Launchers Isar Aerospace is expected to attempt its second two-stage Spectrum vehicle test flight, a key step after its first, partially successful liftoff in 2025. In parallel, Spain’s PLD Space and its Miura-5 remain the second contender — after Isar — for the European Launcher Challenge, a competition that increasingly looks like Europe’s closest analogue […]
Citizen scientists help in University of Bonn study showing river carries up to 4,700 tonnes of ‘macrolitter’ annually
Thousands of tonnes of litter is pouring into the North Sea via the Rhine every year, poisoning the waters with heavy metals, microplastics and other chemicals, research has found.
This litter can be detrimental to the environment and human health: tyres, for example, contain zinc and other heavy metals that can be toxic to ecosystems in high concentrations.
The presidents of France and Germany have sharply condemned US foreign policy under Donald Trump, saying respectively that Washington was “breaking free from international rules” and the world risked turning into a “robber’s den”.
In unusually strong and apparently uncoordinated remarks, Emmanuel Macron and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, leaders of the EU’s two heavyweight states, have warned the postwar rules-based international order could soon disintegrate.
Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, is facing calls to resign after it emerged he opted to play tennis hours after a crippling blackout triggered by an arson attack hit a large swathe of the city, and then misled the public about it.
Districts in the south-west of the German capital were gradually returning to normal after the longest power cut since the second world war as Wegner acknowledged he had not been entirely forthcoming about his actions when the outage began.
Le demi de mêlée toulousain, qui retrouvera le brassard de capitaine dimanche, a évoqué le rendez-vous crucial contre les Saracens de Londres en Champions Cup
Tractors overran police checkpoints to reach city centre in pre-dawn protest organised by Coordination Rurale union
French farmers in tractors have blocked roads around the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe in protest at an imminent EU trade deal with South American countries that they say will create unfair competition.
The farmers blockaded motorways outside Paris on Thursday and dozens of tractors overran police checkpoints to reach the city centre in a pre-dawn protest organised by the Coordination Rurale union.
Des archéologues ont déterré une série d’objets de l’âge de fer dans l’est de l’Angleterre, au cours de fouilles de routine, pendant la construction d’un immeuble. Parmi le trésor historique, une trompette de guerre, la plus complète jamais trouvée dans le monde, et une tête de sanglier sculptée.
Des archéologues ont déterré une série d’objets de l’âge de fer dans l’est de l’Angleterre, au cours de fouilles de routine, pendant la construction d’un immeuble. Parmi le trésor historique, une trompette de guerre, la plus complète jamais trouvée dans le monde, et une tête de sanglier sculptée.
La Russie a remis en liberté le chercheur français Laurent Vinatier en échange de la libération du basketteur russe Daniil Kasatkin, a rapporté jeudi 8 janvier l'agence de presse russe Tass, citant le service russe de la sécurité intérieure (FSB). Le ministère français des Affaires étrangères confirme que le chercheur est rentré en France dans la journée.
La Russie a remis en liberté le chercheur français Laurent Vinatier en échange de la libération du basketteur russe Daniil Kasatkin, a rapporté jeudi 8 janvier l'agence de presse russe Tass, citant le service russe de la sécurité intérieure (FSB). Le ministère français des Affaires étrangères confirme que le chercheur est rentré en France dans la journée.
Scotland's oldest known coin has been uncovered by a detectorist near Edinburgh, a 900-year-old artifact bearing the image of King David I from the 12th century.
Vast swathes of the country’s trees have been killed off by droughts and infestations, in a trend sweeping across Europe. A shift towards more biodiverse cultivation could offer answers
Even the intense green of late spring cannot mask the dead trees in the Harz mountains. Standing upright across the gentle peaks in northern Germany, thousands of skeletal trunks mark the remnants of a once great spruce forest.
Since 2018, the region has been ravaged by a tree-killing bark beetle outbreak, made possible by successive droughts and heatwaves. It has transformed a landscape known for its verdant beauty into one dominated by a sickly grey.
À mi-parcours de la phase de poules de la Coupe d’Europe, rares sont les clubs français en position idéale pour se qualifier. Mais rien n’est définitif. Revue des troupes avant la 3e journée.
The seizure of the oil tanker Marinera and Britain’s role in it is an embarrassing farce, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley on the Venezuelan-Colombian border
Despite Brussels’ pledge to ban Russian LNG by 2027, shipments to European ports increased in the last year
European governments have been accused of fuelling Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine as new data shows the Kremlin earned an estimated €7.2bn (£6.2bn) last year from exporting its liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the EU.
Brussels has pledged to ban imports of Russian LNG – natural gas that is supercooled to make it easier to transport– by 2027 but an analysis suggests there is yet to be any letup in the vast quantities being received at European ports from Russia’s LNG complex on the Yamal peninsula in Siberia.
US tech bosses are exerting leverage on EU regulators via Trump and Vance. But Europe isn’t powerless, and it isn’t alone
The US is advancing a new global order. Over the past eight decades Washington pursued – when it suited American interests – an order based on international law, liberalism, multilateralism and democratic values. The new one is based on autocracy and the use of force, and is underpinned by xenophobic nationalism.
For the transatlantic relationship this is transformative: it means that coercive action now drives policy change. Europe’s security dependency on the US is leverage to be ruthlessly exploited. Silicon Valley tech firms’ business interests converge with those of the White House, and the US instrumentalises far-right politicians in Europe to achieve its foreign policy objectives.
Armida van Rij is a senior research fellowat the Centre for European Reform
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