Category: 3. Europe

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…

The UK has recorded its hottest day of the year so far – while Europe has also faced extreme heat, and wildfires have raged in Turkey.

A temperature of 34.7C (94.4F) was recorded at St James’s Park in central London on Tuesday…