18+ hour, 13+ min ago   (1172+ words) The nearest he would ever come to realising his dream was to work briefly as a deckhand on the Mersey Ferry, a job that his father managed to arrange for him: but even this short period on the water was…...

21+ hour, 6+ min ago   (859+ words) A narrow provision in the European Union’s 21st Russia sanctions package could provide UniCredit with a legal route to settle a long-running contractual dispute connected to Alfa Bank and sanctioned Russian businessmen Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven. The significance lies less…...

22+ hour, 5+ min ago   (887+ words) Volkswagen has lowered its expectations for 2026 as weaker earnings, intense competition and difficult conditions in China add pressure to an already demanding restructuring of Europe’s largest carmaker. The company’s half-year results show an operating result around 12 per cent below the…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (703+ words) Sweden is placing critical metals and minerals inside national-security policy, signalling that decisions once treated mainly as matters of land use, industrial development and environmental regulation will increasingly be judged against Europe’s dependence on external suppliers. The change reflects a…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (499+ words) The United States has imposed new tariffs on goods from the European Union and dozens of other trading partners after concluding that their restrictions on imports made with forced labour were either absent or inadequately enforced. The measure is unusual…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (724+ words) The evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula as fires spread across south-western France has brought together two problems that European governments can no longer treat separately: moving large seasonal populations out of constrained coastal areas and finding enough specialist aircraft…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (304+ words) Albanian police used water cannon and tear gas against protesters during demonstrations triggered by plans for a multibillion-dollar resort involving Jared Kushner on an environmentally sensitive stretch of the Adriatic coast. Reuters reported that the dispute is connected to protected…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (388+ words) EU Today recently examined Europe’s need for a digital counter-terrorism reset. The child-protection derogation sits in the same policy family: governments want digital platforms to prevent serious harm, while civil-liberties advocates warn that emergency measures can become permanent infrastructure. The…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (581+ words) Russia is now experiencing precisely these consequences. Ukraine’s growing ability to strike military infrastructure deep inside Russian territory has altered the strategic balance. Facilities once assumed to be safely beyond the front line are now exposed to drones, missiles and…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (407+ words) TotalEnergies is transferring its 10 per cent interest in Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project to a Novatek subsidiary, but neither the sale price nor any compensation has been disclosed. Reuters reported that the transfer follows earlier impairment of the investment and…...