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Renewables alone cannot solve Europe's energy problem.

Europe Wants Energy Independence — But From Where Will the Energy Come?

Europe has spent four years rewriting its energy map. Russian gas is being removed, coal imports from Russia have disappeared, renewables are expanding and LNG terminals have appeared along Europe's coasts.

By EuroAsia.News · 28 September 2026 · 4 min read

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26 September 2026

Issue · 1 stories

Germans spend less on retail goods and food as a share of their consumption compared to almost any other European country.

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Germany’s Recovery Nobody Feels -Companies Turn Optimistic as Consumers Pull Back

Germany is producing one of the strangest economic signals in Europe: companies are becoming more confident while households are becoming markedly more pessimistic.

By EuroAsia.News · 26 September 2026 · 17:10 · 2 min read

Germany
Economy

15 September 2026

Issue · 1 stories

The energy-intensive industry is no longer economically viable.

Economy

Checkmate Europe? The Energy Advantage Europe Gave Away Is Moving East

Europe's break with Russian energy was presented as a question of strategic independence. Politically, the argument was straightforward: an economy should not depend heavily on a geopolitical adversary for its fuel.

By EuroAsia.News · 15 September 2026 · 00:00 · 4 min read

EU
Energy
Gas
Factory Closure

13 September 2026

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On Feb. 1, 1970, a historic agreement was signed in Essen, Germany - it was considered the deal of the century and was dubbed "gas for pipes".

Economy

Germany’s Industrial Model Was Built on Cheap Energy — Can It Survive Without Russian Gas?

For decades, Germany’s industrial strength rested on a powerful combination: engineering excellence, skilled labour, export markets and reliable energy at internationally competitive prices. Soviet and Russian oil and pipeline gas became a major part of that model.

By EuroAsia.News · 13 September 2026 · 10:13 · 2 min read

Germany
Russia
Gas
Economy

11 September 2026

Issue · 2 stories

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

Economy

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

9 September 2026

Issue · 1 stories

Electrolux Group announced today it is Halting Production at Its Factory in Jászberény. September 9, 2026

Economy

Factories Close, Jobs Disappear — Where Is Hungary's Government Economic Plan?

Four months after Péter Magyar’s Tisza government took office, Hungary's economic warning lights are flashing. Factories are closing, construction is under pressure, employment is falling and hundreds of families at a time are being told that their jobs will disappear.

By EuroAsia.News · 9 September 2026 · 16:03 · 3 min read

Hungary
Factory
Jobs
Electrolux

5 September 2026

Issue · 2 stories

Aluminum scrap is the new battle front in critical minerals war. Cubes of pressed scrap at a scrap yard in the harbor in Magdeburg in Germany.

Economy

Europe’s New Resource Nationalism - Why Brussels Wants to Keep Its Aluminium Scrap at Home

For decades, Europe treated metal scrap largely as a commodity: collect it, sell it and allow global markets to determine where it would be recycled. Brussels is now moving toward a very different philosophy.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 18:40 · 2 min read

Economy
Europe
Aluminium

Extreme heatwaves have drastically reduced European harvests.

Economy

From the Black Sea to the Supermarket - Why the World’s Food Buffer Is Shrinking Again

The global food crisis that followed the pandemic and the outbreak of war in Ukraine never completely disappeared. For several years, however, falling commodity prices created the impression that the worst had passed.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 18:28 · 2 min read

Economy
Food

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