As cold, still weather settled across Britain on January 8 and with coal-fired power plants turned off for good, the team in charge of keeping the country’s lights on turned to other power sources hundreds of miles away. National Grid’s […]
Can Britain’s neighbours help it keep the lights on? Read More »
A panic in Brazil’s financial markets has laid bare plummeting investor confidence in the fiscal policy of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with his leftwing administration under intense pressure to fortify the public accounts of Latin America’s largest economy.
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The rules were meant to give certainty. To ensure Europe’s car industry hit the EU’s ambitious green goals, in 2021 lawmakers in Brussels set strict emission standards and an effective ban on new combustion engines by 2035. But since then,
Europe wrapped itself in a web of new rules. Can it reverse course? Read More »
As the Danish renewable energy company Ørsted battled to restore its reputation following a bruising year, a rival across the North Sea had the company in its sights. After months of quietly buying Ørsted shares, Norway’s state-owned oil and gas
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German business executives have warned that high levels of sick leave are damaging the competitiveness of Europe’s largest economy and compounding its economic woes. Workers missed an average of 19.4 days because of illness in 2023, according to Techniker Krankenkasse,
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