Europes

Northvolt Opens Europe’s First Homegrown Battery Gigafactory

Swedish battery group Northvolt said Wednesday it has launched its “gigafactory” in northern Sweden, the first of its kind to be undertaken by a European company on the continent. Intended to compete with US electric car giant Tesla and Asian producers of lithium-ion batteries, the factory in Skelleftea assembled its first battery cell late Tuesday, …

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Analysis: Europe’s COVID setbacks risk another summer travel washout

FILE PHOTO: A woman on Porto Katsiki beach on the island of Lefkada, Greece, July 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dimitris Rapakousis March 19, 2021 By Sarah Young and Laurence Frost LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) – Europe’s airlines and travel sector are bracing for a second lost summer, with rebound hopes increasingly challenged by a hobbled COVID-19 vaccine rollout, resurgent …

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Europe’s summer holiday is in peril – Morgan Stanley says

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick arrives to attend a Cabinet meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London, Britain December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls March 18, 2021 By Guy Faulconbridge and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – Europe could be looking at another lost summer tourist season as COVID-19 cases are rising …

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Europe’s summer holiday is in peril – Morgan Stanley says

FILE PHOTO: People visit Porto Katsiki beach, following the easing of measures against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the island of Lefkada, Greece, July 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dimitris Rapakousis March 18, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Europe could be looking at another lost summer tourist season as COVID-19 cases are rising and the vaccine …

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Countdown to ‘catastrophe:’ Inside Europe’s fight for COVID shots

FILE PHOTO: A view shows a meeting room in Europa, the new European Council building in Brussels, Belgium December 9, 2016. Building: Philippe Samyn and Partners architects & engineers, lead and design partner, Studio Valle Progettazioni architects, BuroHappold engineers; colour compositions by Georges Meurant. REUTERS/Yves Herman February 5, 2021 By Francesco Guarascio and John Chalmers …

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Europe’s largest tech conference to return as in-person event in 2021

November 25, 2020 By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Europe’s biggest technology conference, the Web Summit, will return to Lisbon in full force as a massive in-person event in 2021 after the coronavirus pandemic forced it to go fully online this year. “The venue is booked,” the conference’s founder Paddy Cosgrave told Reuters on Wednesday …

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