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Power Lines and Fault Lines: How China Is Winning the Green Race
As electricity becomes the new oil, the developing world may be a forerunner in co‑operating with Beijing BEIJING/NAIROBI/SÃO PAULO — In the scramble to electrify everything—cars, factories, data centers and homes—power has become geopolitics. Not the oil-soaked kind that shaped…
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Fork in the Road: Why UK Business Is Still Guessing at Keir Starmer’s Endgame
After a tricky first year in power, the prime minister’s bid to ‘get companies back on side’ left many executives asking what, exactly, has changed. LIVERPOOL — Keir Starmer arrived at Labour’s annual conference this week promising a reset with…
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Clock Runs Down in Washington as VP Vance Warns Shutdown Is Imminent
After a failed White House summit with President Trump and congressional leaders, funding talks enter a frantic final day with a 12:01 a.m. deadline WASHINGTON — United States Vice‑President JD Vance warned Tuesday that the federal government was “headed to…
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EU Tests New Workarounds to Advance Ukraine and Moldova’s Accession Despite Hungary’s Veto Threat
Brussels leans on “technical work” and procedural tweaks to keep enlargement momentum alive as officials map paths around Budapest’s block Brussels The European Union is moving to advance Ukraine and Moldova’s accession efforts even as Hungary signals it will continue…
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The ‘Blondes’ Factory in a Secret Bunker: Inside Europe’s Biggest Contraband Cigarette Plant
A year-long operation, a hidden hydraulic hatch, and 300 tonnes seized: how Italy’s Guardia di Finanza uncovered an industrial-scale underground production hub near Cassino with an estimated €1 billion turnover CASSINO, Italy — From the street, the warehouse looked like…
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A Halved United? What the U.N. Can and Can’t Do in 2025
Between vetoes and lifelines: Gaza, Ukraine and the argument over whether the United Nations still matters “L’Onu dimezzata”—a halved United Nations. The phrase has ricocheted through diplomatic circles this year as wars grind on in Gaza and Ukraine. To many,…
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A Former President Faces Prison: Sarkozy’s Five-Year Sentence Shocks France
Paris court convicts Nicolas Sarkozy of criminal conspiracy over alleged Libyan campaign financing, triggering legal, political, and democratic reverberations. Paris — France awoke to a constitutional novelty—and a political earthquake—after the Paris criminal court handed former president Nicolas Sarkozy a…
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Mind the Gap: Culture, Not Cash, Is Redrawing Western Politics
A growing ‘representation gap’ on immigration and criminal justice is fueling the populist right—even as voters and mainstream parties remain aligned on taxes and public ownership. For decades, the conventional wisdom about democratic politics ran on a simple axis: left…
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Buffer Under Pressure
Octopus Energy’s chief defends missing Ofgem’s new capital target — and says the rulebook ignores real-world risk LONDON — In a week that laid bare the fault lines in Britain’s retail energy market, the boss of Octopus Energy has defended…
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Germany’s Deregulation Czar Promises a Scalpel, Not a Sledgehammer
Karsten Wildberger maps a quieter revolution in state modernization as Chancellor Friedrich Merz makes red‑tape cutting central to his economic reboot—while avoiding the chaos seen under the U.S. DOGE experiment. BERLIN — Karsten Wildberger, the newly appointed head of Germany’s…
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