Two women posted YouTube video in 2021 falsely claiming French presidentโs wife was previously a manA court has ordered two women to pay โฌ8,000 in damages to Franceโs first lady, Brigitte Macron, after making false claims she was transgender, sparking …
Top EU court says supporters can’t demand the European Commission investigate any unfair subsidy to French football clubs.
Hvaldimir rose to fame in Norway after his harness sparked suspicions he was Russian spyAnimal rights groups have said that gunfire killed a beluga whale that rose to fame in Norway after its unusual harness sparked suspicions the creature was trained …
Peter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts while seeking disciplinary action.
Ride-hailing tech giant protests against what it called a “flawed decision.”
Khelif hit back against high-profile personalities over gender claims.
Beijing says EU trade measures undermine global co-operation on climate
Not on holiday? Donโt worry, you can still enjoy some glorious gelato.
U.S. officials see ties to Iran, but no link to the assassination attempt on the former president last month.
Consumer organisations allege X’s artificial intelligence (AI) tool is in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in a complaint filed with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Monday (5 August).
The legal dispute comes as Thuringia is expecting a far-right shift in its state election in September.
Artistic director Thomas Jolly files police complaint over alleged cyber harassment
A scene interpreted as a re-enactment of ‘The Last Supper’ prompted a series of hateful online messages.
Paris prosecutors announced Friday that police have launched a hate speech investigation after Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the Olympics opening ceremony, reported receiving death threats and public insults and being defamed. Jolly filed the…
Barbara Butch was “the target of numerous antisemitic, homophobic, sexist and anti-grossophobic insults,โ her lawyer said.
Antje Kunst*
* Antje Kunst is an
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the Bar of England and Wales, and th…
Barbara Butch has received homophobic abuseLegal complaint is precursor to possible police actionLatest medal table | Live Paris schedule | Full resultsThe ongoing fallout from the Paris Olympicsโ opening ceremony took a legal turn on Tuesday, with Bar…
NGOs ClientEarth and BirdLife Europe on Wednesday (24 July) presented a complaint to the EU Ombudsman over the European Commissionโs decision to relax some of the environmental requirements under the blocโs Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The international match calendar is now oversaturated and puts the players’ welfare at risk, national football bodies say.
Football players and leagues filed a complaint with the European Commission to try to rein in footballโs governing body.
Spain’s PM will be questioned on July 30 in probe into whether Begoรฑa Gรณmez used her connections to further her private business interests.
With a second cloud pact in weeks, Microsoft has definitely mitigated the threat of an EU probe โ for now.
Morata and Rodri said โGibraltar is Spanishโ Government calls remarks โrancidโ and FA to involve UefaThe Gibraltar government has criticised the โrancid remarksโ members of Spainโs Euro 2024-winning side made at a victory rally in central Madrid on Mon…
The Czech Supreme Administrative Court has upheld the country’s European election results, rejecting a complaint by outgoing centre-right MEP Michaela ล ojdrovรก about preferential voting, although it found errors in some election committee records and s…
Software giant’s truce with cloud providers ends a two-year dispute and the threat of an antitrust probe.
Staff committee warns burnout situation could induce poor decision-making at one of Europeโs most powerful institutions.
Martina ล imkoviฤovรก thinks “Europe is dying out … because of the excessive number of LGBTQ+.”
Actors Isild Le Besco and Julia Roy filed complaints for alleged attacks dating back to the late 90sFrench prosecutors have requested film director Benoรฎt Jacquot be charged with raping actors Isild Le Besco and Julia Roy, the Paris prosecutorโs office…
Trump advisers envision a โradical reorientationโ in which Washington takes a back seat to Europe โ and cuts a deal with Putin over Ukraine.
French and British efforts to stop small boats have done little to prevent migrants from crossing the Channel.
Putin was going to do whatever he wanted regardless of what NATO and the EU did or didnโt do โ he would have just come up with another excuse to make war, another great lie.
‘Kill the Serb!’ ‘F**k Macedonia!’ Violent chants and regional rivalries tarnish Europe’s summer football tournament.
Slovakia’s former Prime Minister Eduard Heger and Defense Minister Jaroslav Naฤ are facing possible criminal charges for helping Ukraine.
The ban soured relations with Israel.
Cue the lawsuits, potential fines, dueling allegations โย and, for Leonore Gewessler, a great campaign ad.
Madrid is already squealing as Beijing launches anti-dumping investigation of EU pork.
(Recasts and adds trade figures in paragraph 8, further details and context throughout) By Joe Cash BEIJING, June 17 (Reuters) – China has opened an anti-dumping investigation into imported pork and its by-products from the European Union, a step that …
Samira Asmaa Allioui,
research and tutorial fellow at the Centre d’รฉtudes internationales et
europรฉennes de l’Universitรฉ de Strasbourg
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Commons
Journalists are under pressure in
differ…
Tom Vandendriessche rejects “smear campaign” as he leads Vlaams Belang into this week’s European election.
Pedro Sรกnchez questions timing of court order before European elections and accuses opponents of smear campaignEurope live โ latest updatesSpainโs socialist prime minister, Pedro Sรกnchez, has accused his political opponents of trying to undermine his g…
EU top court ruling says the fast food giant can no longer trademark Big Mac for chicken.
A Spanish judge on Tuesday summoned the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sรกnchez (PSOE/S&D), Begoรฑa Gรณmez, to appear in court on 5 July as a ‘person under investigation’ for alleged corruption and influence peddling in the private sector, follo…
“What we have here is a mudslinging campaign by the right and the far right,” a government spokesperson said.
Macron’s centrist party, Renaissance, is projected to come a distant second in this week’s European elections.
Possible deal involves a multimillion-dollar payout to cloud association backed by Amazon.
