Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It’s a political timebomb

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

EU leaders race to secure a deal as deadline looms in Trump trade talks

There are just two days of talks left before the US president’s potentially swingeing tariffs are restored

Zara at 50: how the brand rose to the top – and what it’s doing to stay there

As fashion empire hits middle age, it’s cutting costs and closing stores, shifting to larger outlets and new products

Trump threatens 17% tariffs on food and farm produce exports from Europe

EU says it ‘favours a negotiated solution’ but is prepared for potential trade war with retaliatory duties

‘Slapp addict’ Italian oil firm accused of trying to silence green activists

Eni has filed at least six defamation suits against journalists and NGOs since 2019 in what critics say is intimidation campaign

EU closing in on ‘framework’ trade deal with US to avoid Trump’s 50% tariffs

Diplomats and officials say bloc willing to accept 10% tariffs, but talks may go down to wire before Wednesday deadline

Heathrow substation fire ‘caused by fault first identified seven years ago’

Ofgem opens investigation into National Grid as report finds incident that cut airport power was preventable

EU targets 90% cut in emissions by 2040 as green groups cry foul

Anger as long-awaited announcement of cuts against 1990 pollution levels allows for foreign carbon credits

EU may as well be ‘province of China’ due to reliance on imports, says industrialist

Stefan Scherer, boss of AMG Lithium, says Europe must become more self-sufficient in critical raw materials and new technologies

He was the EU’s great Brexit survivor. Can Maroš Šefčovič now pull off a trade deal with Trump?

EU’s longest-serving commissioner faces arguably his sternest test with the clock ticking before 9 July deadline

‘He left us with nothing’: the British investors swindled by a German property firm

Investors in the Dolphin/GPG ponzi scheme run by Charles Smethurst are angry that more is not being done to recover the €1bn owed to them

EU retaliation against Trump drug tariffs would be bad idea, says industry

European pharmaceutical body says it would be ‘negative for both sides’ if Brussels hits back on threatened US levies

Sky sells German pay-TV business to RTL for €150m

Parent company Comcast had been trying to offload lossmaking Sky Deutschland for a number of years

EU ready for trade deal with US but ‘all options on the table’, says von der Leyen

European Commission president says EU will ‘defend the European interest as needed’ as Trump threatens 50% steel tariffs

Clothing prices rising in US as Trump tariffs kick in, H&M boss says

Daniel Ervér cites ‘fast-moving situation’ as US administration has changed rules on several occasions