.
This summer, more and more transporters have been spotted on Germany’s…
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They escaped Ukraine’s front lines. The sound of drones followed them
Joel GunterReporting from Kyiv
BBCPavlo experienced drone warfare. “You are being hunted,” he said. In a cramped apartment in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Pavlo, a 30-year-old drone operator who had recently returned from the front, unzipped a black case about the size of a pizza box. Inside, there…
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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death – POLITICO
While Helsinki is among the smallest EU capitals, with a little under 690,000 residents, some 1.5 million people live in and commute throughout the metropolitan area.
Roni Utriainen, a traffic engineer with the city’s Urban Environment Division, told the Finnish press that the…
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Wounded soldier escapes battlefield using e-bike delivered by drone
This is the moment an injured Ukrainian soldier behind enemy lines made his escape using an e-bike delivered by a drone.
Footage released by the Rubizh Brigade, part of the national guard of Ukraine, shows the wounded soldier, known as Tanker, receiving the e-bike by drone, which he says he…
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Budapest mayor questioned over organising banned pride march
Budapest’s mayor has been questioned by police as a suspect in helping to organise a banned LGBTQ march in the city.
The event took place on June 28 despite warnings of potential legal repercussions by Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose government passed a law earlier this…
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Audley Travel Adds New Tours in Europe & Asia
Audley Travel announced the expansion of its advisor program, now offering service for trips to India, Tanzania, Japan, the U.K. and southwest France.
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Europe, Arab states move to ignite peace for Palestine, Israel
This week was years, even decades in the making. Since the Middle East peace process began faltering and certainly since the escalation of the war in Gaza, Europe and the Arab world have each been waiting for the other to act.
Europe…
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Europe is Winning the AI Small Data Race
In the artificial intelligence contest, US firms dominate through massive proprietary data lakes and compute farms. Europe is pioneering a radically different approach focused on compiling accessible and useful small data.
The…
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