TAG: Americas
John Kerry’s America First climate legacy
MAGA may really hate John Kerry, but under his leadership U.S. climate diplomacy has stuck to its Am...
8 months ago
Europe’s new energy risk: Trading Russia for America
On cloudy days, from his house John Beard can see the fireballs lighting up the dark sky, flares from the distant fossil fuel plants where he once made his living as a technician.The fiery discharge of excess gas is a constant reminder of the industry tha...
6 months ago
US political uncertainty crashes central bank retreat in Portugal
SINTRA, Portugal — When Europe’s most powerful technocrats gathered this week at a secluded mountain resort near Lisbon to discuss their deepest concerns, you'd have expected them to focus on the election in nearby France. But instead their gaze was fixed...
2 months ago
Why your coffee got so damn expensive
Life used to be so simple. And cheap.Remember the good old days when you could pop into your local café for an espresso for just €1? Italians do. In Rome or Milan or Naples, the morning ritual would see workers hurry into their neighborhood bar and gulp d...
2 months ago
Mario Draghi’s plan to fix a broken Europe already looks impossible
BRUSSELS ― Mario Draghi's outlook for Europe is grim. What's worse is though he knows how to make it better, he probably can't.“We're going to be a society that basically shrinks,” the former European Central Bank chief said in Brussels on Monday as he pr...
1 month ago
Keir Starmer channels his inner Boris Johnson
LONDON — Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson were the bitterest rivals. Yet it turns out they have one thing in common: a love for windmills bobbing in the ocean.Back in 2020, Johnson, then U.K. prime minister, conjured a patriotic vision of a green post-pande...
3 weeks ago
Europe is betting everything on getting richer
BRUSSELS ― It looks a lot like a continental midlife crisis.Politicians are searching for answers and they're finding a Europe that is grayer, less dynamic and less innovative than ever before. They're betting everything on turning the economy around, eve...
3 weeks ago
The EU was built on red tape. Now it wants to slash it.
BRUSSELS ― For decades, the European Union loved to regulate. Now, it wants to do the opposite.Where once, the "Brussels Effect" saw the EU set laws and standards the rest of the world couldn't help but follow, soon there will be a European commissioner f...
3 weeks ago