Category: 3. Europe

Germany is the most expensive country in Europe to charge an electric vehicle while Turkey is the cheapest, according to research from…

The EU could also build up some goodwill in the negotiations by endorsing the terms of reference — the mandate — of the ongoing UN tax convention negotiations. Spearheaded by the Africa Group, the UN General Assembly decided to negotiate a new convention by 2027.

International tax…

Cover-ups and insecurity

The fallout from the rail crash triggered waves of anger that exceeded the shock and sadness from the accident itself. February protests across the country revealed that dismay over a range of issues — corruption, a lack of justice, the cost of living — is…

The month of May 2025 was 1.4 degrees Celsius above preindustrial average levels, according to the monthly update of the European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring agency published today.

The good news is that this “breaks an unprecedentedly long sequence of months over 1.5C above…

It has been an exceptionally dry spring in north-western Europe and the second warmest May ever globally, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

Countries across Europe, including the UK, have been hit by drought conditions in…

Macron’s government, previously an ally of Big Tech, has in recent years moved to more stringently regulate social media apps, with its push for a Europe-wide lower age limit of 15 for social media gaining traction in Brussels.

But in the…

Figures close to the capital’s mayor were furious at plans to cut London’s allocation from the U.K. Shared Prosperity Fund to zero in future years. The fund was established to support the long-term economic development of towns and cities in place of EU structural funds after…