Category: 3. Europe

“The additional effort decided today reflects a clear determination to act without delay to meet our targets for controlling public finances and debt,” Economy and Finance Minister Eric Lombard said in a statement.

Measures to reduce healthcare spending include lowering the amount spent in…

Europe’s economy is being squeezed by low internal growth, tariff threats from America and a surge of imports from China. The threat of deindustrialisation haunts the continent. But there is a bright spot, even if the reason for it is grisly:…

It takes weeks of haggling by ministers and their diplomatic underlings to craft what the leaders of the European Union later announce as the “conclusions” of their regularly scheduled confabs. Settling into a windowless conference room for a…

THESE DAYS the streets of Berlin run red with the blood of sacred cows. On June 24th Lars Klingbeil, the finance minister, unveiled plans to borrow vast sums for a debt-funded €500bn ($580bn) infrastructure programme and a giant rearmament…

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26/06/2025 – 12:34 GMT+2

Dating platform Bumble has been hit with a privacy complaint filed by advocacy group NOYB over its AI feature designed to help users start a conversation.

According to NOYB, the so-called AI Icebreakers feature on Bumble for…

BARCELONA – Jilted, betrayed, dumped, or defiant. It’s hard to describe the European Union after relentless attacks from its once-dependable ally, the United States. The threat from Donald Trump’s second administration against Greenland, its…

The rupee has fallen to its lowest level ever against the euro, making trips to Europe more expensive for Indian travellers, adding to rising costs for accommodation, meals and transport. Higher airfares and longer flight times caused by airspace…