The actor, who became the first transgender woman to win the best actress prize at Cannes, had earlier dedicated her award to โall the trans people who are sufferingโThe first transgender woman to be awarded the best actress prize at the Cannes film fe…
Greater Manchester Police ‘concluded that no further police action will be taken’ against the Labour deputy leader.
Even if they aren’t yet, things could soon get nastier as Brussels’ investigation into Chinese electric vehicles nears its conclusion.
The Flemish regional government says locals are bothered by a new flight plan that sends aircraft roaring over their roofs.
A Uyghur organisation said members of the ethnic group in France face “intimidation and harassment” amounting to “repression” by the Chinese state in a legal complaint filed Wednesday (22 May).
A European travel tech industry group filed two separate complaints to French and Belgian data protection authorities over Ryanair’s use of biometric data, according to a press release shared with Euractiv.
The presenter was immediately suspended, according to Waregem1 radio station.
Klein may be charged over alleged threats and face a fine if convicted, after a member of the production crew made a complaint to policeJoost Klein, the Netherlandsโ Eurovision contestant who was disqualified from the competition just hours before the …
The European Union on Monday (13 May) sent an official complaint to the broadcaster of the Eurovision song contest over its refusal to let participants wave the bloc’s flag at this year’s final.
Banning the EU flag from Eurovision was a gift to “the enemies of Europe”, the commission’s vice-president said
Banning the EU flag from Eurovision was a gift to “the enemies of Europe”, the commission’s vice-president said
Song competition was marked by protests over Israel’s participation and the Dutch entrant’s disqualification.
Dutch contestant Joost Klein has been expelled from Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest final after a complaint by a member of the production crew, organisers said, adding to the headaches for host Sweden as it also grapples with anti-Israel protests.ย
The decision follows a police investigation into a formal complaint by a female member of the production crew.ย
The organisers said the Swedish police are investigating after a complaint was made about Klein by a female member of the production crew.
Meloni’s government faces increasing criticism for attacks on press freedom.
Philosopher being sued by Giorgia Meloniโs brother-in-law says such trials are part of a political strategyThe government of Giorgia Meloni is making strategic use of defamation suits to silence public intellectuals, a philosopher who is being sued by …
Following a cyberattack over two weeks ago, the Simone Veil Hospital in Cannes on Thursday said medical and personal data, including ID cards, health sheets and pay slips etc. stolen from the hospital have been published online. The hospital said it h…
Welcome to Euractivโs Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU.
Noyb, the Austrian non-profit founded by activist Max Schrems, has filed a complaint with the local privacy authority, alleging that OpenAI has violated the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and has not done enough to correct inaccurate pe…
The Socialist leader had threatened to resign due to right-wing attacks targeting his family.
Activist demands regulators launch probe over ChatGPT’s wild guess on his date of birth.
His ultimate decision could result in very different scenarios for Spain, and could impact negotiations over the new leaders of the EU’s institutions.
The alleged arrangements would be some of the closest known links between a Biden relative and a foreign government.
Pressure group accusing Begoรฑa Gรณmez of corruption admits media reports allegations were based on may not be trueProsecutors in Madrid have asked a judge to throw out a preliminary corruption investigation against the wife of Spainโs prime minister, Pe…
Spain’s prime minister has announced that he’s thinking of giving up running the country.
Two NGOs are accusing Fabrice Leggeri, the former director of the EU border agency Frontex turned candidate for the French far-right Rassemblement National party, of being complicit in crimes against humanity and the torture of migrants, in a complaint…
Dimitrios Kyriazis (DPhil, Oxon),
Assistant Professor in EU Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki.
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Mattis van โt Schip & Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius*
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If you arenโt sure what the difference is between an anti-subsidy probe and an investigation into foreign subsidies, we’ve got you covered.
EU lawmakers vote against Commission president’s choice of German center-right lawmaker for SME job.
William Wragg says he was manipulated into giving information on colleagues to a man he encountered on the Grindr dating app.
POLITICO revealed Wednesday at least a dozen high-powered men in British politics had been targeted with alluring messages and in several cases naked photos.
Commission also hit with official complaint by outraged MEP who was passed over for key job.
Belgium’s Digitalization Minister Mathieu Michel โย brother of European Council chief Charles โ now wants to reinvent it as a metaverse project.
European Public Prosecutor’s Office looking into texts between Ursula von der Leyen and boss of Pfizer.
Gabriel Attal says state will file a complaint against student over accusation against principal who had to resign for his safetyThe French prime minister, Gabriel Attal, has defended French secularism following the resignation of a Paris school princi…
Home Secretary James Cleverly orders investigation after border officials are said to have spoken in ‘aggressive terms’ to Israeli nationals.
La Liga President Javier Tebas also explained why he’s not sweating Saudi Arabia’s sporting ambitions, in an exclusive interview with POLITICO.
The iPhone maker is the last of the major tech companies in recent years to face U.S. antitrust action.
The EU announces that it’s looking into AliExpress, LinkedIn and generative AI.
The Sciences Po director continues to claim his innocence as him and his former partner are set to stand trial.
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Email asking Babiลก colleagues to dig up dirt on Czech foreign minister was sent in error to ecological activist.
The Helsinki Commission is hobbled by claims its Republican director has made against his Democratic-appointed predecessor (and vice versa).
Ukrainian steel and iron firms need EU buyers more than ever. But a looming EU tax in 2026 will cost them millions if rapid changes aren’t made.
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The European Commission started investigating following a complaint by Spotify in 2019.
Itโs the first time the tech giant has been fined by the European Commission.
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“We can inform you that a complaint has been filed for attempted murder,” prosecutor’s office says.
Court dismisses Moscow’s complaint about the ban, which is linked to the Kremlin’s occupation of parts of Ukraine.
