Naomi Seibt seeks U.S. asylum alleging German intelligence surveillance and death threats from Antifa with no government protection.

The European Central Bank left its key interest rate unchanged Thursday as inflation remains under control and European businesses weather the impact of higher U.S. tariffs better than previously feared.

So grids need to shuffle huge amounts of current all over Europe, shutting down overloaded nodes or using batteries to store charge. All this requires enormous upgrades. Local electricity suppliers, or distribution system operators ( DSO s),

Europe’s investment banks were already fighting an uphill battle to catch up with their Wall Street rivals, which dwarf them in both size and valuation terms. The return of Donald Trump to the White House has created a medley of additional challenges, laid bare in quarterly earnings this week.

The worst European fears about Trump’s second term have not yet come to pass. Trump has not withdrawn U.S. troops from Europe or pulled out of NATO. His global tariff blitz has not resulted in the threatened 100% import taxes on European goods.

Luckily, Finland has just the thing: sisu—a personality trait or philosophy combining inner strength, perseverance and a can-do attitude towards adversity. It comes from a country that has been through plenty.

"Callisto, Themis and Skyhopper are different demonstration programs contributing to the development of a European reusable launch vehicle ," Franck Koebel of France-based ArianeGroup said during a technical presentation at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney, Australia, on Oct. 1.

When tenor Xabier Anduaga first auditioned for Riccardo Frizza, the conductor recalls that “he opened his mouth, and after two notes I understood I was in front of something special. It’s one of the voices you find every 15 or 20 years.