China is pursuing plans to develop floating nuclear reactors that could power military facilities it has built in disputed areas of the South China Sea, according to the top U.S. military commander in the Pacific and State Department officials, a prospect…

Russia has warned the UK that it may target British military facilities in Ukraine and beyond if Ukraine uses British weapons to strike Russian territory. The Russian Foreign Ministry, Lavrov, summoned the British ambassador to Moscow to express its protest…

  Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to France led to the signing of numerous bilateral agreements in various sectors, from energy to transportation to finance. It is a victory for Emmanuel Macron, who had said he wanted more reciprocity in economic relations…

Spanish bank BBVA’s friendly takeover bid for rival Sabadell is becoming hostile. And political, since the Spanish government is involved. On Thursday, three days after rejecting the friendly merger offer, BBVA, Spain’s second-largest bank in terms of market…

BYD sets no limits. In fact, the Chinese electric carmaker believes it can overtake Tesla in Europe by 2030. “We are confident that we could become leaders” by the end of the decade in Europe, said Michael Shu, BYD’s European Director, at the Financial Times…

Nice and smart Germans, and above all very pro-European: having to take the same plane, they prefer to have it delivered from the U.S. rather than assembled in Cameri, Italy. In this way, they counter the creation of employment in the U.S. and not in the…

The pro-independence parties that have ruled Catalonia for a decade lost their majority in the regional parliament on Sunday, according to partial results from the regional elections won by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists, six and a half…

Online scams related to the French banking system are making more and more headlines in the Hexagon and are becoming a real iimbarazzo. . Brought to light by the sensational “Sfam case,” direct debit fraud is putting its victims in trouble. For years, former…

Oh, how the mighty have fallen and the lightning is less luminous! Well, not really, but it seems like electric vehicles (EVs) in the U.S. have hit a bit of a speed bump on their road to world dominance. In the first quarter of 2024, EV sales in the U.S.…

It seems like there’s been a significant event involving Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, as he was shot after a government meeting in Handlova. Numerous news outlets have reported on this incident, which is cause for concern. The shooting took place…

“Can the European economy ever hope to compete with the U.S. economy?” is the title of an articulate, in-depth article that takes up a full page in today’s Financial Times. A question that appears rhetorical from the title because the answer is  a simple…

In April 2021, the New York Times revealed that the President of the European Commission had negotiated a contract for 1.8 billion doses of Covid vaccine during the pandemic directly with Pfizer boss Albert Bourla via SMS. On Friday May 17, a first hearing…

In Italy Fleximan, the folk hero who became famous because he knocked down speed cameras with his circular saw, may have been identified. He would be, according to the clues gathered by the police, a simple 42-year-old metalworker who, tired of the fines…

If the first week of June will be exacerbated for Europe between the ECB meeting and the elections for the renewal of the Europarliament, the one that has just begun risks being decisive for Italy’s role in the balance of the international chessboard. And…

Tension remains high this Saturday in New Caledonia, where the mission to “re-establish order in the coming days”, set by President Emmanuel Macron during his express visit, is proving difficult to fulfill. Despite a situation that remains “difficult”, according…

It’s been a week in which there have been some mixed and undecided signals from the U.S. about the direction the Fed wants to take on interest rates. Does it stay put, cut, or, unexpectedly, raise? First came the price index data on personal consumption expenditures…

The celebration of the “strengthening” of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was short-lived: on May 7, in fact, 2 new units were launched at the Zelenodolsk shipyards in Tatarstan (on the Volga River, engaged since 1895 in building small warships for the Black…

In France, Macron is starting to get a little scared ahead of the upcoming European elections because the polls are not exactly optimal for the government area. Throughout this whole campaign for the European elections, which seems more like a way of the…

In Greece, a new rule by the Ministry of Navigation and Insular Policy requires the country’s ferries not to accept BEV (battery-powered) and PHEV (plug-in hybrid) electric cars with more than 40 percent charge on board. So when you disembark, you will have…

The conditions of finance have changed profoundly over the past 30 years. Markets, which were previously, historically, accustomed to certain returns, have been faced with a different reality, leading to different performance indicators. The graph of the…

All the mainstream media rushed to celebrate the great innovation of the G7: the $50 billion loan to Ukraine paid from the returns of Russian assets seized at the start of the war. A plan that is utterly fuzzy, unclear, and will require a great deal of technical…