Tag: Europes
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Melting glaciers: hard choices for Europe’s mountain communities
[ad_1] This article is reserved for our members The melting of Europe’s glaciers and permafrost is now an established fact. It is already taking a major toll on local communities, whether through depopulation or because of its effects on tourism. We report from Cervinia and Pietracamela (Italy), Chamonix (France), Zermatt (Switzerland) and the Zugspitze (Germany)…
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Tommy Fleetwood ‘so proud’ to secure Team Europe’s Ryder Cup triumph
[ad_1] Tommy Fleetwood secured victory after winning his match against Rickie Fowler (Picture: Getty) English golfer Tommy Fleetwood says he is ‘so proud’ to secure the winning point at the Ryder Cup as Team Europe beat Team USA 16.5-11.5 in Rome. The Europeans were crushed at Whistling Straits in 2021 but produced an impressive victory…
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Europe’s richest royal family builds nearly $300 billion finance empire
[ad_1] The top royal for one of the world’s smallest nations heads a multibillion-dollar dynasty dating back almost 1,000 years that’s endured through wars, floods and scandals. Today, the finance empire behind Liechtenstein’s Prince Hans Adam II is flourishing from its main area of expertise: managing money for the world’s superrich. LGT…
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Digitalising Europe’s Grids to Power the Energy Revolution
[ad_1] The energy sector is facing greater challenges than ever before. Grids must now handle more distributed and variable energy sources from renewables. They must be ready to face dramatic environmental impacts, such as devastating fires and extreme weather conditions like heat waves that can fry a grid causing blackouts for days. On top of…
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Europe’s most beautiful ugly cities where post-war architecture deserves a second look
[ad_1] Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Wouldn’t it be just the most brilliant thing if all new visitors to a city had to walk through a time-travel portal in order to earn entrance? Equipped with a time-lapse VR headset, we’d see…
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The EV car crash is a warning for Europe’s industrial transition
[ad_1] Receive free Electric vehicles updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Electric vehicles news every morning. At an event last week, a businessman suddenly pulled out his phone to show me his experience in a driverless taxi in downtown Beijing. In the video, a robotaxi impressively navigated a…
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War and peace, Europe’s two hearts
[ad_1] In 2003, two European philosophers, Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, published a joint piece in Germany’s and France’s leading newspapers. In it, they criticised the American invasion of Iraq and called on Europeans to ‘assume a reflexive distance from themselves’, in particular their imperialism and colonialism. By criticising American neo-imperialism, Habermas and Derrida instead…
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Springtime for Europe’s fascists – POLITICO
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — These are heady times for Europe’s far right. Illegal immigration is spiking, the economy is anemic and the war in Ukraine has kept the conspiracy mill churning at capacity. Those developments have vaulted the parties to new heights — and…
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Ukraine: Europe’s greatest test – VoxEurop
[ad_1] The French diplomat and one of the founding fathers of the post-war European order, Jean Monnet, wrote in his memoirs that “Europe will be forged in crisis and will be the sum of the solutions it will find to these crises”. In 1976, when those words were published, and in the decades that followed,…
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Europe’s latest challenges give it a second chance
[ad_1] 20 Years later It would be beside the point and somewhat hypocritical to dwell on how badly the two titans of European philosophy – Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida – got it wrong in 2003. After all, their illusions were also ours. We too wanted a deeper, post-national European Union and a transnational public…