Bordeaux Is Learning to Sell Wine Somewhere Other Than America
A 15 percent U.S. tariff has cut French wine shipments across the Atlantic by a fifth. Châteaux are courting buyers in Seoul, Ho Chi Minh City, and Lagos, with mixed results.
France’s Regional Newspapers Are Giving Up on the Daily Print Edition
Groupe Centre-Presse will print its six titles three days a week from January, following a path already taken in Belgium and Scandinavia. Readers over 70 are furious. Advertisers barely noticed.
Europe’s Carmakers Rebuild Their Factories Around a Car They Once Planned to Kill: the Hybrid
With electric sales growing more slowly than forecast and the 2035 combustion ban under review, manufacturers are spending billions to keep gasoline engines alive for another decade.
Europe’s Cruise Shipyards Are Booked Through 2033. Finding Welders Is the Hard Part.
Orders for 68 cruise ships worth 61 billion euros have given yards on the Atlantic, the Adriatic, and the Baltic their fullest books in history. The workers to build them are retiring faster than they can be replaced.