Austria just held an election that indicates a new direction for European politics: Increasingly, the center right might find itself working with the Greens. The 33-year-old Sebastian Kurz, the winner of last week’s election, is more than a successful small-country politician. He’s a weathervane for all of Europe. Two years ago, he scored a difficult victory for his Austrian People’s ...

It’s an interesting twist of fate that the European governments whose job it is to enforce sweeping new data-protection laws, rolled out to curb intrusive tech firms like Facebook Inc. and Google Inc., are increasingly finding their own digital ambitions tripped up by them. Earlier this year, Ireland’s plan for a national “public services card” was deemed illegal by its ...

Tesla Inc.’s quarterly deliveries announcements are not what they were, mainly because they’re so brief these days. Wednesday evening’s still managed to spark a 4% sell-off in immediate after-hours trading. On one level, that barely counts given this stock’s volatility. On the other, there were a couple of nuggets in the release that warrant watching. Most obviously, Tesla didn’t quite ...