Alice Hancock

Despite huge investments and increasing competition, travelling by rail is still slower and more expensive than flying

Second round of discussions ends without significant progress on export credit policies

Progress in the fastest-warming continent is thwarted by a constituency fatigued by inflation and trade tensions

Czech minister tells FT of ‘thousands’ of attempts to interfere with train networks and signals

Vulnerable European Commission president will again need votes from ideological rivals

Warning comes as Nordic and Baltic countries seek total ban on imports of the fuel from Moscow

Two-year-old Heewoo does not know it yet, but later this month he will become one of the most important plaintiffs in the rapidly emerging field of climate litigation.

Security equipment supplier's machines are widely used at borders around the continent under public contracts

Wilhelmshaven has long been a strategic port for Germany, initially a stronghold for 14th-century pirates and later a major trade and naval base.

As business groups fret about competitiveness, the bloc's climate rules have become a political battleground