Europe

Scientology’s Public Relations Push: Community Service as Strategy in Europe

Scientology-backed volunteers boost drug-prevention across France, using community outreach to reshape the group’s public image.

Trafficked Antiquities: Where Southern Europe’s Treasures Actually Go

Global police dismantle a long-running antiquities trafficking network, seizing 3,000 looted artefacts worth over €100 million.

Selective Outrage: Whose Suffering Does Nicki Minaj Speak For?

Nicki Minaj’s UN appearance boosts a disputed narrative on Nigeria’s violence, revealing how star power shapes global political agendas.

EU AI Act Allows Melodies to Choose Collaboration, Not Censorship

Europe leads in AI music ethics as UMG partners with Udio, redefining creativity, copyright, and regulation in the digital age.

Who Really Holds the Power in Europe’s Energy Supply?

US and Qatar threaten LNG cuts over the EU’s new sustainability law, exposing Europe’s energy reliance as it accelerates its green transition.

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Mistral Leads Europe and Reveals Its Limits

Mistral has become Europe's clearest AI champion, but its rise also shows how far the continent still is from matching the American frontier on scale, compute, and control.

Hantavirus Panic Revives Pandemic Lies

The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak has done something the virus itself cannot: it has reactivated the full Covid-era misinformation machine, and the results arrived faster this time.

FCAS: Bilateral Deals Break Expensive Collective Defence

Nine years of industrial warfare have now ended Europe's biggest defence dream, as bilateral deals quietly rewrite the continent's security architecture.

Sovereign AI Fund Picks Blair’s Daughter-in-Law to Lead It

Britain's £500 million Sovereign AI fund has chosen Tony Blair's daughter-in-law to lead it, and the appointment says as much about how power circulates in British tech as it does about the fund's ambitions.

Foreign Capital Flows into Damascus Despite Insecurity

As European trade ties return and energy giants sign deals, Damascus car bombs ask whether stability can coexist with transition.