Farmers in Africa that produce some of the world’s most prized coffee are in a scramble to comply with new European Union environmental rules that require them to document the origin of every shipment of beans. The new measure, coming into force at the end of this year, is designed to prevent deforestation driven by…
Apple and Meta: फेसबुक और इंस्टाग्राम की पेरेंट कंपनी मेटा पर 200 मिलियन यूरो (करीबन 1947 करोड़ रुपये) और ऐप्पल पर र 500 मिलियन यूरो (लगभग 4866 करोड़ रुपये) का भारी जुर्माना लगाया गया है. यह जुर्माना यूरोपियन यूनियन के एंटीट्रस्ट रेगुगुलेटर्स की तरफ से लगाया गया है. इन्हें डिजिटल मार्केट्स एक्ट (DMA) का उल्लंघन…
President Trump’s decision to move a step closer to imposing tariffs on imported medicines poses considerable political risk, because Americans could face higher prices and more shortages of critical drugs. The Trump administration filed a federal notice on Monday saying that it had begun an investigation into whether imports of medicines and pharmaceutical ingredients threaten…
Emboldened by President Trump, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary on Monday escalated his culture war against what he calls “gender madness,” after his governing party voted to amend the Constitution to mandate that all Hungarians are either male or female. The amendment proposed by the government was endorsed by Parliament, where the prime minister’s…
The European Commission has issued burner phones and basic laptops to its US-bound staff to avoid the risk of coming under surveillance, UK-based The Financial Times reported on Monday. Officials said that the US-bound staff should switch off their phones at the border and place them in special sleeves to protect them from surveillance if…
Follow live updates on the Trump administration. China has for years presented an economic challenge for Europe. Now, it could become an economic disaster. It produces a vast array of artificially cheap goods — heavily subsidized electric vehicles, consumer electronics, toys, commercial grade steel and more — but much of that trade was destined for…
During a 24-hour swing through Copenhagen last month, Eric Slesinger met with engineers making maritime drones, developers of war-planning software and an adviser to NATO. He had recently visited London for a dinner with a senior British intelligence official and would soon head to the Arctic to learn about the technologies that could handle extreme…
PM Narendra Modi and Donald Trump (File photo-ANI) The proposed India-US bilateral trade agreement is unlikely to include a ‘zero-for-zero’ tariff strategy, as the two nations are at different stages of economic development, official sources said. The idea, though floated by trade experts to counter reciprocal tariff hikes by the US, does not align with…
Britain has watched President Trump’s tariffs with a mix of shock, fascination and queasy recognition. The country, after all, embarked on a similar experiment in economic isolationism when it voted to leave the European Union in 2016. Nearly nine years after the Brexit referendum, it is still reckoning with the costs. The lessons of that…
President Trump has big ambitions for the global trading system and is using tariffs to try to rip it down and rebuild it. But the European Union is taking action after action to make sure the continent is at the center of whatever world comes next. As one of the globe’s biggest and most open…