Belgium is battling the largest wildfire in its recorded history, forcing hundreds from their homes and drawing emergency aerial support from European partners as an intense fire season tests the continent’s ability to respond to simultaneous climate disasters. The fire has burned roughly 3,000 hectares, about 30 square kilometers (11.6
A NATO fighter jet shot down an unidentified drone over Latvia on Friday, underscoring a wider security challenge with implications well beyond Europe: governments are being forced to adapt national air-defense systems to an era in which relatively inexpensive unmanned aircraft can cross borders, disrupt civilian activity and generate military
Extreme heat and drought have pushed major European rivers to exceptionally low levels, forcing nuclear shutdowns and output cuts from Romania to France and highlighting a growing climate-resilience challenge for Europe’s electricity system. Europe’s prolonged heat and drought are putting the continent’s power system under mounting pressure, constraining nuclear generation
Insurers can absorb this summer’s losses. The larger question is whether rising wildfire risk will force Europe to rethink how governments, insurers and communities share the financial costs of climate disasters. Europe’s severe wildfire season is exposing a financial vulnerability that extends well beyond the communities in the path of
Exceptionally low water levels across major European waterways are disrupting shipping, agriculture and electricity generation, showing how water security is becoming a strategic economic issue for the continent. Europe’s prolonged heat and drought are pushing some of its most important rivers to unusually low levels, turning a water crisis into
European governments are placing greater scrutiny on their reliance on Palantir and other foreign technology providers as control over data, artificial intelligence and critical digital infrastructure moves higher on the national security agenda. The development, highlighted by POLITICO Europe, does not amount to a coordinated European retreat from the American
As firefighters continue to contain the historic wildfires that have swept across France and Spain, new scientific research is providing one of the clearest assessments yet of how climate change influenced the weather conditions that fueled this summer’s fires. A rapid attribution study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative
France and Spain are racing to contain major wildfires before another period of extreme heat raises the risk of renewed outbreaks, after fires forced hundreds of thousands of residents and tourists to leave threatened communities. Firefighters have made progress against several of the largest blazes, but authorities warn that persistent
BILBAO, Spain — Spanish energy company Iberdrola has agreed to acquire an 80% stake in Caruna, Finland’s largest electricity distribution company, in a transaction valuing the business at approximately $5.8 billion, including debt. The acquisition marks one of the company’s largest recent investments in regulated electricity networks as utilities across
BRUSSELS — The European Commission has approved a landmark €63 billion (approximately US$74 billion) French state aid program to accelerate the development of offshore wind energy, clearing the way for one of Europe’s largest renewable energy investments and reinforcing the EU’s drive toward energy security, industrial competitiveness and net-zero emissions.
