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The European Union's competition chief warned on Wednesday that the region was becoming increasingly dependent on liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports from the United States and should look at how it can best harness local resources. "We are significantly increasing...

Ryanair expects to offer free Wi-Fi across its fleet within three-to-five years as the technology improves, CEO Michael O'Leary told Reuters on Wednesday, after a public spat with Elon Musk over the use of his Starlink internet service. Musk and...

Irish retail sales volumes fell 0.1% year-on-year in December, the first annual decline in nine months and a dramatic drop from revised annual growth of 2.1% the previous month, Central Statistics Office data showed on Wednesday. Retail sales were 0.4%...

ASML has become Europe's most valuable company thanks to its dominance in making lithography systems, huge "chip printing" machines that cost $250 million each and are indispensable to firms driving the AI boom. Here is a closer look at the...

Spanish renewable energy company Ignis has hired Citigroup to prepare a potential initial public offering, newspaper Expansion reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified market sources. The process remains at an early stage, and several options are under review, including a conventional...

Options traders have turned overwhelmingly negative towards the dollar this week, after President Donald Trump brushed off the U.S. currency's 2.5% slide this month, pushing the cost of derivatives to buy other currencies to the highest in months on Wednesday....

The euro has hit a new milestone against the dollar, highlighting the single currency's renewed push higher as sentiment towards the greenback sours. Here's a look at what's behind the euro's to just over $1.20, its highest level since 2021....

Germany's federal and state government tax revenues rose in 2025 compared with the previous year but fell short of the increase that had been forecast by the country's council of tax experts. Total tax revenue last year hit 901.8 billion...

Tesla said on Wednesday it will invest $2 billion in CEO Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence company xAI - and that production plans for its Cybercab robotaxi were on track for this year. The news supported Musk's plan to pivot Tesla from...

Spain's unemployment rate fell to 9.93% in the fourth quarter of 2025 from 10.45% three months earlier, data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Tuesday, the lowest in 18 years. The rate dipped below the 10% landmark for...