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EUROPE
Como Bans Bicycles After Mayor Hit
A mayor's collision with an electric bicycle produced a citywide ban. Can personal misfortune justify policy for everyone else?
EUROPE
Italian Banks Brace For Pressure as Election Nears
Matteo Salvini wants Italy's ten largest banks to hand over billions again, reviving a fight that once shook Rome's coalition and unsettled financial markets.
EUROPE
Hollywood Takes Homer and Greece Pushes Back
Christopher Nolan had every right to reinvent Homer, but Greek frustration reveals what is lost when a living cultural inheritance becomes Hollywood spectacle.
BUSINESS
Europe’s Rivers Run Dry as Cities Ration Water
From Dublin's first nationwide hosepipe ban and Italy's shrinking Po River, drought is reordering ordinary daily life this summer.
BUSINESS
Italy Pushes to Weaken Green Rules in the EU Budget
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.
Popular
Armenia’s EU Turn is Russia’s Own Making
Armenia's parliament has embraced a European future which Russia's own inertia made almost inevitable.
Ukraine Postpones Elections as Brussels Holds the Line
Zelenskyy brands snap wartime elections a tsunami that would split Ukraine apart, leaving Brussels holding the sharpest check left on Kyiv's power.
Macron Deepens France’s Strategic Partnership with Saudi Arabia
France's embrace of Saudi Arabia argues that strategic and economic interests now outweigh the human-rights concerns that once made the relationship toxic.
Como Bans Bicycles After Mayor Hit
A mayor's collision with an electric bicycle produced a citywide ban. Can personal misfortune justify policy for everyone else?
EU Cybersecurity Rules Create a New Kind of Cyber Slop
EU cybersecurity rules are expanding just as artificial intelligence multiplies digital threats, leaving companies with more alerts and obligations to process.
