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From Madrid to Barcelona, restaurants and bars are brimming with people, and reservations have become essential for everything from fine dining to high-end hotels.

It’s a glimpse of how Spain has become Europe’s buzziest economy – named the

world’s best

Rob Morley has been made redundant eight times since he was a teenager, working in different ceramics factories across Staffordshire that have all shut or downsized, one by one.

From WH Grindley, where he started when he was 16, the list includes Washington Pottery, Hanley Bank, Imperial, and Eastwood among …

Good morning. Yesterday, European leaders

attended an emergency meeting in Paris

As the world’s richest person meddles at will on behalf of the far right in the German election campaign, a leftist party calling for taxing billionaires out of existence has risen from the ashes in the race’s final stretch.

The far-left Linke, successor to the East German communists who built …

European imports of seaborne gas shipments fell by a fifth last year to their lowest level since the pandemic, according to a new report, while the UK’s plunged by nearly a half, but governments are continuing to spend billions on new import terminals.

The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial …

Signs by the lifts in the Canary Wharf headquarters of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) remind staff not to talk about their work in public, given the billions of pounds resting on its decisions.

But a very public debate is taking place about how the competition watchdog works and …

Hundreds of protesters have marched on Cook Islands’ parliament to oppose prime minister Mark Brown’s recent decisions, including a failure to properly consult its closest partner New Zealand over a deal to deepen ties with China.

Roughly 400 protesters – led by opposition parties – gathered outside the capital city …

Support for shareholder proposals aimed at tackling environmental and social risks hit a record low last year, figures show, amid a “worrying retreat” by investors, particularly in the US.

A report compiled by the responsible investment campaign group ShareAction found that, out of 279 environmental, social and governance (ESG) shareholder …

Opposition politicians in Argentina have called for the impeachment of president

Javier Milei

Milei endorsed the little-known cryptocurrency token $Libra on Friday evening, announcing on X that …

Meta has announced plans to build the world’s longest underwater cable project, which aims to connect the US, India, South Africa, Brazil and other regions.

The tech company said Project Waterworth involves a 50,000km (31,000 mile) sub-sea cable, which is longer than the Earth’s circumference.

The cable would be the …