Western Europe
‘Hassle’ and ‘humiliation’: What it’s like traveling with a weak passport
Alex from South Africa lives in Singapore and frequently travels overseas for business and pleasure. But her passport is a big deterrent to free-and-easy travel — so much so that she is willing to “gladly” trade it for another. “If someone offered me a different passport, or my children a different passport, I would grab […]
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Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe’s driest regions
Liquid cooled servers in an installation at the Global Switch Docklands data centre campus in London, UK, on Monday, June 16, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Europe’s ambitious artificial intelligence strategy is at risk of colliding with an often overlooked but critically important environmental issue: water scarcity. The European Union has big plans […]
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He quit a job in engineering to travel and work on yachts. Here’s how much he earns now
Hugo Ortega, an American, had a well-paying job as an engineer and a long-term girlfriend. But he wasn’t happy, he said. “I didn’t like the job that I had. I didn’t like the degree that I had just finished doing,” he said. “I was starting to feel kind of weighed down by a lot of […]
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China’s grueling ‘996’ work culture is being debated by European startups — 7 founders and VCs on why they are resisting
European startup founders are being pressured to embrace China’s toxic “996” work culture on LinkedIn and they’re pushing back. D3sign | Moment | Getty Images The European startup scene was recently shaken by a LinkedIn debate with some venture capitalists applying pressure on founders to embrace a culture of overwork to compete on a global […]
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I’ve helped hundreds of Americans move abroad—here are 5 of the most welcoming countries in Europe
I knew I wanted to live abroad as soon as I set foot in the Netherlands on a trip at 17. I chased that dream for years — studying Spanish in Spain at 21, teaching English there at 26, and pursuing a master’s there at 29 — but I kept ending up back in Texas. […]
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German upper house of parliament OKs debt reform, half-trillion fund
The Bundestag Federal Eagle symbol in the plenary hall of the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Germany’s upper house of parliament on Friday passed a reform of the country’s borrowing rules and a 500-billion-euro ($542 billion) fund to revamp its infrastructure and revive Europe’s largest economy. The constitutional amendment to […]
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This European island is likened to the Maldives. I stayed for a week – for $1,500
White sand, clear turquoise sea and lush trees swaying in the breeze. This might sound like a description of the Maldives — but it’s actually what I experienced on a recent trip to Italy. Sardinia, the Mediterranean’s second-largest island after Sicily, is sometimes referred to as “the Maldives of Europe” for the beauty of its […]
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Far-right state win shakes Germany’s fragile coalition
The Reichstag, German Parliament Building Hiroshi Higuchi | Photolibrary | Getty Images BERLIN, Sept 1 (Reuters) – German state elections that dealt a heavy blow to the parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government and historic wins for two anti-establishment parties are likely to aggravate instability in an already fractious ruling coalition. With only a year to go […]
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2024 is the ‘year of globetrotting,’ travel pro claims. Here are some of the sizzling places
Tokyo, Japan. Matteo Colombo | DigitalVision | Getty Photos When it arrives to journey overseas, preferred places like London, Paris and Rome always appear to be to prime the desire listing for Individuals. But quite a few vacationers are looking past those mainstay towns for journeys in 2024. Interest in important Asian hubs, off-the-overwhelmed-route locales […]
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‘We have to have everything’: CEO on why all-natural fuel infrastructure desires to be all set for clear hydrogen
The past number of years have observed a quantity of company leaders converse about mixing hydrogen into purely natural gas infrastructure. Nicolas Economou | Nurphoto | Getty Photographs A host of answers — like mixing hydrogen into purely natural gas infrastructure — will be necessary to meet decarbonization goals, in accordance to the CEO of […]
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