John LaurensonBusiness reporter, Zilina, Slovakia
Kia SlovakiaIn a giant factory surrounded by mountains covered in snow, a lift lowers the steel bodies of cars onto the start of an assembly line.
They’ve just been welded…
Category: 3. Europe
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How tiny Slovakia became a car making heavyweight
Kia SlovakiaKia’s giant plant in Zilina, Slovakia, can produce 350,000 cars per year -
Has Trump really ‘defeated’ US inflation, as he claimed in Davos?
Donald Trump used his high-octane Davos appearance at the World Economic Forum to claim the US has “defeated” inflation, pointing to what he called a booming economy.
But the numbers tell a more modest story. While inflation has indeed cooled, it is far from the ideal rate, coming in at…
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The 12 people who hold Trump’s World Cup in their hands
urope has spent the last week rummaging around for leverage that would force U.S. President Donald Trump to back off his threats to seize Greenland from Denmark.
While Trump now says he will not be imposing planned tariffs on European allies, some politicians think they’ve found the answer…
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EU ‘skeptical’ after Trump’s Greenland tariff threat reversal – POLITICO
“After the back and forth of the last few days, we should now wait and see what substantive agreements are reached between Mr. Rutte and Mr. Trump,” Klingbeil told German broadcaster ZDF. “No matter what solution is now found for Greenland, everyone must understand that we cannot sit…
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Trump stands down on Greenland — and Republicans exhale
Republican lawmakers breathed a collective sigh of relief Wednesday after President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t use force to seize Greenland.
Trump’s surprise announcement removed the immediate threat of a military escalation that could have shattered the NATO alliance. It also offered…
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EU suspends approval of US trade deal
Jonathan Josephs,
Adam Hancockand
Archie Mitchell,Business reporters
Getty ImagesThe European Parliament has suspended the approval of a key US trade deal agreed in July in protest against Donald Trump’s demand to take over Greenland.
The suspension was announced in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday,…
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Tokayev’s “Kurultai state”: why Kazakhstan’s new political architecture matters for Europe
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has used the 5th session of Kazakhstan’s National Kurultai in Kyzylorda to sketch what amounts to a redesigned political system: a shift toward a unicameral parliament, a proposal to rename the future legislature “Kurultai,” a new consultative institution…
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Trump steps back from the brink on Greenland. But the damage has been done.
After two weeks of escalating threats toward Europe, President Donald Trump blinked on Wednesday, backing away from the unthinkable brink of a potential war against a NATO ally during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Trump’s vow not to use military force to seize Greenland…
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UK government faces fresh calls for compensation over Brexit ‘reset’ deal – POLITICO
But as the U.K. and EU negotiate a sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) deal — which is expected to remove the need for most border checks on food imported from the bloc — business owners now fear these facilities will be rendered redundant.
Nigel Jenney, CEO of the Fresh Produce…
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Trump’s jibes are wearing thin for many of Europe’s leaders
Nick BeakeEurope correspondent, Brussels
AFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump delivered a wide-ranging speech at the Davos summit in Switzerland “Without us, right now you’d all be speaking German,” President Donald Trump told his audience at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday.
He…
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