People wait outside a closed train station during a major power outage in Barcelona on Monday.

A political tide is turning across Europe,and at its centre is a hard truth

A plan to ban hybrid cars has been quietly delayed and a third runway at Heathrow is back on the table as easy green promises crumble under the weight of harsh reality.

  • Rob Harris

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Facebook said it has deployed a combination of technologies to restrict news content.

Apple and Meta hit with €700 million fines in Europe under new digital rules

European Union watchdogs just fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros in a move that could inflame trade tensions with the US.

  • Kelvin Chan
Trade Minister Don Farrell is reopening talks about free trade with the European Union.

Australia rejects China offer after Trump escalation,reopens free trade talks with EU

Trade Minister Don Farrell says Australia and Europe will enter into talks “with a view to getting it done” against the backdrop of Trump’s tariffs.

  • Matthew Knott andRob Harris
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen,

‘You cannot annex another country’:Danish PM makes direct appeal to US after Rubio meeting

Mette Frederiksen was addressing the media in Greenland with the territory’s incoming leader when she suddenly switched to speaking in English.

  • Rob Harris
French President Emmanuel Macron holds a meeting in Paris on Thursday with representatives of industries affected by the US tariffs.

‘Brutal’:Macron vows to protect Europe after US lands shock trade blow

The French president has called on EU nations to stop all investment in the United States after Donald Trump announced a 20 per cent tariff on European imports.

  • James Crisp,Nick Squires,James Rothwell andSarah Newey
Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” are calculated by dividing the US’s trade imbalance by its imports from that country.

Trump’s ‘reciprocal tariffs’ look to be a hoax. Here’s how you can tell

For weeks,the US president has insisted it would be a matter of “whatever they charge us,we charge them”. But it has become clear that isn’t what’s going on.

  • Michael Koziol
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President Donald Trump unveils the reciprocal tariffs.

Donald Trump’s dumb war just got much,much dumber

Donald Trump has just announced the most self-destructive set of policies in modern American economic history.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
US President Donald Trump displays the signed executive order after his tariff announcement.

Five countries worst hit by Trump’s tariffs

Trump’s tariffs mean Australian exports to the US will attract a 10 per cent charge. Goods from these countries won’t get off so lightly.

  • Millie Muroi
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1,after the court decision.

French hard-right leader Le Pen banned from presidential run following conviction

In a ruling that potentially reshapes the European political landscape,a court has convicted the National Rally leader of embezzling European Union funds.

  • Rob Harris
US Vice President J.D. Vance speaks at the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday.

Vance attacks Denmark in ‘aggressive’ visit to Greenland

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.

  • Benedict Smith