A carbon credit doesn't expire like a coupon, it gets 'retired' once and only once. Here's how retirement actually works, and the separate durability question it doesn't answer.

A Crown dependency older than the treaties that tried to define it: why the Isle of Man was never part of Britain and only ever had a narrow trade-only relationship with the EU.

San Marino has run a customs union with Brussels since 1991 and uses the euro, but two referendums on full EU membership have both failed, the second on a turnout technicality.

A giant flag lit into a Mediterranean mountainside marks a state almost nobody recognizes. In 2026, renewed UN and EU diplomacy is testing whether that finally changes.

Kaliningrad is a 5,830-square-mile piece of Russia surrounded by NATO and EU members, with no land connection to the Russian mainland. Here's the Potsdam-era history behind the exclave.

The bloc's duty-free window for cheap Chinese parcels closed on Tuesday. Shoppers, not just the platforms, will feel the new €3-per-item math.

About 55% said no, rejecting a Swiss People's Party plan to hold the population below 10 million and end EU free movement if it crossed the line.

Swiss voters decide on a far-right proposal to cap the population at 10 million — a measure with no precedent anywhere, and one that could force the country out of its EU free-movement deal.

After Hungary lifted its two-year veto, the 27 EU states agreed to open the first cluster of accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova in Luxembourg on 15 June.