Today
Chinese vessel spotted where Baltic Sea cables were severed
A Chinese-registered vessel on its way from the Russian port of Ust-Luga to Port Said in Egypt passed close to both the cables around the time each was cut.
- Richard Milne and Oliver Telling
This Month
You can fly from Europe to America for free. There’s just one catch
Delays are an inevitability that clouds travel in the post-COVID world. But in Europe at least, they can have a silver lining.
- Andrew Hobbs
Trump win puts global corporate tax deal ‘in peril’
Experts believe that countries will now be unlikely to apply rules over fears of retaliation from Trump-led administration.
- Emma Agyemang and Paola Tamma
Germany’s government at risk of collapse over economic policy
The main political parties are already laying out their campaign positions, and coalition leaders are barely talking.
- Steven Erlanger and Christopher F. Schuetze
October
Why Europe’s car crisis is mostly made in China
The once-lucrative market is now highly competitive and more Chinese EVs are being exported, compounding slower sales at home.
- Kana Inagaki, Edward White and Sarah White
Pilbara Minerals cuts lithium output, suspends plant
The miner is scaling back to endure the lithium price slump, cutting annual output and icing operations at its Ngungaju facility.
- Elouise Fowler
LVMH tycoon doubles down on sport after Olympics triumph
Bernard Arnault, the richest man in Europe and sometimes the world, is following the zeitgeist – and perhaps ironing out a few family issues as well.
- Henry Samuel
Australia’s latest hot export to Europe isn’t a product. It’s an idea
The rise of populist parties and the struggle to deter, process or deport illegal migrants has pushed Europe ever closer to Australia’s Nauru solution.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Postcard
- Manufacturing
Sanjeev Gupta’s entire steelmaking empire is teetering on the brink
Questions hang over the future of the British businessman’s Whyalla operations as his European mills shut down or fend off insolvency.
- Hans van Leeuwen
ECB cuts rates again as euro zone economy stagnates
The European Central Bank offered its first back-to-back rate cut in 13 years - in a shift to protecting economic growth.
- Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi
Silvio Berlusconi died. But the ‘Bunga Bunga’ scandal lives on.
Italy just can’t shake off its former prime minister. And that’s tough for the women who were still girls when they were swept up by scandal.
- Emma Bubola
Unlike Australia, Europe clings to its hydrogen hopes
Even as Origin Energy and Fortescue pare back their hydrogen ambition, European investors and companies say the revolution is still on its way.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Germany ‘reopens old wounds’ with border checks
There are fears for the future of Schengen and the freedom of movement it symbolises – regarded by EU citizens as one of the greatest accomplishments of European unity.
- Guy Chazan, Laura Dubois and Raphael Minder
‘Economic cold war’: EU slaps tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars
Germany and its car makers opposed Brussels’ move, fearing it will further stifle European demand for EVs and also prompt painful retaliation from Beijing.
- Hans van Leeuwen
The ordinary Germans turning to the far-right
It’s not disillusioned old people hankering back to Germany’s past, but overwhelmingly young people who want a future free of multiculturalism.
- Judith Woods
September
AUKUS was part of plan to punish Macron, says Boris Johnson
Writing in his upcoming memoirs, the former UK prime minister accused the French president of being a “positive nuisance” during talks to leave the EU.
- Updated
- Daniel Martin
Small ship, big adventures: Island-hopping in Portugal and Spain
This voyage aboard Windstar Star Pride included plenty of time ashore to explore volcanoes, deserts and tucked-away beaches.
- Tim Johnson
BYD shrugs off planned US ban of Chinese smart car software
Liu Xueliang, general manager of BYD’s auto sales division for Asia-Pacific, said the Chinese EV giant had turned its attention to markets with receptive EV policies.
- Updated
- Jessica Sier
Zelensky to push Biden for advanced weapons to end war
The Ukraine president will meet Joe Biden in Washington this week, and will ask him to provide an official invitation to join NATO.
- Daryna Krasnolutska
- Analysis
- Brexit
Brits regret Brexit, but can the country turn back?
Boris Johnson ‘got Brexit done’, but most Brits now seem to wish he hadn’t. Polls show more people see it as a failure, and would even vote to rejoin the EU.
- Hans van Leeuwen