A few days after Spain’s Supreme Court ruled that migrants who swim into the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the coast of northern Africa cannot be summarily returned to Morocco, nearly 60,000 people converged on Ceuta on Friday last week, hoping to make their way to Europe. On July 29, the Spanish court…
The bloc’s crisis management chief calls for more investment and plans to be accelerated as an ominous heatwave looms. Published On 29 Jul 202629 Jul 2026 The European Union’s crisis management commissioner says the bloc needs to invest more in tackling climate change and accelerate its response, as France and Spain prepare for another crippling…
Google was ordered by European Union regulators on Thursday to lift restrictions that limit how rival A.I. companies can reach users of Android smartphones, a sign of increased government scrutiny of the booming business of artificial intelligence. The decision is a response to fears that Google will leverage the enormous user base of Android, which…
Just before Britain’s fateful referendum on its membership to the European Union 10 years ago, the government of the day gave a stark warning. A vote to leave the bloc would lead to “an immediate and profound shock” to the economy. By a slim margin, the public voted to leave anyway. The economic warnings were…
There were dozens of strawberry plants to prune, and Shukrat Djuraev was more than 3,000 miles from home, but he was not complaining as he worked his way down a giant greenhouse tunnel in Kent, in southern England. “I like it here,” said Mr. Djuraev, 44, who is from Bukhara in Uzbekistan and is one…
Before we get to new data on how climate change could become a winning political issue, let’s get caught up on some breaking news: Trump administration backs off plan to end ocean monitoring: The administration is abandoning its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems,…
The European Parliament approved a major part of the trade deal that it settled on with the United States last summer at President Trump’s golf course in Turnberry, Scotland — nearly a year after the agreement was struck. European Union lawmakers agreed to cut tariffs to zero on American industrial goods, including machinery and car…
Days after the Trump administration vowed to dismantle a deep-ocean observation system, the European Union said it would bolster its own monitoring of the world’s oceans to improve climate forecasting and better anticipate changes to marine ecosystems. The European Union announcement was long in the works, and not a response to the U.S. pullback. Still,…
European Union officials unveiled a broad plan on Wednesday to reduce dependence on American technology, which they increasingly see as a threat to the region’s economic future and geopolitical security amid a rocky relationship with the Trump administration. Under the plan, officials outlined more government involvement in the region’s tech industry to accelerate the construction…
Mariam Sobayo came achingly close to feeling like she belonged in Ireland. She was born in Dublin on Feb. 10, 2005, just a few weeks after the country halted its longstanding practice of granting citizenship to all children born on Irish soil. Her parents immigrated to Ireland from Nigeria in 2001, and she is the…
