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European Union

What Europe showed the world about renewable energy

By Rebecca Leber

EU leaders agree to deeper cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 2030

By Jariel Arvin

The EU’s biggest oil producer has taken a huge step: It’s ending oil production by 2050

By Jariel Arvin

The former CEO of Google has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

By Theodore Schleifer

European countries with spiraling Covid-19 outbreaks are shutting back down

By Julia Belluz

The 4 simple reasons Germany is managing Covid-19 better than its neighbors

By Julia Belluz

Why every website wants you to accept its cookies

By Emily Stewart

Pete Buttigieg says Americans should have the right to hide personal details from the internet

By Eric Johnson

The “Green wave” and 4 other takeaways from the European parliamentary elections

By Jen Kirby

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s dramatic ouster from power, explained

By Alex Ward

How will AI change your life? AI Now Institute founders Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker explain.

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: European commissioner for competition Margrethe Vestager on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson

President Trump says tech giants could be an ‘antitrust situation.’ His Justice Department’s antitrust lawyer isn’t so sure.

By Eric Johnson

Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony on Tuesday before European Union regulators will be livestreamed

By Kurt Wagner

A practical guide to the European Union’s GDPR for American businesses

By Nancy Harris

Facebook is taking its first steps to comply with Europe’s strict data privacy rules

By Kurt Wagner

Revolut, the payments startup, will see its valuation jump five times to $1.4 billion after a financing round led by DST

By Theodore Schleifer

Full transcript: European Union competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager on Recode Decode

By Recode Staff

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No one quite polices — and penalizes — tech giants like Europe’s watchdog Margrethe Vestager

By Tony Romm

Europe’s chief regulator Margrethe Vestager on reining in tech: ‘This is the biggest wake-up call we’ve ever had’

By Eric Johnson

Netflix has hired a new exec to tackle policy challenges in Europe and around the world

By Tony Romm

Europe has ordered Amazon to pay nearly $300 million in back taxes

By Jason Del Rey and Tony Romm

A top European Union official is planning to press Apple, Facebook and others this week on privacy and hate speech

By Tony Romm

Google’s $2 billion antitrust fine is the biggest yet from the European Union

By Rani Molla

Europe has fined Google $2.7 billion for manipulating search results

By Tony Romm

Europe plans to have drone rules in place by 2019

By April Glaser

Google will have to change how it operates in Europe

By Tess Townsend

Netflix is hiring a new VP of global policy as part of its big expansion in Europe

By Tony Romm

European regulators have fined Facebook for ‘misleading’ them during its purchase of WhatsApp in 2014

By Tony Romm

Google says the EU is wrong: Android is not anti-competitive

By April Glaser

Why Europeans care more about data privacy than Americans

By Eric Johnson

Google and Apple should have limits, too, says Europe’s competition enforcer, Margrethe Vestager

By Eric Johnson

With Brexit, APIs just got geopolitical

By Bryan Kirschner

London tech and media companies may bolt in the wake of Brexit

By Noah Kulwin

What startups should expect from the Brexit fallout

By Noah Kulwin

British Prime Minister David Cameron resigns in wake of U.K. vote to leave the EU

By Noah Kulwin

Lindsay Lohan has the best Brexit takes

By Noah Kulwin

The U.K. votes to leave the EU and global markets are tanking

By Noah Kulwin

Why the United Kingdom leaving the EU would infuriate the tech industry

By Noah Kulwin

Microsoft, Google agree to stop complaining to regulators about each other

By Ina Fried