Edition of 11 September 2026

6 stories filed on this issue date.

Section

The BRICS alliance has officially announced plans to launch BRICS Pay in 2026.

BRICS Pay Moves From Talk Toward Reality - Finance Chiefs Back Connected Payment Systems

BRICS has taken another concrete step toward building a cross-border payment architecture connecting its member economies. Meeting in India ahead of this weekend’s leaders’ summit in New Delhi, BRICS finance ministers and central-bank governors formally backed continued work on making national payment systems interoperable and developing faster, cheaper and safer cross-border payments.

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 23:00 · 4 min read

EuroAsia
BRICS
Dollar

Europe’s governments face the same fundamental challenge: how to finance prosperity and the welfare state as productivity weakens and populations age.

Economy

Europe Cannot Tax, Borrow and Import Its Way Out of Decline

Europe’s political class increasingly behaves as if every economic problem can be solved through one of three mechanisms: higher taxes, more government borrowing or more immigration. None of them addresses the central problem.

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 16:21 · 5 min read

Europe
EU
Econoomy
Migration

Politics

Is Hungary Under EU Pressure to Destroy Its Russian Relations?

Ten diplomats expelled, Russian relations deteriorating and a curious new “energy cooperation” with Latvia — Budapest’s foreign-policy pivot is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss as symbolism. But what does Hungary actually gain if political alignment with Brussels comes at the price of its established relationship with Moscow?

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 12:18 · 3 min read

Hungary
EU
Gas
Russia

Global ocean heat absorbed hit another record high in 2025/2026 reporting continuing a nearly decade-long upward streak.

Climate

The Oceans Are Breaking Records Again — Can Positive Tipping Points Still Change the Climate Story?

August 2026 has delivered another uncomfortable collection of climate records. Global temperatures reached unprecedented levels, western Europe experienced its hottest summer in the modern dataset and large areas of the oceans entered record territory. Yet scientists are also focusing on a very different kind of tipping point — one in which technological change becomes self-accelerating rather than destructive.

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 10:56 · 3 min read

Climate Change
Ocean
Temperature
El Nino

An interstellar comet older than our solar system is releasing water vapour at a rate equivalent to 70 Olympic swimming pools every day

Science

A Visitor From Another Star - 3I/ATLAS Carries a Chemical Fingerprint From Beyond the Solar System

Humanity has never sent a spacecraft to another planetary system. Yet occasionally nature does the reverse. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has travelled into our Solar System carrying material formed around another star — and astronomers have discovered that its chemistry is unlike almost anything seen among our own comets.

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 10:35 · 3 min read

Space
Universe
Comets

German startup Isar Aerospace has made European space history, launching its Spectrum rocket from Norway. It’s the first commercial company to reach orbit from continental Europe.

Technology

Europe Wants Independence in Space — But Can It Catch the United States?

Europe increasingly sees space not simply as a field of scientific exploration, but as strategic infrastructure. From secure satellite communications to independent launch capability and future missions to the Moon, the question emerging from this week's International Space Summit in Paris is straightforward: how much dependence on other powers is Europe still prepared to accept?

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 08:40 · 3 min read

EU
Space
Science
Technology