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  • Baby boty sitting in a shopping cart with groceries.Retail

    Hold on to your Pampers: Diaper and tampon shortages predicted this summer as new European law threatens the $3.5 billion supply chain

    By John Ainger, Agnieszka de Sousa, and others
  • Profile of worker using tablet and testing solar panels on the roof.Environment

    Early green tech failures cast doubt on Europe’s $40 billion ‘must-succeed’ innovation fund

    By John Ainger, Will Mathis, and others
  • A photo shows the hard coal-fired power plant Scholven operated by the German energy group Uniper in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany on April 29, 2022. – According to media reports from April 28, 2022, Uniper is preparing to pay Russian gas in euros to be converted into roubles. Making transactions over this payment system are undermining the European Union’s sanctions against Russia, critics say. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    The EU just reached a deal to overhaul its carbon market to hit its 2030 climate goal—despite an ongoing energy crisis

    By Ewa Krukowska, John Ainger, and others
  • BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – DECEBER 07: (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT – “EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT / POOL” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) Vice-President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili speaks during a session at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium on December 07, 2022. Vice-President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili has been detained along with four others over corruption probe. (Photo by European Parliament / Pool/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    A Belgian probe into bribery by a Gulf nation has led to the arrest of an EU lawmaker

    By Peter Chapman, John Ainger, and others
  • A girl sits on a cot as she crosses a flooded street at Sohbatpur in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan province on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Fida HUSSAIN / AFP) (Photo by FIDA HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    COP27 to discuss rich nations helping poor ones with climate-disaster damage and loss: ‘A reasonable sum is more than zero’

    By John Ainger, Salma El Wardany, and others
  • Programmable radiator controller on a radiator on April 12, 2022 in Berlin, Germany

    EU to propose gas price cap for avoiding ‘extreme volatility’ as winter looms in an energy crisis

    By John Ainger, Ewa Krukowska, and others
  • A portrait of late Italian automobile designer and industrialist, founder of Italian luxury sports car manufactuerer Lamborgini, Ferruccio Lamborghini is pictured at the stand of a Museum dedicated to him in Modena, Northern Italy, during the Motor Valley Fest, the fair of luxury and sport brands of cars and motorbikes factories based in the Emilia-Romagna region, on May 27, 2022. – If Tuscany has Chianti, the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna has “Motor Valley”, an area that boasts one of the highest concentrations of luxury sports cars and motorbikes in the world. The so-called Land of Motors, covering around 1,000 square kilometres of prime agricultural land roughly between Bologna and Modena, is home to Lamborghini and Ferrari, Maserati and Ducati, in addition to less well-known brands. (Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP) (Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    Europe calls the end of the combustion engine era with deal to eliminate CO2-emitting cars by 2035

    By John Ainger, Ewa Krukowska, and others
  • 08 March 2022, Saxony-Anhalt, Bad Lauchstädt: David Scheller, site foreman, walks along the compressor of VNG AG’s underground gas storage facility. The storage facility combines the storage types cavern and pore storage. Here, the gas is stored either in large cavities (caverns) in the salt dome or in porous rock. The fill level of all the company’s storage facilities is 25 percent, which is typical for the season. Scientists believe that a short-term supply stop of Russian gas would be manageable for the German economy. However, this would require more liquefied gas to be procured on the world market. Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa (Photo by Jan Woitas/picture alliance via Getty Images)

    How Europe is trying to wean itself off its $1 billion a day Russia energy habit

    By Will Mathis, Akshat Rathi, and others
  • President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen gives a press conference after an EU – US summit at the European Union headquarters in Brussels on June 15, 2021. (Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) (Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    JP Morgan, Bank of America frozen out of European Commission bond sales

    By John Ainger, Tasos Vossos, and others
  • Italian countrysideFinance

    Italy announces its first foray into the red-hot market for green bonds

    By Bloomberg and John Ainger