In 2024, solar power generated 11% of EU electricity, overtaking coal which fell below 10% for the first time. Clean wind power generated more electricity than gas for the second year in a row.

Weisz-Gut has now lived for over a year in Oswiecim, a town of around 40,000 inhabitants whose name was Germanized into Auschwitz by the Nazis during the Second World War when they occupied Poland.

Some relatives in the public gallery were in tears. Others sat with their heads in their hands and wiped their eyes as tough security camera footage showed frightened, screaming children fleeing the ...