Getty ImagesThe Baltic Express bursts out of the Czech capital on a crisp winter morning. As the sky lightens, medieval Prague is streamed through the train’s windows like a Netflix trailer. From armchair seats in private compartments, a city of…
Category: 3. Europe
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The UN Must Act to Bring Peace to Europe
President Trump is committed to ending the Russia-Ukraine war and to a resolution that leads to a lasting peace, not just a temporary pause. This Monday, February 24, will mark three years of…
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Yes, America Is Europe’s Enemy Now
A few weeks ago, I warned that the second Trump administration might be squandering the tolerance and good will that Washington had long received from the world’s major democracies. Instead of seeing the United States as a mostly…
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Europe’s energy information problem
Institutions established in support of the European Energy Union
In 2009, the EU adopted rules – known as the Third Energy Package – aimed at further liberalising energy markets and deepening integration. Among other measures,…
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Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline, say researchers | Life expectancy
Life expectancy improvement is stalling across Europe with England experiencing the biggest slowdown. Experts are blaming this on an alarming mix of poor diet, mass inactivity and soaring obesity.
The average annual growth in life expectancy…
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Europe’s population crisis: see how your country compares – visualised | Migration
The rise of the far-right could speed up the population decline of Europe, projections show, creating economic shocks including slower growth and soaring costs from pensions and elderly care.
Anti-immigration politics is on the rise across the EU,…
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Europe — Stop Hitting Snooze and Wake Up
The continent’s defense, technological and industrial capacity should be strengthened quickly using the leverage of the European Union’s regulatory power and its enormous market. To drive this, governments will need to increase…
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Vance Munich Speech: Read Full Transcript
European leaders are reeling from a weekend of high-level diplomacy that has laid bare just how dramatically the second Trump administration is overhauling transatlantic relations.
Even before the reelection of U.S. President Donald Trump,…
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China aims to improve ties with EU amid transatlantic tension
Taipei, Taiwan —China has launched a new round of diplomatic outreach to European countries amid rising tension between the United States and its European allies.
While top U.S. officials and European leaders clashed over issues…
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