China’s economic slowdown became more entrenched in November, with retail sales recording their lowest month of year-on-year growth since 2022.
All major domestic indicators disappointed in November, underscoring the challenge facing policymakers as they seek to make household spending,…
Croatia’s parliament approved a radioactive waste disposal facility on Monday at a site less than a kilometre from Bosnia and Herzegovina, defying years of protests from neighbours who say the project threatens a quarter of a million people.
The law provides the regulatory basis for building…
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Spain has just drawn a hard line on short-term rentals.
The country has fined Airbnb €65 million for continuing to advertise short-term rental…
A French supermarket’s Christmas advert has become a viral sensation and is being praised worldwide for doing something other companies simply can’t get right anymore: connecting with people, all without a single frame of generative AI.
The ad, “Le mal aimé” (“Unloved”), for…
All the frenzied diplomacy underway now seems more about appeasing Trump and avoiding the blame for failed negotiations or for striking a deal that doesn’t stick — like the Minsk agreements.
For example, longtime Putin opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s New Eurasian Strategies Center…
Energy ministers in the European Union want to level energy prices across member states and prevent discrepancies that see some member states paying up to seven times more for energy than others.
Energy prices are significantly higher in the EU since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, even as the…
The EU’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) started its gradual rollout in October.
At airports where the new digital technology is in place, visa-exempt travellers from the UK, US and other non-EU countries must register their biometric data at dedicated kiosks.
The new border checks are already…
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An artificial intelligence (AI) agent outperformed most human hackers after it spent 16 hours crawling a university’s site for vulnerabilities, a new…
The Connecting Europe Facility is part of the European Union’s multi-annual budget for 2028-2036, which foresees nearly four times as much money as the previous budget. It is intended to increase cross-border investment in electric grids, pipelines and renewable energy projects.
“This [reparations loan] is what we’re working on. We are not there yet and it is increasingly difficult, but we’re doing the work and we still have some days,” she said.
Belgium has long been opposed to using Russia’s frozen assets to help Ukraine, arguing that this would imperil…