• EUROPE
    The twilight days of the European Green Deal

    The European Union has been steaming ahead with its Green Deal for the past four years, but as it reaches the home stretch, a pushback on environmental legislation and shortcomings in industrial policy are set to slow it down.

  • HISTORY
    3 August 2023: This day in history

    1492: Christopher Columbus with Juan de la Cosa second-in-command sets sail on his first voyage with three ships, Santa María, Pinta and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain for the “Indies” 1596: David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star) 1914: Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I 1934: Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German […]

  • GEOPOLITICS
    PM to visit Egypt on Thursday

    Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit Egypt on Thursday to meet with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The meeting will take place at 11 a.m. at the El Alamain Presidential Palace, and will be followed be a series of wider talks.

  • EUROPE
    Germany develops taste for alcohol-free beer

    The production of non-alcoholic beer in Germany almost doubled over the last decade, according to new data published on the occasion of this week’s world beer day, while alcoholic beer consumption has seen a slight downward trend.

  • HISTORY
    2 August 2023: This day in history

    338 BC: Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean 216 BC: Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army under command consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro […]