Category: 3. Europe

OPTICS Left: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump dances at a rally in Michigan days before his electionvictory. Right: No musician had a bigger year than TaylorSwift. Between March 2023 and December 2024 she performed149 shows across five continents, and her tour… Continue Reading

LONDON — Rishi Sunak stood in a deluge and announced an election even he must have known would result in a landslide for Labour’s Keir Starmer. With the new regime now desperately battling to reshape the nation while facing many of the same old problems, it’s been an electoral extravaganza… Continue Reading

After the two decades that seem to have passed since the beginning of January, the year is finally coming to an end. The United Nations called 2024 the “super year” of elections — which sounds accurate. It also said that the fact that 3.7 billion voters headed to ballot boxes in 72… Continue Reading

Holiday special: Brussels vs. Moscow — the EU risks losing its eastern neighbors – POLITICO

The unannounced pre-Christmas meeting between Fico and Putin was reported at the time as an attempt by the Slovak leader to find a way around Kyiv’s refusal to extend Russian gas deliveries to Bratislava following the expiry of an existing contract at the end of 2024. No mention was… Continue Reading

This article was originally published in Russian Authorities in Azerbaijan, Russia and Kazakhstan have been cautious in their initial assessments of Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash near Aktau, which has killed at least 38 people. Local media, however, have been less hesitant. Continue Reading

Renewable energy consumed in the EU keeps growing, but not as fast as it should to meet 2030 targets. ADVERTISEMENT Renewable energy made up 24.5% of EU energy use last year, a new record, but still far from the target set for 2030. Spain is the only country among the bloc’s four… Continue Reading