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Europe in 2025 experienced its hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, driving extreme conditions across a continent warming faster than any other, Europe's Copernicus climate monitor said on Tuesday.

Publish Date: 08.04.2025, 10:41

"Alarming" levels of microplastic have been found in major rivers across Europe according to scientists in 14 studies published simultaneously Monday.

Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 13:53

The contrasting campaigns and fortunes of brewing giant Carlsberg, and a cola brand unknown outside of Denmark are among the stories we’re looking at this week in our column Inside Denmark.

In this week’s Inside Spain we look at how the country has Europe’s second highest poverty rate passed on from grandparents to grandchildren, and how Ryanair has begun to make good on its threats of cancelling routes to smaller regional airports.

In this week’s Inside Italy review, we look at why Italy’s new citizenship by descent rules are an inexcusable betrayal of the Italian diaspora and why thousands of graduates leave the country every year.

From Marine Le Pen's embezzlement conviction and its impact on France to big changes to the UK's travel rules for dual nationals, via some Marine memes and a very big cheese, Inside France is our weekly newsletter looking at all the latest news and talking points from France.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday Washington respected the self-determination of Greenlanders but was not going to allow the autonomous Danish territory to 'become dependent on China', in remarks likely to be poorly received in Copenhagen.