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The UK’s new steel tariffs may be sold as industrial protection, but for British manufacturing they risk acting like a tax on production itself. By making imported steel more expensive and shrinking

In an era of unraveling global order, the European Union’s free-trade agreements with far-flung partners—India’s “Mother of All Deals,” Mercosur’s long-stalled pact, Australia’s minerals lifeline—are no longer mere economic afterthoughts. They are

With all the attention on the escalating war in Iran, Ukraine has almost faded from the headlines. Still, there are signs that Vladimir Putin has taken advantage of this moment as the

When the French government announced it would spend €70 million in April to subsidize fuel costs for farmers, truck drivers, and fishermen, it was not merely addressing an economic issue — it

In the marble halls of Brussels, where European leaders once negotiated in presumed solidarity, a chilling new reality has emerged: one member state may have turned the tables into an open line

In recent days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has forcefully condemned what he describes as outright blackmail from parts of Europe over the fate of the Druzhba oil pipeline. This Soviet-era infrastructure, whose

Britain’s Palace of Westminster, the iconic seat of democracy, is literally falling apart. With crumbling masonry, rampant asbestos, frequent fires, and sewage leaks, the 19th-century Gothic Revival building risks catastrophe unless MPs

Europe is trying to cordon itself off from a widening Middle East war, relying on humanitarian cheques, naval patrols and diplomatic silence, but the geography of energy, trade and migration means this