Category: 3. Europe

There’s been a sort of rolling dispute ever since the bombing campaign against Iran wrapped up as to how successful the US/Israeli effort really was in crippling the Iranian nuclear program.

I’m not sure what to think about this.

On the one…

Europe’s grand plans to surge ammunition production hinge on a single factory in central Poland – the only place in the EU that still makes trinitrotoluene, or TNT, the explosive core of most weapons production. 

Since Russia’s war on…

The announcement adds to headaches already piling up in the lead-up to a summit in China on July 24 and 25. Beijing is reportedly expected to cancel the second part of the summit.

China issued its final ruling Friday in an investigation it started in response to an EU probe into electric…

The two-day strike by French air traffic controllers on July 3–4 has forced the cancellation of over 1,500 flights and disrupted travel plans for nearly 300,000 passengers, is more than just a national labour dispute. As reported by Airlines…

“Putin clearly demonstrates his complete disregard for the United States and all those who have called for an end to the war,” said Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, adding that he believes Russia deliberately launched an attack after the call with Trump. He called for further…

This means that matching electricity consumption with generation mattered more than ever. Storage assets benefitted from price spreads, charging at low prices and discharging during expensive peak time, reducing the need for costly imported…

On Independence Day, the 4 July 1962, President John F. Kennedy declared, “The United States looks on a strong, united Europe not as a rival but as a partner.” More than six decades later, with growing divergence on issues such as trade,…