The Gulf of Mexico instead got its name from 16th-century Spanish mapmakers. In the age of discovery and conquest, European mariners often named bodies of water after the destination territory on ...

The EU is pushing ahead with an ambitious new target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, signaling a growing divide between ...

The first-ever summit between the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council takes place on 16 October in Brussels. In recent years, GCC countries have become ever-more important geopolitical ...

Another dimension of this announcement, just as serious politically and culturally, lies in its neo-colonial stance. The idea is to replace a pre-Hispanic reference – Mexico – with a European ...

But from the 1500s onward, European sailing maps, inspired by Ptolemy’s grid design, attempted to produce a fixed, unchanging – and European – picture of the world.

For its part, Europe has “soft” assets that Gulf states must acquire, host or emulate to carve out a post-oil role in the world. This isn’t the Gulf’s deepest external connection.

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.