It’s the day before your yearly work evaluation and you’ve already stress-sweat through three shirts. Why? Uncomfortable for your boss and uncomfortable for you, workplace feedback is often associated with the classic dread one experiences before...
France and Germany have asked the EU executive to approve state subsidies for a cross-border battery cell consortium to curb Asia’s market dominance. German analyst Marcel Weiss says the investment might not be worth it....
For the first time in 14 years, experts have compiled a global eco-inventory of the Earth. They now want to fine-tune the core statements with government representatives. It is already clear that many species have...
The Mediterranean country is the first in the G7 to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative. But in one small port town in Italy, Chinese investment is nothing new. DW’s Giulia Saudelli and Mu Cui...
Female business founders are still the exception to the rule in Europe’s business landscape. Only 15.6% of the continent’s startup founders are women. But there are enough examples that things are changing. It was a...
Answering a call from French president Emmanuel Macron to donate funds for the reconstruction of the fire-ravaged Paris landmark, two of the country’s wealthiest families have stepped forward offering millions in aid. French fire officials...
The European Commission has signed a multimillion-euro grant that will allow a new gas pipeline between Denmark and Poland to proceed. The project is seen as Warsaw’s answer to the Russian-German Nord Stream 2. Poland’s...
E-commerce giant Jumia is expected to raise millions in its IPO as it becomes Africa’s first tech startup to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Will its Wall Street debut mark a new...
A floating photovoltaic power plant at the Kruonis hydroelectric facility in Lithuania is the first of its kind in the Baltic region. The market is growing worldwide, and smaller countries like Lithuania can benefit. The Lithuanian Business...
The German car giant has signed a multiyear agreement with Amazon Web Services to build the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud. DW takes a look at what VW’s cloud-based digital production platform aims to achieve. When Volkswagen...
Anxious gas and oil workers in Canada have demanded an end to what they see as job-killing anti-pipeline policies. But Ottawa faces a dilemma: How to balance job security for those workers while fighting climate...
Beijing had pledged to scale back its coal industry, but a new report says the Chinese government has quietly restarted construction of coal-fired power plants. The report also found an increase in coal consumption. A...
