Category: 3. Europe

“The housing crisis is now as big a threat to the EU as Russia,” Jaume Collboni, the mayor of Barcelona, recently declared. “We’re running the risk of having the working and middle classes conclude that their democracies are incapable of…

Gut 8 Wochen ist Thorsten Frei jetzt Kanzleramtsminister. Einst sprach er davon, dass bei der Koalitionsarbeit auch die “B-Note” stimmen müsse. Doch die lässt bisher zu wünschen übrig. Das liegt auch an Frei. Der Mann, der für die interne Organisation zuständig ist,…

The European Union faces an existential choice: succumb to economic nationalism or forge a new transatlantic order.

Emerging from the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, the European Union faltered in its quest for a truly federal…

According to the National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios 2024, data centers could become one of the UK’s fastest-growing sources of demand by the 2030s. AI data centers are used to train the most advanced AI, including frontier models such as ChatGPT, and require vast amounts of energy…

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Enterprises are likely to face the greatest challenges under mandatory reuse systems. Many lack the reverse logistics or automation needed for reuse systems. For exporters, the burden is even greater, as they would be forced to operate two parallel packaging systems: one compliant with EU…

As budget talks ramped up, so did the resistance.

Farm lobbyists mobilized. Agriculture ministers revolted. The Commission’s own agriculture chief, Christophe Hansen, began pushing back internally. Germany’s governing Christian Democrats wrote to Commission President Ursula von der…

When they finally met at the American embassy in Vilnius, Tsikhanouskaya was shocked by her husband’s appearance. Siarhei had lost half his body weight. He told friends he’d forgotten how to speak in prison. Their daughter initially didn’t recognize him. 

“When he started talking,…

François-Joseph Schichan, a former French diplomat and a director at consultancy Flint Global, agreed this week should be seen as “a summit of reconciliation,” but acknowledged there would nonetheless be “differences on issues, on how to deal with Trump.”

As one French academic…

In private discussions with contacts in Paris, Hollande makes clear he is unconvinced by Macron’s public statements on not holding an election, and says he is “of course” still thinking about it. He describes an election as Macron’s “last power.”

All on instinct

Several of…