London / afp Londoners are getting desperate over rising rents, with residents and students taking to the streets and social media over the cramped conditions tenants are forced to accept. With house-building lagging well behind the population increase in western Europe’s biggest city, prices are soaring beyond anything affordable. “The situation is becoming untenable,” said retired teacher John Ford, 60, …

LONDON / AFP Europe’s airline sector is on course for further consolidation, while the region offers “massive opportunities” for growth, according to Carolyn McCall, chief executive of British budget airline EasyJet. “I definitely think there will be consolidation in Europe,” McCall told AFP in a recent interview held in EasyJet’s headquarters at Luton airport, north of London. And she believes …

Bloomberg Ikea avoided paying at least 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in taxes owed to nations in the European Union over the past six years, the EU’s Green party said as it sought a government investigation of findings in a report it commissioned. The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament said the world’s biggest furniture retailer is using loopholes to …