Battery passports: how a meeting at Davos helped set a car industry standard

Mining groups hope their joint project, ReSource, will have an influence on the global business

Concerns raised over mining companies’ role in battery passport scheme

ERG and Glencore are among founders of ReSource, a proposed joint venture that is also backed by Tesla

Brands embrace Eurovision – and the spending power of its 180m viewers

Philadelphia, Baileys and Invivo X Unity prosecco among sponsors hoping for douze points in Liverpool

Low pay, fuel fines, cramped cabs: drivers at haulier used by major retailers speak out

Employees at Lithuanian freight operator Girteka complain of hard conditions on the road, including one who says he fell seriously ill but co-drove his truck 800 miles after emerging from hospital

BA owner raises profit forecast as travel demand rebounds

IAG expects to fly almost the same passenger numbers this year as before Covid pandemic

Pro-Putin businessman emerges as pick to chair Italy’s biggest energy firm

Fears appointing Paolo Scaroni as Enel CEO would undermine US and EU attempts to curb Russian influence

European Central Bank chief suggests firms are engaging in ‘greedflation’

Comments by Christine Lagarde come after central bank raises interest rates for seventh time in succession

Ryanair records third busiest month in April as demand for flights soars

Passenger numbers rose to 16 million last month amid pent-up demand for air travel

Liverpool predicted to get £40m Eurovision boost in visitor spending

Extra 100,000 visitors expected amid £1bn lift for UK hospitality in May helped by coronation, bank holidays and Eurovision

On Brexit, will no one in the major parties admit that Britain has blundered?

Polling reveals most voters can now see through the referendum’s lies much more clearly than their leaders

Lords committee urges end to Brexit barriers for musicians and young people

Chair says small changes could make big difference to cultural and educational interests on both sides of Channel

More fruit and veg shortages to come as weather in UK and Spain hits crops

Record heat in southern Europe and chilly start to British growing season spell more misery for shoppers

Eurozone economy avoids recession ‘by a whisker’

Warmer winter, lower energy prices and China’s reopening help bloc surprise economists and stave off severe downturn

UK and Europe are falling behind US and China in biotech, says AstraZeneca boss

Pascal Soriot says decline in startups across Europe differs markedly from ‘explosion’ of firms and clinical trials in China

UK company set up in name of top Putin official in Ukraine

Volodymyr Saldo, a Kremlin puppet in the Russian-occupied territories, listed as firm’s owner, despite being under sanctions