Clean energy, fresh mussels: Scandinavia’s experiment to harvest seafood and wind power togetherRun by the Swedish state-owned power firm Vattenfall and Denmark’s Aarhus University, the four-year project started in 2023 off the Danish east coast at Scandinavia’s largest wind farm, Kriegers Flak. With its first harvest just 18 months later, it’s already showing signs of early success.
Rich US Tourists Will Make Europeans Feel PoorPrior to stepping down as chief executive officer of Dutch chip manufacturing equipment giant ASML Holding NV, Peter Wennink warned last year that Europe is falling behind and must overcome complacency. “Looking at our society, I sometimes get the impression that we are, as they say, `fat, dumb and happy,’” he said.
Eike Schmidt: Could this German be Florence's next mayor?Having woken the world-famous Uffizi gallery from its slumber, Eike Schmidt now aims to become the mayor of his adopted city of Florence.
In Ukraine, midsummer celebrations are both respite and a cultural weaponAgainst a backdrop of regular blackouts and a nightly curfew, Ukrainians marked their third midsummer of the war – full of folk dancing, fire jumping and flowers.
Mona hangs Picassos in women’s toilet in response to court rulingPicassos were among artworks hanging in Ladies Lounge exhibition that closed after a court ruled it must admit men.
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