Category: 3. Europe

The China problem

But Starmer’s critics — including those in the Trump administration itself — have a ready-made counter.

The clean energy mission, they say, means Britain sleepwalking into dependence on a new energy hegemon — China, a country which dominates the supply…

The security measures for the funeral of Pope Francis scheduled for Saturday 26 April will be unlike anything Rome has seen in living memory.

Thousands of police officers will be deployed for the funeral, with reinforcements arriving from several Italian regions. That’s before…

Europe’s larger operator groups such as Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone have long been calling for looser regulation on mergers and acquisitions in Europe as they fret over the region’s competitiveness on key technologies such…

The decision comes despite a Dutch court ruling in January that ordered the government to meet its existing 2030 deadline to protect sensitive nature areas from nitrogen pollution, most of it from manure, with fertilizer use also contributing. Brussels may also weigh in, as the delay risks…

“We need nuclear, we need wind, we need solar, we need batteries … we need hydrogen, we need carbon capture. And nuclear has a particular role to play in finding clean, stable and reliable power,” he said.

The ‘obvious’ sites

All three sites are owned by French firm EDF, a…