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#1 Spain and Portugal Hit With Worst European Blackout in Years

Apr 28 2025 // Most of Spain and all of Portugal were hit by a major blackout that impacted public transport, airports and phone service, leaving authorities scrambling to find the causes for one of the worst outages in Europe in...

#2 TikTok Fined €530 Million for Illegally Sending EU Data to China

May 5 2025 // TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. was fined €530 million ($600 million) by the European Union for illegally sending user data to China, and warned that it didn’t do enough to keep that information out of reach from...

#3 EU Plan to Water Down ESG Rules Risks Wave of Litigation, Legal Scholars Warn

May 9 2025 // The European Union’s plan to slash the scope of new ESG regulations opens the door to a wave of litigation, as companies would no longer be required to act in a way that lives up to the bloc’s climate law.The...

#4 People Moves: Specialty MGA Appoints 2 Senior Underwriters for Africa & Middle East; DUAL Europe Expands Marine Business With New Team in Hamburg, Germany

Apr 17 2025 // Specialty MGA Appoints 2 Senior Underwriters for Africa & Middle EastSpecialty MGA Africa & Middle East, part of MNK Group and a sister company of Specialty MGA UK, announced the appointment of two new senior...

#5 Central European Foot-and-Mouth Disease Leads to Animal Culls and Border Closures

Apr 15 2025 // Authorities in several countries in Central Europe are working to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among cattle populations that has caused widespread border closures and required the killing of thousands of...

#6 People Moves: Marsh Taps FERMA’s Beaupérin as Client Leader, Risk Management, Europe; Sompo Int’l Holdings Names Walsh as Independent Non-Exec Chair

May 8 2025 // Marsh Taps FERMA’s Beaupérin as Client Leader, Risk Management, EuropeMarsh, the insurance brokerage business of Marsh McLennan, announced the appointment of Typhaine Beaupérin as client leader, Risk Management,...

#7 Apple, Meta Fined as EU Presses Ahead With Tech Probes

Apr 24 2025 // Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big...

#8 Europe’s Hottest Year Turbocharged Extreme Weather Across Region

Apr 15 2025 // Europe experienced the hottest year on record in 2024, as climate change combined with a strong El Niño to generate a series of extreme weather events and force glaciers into retreat.Half the continent reported new heat...

#9 Google Facing at Least €12 Billion in Civil Claims Across Europe

May 13 2025 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google is facing at least €12 billion ($13.3 billion) in damage claims from dozens of price comparison websites across the European Union which allege that the search and advertising giant stole...

#10 EU to Propose More Sanctions on Russia’s ‘Shadow’ Oil Tankers

May 8 2025 // The European Union’s executive arm is set to propose a new package of sanctions targeting Moscow’s covert fleet of oil tankers as it seek to crank up pressure on Russia over its war against Ukraine.The...