Talks between Maros Sefcovic and Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao open against a record trade imbalance and growing European concern over rare-earth controls. The test is whether Brussels can turn …

France has reported about 1,000 excess deaths during Europe’s record heatwave, while rail networks, roads, rivers and nuclear plants have come under pressure. Extreme heat is no longer only a …

India’s request for relief from planned EU restrictions on metal-scrap exports exposes a difficult contradiction: Brussels wants to retain recyclable materials for its own low-carbon industry while promising a deeper …

Europe began the refill season with depleted gas stocks and may enter winter with an unusually thin buffer as LNG disruption and the phase-out of Russian supply converge. The system …

Seawater has pushed up to 18 kilometres into the Po Delta as river flows collapse during an early heatwave. The immediate danger is to farms in northern Italy, but the …

A reported limit on Meta’s access to Google’s Gemini models shows that even the world’s largest technology companies cannot assume unlimited AI capacity. For Europe, whose cloud and frontier-model infrastructure …

The United States is reportedly close to allowing Anthropic to restore its Fable 5 model after a 15-day interruption. For Europe, the episode shows how access to leading AI systems …

Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on countries taxing American digital companies has reopened a transatlantic dispute that the latest EU-US trade settlement did not resolve: whether Washington can …

New British and German funding for the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative reflects a wider shift in Ukraine support: reconstruction finance is increasingly being tied to institutions capable of protecting public money …

As near-40C temperatures move into Germany and Poland after deadly disruption in western Europe, the policy question is no longer whether extreme heat will recur, but whether transport, schools, hospitals …

EU energy ministers are limiting the Commission’s planned role in cross-border grid planning, exposing the gap between Energy Union rhetoric and national control over infrastructure money.