Renewables
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.
EUROPE
Washington Challenges the Sovereignty of Smaller Partners
A superpower’s casual rhetoric regarding its neighbours hints at a new global order where small-state sovereignty acts as the currency for military security.
BUSINESS
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.
PODCASTS
Rentier No More: AI, Tech, and Renewables
Austria’s Ambassador to the UAE, Dr. Etienne Berchtold, discusses energy, AI, and tech cooperation shaping a new bilateral era.
BUSINESS
European Stadiums: A New Theatre in the Congo War
Two African neighbours court European clubs and their stadiums while their shared border burns.
Popular
Uneven Protection: Religious Freedom in Belgium
A country can guarantee religious freedom by law and still let how visibly someone practises it decide whether they get a job or a seat at the table.
Venice Rewards Israeli Gaza Documentary Amid Domestic Backlash
An award can celebrate a film's craft without settling what its allegations actually prove, a distinction Venice has now put under real pressure.
Celtic Pact: Is a Post-UK Future Inevitable?
The pact signed in Cardiff dares Westminster to defend a fragile union which Trump's transactional treatment of old allies has left looking suddenly negotiable.
The Houthi Movement Already Uses Frontier Software
A cell in northern Yemen tried building guided missiles with Claude weeks before Houthi forces took the Bab al-Mandeb coast, and no slowdown pledge undoes that.
UAE Capital Backs Germany’s Technology Pivot
Germany's old industrial economy and its emerging digital one are being asked to share the same factory floor, backed by Gulf capital betting both can work.
