Category: 3. Europe

This is an audio transcript of the Unhedged podcast episode: ‘Building a big beautiful Europe’

Katie Martin
Europe has spent years wringing its hands over its markets. They are small, they’re fragmented, they’ve been getting eaten alive by…

Under a program led by the U.S. government’s DARPA defense research agency, 18 companies have been selected as part of a larger bid to come up with an error-free quantum computer by 2033. Those companies could reportedly tap up to $300…

Key chapters include one devoted to defense, building on the Trinity House Agreement signed last year, which sets out that any strategic threat to one country would represent a threat to the other.

This would give Germany a mutual assistance clause with both of Europe’s nuclear powers,…

Rome did so by invoking its “golden power,” which was originally designed to stop foreign takeovers from threatening national security. That move did not go unnoticed in Brussels, where officials opened two distinct probes into the matter, led respectively by the financial services and…

There are several reasons for this: A generalized mood of discontent with politics; the scrambling of the old left-right divide; the weakness of the incumbent president, who can neither run again nor readily influence the choice of his successor; as well as the global, economic and political…

The fightback

A spate of interviews around Starmer’s first anniversary as PM have shown him to be in a reflective mood.

He admitted his Downing Street garden warning had “squeezed the hope out,” adding: “We were so determined to show how bad it was that we forgot people wanted…

“Amnesties and pardons do not align with the government’s vision of a modern state,” said Rastrelli, arguing that such measures offer only short-term relief without addressing deeper systemic issues. “They erode the certainty of punishment, which undermines citizens’ sense of legal…

By Horacio Fernando Soria and Miguel Lo Bianco

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -As Europe and North America swelter through heat waves, people in South America are contending with equally extreme weather at the other end of the spectrum: a sudden cold…