14+ hour ago   (556+ words) Borrowing costs are rising again across the eurozone as conflict in the Middle East pushes up energy prices. The European Central Bank raised its key deposit rate to 2.5% while upgrading its growth forecast on the back of resilient manufacturing and…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (502+ words) Europe’s clean-energy sector is creating jobs at a rapid pace. A new report warns that a shortage of electricians, plumbers, technicians and engineers could slow its expansion. “Europe’s transition to climate neutrality is reshaping parts of its industrial base and…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (546+ words) An old steel mill, rewired and repurposed, could soon do more useful work than a brand-new data centre. That is the bet behind Polarise, an AI infrastructure firm that has just entered the race for a slice of Europe’s data-centre…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (352+ words) Europe’s endless cookie banners could soon face a rethink. But only if EU lawmakers revive a proposal that member states have dropped from their negotiating position. A coalition of digital and consumer rights groups has launched the “Kill the Cookie…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (253+ words) Spain and Italy vowed to press ahead with their political standoff over migration policies by continuing border checks on each other’s arrivals despite sharing no land border. Meanwhile, on El Trampolín beach, hundreds of migrants sleep on cardboard boxes. A…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (569+ words) Europe’s plan to make pharmaceutical and cosmetics producers pay for wastewater treatment has suffered a legal setback. An Advocate General at the EU’s top court has recommended annulling the provisions behind the scheme, citing serious flaws in how the EU…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (937+ words) One Dutch company makes a machine essential to almost every advanced microchip in the world. Belgian and Danish drugmakers ship medicines worth hundreds of billions of euros beyond EU borders. Amid endless talk of European decline, these are the industries…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (391+ words) Warsaw signed the EU’s biggest-ever defence loan. Its own president had just vetoed it. Get the popcorn. The EU legislative backdrop matters here. The ReArm Europe plan, an €800bn package championed by Warsaw during its 2025 Council Presidency, reshaped how the bloc…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (391+ words) Europe is good at creating ideas. The harder part is turning them into companies that can grow — and keeping those companies home once they do. Brussels now trying to close that gap with new rules designed to help turn research…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (548+ words) What if disinformation is no longer designed to fool humans, but to fool the AI systems people increasingly trust? Among those making the case were Neville Bolt and Elīna Lange-Ionatamišvili, authors of the NextGen Information Environment report, and Halyna Padalko,…...