Geschäfte in Neuseelands größter Stadt ehren lokale Handwerker, Nachhaltigkeit – und manchmal die Großeltern ihrer Besitzer.
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There are some US exports that we Britons love: Amazon, McDonalds, Starbucks, to name just a few.
But the latest delivery from the land of the stars and stripes might be a super-size order too large for us – and our modest roads.
It’s the humongous all-electric Hummer, which looks almost impossible to squeeze into a UK car parking space and costs £320,000.
The first example of the four-tonne GMC pick-up truck has been delivered to a UK dealer, and
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LIVERPOOL, England — On the long picket line outside the gates of Liverpool’s Peel Port, rain-soaked dock workers warm themselves with cups of tea as they listen to 1980s pop.
Dozens of buses, cars and trucks honk in solidarity as they pass.
Dockers’ strikes are not new to Liverpool, nor is depravation. But this latest walk-out at Britain’s fourth-largest port is part of something much bigger, a great wave of public and private
This article is part of the Killing the Combustion Engine special report, presented by SQM.
STUTTGART, Germany — Germany’s industrial soul is preserved on the top floor of a glass and steel box building at the gates of Porsche headquarters.
Visitors stand at the top of a long series of white ramps. Bathed in fluorescent light surrounded by speakers, they close their eyes and press a button to experience what is known as Laufkultur, the baritone growl of
LONDON — Liz Truss has not published her plan for government, but this is the closest thing to it.
Over nearly eight long weeks of hustings, interviews, articles and debates, the two contenders for the Tory leadership have made their respective cases for why they should succeed Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister. Among all the campaign jibes and blue-on-blue attacks have been scores of pledges and promises for how to deal with the urgent problems facing the country.
The
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BERLIN — Christian Lindner needed a victory.
He didn’t get one.
With his approval ratings in free fall, Germany’s hard-charging finance minister resolved last month to win back his restive liberal base by rescuing that ur-symbol of German ingenuity and prosperity: the internal combustion engine.
In a calculated show aimed at the faithful of his Free Democratic Party (FDP), Lindner vowed to block a European Commission proposal to halt new registrations of fossil-fuel-powered
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ZUGSPITZE, Germany — If they need reminding about the urgency of climate change and their role in stopping it, all G7 leaders needed to do was look up.
High above the opulent Schloss Elmau, the resort in which the leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies have held earnest (and not so earnest) discussions over the past three days, Germany’s largest — soon to be last — glacier sits in a saddle at
This article is part of POLITICO’s Guide to the Czech EU Presidency special report.
The Czech presidency needs to carry the EU through an energy crisis, galloping inflation and a war in Ukraine — all on a shoestring budget.
Call it the crisis presidency.
In the midst of a war and a gathering economic crisis, the small Central European country will be tasked with making sure the EU secures a lasting supply of energy while not letting go of its
Harry and Meghan are among the royals to make their way into St Paul’s Cathedral for this morning’s thanksgiving service, on the second day of celebrations to make the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex shook hands with dignitaries before taking their seats alongside fellow members of the family, along with Boris Johnson and former Prime Ministers including Tony Blair and David Cameron.
Roads around the venue were turned into a sea of red, white and blue
Drivers are keeping cars for longer with records showing there is a rising number of motors on British roads with more than 100,000 miles on the clock, a new report shows.
More than 9million vehicles – almost a quarter of the 40.3million registered today – have clocked over a century of miles, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency figures reveal.
Insurer Co-op adds that the average of cars it now insures has increased in recent years, which is in-line with reports
