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Published on 11/02/2026 – 8:02 GMT+1 Travel has changed a lot since the days when families chose between brochures and fixed packages in a high-street travel agency. Travellers today plan holidays and search for deals using apps, credit cards, rewards schemes and price comparisons. New research suggests loyalty programmes now form part of that strategy as well. A recent multi-part consumer study from market researcher Phocuswright found that 84 per cent of leisure travellers used at least one form of loyalty ‘gaming’ in the past year to maximise rewards. Are travellers still loyal to single brands? The findings point to…
Even among those polled who intend to vote Labour, a quarter (23 percent) believe Starmer should go — and almost one in three (32 percent) said his advisors should go even though they wanted the leader to remain. The fieldwork for the polling was still being conducted when Morgan McSweeney and Tim Allan — two key aides in Starmer’s team — resigned. “A majority of all voters — regardless of the party they’re planning to vote for — want some resignations over this, but only Labour voters say advisors should go rather than Starmer himself,” said Seb Wride, head of polling…
Europe has some of the world’s strictest gun laws. Firearm ownership is limited, automatic weapons are banned, and licensing is tightly controlled. At the same time, Europe stands out as one of the world’s biggest producers and exporters of firearms. European factories produce rifles, pistols, ammunition, and military-grade weapons under strict regulation. These arms are shipped far beyond the EU. Germany, France, Italy, Poland, and the Czech Republic lead the industry. With the war in Ukraine ongoing and security tensions rising worldwide, European arms production is increasing. Ammunition factories are expanding, weapons output is climbing, and the EU is working…
By Euronews Published on 11/02/2026 – 4:32 GMT+1•Updated 7:18 At least eight people have been killed in a school shooting in British Columbia. The woman shooter is among the dead, while two more people were found dead at a home which Canadian authorities believe is connected to the case, on Tuesday. The shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School left more than 25 people injured, as well as two with life-threatening wounds, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. “Six additional individuals, not including the suspect, have been located deceased inside the school. Two victims have been airlifted to hospital with serious…
Der EU-Sondergipfel zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit legt Spannungen in Europa offen: Friedrich Merz drängt auf schnellen Bürokratieabbau, um die Wirtschaftswende in Deutschland voranzubringen. Doch ausgerechnet mit Frankreich wird es schwieriger. Die deutsch-französische Achse wirkt angeschlagen, während Italien bei der Frage der Deregulierung näher an Berlin rückt. Was auf dem Treffen der Staats- und Regierungschefs morgen im Schloss Alden Biesen auf dem Spiel steht und warum dieser Gipfel für Merz zu den wichtigsten Terminen des Jahres zählt, analysiert Hans von der Burchard. Mehr Insights vom EU-Sondergipfel gibt es auch in unserem PRO-Newsletter Industrie & Handel am Morgen. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview von Gordon Repinski geht…
Published on 11/02/2026 – 7:44 GMT+1 On today’s show: Our EU news editor Maria Tadeo reports from Strasbourg on the debate French President Emmanuel Macron has launched on EU common debt, or eurobonds. We interview Saskia Bricmont, a Belgian Member of the European Parliament from the Greens group. Our Jakub Janas explains what European Commission President von der Leyen means when she talks about a “multi-speed Europe”. Our Eleonora Vasques joins us in our studio to explain to our viewers the latest on the EU migration debate. Our Shona Murray updates us on why the US is not attending the…
Updated: 11/02/2026 – 7:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this February 11th, 2026 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
By Dorany Pineda and Seth Borenstein with AP Published on 11/02/2026 – 7:03 GMT+1 A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting most of the American West, depleting future water supplies, making it more vulnerable to wildfires and hurting winter tourism and recreation. Scientists say snow cover and snow depth are both at the lowest levels they’ve seen in decades, while at least 67 Western weather stations have measured their warmest December through early February on record. Normal snow cover this time of year should be about 460,000 square miles (1.2 million sq km) – about the size of California, Utah, Idaho…
It’s another day of high-level talks across Belgium. First, the EU’s defense ministers meet in Brussels. Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart dive into the Foreign Affairs Council hosted by the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas — with Ukraine’s new defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, also at the table. On the agenda: signing off on eight national plans under the EU’s flagship defense program, SAFE, and discussions around the €90 billion loan for Ukraine. Then we head to Antwerp for the European Industry Summit, where Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever…
These commitments would address some of the big challenges for early movers that we see at Neste. We have invested heavily in expanding SAF production capabilities, but demand is failing to pick up as expected. Once the €2.5 billion expansion of our Rotterdam refinery is completed in 2027, Neste’s SAF production capacity alone could be sufficient to meet the EU’s current 2 percent SAF mandate. Today, we are a year on from the launch of the EU’s flagship competitiveness plans at the start of 2025, but we still need new policies that translate commitments to early movers into action. That…