Britain plans to enact a historic bill to phase out the sale of tobacco products, while expanding outdoor smoking bans and giving birth to a new generation of smoke-free people.
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The European Union and South Korea held their first strategic dialogue, announced a security and defense partnership, and jointly condemned North Korea's supply of weapons to Russia and demanded that North Korea withdraw its troops.
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The British finance minister Jeremy Reeves has apologised to the British people for announcing 40 billion pounds of tax rises, in a blow to her election manifesto which had said there would be no tax rises.
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On a seasonally adjusted basis, eurozone gross domestic product (GDP) grew 0.4 per cent quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter of this year, and European Union GDP grew 0.3 per cent quarter-on-quarter.
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The European Commission's decision to impose countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles for five years has heightened trade tensions between the world's largest exporting economies.
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Single-use e-cigarettes will be banned in England and Wales from June next year in a bid to combat environmental harm and curb the rise in the number of children using e-cigarettes.
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The European Union's data privacy watchdog has fined linkedin, a workplace social network owned by Microsoft, more than 300 million euros for violating rules on users' personal data.
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NATO officials say member countries have joined forces to improve satellite coverage in the Arctic.
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France's new right-wing government is accelerating immigration policy reform, and plans to pass a new immigration bill in 2025 to strengthen border control and immigration governance.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has defused a political crisis after a tumultuous summer, but sources close to him say he is deeply dissatisfied with his right-wing government and feels isolated.
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Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, recently warned in an interview that large banks around the world should not issue their own stablecoins, as this move might lead to capital outflows within the banking system.
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