4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (886+ words) Europe has already warmed by around 2.5°C above pre-industrial levels, making it the fastest-warming continent on Earth, according to the latest European State of the Climate report. Over the past 30 years, temperatures in Europe have risen at roughly twice the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (877+ words) According to reports, Europe’s weapons factories are expanding at three times the rate they did in peacetime, covering some 7 million square metres of new industrial development. This, the report goes on, “represents rearmament on a historic scale”. Indeed, around the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (526+ words) “We are not too late to change Europe’s trajectory, if we take the right steps today.” That is the promise of the newly launched Rhine Group – a forum pushing for a stronger response to the continent’s widening innovation and competitiveness…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (553+ words) Certain Energy (previously known as RFC Power), a long-duration energy storage startup developing manganese flow battery technology, has raised €11.6 million (£10 million) in Series A funding to commercialise its technology and prepare it for grid-scale deployment. The round was led by…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1280+ words) Europe’s electricity grid is becoming one of the defining infrastructure challenges of the energy transition. The issue is increasingly visible at regulatory level. Yesterday it was reported that senior European Commission official Christof Lessenich is being put forward to head…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (210+ words) The funding includes a €3 million Seed investment led by Encevo, a regional leader and a key player in Luxembourg’s energy transition, with continued participation from existing investors, Crowberry Capital and BackingMinds, alongside a €0.4 million Vöxtur grant from the Icelandic Technology…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (14+ words) EU-Startups...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (928+ words) Over the past two years, anti-tourism protests have spread across southern Europe. In July 2024, demonstrators in Barcelona protested over-tourism with the slogan “go home,” while around 10,000 people marched in Mallorca over rising housing costs. Similar protests have also taken place…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (386+ words) Nuclear Turbines, a Manchester-based startup developing compact, cost-effective, advanced nuclear power systems, has raised a €17.5 million (£15 million) foundational round led by IQ Capital, joined by Rhapsody Venture Partners, Zero Carbon Capital and Empirical Ventures. Nuclear Turbines was spun out of…...