Hanson: Europe in the balance?

Current German Chancellor Friedrich Merz put the dilemma bluntly: "The welfare state as we have it today can no longer be financed with what we can economically afford." Yet the more socialism ossifies, the more popular culture still demands free...

How a rural exodus stoked Europe's deadly wildfires - FT

Joint letter to the Danish Presidency of the Council: keep Energy Efficiency First at heart of EU Climate Law - EHPA et al.

Wave of surging plastic recycling plant closures hits Europe - Plastics Recyclers Europe

Commission set to unveil proposal for split adoption of EU-Mercosur deal

What industry and civil society want to see from the EU’s carbon border tax

Luke Donald vows familiar Europe Ryder Cup team will take ‘different angle’

European captain Luke Donald insists the defence of their Ryder Cup will not be “rinse and repeat” despite his team featuring an unprecedented 11 members of the victory from two years ago. There were no real surprises in his selections of Jon...

EU budget proposals: more external migration control, less democratic scrutiny

Home / News / 2025 / September / EU budget proposals: more external migration control, less democratic scrutiny Topic Country/Region 01 September 2025 In mid-July, the European Commission published its proposal for the EU’s next long-term budget,...

Omnibus package: European lawmakers must preserve the financial sector assessment clause in the EU Due Diligence Directive

In a new letter addressed to Members of the European Parliament, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and 31 other civil society organisations remind European lawmakers of their responsibility to assess whether financial...

No major project should proceed without EIA – Environment Minister

By Christabel Danso ABEAM The Acting Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Armah-Kofi Buah, has warned investors and developers that no major project will be permitted without undergoing a thorough Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)....

Iberdrola Spain launches one of its largest photovoltaic plants

Iberdrola Spain, Iberdrola's subsidiary in the country, has begun commissioning its photovoltaic plant in Ciudad Rodrigo, the company's second in the province of Salamanca and one of the largest in Castile and León. With a capacity of 316 MW, it...

‘It’s hidden in plain sight’ - California’s potent legal weed is booming in Britain, less legally

The drug is often vacuum-packed in plastic bags and crammed inside suitcases taken on commercial flights as checked baggage. “What we’re seeing is Californian weed, which demands a price premium in the UK,” Paul Pantry, a senior officer at the...

The key change behind Europe’s Ryder Cup quest at Bethpage Black

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Digital taxes put US-EU trade talks under pressure

The summer trade deal between the European Union and the Trump administration was supposed to mark a turning point in transatlantic relations after months of uncertainty. A 15% tariff cap wasn’t ideal, but EU leaders accepted it as the cost of...

Europe on the Path to a War Economy

In Unterlüß, Lower Saxony, Europe’s largest ammunition factory began production last week. What started clandestinely is now being publicly scaled with full firepower: the European Union is building its own war economy. In the good old days in...

Building Europe’s First Crypto-Native Neobank: A Conversation with Young Platform’s Co-Founder

“First came traditional banks. Then neobanks. Now, the next step from Young Platform: positioning themselves as one of the first European companies aiming to build a truly crypto-native neobank.” That’s how Young Platform recently described its...

‘You surrendered’ on EU-US trade deal, Belgian MEP tells Commission

The EU-US trade agreement is not a negotiation but “a surrender”; signing it would be one of the greatest acts of submission of this century, Belgian MEP Yvan Verougstraete (Renew Europe) noted in an interview with Euractiv. For Verougstraete,...

Luke Donald shuts down Bryson DeChambeau Ryder Cup claim as Team Europe captain makes New York promise

Luke Donald has told Bryson DeChambeau his Euro stars will be ready for boisterous Bethpage as he aims to pull off his greatest success. The Euro skipper has spent 20 months trying to crack the New York code and deliver on Rory McIlroy’s big Ryder...

Geraint Thomas, Julian Alaphilippe and more: the riders to watch at the Tour of Britain Men 2025

The Lloyds Tour of Britain Men is by some distance the biggest bike race in the UK for male cyclists and is well respected on the world stage too. As such, it is always able to attract a field with at least a smattering of big-name riders, with...

Opinion: Europe in the balance?

Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant — often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for the same crime — surfaces. Until recently,...