It seems renaming places really is all the range in 2025, as Elon Musk has now suggested a new moniker for the English Channel. Days after President Donald Trump officially rebaptised the Gulf of Mexico with a new title, the tech guru shared his idea for doing the same on our side of the pond.

I would prefer to stay out of politics,” Elon Musk told his followers in 2021, on the platform then known as Twitter. Plenty has changed since then. The world’s richest man appears to have a new goal: upending Europe.

The European Union is assessing whether X has breached the bloc's tech rulebook. But what can it do if X's owner Elon Musk refuses to comply with the landmark digital services act?

The Commission said President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House did not affect its commitment to enforcing its laws.

Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk proposed renaming the English Channel to the ‘George Washington Canal’ after America’s first president. After suggesting changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America,

The automaker saw sales of its EVs drop 13% in the European Union in 2024, and is facing growing pressure as rivals launch a wave of cheaper EVs.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.

Thousands protested against the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which the Tesla CEO addressed on Saturday.

How to deal with Donald Trump's disruptive return to the White House and the tempestuous forays of his billionaire ally Elon Musk into European affairs?

On Saturday, the billionaire with Trump’s ear spoke virtually at a rally for Germany’s far-right party, which has repeatedly downplayed the Holocaust.

The filings come after the EU slapped tariffs as high as 45% on Chinese EVs after it ruled that China is unfairly subsidizing the industry and saturating the bloc with cheaper cars. Tesla's Chinese-manufactured EVs were hit with a 7.8% tariff while BMW's cars from the country received a 20.7% markup.