Presenting the Autumn economic forecast, Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni said: “The European economy is moving from recovery to expansion but is now facing some [...]

COP26 didn’t end with a bang, but a whimper. Well, maybe whimper isn’t the right word, but Alok Sharma, the British minister in charge of the negotiations did appear to be choked up. He said in an interview on Sunday that he’d had about six hours sleep in 72 previous hours, “so it was an emotional [...]

“The things I saw at Facebook over and over again was, there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook. And Facebook, over and over again, chose to optimise for its own [...]

European alternative strategies are heading for a year of record fundraising, according to Preqin and Amundi. They highlight the crucial role private equity can play in Europe’s recovery from the pandemic and the transition to carbon [...]

Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett is expected to be nominated as the ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by President Joe Biden. If Barrett is confirmed by the Senate, he will step down from his mayoral duties to take on this new role. The United States embassy is located in the country’s [...]

Postal voting for Germany’s federal election began on Monday (16 August), piling pressure on conservative chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (pictured) to reinvigorate his floundering campaign or else risk losing out to a left-leaning coalition, write Andreas Rinke and Paul [...]

China carried out assault drills near Taiwan on Tuesday (17 August), with warships and fighter jets exercising off the southwest and southeast of the island in what the country’s armed forces said was a response to “external interference” and “provocations”, write Yew Lun Tian, Ben [...]

On July 30, Kyiv Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv on extension of the house arrest for Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of Opposition Platform – For Life, Ukraine’s largest opposition party. Lawyers and Medvedchuk himself crushed all the contentions of the prosecutors in [...]

Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev (pictured) today (30 July) launched a €2 million development fund in partnership with the Roma Entrepreneurship Development Initiative (REDI) to support Roma businesses and address the issue of unemployment in the [...]

A top German court has ruled that Facebook acted illegally in taking down racist posts and blocking the account of their author because the social network failed to inform the user or give a reason for shutting them [...]