Category: 3. Europe

Temperatures across Europe are rising at twice the global average. This alarming trend is leading to more frequent and intense heatwaves, droughts, floods and storms.

But climate change isn’t just about extreme weather. It damages

But due to a ban on Russian aircraft flying through EU airspace linked to a wider sanctions regime, the Russian president would not be able to reach Budapest without defying the EU measures, taking a huge risk by flying over Ukraine, or going via a circuitous Balkan route.

Under the EU’s

Introductory Remarks at the IMF’s European Department Press Briefing

By Alfred Kammer, Director of the European Department
2025 Annual Meetings

October 17,…

Frankenstein has been a long time coming for Guillermo del Toro.

The visionary filmmaker and lover of misunderstood monsters recently shared at the Lumière Film Festival that he was seven years old when he saw…

The diplomatic arm of the EU, the European External Action Service (EEAS), proposes to “further activate diplomatic channels towards the U.S.” to see it implemented in a way that does not “undermine the viability” of the Palestinian Authority.

Trump announced a truce brokered…

Karl Schlögel recently returned to Berlin from a visit the Ukrainian city of Lviv. Impressions of what the historian saw there are still fresh in his memory: In Lviv, Schlögel recalls, he experienced an air-raid alarm and had to spend several…

The need to ramp up basic defence equipment like rifles and small-calibre ammunition is not being discussed enough by EU policymakers with big-ticket weapon systems like counter-drone measures and missiles too…