Best Read Europe Headlines
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#1 Germany Is Europe’s Prime Target for Audacious ATM Bombings
Aug 12 2024 // In the early morning hours of May 6, 2023, an explosion occurred in a bank in the German town of Bad Homburg, sending shattered glass as far as 30 meters away. Two men had broken into the building and filled the ATM with...
#2 Rising Sick Days Are Costing Europe Billions Every Year
Dec 3 2024 // Norway, illness is becoming an increasingly trying problem. Workers take more sick days than anywhere else in Europe and absences are at the highest level in 15 years. As companies struggle with chronic shortages, critics...
#3 Western Officials Say Russia Is Behind Campaign of Sabotage Across Europe
Mar 27 2025 // Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago, according to data collected by The Associated Press. They...
#4 Cevian’s Baloise Move Triggers European Insurers to Study Deal
Nov 13 2024 // Baloise Holding AG has become one of the most-discussed takeover candidates in the European financial sector, after agitation by an activist investor triggered top industry players to take fresh looks at the Swiss...
#5 Trump Has Companies in Europe and Asia Walking a DEI Tightrope
Mar 18 2025 // Donald Trump’s executive order dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion efforts is making waves at international companies in Europe, Asia and beyond — but only on the surface. Quietly, many businesses are...
#6 City of London Chief Says Brexit ‘Disaster’ Cost 40,000 Finance Jobs
Oct 16 2024 // Britain’s departure from the European Union cost London’s financial center about 40,000 jobs, the Lord Mayor of the City of London told Reuters, a far deeper impact from Brexit than previous estimates. Michael...
#7 2024 Will Be World’s Hottest Year on Record, EU Scientists Say
Nov 7 2024 // This year is “virtually certain” to eclipse 2023 as the world’s warmest since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. The data was released...
#8 Viewpoint: New Year, Old Challenges for European Insurers
Feb 13 2025 // The European insurance sector saw high levels of claims inflation in 2024. In motor-related material damage in particular, claims inflation is still outpacing the Consumer Price Index, and we could see primary insurers...
#9 European Job Seekers Turn Away From UK After Brexit
Jun 26 2024 // Irish workers have been making the short trip over to the UK to find employment for centuries, escaping famine and more recently the aftermath of the financial crisis. But new data suggests that job seekers from across the...
#10 An ESG Backlash Erupts in Europe on World’s Strictest Rules
Sep 10 2024 // For TotalEnergies SE Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne, the difference in the performance of his company’s stock and that of Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest US producer of oil and gas, is in no small part...
#11 Europe Braces for Freeze of US Foreign Corruption Practices Act
Feb 24 2025 // In recent years, Glencore Plc, Airbus SE and Credit Suisse have collectively paid more than $5.5 billion in fines for their roles in sprawling corruption cases. While law enforcement in France and the UK took the lead, the...
#12 City of London Hit Harder Than Rest of Economy Since Brexit Vote
Feb 3 2025 // The City of London, once considered the crown jewel of Britain’s dominant services sector, has performed even worse than the rest of the economy in the years following the Brexit referendum. Financial and insurance...
#13 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...
#14 Europe’s $42 Billion Effort to Fight Wildfires Is an Uphill Battle
Aug 19 2024 // Europe is spending tens of billions of euros a year to fight wildfires, yet it hasn’t stopped blazes from flaring up across Greece and other parts of the continent this summer. This week fires on the outskirts of...
#15 Baltic Sea Cable Cuts Can’t Be Accident, EU Tech Chief Says
Jan 14 2025 // The European Union’s new digital chief, Henna Virkkunen, suggested the repeated damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea couldn’t be fully accidental, as leaders from the region prepare to gather for a NATO...
#16 Reeves’ Pressure on UK Watchdogs Spooks Financial Crisis Veterans
Jan 16 2025 // The UK’s push to deregulate its way to growth has got veterans of the last financial crisis worried that it’s sowing the seeds for another crash. Labour, for decades the political party that favored taming the...
#17 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...
#18 People Moves: Coalition Appoints AIG’s Simonsen as European Head of Insurance
Oct 7 2024 // Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber managing general agent and cyber-security firm, has appointed Tine Simonsen as the company’s head of Insurance for Continental Europe. As an experienced cyber underwriter and...
#19 EU AI Act Checker Reveals Big Tech’s Compliance Pitfalls
Oct 17 2024 // Some of the most prominent artificial intelligence models are falling short of European regulations in key areas such as cybersecurity resilience and discriminatory output, according to data seen by Reuters. The EU had...
#20 US Anger Grows Over Global Reach of EU’s ‘Hostile’ ESG Rules
Mar 6 2025 // As trans-Atlantic relations grow increasingly fraught, Europe’s ESG regulations are becoming yet another flashpoint that threatens to sour ties. The American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) says...
