Baby boomers and first-time travelers appear to be driving a so-called “coolcations” trend, shunning Europe’s peak summer hotspots in favor of cooler climes — such as the Nordic and Baltic countries.
Extreme summer heat, combined with cost and…

Baby boomers and first-time travelers appear to be driving a so-called “coolcations” trend, shunning Europe’s peak summer hotspots in favor of cooler climes — such as the Nordic and Baltic countries.
Extreme summer heat, combined with cost and…

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89.
He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat,” and won…
The euro surged further against the US dollar, and European stock markets are set to open higher as the White House exempts electronics from the reciprocal tariffs. However, US President Donald Trump and his team hinted that the exemption would only be temporary.

Did you know that 34% of European adults, or 113 million people, invest, according to BlackRock’s recent People & Money report?
Germany, the UK, France and Italy have the most investors. However, for 56% of 18-34 year olds, a lack of knowledge or understanding was the top barrier…

Maintaining a robust US presence in Europe is “essential to defending American interests,” Maj. Gen. “Skip” Davis says.
“A large-scale withdrawal would make US power projection slower, costlier, and less effective,”…

– Koalitionsvertrag und Kabinett: SPD-Chef Lars Klingbeil kämpft mit zwei Problemen. Zum einen lehnen die Jusos den Vertrag ab, zum anderen muss er klären, welche Rolle Saskia Esken künftig haben wird. Eine Analyse von Gordon Repinski.
– Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Der…

Europe’s war effort for Ukraine has one of its front lines in the historic town of Bourges in central France, a hub for defence companies. Here, European missile champion MBDA has for the past three years invested heavily in new equipment and…
Hungary’s opposition leader, Péter Magyar, tells supporters he will restore Western alliances if he defeats incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for next year.

Yet Berlin’s support comes with the radical condition that EU countries must be allowed to incorporate international carbon credits in their climate efforts — meaning that instead of reducing pollution at home, they could pay for emissions cuts in non-EU countries and count those toward…

“In the future, we will be buying more gas from the U.S.,” EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said at an industry event on Tuesday, while stressing that the purchases would need to align with the bloc’s green goals.
That said, there is only so much the EU can ultimately do. At the end…