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Veronika Jeanvie and more than twenty models in Marie Antoinette inspired couture on the Carrousel de Saint-Pierre in Montmartre

Veronika Jeanvie Revives the Spirit of Marie Antoinette in a Spectacular Haute Couture Performance at Montmartre

An extraordinary fashion performance transformed Paris' historic Carrousel de Saint-Pierre into a living stage where haute couture, history and theatrical artistry became one

A Commerzbank sign resting on a spread of UniCredit bank payment cards

Berlin Steps Back and Tells UniCredit and Commerzbank to Sort It Out Themselves

Germany's finance ministry says the fate of Commerzbank now rests with the two banks rather than the government, a notable shift in tone even as Berlin keeps calling UniCredit's pursuit aggressive
With the Italian lender sitting on close to half the shares, the pressure on Frankfurt is real

Happy Pot: The Easier Way to Organize Group Gifts and Collect Money Online

Happy Pot: The Easier Way to Organize Group Gifts and Collect Money Online

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C'est plus cohérent avec l'audience de Berlin Today et cela permet aussi d'être référencé sur des recherches internationales

Aerial view of the Frankfurt skyline at dusk with the Deutsche Bank twin towers lit up

German Fintech Funding Storms Back in 2026, Led by Green Money and B2B Software

German fintech pulled in about 1.2 billion euros in the first half of 2026, nearly triple the previous six months
Clean-energy financing and business-facing software did most of the heavy lifting, and Germany held its place as Europe's second biggest fintech market behind Britain

Military personnel monitoring a command-centre wall of live maps, radar feeds and analytics screens

Arcana Mace, the 'European Palantir': What the Defence-Tech Platform Truly Is

Defence Trading calls Arcana Mace a European answer to Palantir, a sovereign software layer for military procurement
A separate investigation asks whether the same brand is also a media marketplace sitting on top of a shadow defence-technology stack

Founders and guests at a startup networking event in Berlin

Germany Approves a 152 Point Plan to Stop Its Best Startups Leaving Home

The cabinet has signed off a startup strategy aimed at a single stubborn problem, that the country is good at founding companies but poor at keeping them here once they grow

A red Italo high speed train waiting at a station platform

Italy's Italo Bets 3.6 Billion Euros on Cracking Open Germany's Railways

The Italian high speed operator has ordered 26 Siemens trains and plans to run 50 services a day across Germany from 2028, a direct challenge to Deutsche Bahn on its home tracks

German chancellor Friedrich Merz speaking during a televised interview

Merz Calls a Minister's Exit an Opportunity, and Berlin Hears a Reshuffle Coming

A senior minister walked away over the weekend
Instead of treating it as a loss, the chancellor told ZDF the vacancy could be a chance to rethink who sits around his cabinet table

Aircraft in flight representing deepening France and Germany defence cooperation

Berlin and Paris Draw Closer on Defence as Europe Bets on Its Own Muscle

Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron used a meeting in Bruehl to widen military cooperation across nuclear deterrence, missile defence and long range strike, a bid to give Europe more of its own weight as Washington pulls back

NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft with its radar rotodome in flight above a snow capped mountain range

Why NATO Radar Planes Keep Circling Over the Baltic

A NATO early warning jet has been tracing slow loops over Latvia and the Gulf of Riga, and the pattern is less a mystery than a message aimed squarely at Moscow

Fuel pump nozzle with EU and climate policy overtones representing carbon pricing on transport fuel

Ten EU States Push Back on Brussels Over Carbon Charge for Heating and Fuel

A bloc of ten member states led by Italy and Poland wants Brussels to soften a planned carbon price on heating oil and road fuel before it starts in 2028, and together they hold enough votes to force the argument

Berlin mayor Kai Wegner speaking at a podium

Berlin's Mayor Steps Away From Re-election as a Blackout Scandal Refuses to Fade

Kai Wegner has announced he will not seek another term as Berlin's mayor, conceding that the fallout from a week long winter blackout has drowned out everything else he wanted to say to voters

A Deutsche Bahn ICE high speed train at a platform with Cologne Cathedral behind it

A Radical Group Says It Set the Fires That Cut a Major German Rail Line

A group calling itself Kommando Angry Birds has claimed it planted incendiary devices in trackside cable ducts north of Leverkusen, severing the busy Cologne to Dusseldorf line and reviving fears about how exposed Germany's infrastructure has become