EU

Sony's shift away from physical media looks like a gaming story, but it exposes something wider: Europeans are living more of life through digital systems they use but do not fully control.

Italy's push to weaken green safeguards in the next EU budget shows how climate policy is increasingly being recast as a competitiveness problem rather than a moral one.

Ireland assumes the EU presidency just as a heatwave forces Europe to confront a question its climate politics was not designed to answer: how to keep people cool without abandoning the logic of decarbonisation.

Barnier says Britain could rejoin the EU and keep the pound and Schengen opt-out, weakening the claim that re-entry would mean total submission to stricter terms.

On the day Europe's most extensive migration overhaul takes effect, birth rates on both Mediterranean shores are falling and a workforce gap is widening.