Neil Cawse: The engineer who thinks in data

As Geotab marks 25 years at the heart of the connected-vehicle revolution, founder and CEO Neil Cawse reflects on cloud resilience, OEM collaboration, and why the future of mobility depends on data more than ever. The connected vehicle is no...

An overcrowded agenda

Donald Trump took off on Friday for a tour of Asia, the highlight of which will be his meeting with Xi Jinping on Thursday in South Korea. The week promises a flurry of diplomatic engagements, adding yet more weight to an already packed agenda....

Europe’s dependence moment

Welcome to Rapporteur. This is Eddy Wax in Luxembourg, with Nicoletta Ionta in Brussels. Got a story we should know about? Drop us a line – we read every message. Need-to-knows: EU-US: Europe needs America for everything Diplomacy: Bulgaria opens...

EXCLUSIVE: Athens holds EU’s COP30 strategy hostage over green shipping

LUXEMBOURG – The Greek government is refusing to sign off on the EU’s formal position paper for the annual climate conference COP30 in Brazil this year over EU efforts to make the shipping industry cleaner. Each year, the EU’s 27 countries...

Top stories in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia from 20-24 October, 2025

● The European Union aims to establish sustainable and efficient transport, energy and digital links with the countries of the South Caucasus, the Black Sea region and Central Asia through Turkey and is ready for strategic investments. The...

“European car industry has been overprotected”, says EU Green Deal advisor Philippe Lamberts

“If there’s one industry that’s been overprotected in Europe, it’s the car industry”. Philippe Lamberts. The EU heavyweight – prominent Green member of the European Parliament and climate targets adviser to Commission president von der Leyen, did...

World’s Happiest Countries In 2025: Where Does India Rank?

The World Happiness Report 2025 offers a comprehensive look at how people across the globe perceive their quality of life. Published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with Gallup and the UN Sustainable...

United Nations Development Programme hands over agriculture inputs to DMMU

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has handed over agricultural inputs to the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) in the Office of the Vice President to benefit the Mambwe vulnerable victims that suffered last year’s...

Community, optimism, and fun at the Remarketing Summit

Follow the dark passage with the blue lights to the cavernous hall with the wraparound screen: it sounds like the directions for an underground rave, but it was in fact the way to the Fleet Europe Remarketing Summit, this Wednesday in Luxembourg....

Australia thrives while USA struggles in challenging economic times

As alarms are sounding about national debt, Trump deepens U.S. debt by one trillion dollars in eight weeks, as Alan Austin reports. The latest data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) contains warnings for several economies whose national...

Sunday interview: GPs are 'undervalued', says Dr Lisa Zangarini

In conversation with RTL, Dr Lisa Zangarini highlighted the growing importance of GPs in preventive and long-term care, while calling for better recognition and working conditions in primary healthcare. For Dr Lisa Zangarini, one of the first...

Estimated €180 billion: EU summit: Frieden backs expanded use of frozen Russian state funds for Ukraine aid

PM Luc Frieden backed Belgium's call to share legal risks as EU leaders debated using frozen Russian state assets more directly for Ukraine, while emphasising that Luxembourg holds no significant amounts of such state funds. At the EU summit in...

Ireland reveals plans for electricity interconnector with Spain

Ireland’s Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment, Darragh O’Brien, said the project could be co-funded by the EU and finalized in the mid-2030s. October 23, 2025 Blathnaid O'Dea Ireland’s Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment,...

New Report Sets Baseline for EU SAF Monitoring

EASA released its latest ReFuelEU Aviation Technical Report Wednesday, providing the first comprehensive review of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) activity across the European Union. Covering data from 2024, the report identifies Finland, France,...

Uplift360, Leonardo partnership turns EOL composite rotor blade into prototype drone arm

Drone arm. Source | Uplift360 Cleantech startup Uplift360 (Luxembourg and Bristol, U.K.) and aerospace company Leonardo (Rome, Italy) have successfully transformed an end-of-life (EOL) helicopter rotor blade into a prototype drone arm, proving the...

Delhaize strengthens data governance with BearingPoint to drive business agility and trust

AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 23, 2025-- Delhaize, the well-known supermarket chain operating across Belgium and Luxembourg and part of the Ahold Delhaize Group, recognized the need to treat data as a strategic asset to unlock business value....

Could we blast space debris out of harm's way with ion beams?

A new space debris removal project aims to blast hazardous junk out of harm's way from a distance, without the need for physical contact. Called ALBATOR, the 3.9 million Euro ($4.6 million USD) early-stage concept is examining non-kinetic methods...

BMW Group launches demo fleet for HVO100 diesel fuel

Technical solution compares refuelling data from vehicle with fleet operator payment system data to trace fuel usage seamlessly BMW Group is using its presence at Fleet Europe Days on 22-23 October in Luxembourg to demonstrate fleet...

EU tries to curb self-imposed energy price volatility

European Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra has reaffirmed the European Union’s commitment to launching the Emissions Trading System for buildings and road transport (ETS2) in 2027, but promised tweaks to the curb price volatility it created....

Kazakhstan, EU Deepen Strategic Cooperation on Connectivity, Green Energy, and Digital Transformation

ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Issetov participated in the ministerial meeting on advancing connectivity between Central Asia, the Eastern Partnership, Türkiye, and the EU in Luxembourg. The discussions focused on...