Politics, economies, and society across the European continent and the EU.
Cheap Ukrainian drones are destroying tanks worth millions, and the images are hard to look away from. The danger is that Europe reads them as permission to arm on a budget, when the real lesson is almost the opposite.
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The European Commission president wants an age limit for social media across the bloc. Behind the slogans lies a harder fight over how to enforce it, and whether Brussels should try.
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A year after NATO's leaders promised to lift military budgets toward 5 percent of GDP, the gap between grand commitments and actual spending is widening, held back by debt, politics and public resistance.
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The continent has long treated air conditioning as a wasteful foreign habit. As heatwaves grow longer and deadlier, that proud reluctance is becoming harder, and more dangerous, to justify.
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The mayor of Greater Manchester is the most talked about leader in waiting in British politics. Yet the road from city hall to Downing Street is narrower than his admirers like to think.
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Meeting in France, the club of rich democracies offered just enough common ground to revive talk of a settlement. Whether that opening leads anywhere depends on Moscow, Washington, and a wary Europe.
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