Brussels breaks up with the car

This article is part of POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities, a collaborative journalism project exploring the future of cities. Sign up here. The car-choked streets of central Brussels are about to get a little less clogged. On August 16, a new mobility plan goes into effect in the city’s so-called Pentagon with the goal of slashing transport emissions, […]

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Ryanair boss: €10 flight era is over

Soaring fuel prices mean Ryanair will no longer offer dirt-cheap flights, Ryanair’s Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said Thursday. “There’s no doubt that at the lower end of the marketplace, our really cheap promotional fares — the €1 fares, the €0.99 fares, even the €9.99 fares — I think you will not see those fares for […]

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Zelenskyy says 9 Russian jets were destroyed in Crimea blasts

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Wednesday that the blasts which rocked a Russian air base in annexed Crimea destroyed nine Russian aircraft. “In just one day, the occupiers lost ten combat aircraft: nine in Crimea and one more in the direction of Zaporizhzhia,” Zelenskyy said in his traditional nightly address. “The occupiers also suffer […]

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