Category: 3. Europe

The most productive countries in the world are in Western Europe, according to the Productivity Potential Index (PPI), created by global consulting firm Strategy& and the World Governments Summit….

European defence ministers left their meeting in Brussels on February 12 in shock after the new US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, told them they could no longer rely on the US to guarantee their security.

Hegseth said he was there…

A wave of discontent over rising supermarket prices has spread through the Balkans and beyond in the past weeks, intensifying pressure on governments to defend consumers.

At the latest meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels on 27…

US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine has yet to be made public, but it is already abundantly clear that he…

Summary

• ECFR polling reveals the gloom that has fallen over European perceptions of the transatlantic relationship since early November.
• Respondents are more likely to call the US merely a…

“Our friend Trump, the Trump tornado, has changed the world in just a couple of weeks. An era has ended. Today, everyone sees that we are the future,” crowed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the most senior of the leaders at the…

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Several European leaders on Wednesday rejected US President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to “take over” Gaza and forcibly resettle its Palestinian population in other countries.

Dismissing the proposal,…

Donald Trump’s proposal to “take over” Gaza and displace 1.8 million Palestinians to turn the devastated enclave into the “Riviera of the Middle East” has been met with strong criticism and scepticism from European countries, which…

Seven Italians and victims in more than a dozen other European countries were targeted with spyware as part of a broad hacking campaign revealed by WhatsApp on Friday, the Italian government said.

The country’s Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza…