IHG Hotels & Resorts expands its footprint in Europe with the opening of Candlewood Suites Berlin Charlottenburg, marking the brand’s debut in Germany and setting the stage for further expansion in the region.
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Category: 3. Europe
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Eurozone grows 0.3% at the start of the year, industrial output soars
The eurozone economy expanded by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025 on a quarter-over-quarter basis, according to a second estimate from Eurostat released on Thursday.
This marks a slight acceleration from the 0.2% growth recorded in the final quarter of 2024, but represents a minor…
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LEAK: Commission to launch major PFAS clean-up as part of water resilience strategy
The European Commission plans to support large-scale PFAS remediation efforts as part of its upcoming water resilience strategy, acknowledging the widespread threat of water pollution and the need for technological innovation to address it.
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How Ukraine’s medevac programme helped save a boy severely burned in a missile strike
A Ukrainian boy severely injured by a Russian strike three years ago has managed to resume his childhood passions thanks to a homegrown programme dedicated to medical evacuations.
Roman was 7 years old when the clinic in which he was sitting with his mother was hit during a missile…
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TikTok’s ad database breaches EU platform rules, says Commission
TikTok’s advertising repository is in breach of the EU’s online platforms rules, the European Commission said on Thursday with the publication of preliminary findings in its Digital Services Act (DSA) probe which it began in February 2024.
Under the DSA, very large online…
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Trump suggests India offered to drop tariffs to zero on US goods
The US President’s words were not immediately acknowledged by New Delhi.
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Record number of river-blocking barriers removed in Europe, report says | Rivers
Europe dismantled 542 river-blocking dams, weirs, culverts and sluices in 2024, a report has found, helping a record number of waterways resume their natural course.
The number of removals grew 11% from the year before, according to an annual…
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US overdose deaths fell 27% last year, but remain far above EU levels
An estimated 80,000 people in the US died from drug overdoses in 2024.
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What Eurovision’s voting patterns can teach you about European politics
Ahead of Saturday’s final in Basel, journalists at AFP analysed all points distributed among around 2,300 possible pairs – voting country/receiving country – since 1957.
Patterns emerged, pointing to factors ranging from geopolitics and cultural…
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