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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. In the last five years, Europe has bestowed massive new regulatory and spending power on the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, known as. Meantime, the E.U. What the tech is up against.

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Volkswagen Group invested €11.5B (US$12.9B) in R&D in 2014; ongoing focus on electromobility and digitalization of vehicles

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It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. In his remarks before this year’s Geneva Show, Winterkorn called on industry in Europe to “ show even more courage and even greater innovative strength. Oil will not be as cheap as it is at the moment for ever.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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In an opinion piece in the journal Nature , a team from the US and Europe suggests that the transition to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers, and that it is therefore necessary to put geopolitics at the heart of debates about the energy transition. The result is a win–win for climate and security.

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2024 Polestar 2 Long Range Single Motor review: Better, but good enough?

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Cabin heating and defrosting seemed up to the challenge of a Berlin winter, melting light snow off the exterior glass, though I can’t speak for climates with true deep-freeze conditions. So long as you have a Google account and a smartphone (yes, including an iPhone), setup takes under a minute. Navigation is straight-up clunky.

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