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Published on 16/12/2025 – 8:03 GMT+1 Heading home this Christmas or taking a winter holiday? Travel strikes have become a familiar part of the festive season as workers target one of the busiest periods of the year in their fight for better pay and conditions. Some walkouts are planned months in advance, while others are announced just days or hours before. Check before you travel to avoid the chaos of last-minute changes. Here’s everything you need to know about upcoming train and airport strikes in Europe this Christmas. If your flight or train is cancelled or delayed, you could be…
Updated: 16/12/2025 – 7:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this December 16th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
January is a popular month for job changes as employees act on New Year’s resolutions and companies adjust their hiring plans for the first quarter. For many workers, salary plays an important role in determining their next career move. Aside from clear disparities between sectors, paychecks also differ widely across European countries, both in nominal terms and when adjusted for purchasing power. Considering a change of location as well as company? Or are you simply curious about what your neighbours are earning? According to Eurostat’s most recent data from 2024, here’s how pay differs across Europe. Average close to €40,000…
By Theo Farrant & AP Published on 16/12/2025 – 7:01 GMT+1 British aircraft maker Vertical Aerospace has revealed its latest attempt to reimagine short-haul travel: a production-version electric air taxi called the Valo. The company describes it as a step towards “urban air mobility for the masses,” though the reality of such ambitions remains hotly debated. Electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs, have long been pitched as a cleaner, quieter alternative to helicopters – a way to sidestep gridlocked cities by simply lifting above them. But the question of whether there is a viable mass market still divides the industry. Unlocking…
Vor genau einem Jahr verlor Olaf Scholz die Vertrauensfrage und Friedrich Merz wurde später Kanzler. Gordon Repinski zieht eine politische Bilanz. Was hat Merz aus der Opposition heraus damals am 16. Dezember 2024 angekündigt, was hat er als Regierungschef eingelöst und wo ist er hinter den eigenen Ansprüchen zurückgeblieben. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Außenpolitik, Wirtschaft und der Stil der schwarz-roten Koalition.Parallel richtet sich der Blick dorthin in Berlin, wo sich Bewegung in den Gesprächen über ein Ende des Krieges in der Ukraine zeigt. Erstmals seit 2022 erscheint ein Waffenstillstand zumindest vorstellbar.Hans von der Burchard berichtet von den Gesprächen im Kanzleramt und…
Published on 16/12/2025 – 6:25 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump,” calling it “a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence” the 2024 US presidential election. Last month, Trump had already sent a letter to the BBC threatening a $1 billion lawsuit over an edition of the BBC’s flagship current affairs series “Panorama,” titled “Trump: A Second Chance?”…
As part of its 2028-2034 budget proposal, the European Commission plans to raise its defense spending fivefold to €131 billion. Frontline countries would like some of that cash to be earmarked for the region, two of the government officials said, a message they are likely to reiterate during Thursday’s European Council summit in Brussels. “Strengthening Europe’s eastern flank must become a shared responsibility for Europe,” Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal said. | Hendrik Schmidt/Getty Images In the meantime, the EU should consider new financial instruments similar to the bloc’s €150 billion loans-for-weapons program, called the Security Action For Europe, the…
Thirty-six million Europeans — including more than one million in the Nordics[1] — live with a rare disease.[2] For patients and their families, this is not just a medical challenge; it is a human rights issue. Diagnostic delays mean years of worsening health and needless suffering. Where treatments exist, access is far from guaranteed. Meanwhile, breakthroughs in genomics, AI and targeted therapies are transforming what is possible in health care. But without streamlined systems, innovations risk piling up at the gates of regulators, leaving patients waiting. Even the Nordics, which have some of the strongest health systems in the world,…
Ahead of a key meeting of European leaders on Thursday, Merz is depicting the looming decision on whether to leverage frozen Russian central bank assets in the EU as a test of whether Europe can still stand up for itself. “Let us not deceive ourselves. If we do not succeed in this, the European Union’s ability to act will be severely damaged for years, if not for a longer period,” Merz said on Monday. “And we will show the world that, at such a crucial moment in our history, we are incapable of standing together and acting to defend our…
Across all five countries, the most frequently cited reason for supporting continued aid to Ukraine was the belief that nations should not be allowed to seize territory by force. The most frequently cited argument against additional assistance was concerns about the cost and the pressure on the national economy. “Much of our research has shown that the public in Europe feels the current era demands policy trade-offs, and financial support for Ukraine is no exception,” said Seb Wride, head of polling at Public First, an independent polling company headquartered in London that carried out the survey for POLITICO. “In a…