All the headlines from our Europe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 5 2023 // Wildfires have cost Europe an estimated €4.1 billion ($4.43 billion) in damages so far this year, as extreme heat seared the Mediterranean from Greece to Spain this summer.Nearly 400,000 hectares (988,420 acres) of land...
Sep 1 2023 // European Union countries are preparing to push for a global deal on phasing out fossil fuels at the United Nations COP28 climate summit which begins in November, a draft of the EU’s negotiating position...
Sep 1 2023 // In a warehouse on the outskirts of Barcelona, women stand at conveyor belts, manually sorting T-shirts, jeans and dresses from large bales of used clothing – a small step towards tackling Europe’s towering...
Aug 31 2023 // U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware...
Aug 28 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Sompo International and Inigo Limited.A summary of these new hires follows here. Sompo Int’l Taps Zurich’s Weiss as Head of Property &...
Aug 24 2023 // More than a dozen of the world’s biggest tech companies face unprecedented legal scrutiny, as the European Union’s sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) imposes new rules on content moderation, user privacy and...
Aug 18 2023 // Europe is once again battling scorching temperatures this summer, with wildfires blazing across the continent from the Mediterranean to Spain. Here’s how climate change drives these events.HOTTER, MORE FREQUENT...
Aug 16 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arrow Risk Management and Sompo International.A summary of these new hires follows here. MGA Arrow Risk Launches FinPro Practice, With 2 Hires From...
Aug 11 2023 // A growing ‘greenlash’ against Europe’s environmental agenda has not so far derailed its decarbonization plans, but looming elections could put future climate and nature measures at risk.The European Union...
Aug 2 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Miller, HSB Canada and HDI Global.A summary of these new hires follows here. Miller Taps Marsh’s Holloway as Head of EuropeMiller, the London-based...
Aug 2 2023 // The Rhine River has been a reliable shipping lane for centuries, helping spawn industrial giants along its banks. But those days are coming to an end, and the scramble is made all the more urgent as Germany’s...
Jul 31 2023 // Tens of thousands of companies operating in Europe face new requirements to report their operations’ ESG impacts as the European Union advances a plan to address climate change and environmental degradation through...
Jul 28 2023 // The European Commission has no immediate money in the budget and no clear way to help finance the extra transport costs Ukrainian grain exports will face with the end of the Black Sea deal, sources told Reuters, leaving an...
Jul 21 2023 // Microsoft was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by German rival alfaview on Thursday, the second so far over its bundling of video app Teams into its Office product, as the bloc’s regulator prepares to investigate...
Jul 21 2023 // More than half of Britons would vote to rejoin the European Union for the first time since the nation opted to leave the bloc seven years ago, YouGov polling showed.Some 51% of Britons told the polling company that they...
Jul 19 2023 // Europe baked in intense heat, with temperatures reaching almost 46C (115F) on the Italian island of Sardinia on Wednesday, as wildfires continued to rage in Greece.Authorities warned lives were in danger after the latest...
Jul 19 2023 // It is too early to tell if Britain’s financial rules post-Brexit will diverge too far from European Union norms to consider giving it access to the bloc’s markets, a senior EU official said on Tuesday.Paulina...
Jul 18 2023 // The heat wave engulfing the Mediterranean is set to intensify as another Saharan anticyclone threatens record temperatures from Italy to Greece.The new weather system — named Charon after the mythological ferryman who...
Jul 13 2023 // The European Union’s drug regulator expanded its investigation into a possible risk of suicidal thoughts associated with a new class of weight-loss medicines and a separate analysis found that most patients stopped...
Jul 12 2023 // Verlingue has acquired a majority stake in the insurance broker INSER, in line with its Verlingue 2024 strategic plan to create a major European, family-owned, independent insurance broker.Financial details of the deal...