Sci & Tech

Dutch union FNV has become a tormentor of gig economy platforms like ride-hailing app Uber and food-delivery app Deliveroo. Zakaria Boufangacha, vice president and...

No list of the most influential people in the digital world would be complete without someone from the German government. And Volker Wissing, the...

Being the CEO of a young company backed by tech venture capitalist Peter Thiel is promising — you can ask Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg (Thiel...

When war in Ukraine erupted, Airbnb was quick on its feet to offer support to Ukrainian refugees — and to European governments. Airbnb promised...

Aurélie Caulier, the newly elected chair of Brussels’ European-only tech lobby, comes at a perfect time. As Europe celebrates a new law to curb the...

In an era when Big Tech lobbying has reached new heights both in Brussels and Washington, framing the narrative and providing clarity and unbiased...

When Wojciech Wiewiórowski took over the European Data Protection Supervisor role from the late Giovanni Butarelli in 2019, he had a tough act to...

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The world’s microchips sector is snowed under — and Peter Wennink is selling the shovels. As chief executive officer of Dutch firm ASML, Wennink leads...

Post Brexit, the U.K. wants to flex its data muscles. The government is pushing reform of the data protection rulebook it inherited from the...

After you’ve become your country’s youngest-ever leader, what do you do for an encore? If you’re Sebastian Kurz, the now-former Austrian chancellor — at...

Don’t let her soft diplomacy and chilled demeanor fool you — Germany’s Anna Cavazzini is a rising star in the Brussels bubble with a...

Fabio Panetta’s résumé in banking is impressive and, at first glance, straightforward. A veteran Italian economist, Panetta has been on the Executive Board of...

For a soft-spoken academic-turned-policy-wonk, Ben Scott knows how to pack a punch. The former Hillary Clinton aide — whose memories of how Russia influenced...