The European Union started detailed planning around its pending military expansion this week, with finance ministers from its 27 member nations gathering in Brussels, Belgium to discuss how to fund increased defense purchasing and production.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/11/WS…

Workers in the National Health Service, or NHS, in England have been warned to expect major cuts to administrative and management roles under what has been described as a "brutal restructuring" of the free-at-the-point-of-use health service. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/12/WS…

Greenland residents took part in a general election on Tuesday that could have massive significance for the Arctic island coveted by United States President Donald Trump. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/12/WS…

Germany's central bank has warned that escalating trade tensions with the United States could push Europe's largest economy into a contraction. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/14/WS…

The UK government is reviewing potential reductions to BBC World Service funding as part of its spending assessment, with the broadcasting organization preparing for budgetary adjustments following recently announced reductions in overseas aid allocations. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/18/WS…

United States President Donald #Trump's trade #tariffs are hurting the whole world's economy, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, reported on Monday. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/18/WS…

The partial ceasefire plan for the Russia-Ukraine conflict agreed upon on Tuesday during a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and United States President Donald Trump has received a mixed reaction from global political leaders and experts. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/20/WS…

Germany's parliament approved an unprecedented spending package on Tuesday, breaking with decades of fiscal conservatism in the hope of jumpstarting economic growth and expanding military spending for collective European security. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/20/WS…

The Bank of England (BoE) has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4.5 percent, Britain's central bank said in a statement on Thursday. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/20/WS…

UK's Heathrow Airport will remain closed all day Friday after a fire at a nearby electrical substation cut its power supply. More than 1,350 flights are affected, and days of disruption are expected. The cause of the fire is still unknown.

Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede has denounced an upcoming visit by a high-profile United States delegation to the semiautonomous Danish territory, calling it a "demonstration of power" that escalates tension in the Arctic region. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/25/WS…

A new public survey ahead of publication of the UK government's spring financial statement shows a majority of people who voted for the governing Labour Party regard the country's welfare system as a bigger priority than increasing defense expenditure. bit.ly/4hJAwSw

United Kingdom health officials have identified the 24 deadly pathogens that pose the greatest future threat to public health in a groundbreaking new assessment tool that aims to assist global research. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/26/WS…

Chinese companies filed record-breaking patent applications in 2024 at the European Patent Office, or EPO, demonstrating strong innovation in fields such as computer, communication, and battery technologies, a report shows. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/26/WS…

The #UK plans to follow recent high-level, multi-nation meetings about the #Russia- #Ukraine conflict with additional gatherings in the coming days, a UK government spokesperson has said. bit.ly/4ciUXVl

A survey shows most people in western Europe would back retaliatory tariffs against the United States if US President Donald Trump implements sweeping import duties on major trading partners as expected this week. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202504/02/WS…

United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the world is "entering a new era" in global trade, "just as with defense and security", following the announcement of the United States' new tariffs on imports. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202504/03/WS…

Convicted sex offenders will be denied the right to seek asylum and stay in the United Kingdom under new laws to be introduced by the British government. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202504/29/WS…

A newly-published report from the United Kingdom's independent Climate Change Committee has warned that "there is now unequivocal evidence that climate change is making extreme weather in the UK more likely and more extreme". chinadaily.com.cn/a/202504/30/WS…

Spain and Portugal continued to assess the aftermath of Monday's unprecedented power outage, with preliminary investigations ruling out cyberattacks while economic costs soar into billions of euros. chinadaily.com.cn/a/202504/30/WS…