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Europe News 15 June 2025 - 5 November 2025

Europe’s Gas Demand Implodes: LNG Imports to Plunge 20% by 2030, Russian Flows at Historic Lows

Europe’s Gas Demand Implodes: LNG Imports to Plunge 20% by 2030, Russian Flows at Historic Lows

Demand Forecasts and Key Drivers Natural gas consumption is on a downward trajectory in Europe. In 2023, the EU already used 19% less gas (326 bcm) than in 2019 (404 bcm) reuters.com. New analyses predict further drops: the IEA’s Gas 2025 report expects OECD Europe’s gas demand to shrink 8–10% from 2024 to 2030 hellenicshippingnews.com. Much of the decline comes in power generation, where gas use is projected to plunge ~25% by 2030 (removing ~30 bcm of gas-to-power demand) hellenicshippingnews.com. This is because renewables (wind, solar) will flood the grid – the IEA forecasts renewable output up >40% by 2030 hellenicshippingnews.com – and
5 November 2025
Nvidia’s Meteoric October: $4 Trillion Milestone, Mega AI Deals, and Unstoppable Momentum

Germany’s €1B ‘AI Factory’ Revealed: Nvidia & Deutsche Telekom Just Redrew Europe’s Tech Map — Here’s What Changes Now

Key facts (updated November 5, 2025) The announcement in detail Deutsche Telekom and Nvidia say the Industrial AI Cloud is designed as a “sovereign AI” platform—compute, networking and software kept in Germany, with industry‑grade security and compliance. Nvidia’s blog frames it as the “world’s first AI factory for industry,” blending Nvidia AI Enterprise, Omniverse and DGX‑class systems with Telekom’s cloud and network operations. NVIDIA Blog Hardware & capacity. Deutsche Telekom’s Munich data center is being fully renovated to host >1,000 DGX B200 systems and RTX PRO Servers, aggregating up to 10,000 Blackwell GPUs. Deutsche Telekom lists ~0.5 EFLOPS of compute,
Branson’s Bold Move: Virgin Trains Poised to End Eurostar’s 30-Year Channel Tunnel Monopoly

Branson’s Bold Move: Virgin Trains Poised to End Eurostar’s 30-Year Channel Tunnel Monopoly

Breaking the Monopoly For the first time since 1994, a train company other than Eurostar will be allowed to run passenger services through the Channel Tunnel. On 30 October 2025 the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) announced it had approved Virgin Trains Europe’s depot access application orr.gov.uk. Temple Mills International depot (Leyton, London) – the only UK facility capable of servicing large high-speed trains – had been used exclusively by Eurostar until now. The ORR press release explains that this move “unlocks plans for around £700 mn of investment in new services and the creation of 400 new jobs” orr.gov.uk.
30 October 2025
BYD’s European EV Invasion – Boom in Sales but Stock Takes a Hit

BYD’s European EV Invasion – Boom in Sales but Stock Takes a Hit

BYD’s European Sales Explosion Industry reports confirm that China’s biggest EV maker is tearing up European sales charts. Deutsche Welle’s Welt notes “the world’s largest Chinese e-car maker is celebrating ever greater success in Europe. In Britain sales have recently exploded… and in Germany the figures are also rising significantly” welt.de. Indeed, BYD’s September figures were eye-popping: UK registrations jumped from 1,150 (Sept 2024) to 11,271 eletric-vehicles.com, propelling the UK to BYD’s largest market outside China. In Germany, BYD sold 3,255 vehicles in Sept 2025, a new high (vs. just 140 a year ago) eletric-vehicles.com. BYD’s SUV sedans and plug-in
13 October 2025
Tesla Model 3 vs BYD Seal vs Hyundai Ioniq 6: The Ultimate 2025 EV Showdown—Which One Should You Buy?

Electrifying Europe: 2025’s Best Electric Cars – Range Kings, Affordable EVs & Game‑Changers

Key Facts Europe’s EV Market in 2025: A Breakout Year Electric vehicles hit the mainstream in Europe by 2025, marking a breakout year for electrified transport. After years of double-digit growth, EVs now account for roughly 15–20% of new car sales across the EU (and climbing fast) best-selling-cars.com best-selling-cars.com. In the first half of 2025 alone, over one million battery-electric cars were sold in Europe – a new record best-selling-cars.com. This momentum comes even as the overall car market remains slightly below pre-pandemic levels, indicating that EVs are grabbing market share even in a lukewarm economy. Notably, Europe is now
1 September 2025
Lightning-Fast Liechtenstein: Inside Europe’s Most Connected Country in 2025

Lightning-Fast Liechtenstein: Inside Europe’s Most Connected Country in 2025

By the end of 2023 Liechtenstein completed a nationwide Fiber-to-the-Home rollout, connecting 99%+ of buildings to gigabit fiber and making LKW the passive network owner. As of early 2025, internet penetration is 97.3% with about 38.9k users out of 40k. The median fixed download speed is about 189 Mbps (Jan 2025), with fiber available to every home. Liechtenstein has three mobile operators—FL1, Swisscom Liechtenstein, and 7acht (Salt LI)—with 4G LTE coverage around 99% of the population, and 5G launched in 2023, reaching over 80–90% of residents by 2025. The open-access fiber network is owned by the state utility LKW, leased
Jeff Bezos vs. Elon Musk: How Amazon’s New Kuiper Satellites Could Disrupt a $100 Billion Space‑Internet Gold Rush

Space Race Frenzy: Exploding Starships, Quantum‑Proof Satellites & Europe’s Billion‑Dollar Constellation Shake‑Up — Everything That Hit Orbit TODAY (24 June 2025)

SpaceX’s Transporter-14 rideshare lofted 70 payloads, including memorial capsules, ICEYE and Capella radar sats, and York Space Systems’ Dragoon Tranche-1 12-satellite demo. The first Dragoon craft launched Monday on Transporter-14 is now on orbit, with SDA citing a four-month schedule cut to accelerate capabilities. Shijian-21 rendezvoused with Shijian-25 at about 22,236 miles, rehearsing refueling and capture maneuvers that analysts warn could neutralize adversary satellites in a conflict. T-Mobile’s T-Satellite service will provide full data links on 1 Oct 2025, piggybacking on 657 Starlink satellites, with basic messaging starting 23 July and 911 texting free for all U.S. users. SpaceX targets
24 June 2025
Lightning-Fast Latvia: Inside Europe’s Undercover Internet Powerhouse

Lightning-Fast Latvia: Inside Europe’s Undercover Internet Powerhouse

Latvia has about 1.9 million people, with roughly 92.9% online as of early 2024. Over 50% of Latvian households use fiber connections, placing Latvia among seven European countries with high fiber penetration. Latvia has the second-highest rural fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) coverage in Europe, behind Denmark. As of 2022, 76% of fixed broadband subscriptions were over fiber, and over 38% of connections deliver speeds above 300 Mbps. Latvia’s median fixed broadband speed was around 89 Mbps in early 2024, with 10 Gbps fiber services being introduced in Riga in select areas. 4G networks blanket 99% of the population, and rural 4G coverage
15 June 2025
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