Category: 3. Europe

Political cowardice is hindering European efforts to face up to the effects of the climate crisis, even as the continent is pummelled by a record-breaking heatwave, the EU’s green transition chief has warned.

In an interview with the Guardian,…

The heat wave searing Europe is making a compelling case for one of the most ambitious climate targets ever set by Brussels. Many in the European Union, however, have yet to be convinced.

The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, will…

This is an audio transcript of the Unhedged podcast episode: ‘Building a big beautiful Europe’

Katie Martin
Europe has spent years wringing its hands over its markets. They are small, they’re fragmented, they’ve been getting eaten alive by…

Under a program led by the U.S. government’s DARPA defense research agency, 18 companies have been selected as part of a larger bid to come up with an error-free quantum computer by 2033. Those companies could reportedly tap up to $300…

Key chapters include one devoted to defense, building on the Trinity House Agreement signed last year, which sets out that any strategic threat to one country would represent a threat to the other.

This would give Germany a mutual assistance clause with both of Europe’s nuclear powers,…

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…