Leo Cendrowicz

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Leo Cendrowicz

For all the careful choreography of his confirmation as Germany’s new chancellor, Christian-democrat leader Friedrich Merz is still waiting to take up his job after MPs humiliatingly failed to confirm him today. Everything had been set until now.

2 weeks ago | brusselstimes.com | Leo Cendrowicz

The Strépy-Thieu boat lift is the heavyweight champion of waterway engineering: a mechanical colossus that hoists ships skyward like a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat. But it’s just one act in a centuries-old spectacle of canal ingenuity. From 19th century hydraulic lifts that still glide like clockwork to the Ronquières conveyor-belt-for-boats, Belgians have turned their stubborn landscape into a stage for gravity-defying transport. Strépy-Thieu boat lift. Credit: N. Matloka

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Leo Cendrowicz

BRUSSELS – Many readers would find a €700 million (£600m) fine somewhat steep, but when the penalised entities are tech giants that can claim to be amongst the biggest firms in the world, the scale of punishments may need to be adjusted. That, at least, was the sentiment  in Brussels after the European Commission’s long-awaited decision to fine Apple and Meta €500 million (£428m) and €200 million (£170m) respectively for breaching market competition rules under the EU’s new internet laws.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Leo Cendrowicz

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3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Leo Cendrowicz

It was mission accomplished on Thursday night for Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s Prime Minister, who navigated her White House meeting with Donald Trump with poise, earning her lavish praise and a “100 per cent” promise of a trade deal from the US President.  In doing so, Meloni can stake her claim as Europe’s ‘Trump whisperer,’ a rare foreign leader who can soothe the President’s fury and chaotic reflexes.