Europe

European companies are becoming increasingly concerned about China's new economic course. They see "worrying signs" that the country's economic focus is increasingly inward, the president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China…
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The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia did not tell the European Union that they were working on a new military alliance. The European Commission has asked the three countries for explanations about the security pact,…
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Former Venezuelan military intelligence chief has been arrested in Spain. Hugo Carvajal, 61, is suspected of drug smuggling by US authorities. He had been on the run since 2019. The arrest, a collaboration between Spanish and…
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Mayor Beppe Sala of Milan demands clarity about how a fire in a residential tower could spread so quickly. He compares the situation with the deadly fire in London's Grenfell Tower in 2017. As far as is known, the fire in Milan has…
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In the southern French region of Var, thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes after fierce forest fires broke out last night. Tourists on campsites have also had to look for safer places. 750 firefighters have…
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Maria Kolesnikova, the last leading opposition figure remaining in Belarus, has appeared in court with her lawyer and co-defendant Maxim Znak. She has been in jail since September 2020. Other Belarusian protest leaders, such as…
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The eurozone economy has emerged from recession in the second quarter, thanks to the easing of corona measures and the global economic recovery from the corona crisis. According to new figures from the European statistical office…
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French President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged that his government is "indebted" to French Polynesia for nuclear tests France conducted on the islands from 1966 to 1996. There has been no formal apology. Macron is on a four-day…
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Over the next two years, the ECB will extensively explore the possibilities of a digital euro. But, according to the bank, the first experiments are positive. The European Central Bank wrote a report on the digital euro nine months…
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The European Commission is delaying a legislative proposal for an EU tax on internet companies and other digital platforms, the so-called digital tax. According to a spokesman, the daily EU board first awaits the further…
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