From prosthetic facial features to trompe l’œil-fused designs, brands toyed with trickery
Italian PM visibly upset after leaders of centrist parties excluded her from initial discussions
Shadowy buyers for Moscow’s defence industry source old western-made machinery
Resistance to grid expansion in Aberdeenshire becomes big election issue
Isis-K group based in Afghanistan is advertising ‘soft targets’, including football matches
Social democrats promise to fund media subscriptions for those aged 16-30 in effort to tackle disinformation
Tech company willing to open mobile pay system to rivals in concessions that will help avoid antitrust fines from the bloc
Populism is often strongest in big-spending social democracies
Mairead McGuinness says one-year deferral of market risk rules will preserve “level playing field”
Corporate leaders are more alarmed by leftwing alliance’s radical tax agenda than unfunded promises of far-right RN
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The major Eurozone economy has been mired in political turmoil
Growing numbers of large companies are setting up entities to insure their own risks
Gold producer says its European lenders are keen to cut ties once they get their money back despite rebrand
Key notes | Deep in private woodland, yet only two hours from Paris, the hotel offers fine food, forest baths and ‘le slow-living’
To our writer, a teenager in the late 1990s, the seemingly effortless comfort of the characters’ lives included their London apartments
Commission president Ursula von der Leyen looks to be on course to secure second five-year term
UK in a Changing Europe says proposal to improve trading relationship with the bloc would have limited benefit
Both the far right and leftwing are touting populist and uncosted policies
Efficiency gap with rest of the country drops to record low, official figures show
Lawyers for sanctions-hit tycoon accuse Swiss bank of triggering investigation
Rigorous BBC2 documentary suggests the Greek coast guard helped cause the 2023 sinking, with the loss of nearly 650 lives
IG Metall makes its pitch for millions of electrical and metal workers in the country’s manufacturing heartlands
‘Steel wars’ with China show how difficult it is to contain global tariffs
Vienna contests move by climate minister Leonore Gewessler to back environmental protection bill
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