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Deliveroo’s German exit prompts worker outrage
BERLIN — Wojtek Świeca was startled when he received an email from Deliveroo on Monday notifying him, like the rest of the company’s roughly 1,100 other riders across Germany, that it would pull out of...
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Flying cars, from sci-fi to reality
FARNBOROUGH, England — Drones are here and flying cars are moving from sci-fi to reality — now regulators and potential customers are scrambling to catch up. Aerospace giants like Airbus and Boeing,...
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Europe buys Chinese drones, even as US expresses data concerns
As the United States panics about China’s dominance in the global drone industry, Europe has barely blinked. In an era of paranoia over data security in which military officers and public officials...
View ArticleAirbus CEO lambasts German defense spending
BERLIN — Germany needs to increase its defense spending and rethink a ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia to avoid damaging its global reputation, the CEO of aerospace giant Airbus, Guillaume Faury,...
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Airbus warns Trump he’s shooting himself with a tariff war
BERLIN — The head of Airbus has delivered a stark warning to U.S. President Donald Trump that tariffs on the European aviation business will backfire by hitting American workers and roiling the supply...
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5 people tackling aviation and shipping emissions
This article is part of POLITICO’s Changemakers series, looking at the players driving European policy. Shipping and aviation account for more than 5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That’s...
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Cancel your Amazon Prime subscription, save the planet
This article is part of the special report, End of the Road, about decarbonizing freight transport. Free next-day delivery isn’t really free, climate activists say — it comes at the cost of the...
View ArticleIndian interests behind site targeting MEPs with RT content
At least one Indian firm is behind a website that targets members of the European Parliament and other policymakers with media content that is critical of Pakistan and drawn largely from a Russian...
View ArticleBrussels puts the brakes on Finland’s young drivers
Finland wants to allow 15-year-olds to whizz around the countryside in lightweight cars. Brussels says that’s a bad idea. A government proposal set to come into force November 1 has run into legal...
View ArticleMEPs criticized over unofficial Kashmir visit
A group of mostly far-right MEPs managed to do what U.N. officials, local politicians and diplomats have been unable to since August — get permission to visit the Indian-administered side of the...
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UK airline rescue looms over EU trade talks
Britain’s decision to bail out a regional airline threatens to cast an immediate shadow over U.K.-EU trade talks that are likely to begin in early March. Officials in Brussels are worried that Britain...
View ArticleFlights to resume between wartime foes Belgrade and Pristina
Serbian and Kosovan authorities signed a deal Tuesday to resume commercial flights between Belgrade and Pristina for the first time in more than two decades, officials said. Senior officials hailed the...
View ArticleTrump rules out removing Iran sanctions as a precondition for talks
The United States will not remove sanctions before negotiating with Iran, President Donald Trump said early Sunday. Seemingly in response to an interview Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif gave to...
View ArticleBarclay: UK will publish post-Brexit EU trade objectives next month
The U.K. government will publish its priorities for a post-Brexit U.K.-EU trade deal soon after January 31, the date on which the U.K. formally leaves the EU, according to U.K. Brexit Secretary Stephen...
View ArticleUK launches new visa scheme to attract researchers post Brexit
Applicants will be granted “fast-tracked entry” to the U.K. under a new visa scheme launched to attract scientists, researchers and mathematicians after Brexit, the British government announced Sunday....
View ArticleWelcome to airport hell
Want to file a claim for your delayed flight? Come back tomorrow. The EU is considering revising air passenger rights legislation, and a proposal from the Croatian Council presidency would...
View ArticleEU court broadens air passenger rights to claim compensation
Air passengers have the right to claim compensation in one country for a connecting flight even if the delay took place in another country with another airline, the Court of Justice of the European...
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‘Global Britain’ plans forced to take a back seat over climate
LONDON — Looks like it will still be Little England for now. A court’s decision Thursday that plans to build a third runway at Heathrow airport didn’t properly take into account the U.K.’s climate...
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Bad air: Pilots worldwide complain of unsafe cabin fumes
In 2014, while flying a plane full of passengers for a subsidiary of United Express, pilot Richard Papp said he became so overwhelmed with nausea and dizziness that he “couldn’t think straight” and...
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Ryanair boss curses EU’s geopolitical ambitions
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary ripped into the European Commission for being a “horrendously ineffective” regulator and said it is making industrial policy “on the hoof.” He also expressed little concern...
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