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Google hit with European privacy probe over its AI system

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Regulators are cracking down on tech firmsโ€™ development of artificial intelligence systems over data protection concerns.

The UK is backing away from oil

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Britain has been drilling off the Scottish coast for generations. But the new Labour government has greener plans.

UK arms-sale ban wonโ€™t make any difference to war, says former Israeli PM

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Ehud Olmert tells POLITICOโ€™s Power Play podcast that Israel’s allies should instead focus on lack “of any political horizon or end game strategy” from Benjamin Netanyahu.

โ€˜I was in tearsโ€™: exhibition tells human stories of Portugalโ€™s colonial legacy

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Family Albums: Photographs of the African Diaspora is a counter-narrative to its monument home, built to glorify the nationโ€™s former empireIts thousands of images hail from around the world, capturing an empire that spanned from Angola to Cape Verde an…

Trump says he opposes six-week abortion ban adopted by his home state of Florida

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But the former president wonโ€™t say whether heโ€™ll vote for the ballot measure to overturn the new restriction.

ABBA to Trump: Stop using our tunes

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Swedish icons join Cรฉline Dion, Beyoncรฉ, Foo Fighters, Johnny Marr, Adele, Aerosmith and Guns N’ Roses (and breathe, whew!) in fury at Donald Trump.

โ€˜Russians do everything via Telegram.โ€™ Pavel Durovโ€™s arrest upends Kremlin military comms

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Although Durov publicly distances himself from Moscow, his platform has become vital for Russian army coordination in Ukraine.

Should we allow our children to travel without adults? | Letters

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Readers respond to the news of Kirstie Allsopp being reported to social services after letting her son travel around Europe aged 15, and share their experiencesI am astounded that Kirstie Allsopp was reported to social services for allowing her son to …

Elon Muskโ€™s X faces privacy complaints in Europe over data use for AI training

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A Vienna-based privacy campaign group lodged complaints in eight European countries against Elon Musk’s X on Monday (12 August) over “unlawfully” feeding the personal data of users into its artificial intelligence technology without their consent.

Top freed dissident says Putin used prisoner swap to exile him without consent

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Ilya Yashin says he wants to go back to Russia, but argues the Kremlin pressured Germany to secure guarantees he would never return.

Ukraine war briefing: Waves of Russian bombings and infantry assaults drive major gains in east

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Russian military intensifies pressure on key Ukrainian transport hub of Pokrovsk; Kyiv receives bodies of 250 slain soldiers in exchange with Moscow. What we know on day 892See all our Ukraine war coverageRussian assaults are raising pressure on the st…

Elon Muskโ€™s X under fire over harvesting usersโ€™ data to train AI chatbot

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The platform’s lead EU regulator is looking into the matter, which may infringe upon the bloc’s privacy rules.

We volunteered at a Gaza hospital. What we saw was unspeakable.

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American surgeons who witnessed the civilian carnage of the Israel-Hamas war.

Meta breaches digital rules by charging users for ad-free social networks, EU claims

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European Commission says โ€˜pay or consentโ€™ model does not comply with Digital Markets ActMark Zuckerbergโ€™s Meta has breached the EUโ€™s new digital laws with an advertising model that charges users for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram, according…

How to navigate Hungaryโ€™s EU presidency policy agenda like a pro

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The countryโ€™s Council stint will be marked by political change in Brussels following the EU election.

Advancing Gender Equality: The EU`s Landmark Directive 2024/1385 on Violence Against Women

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Dr. Ceren Kasฤฑm, Postdoctoral
Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Hildesheim, Germany

Photo credit: MesserWoland, via Wikimedia Commons 

INTRODUCTION

 

The first-ever binding European
Union (EU) legal instrument to…

Rogue Austrian minister burns bridges to save EU nature law

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Cue the lawsuits, potential fines, dueling allegations โ€”ย and, for Leonore Gewessler, a great campaign ad.

European elections โ€“ as it happened: Italy joins vote with Meloni poised as EU powerbroker

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Most of the European Unionโ€™s 27 member countries, including powerhouses France and Germany, go to the polls on Sunday, the final dayRobert Fico, Slovakiaโ€™s prime minister who was shot and seriously injured in May, cast his vote at a hospital in Bratisl…

Greece rocked by voter privacy scandal ahead of EU election

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Voter data held by the Interior Ministry found its way to a New Democracy MEP running for reelection.

Nonconsensual AI porn is hated on the left and right. Can the US act on it?

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Victims of nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes are lobbying Congress to pass a bill. Lawmakers are running out of time.

UN Srebrenica resolution will cause further division in the Balkans

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Reaching a consensus on memorializing the past in a way that doesnโ€™t sow division is the best way to ensure it does not โ€” and cannot โ€” happen again.

Protecting the conditional autonomy of governing bodies in sport from review โ€˜from a competition standpointโ€™: how the Court should decide its pending cases on the transfer system, the regulation of agents and club (re-)location.

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 Stephen Weatherill

Jacques Delors Professor of
European Law (Emeritus), Faculty of Law and Somerville College, University of
Oxford

Photo: Lassana Diarra, by ะ ั‹ะฑะฐะบะพะฒะฐ ะ•ะปะตะฝะฐ, on Wikimedia Commons

 

In preparing this paper I have
bene…

Johnny Mercer: The British minister who could go to jail over a war crimes probe

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The veterans minister is refusing to hand over names of military informants alleging major wrongdoing in Afghanistan โ€” and the clock is ticking.

The new EU asylum laws, part 6: the new Dublin rules on responsibility for asylum-seekers

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 Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway, University of London

Photo credit: Ggia, via Wikimedia Commons(last updated 10 June 2024: changed text marked by an asterisk)Just before Christmas, the
European Parliament and the Council (the EU body consi…

More cash, less screen time: 5 policy takeaways from Macronโ€™s Sorbonne speech

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Here’s what you need to know about the French president’s wide-ranging address on Thursday.

Press release – MEPs consent to the EU withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty

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Parliamentโ€™s approval is needed for the EU to exit from the Energy Charter Treaty.Committee on International TradeCommittee on Industry, Research and Energy Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP

โ€˜Did Something Happen to Mom When She Was Young?โ€™

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The hidden history of the Cold War adoption complex.

Juliette Pavy: Sony World Photographer of the Year 2024

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The prestigious photographer of the year title has been awarded to Juliette Pavy for her series Spiralkampagnen: Forced Contraception and Unintended Sterilisation of Greenlandic Women. Pavy was selected from the 10 winners in the professional category;…

The chilling policy to cut Greenlandโ€™s high birth rate โ€“ podcast

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In the 1960s the birthrate in Greenland was one of the highest in the world. Then it plunged. Decades later, women have finally begun speaking out about what happenedBula Larson was 14 when one day she and her friends were told to go to the hospital. B…

Trump campaign asks for cut of candidatesโ€™ fundraising when they use his name and likeness

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The campaign sent the letter as the former president is struggling to close a fundraising gap with Biden.

Germany makes changing legal gender easier

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The change will allow people age 14 and older to more easily legally change their first name and gender in Germany.

Franceโ€™s war on woke, from the salons to the cinemas

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Opposition to identity politics isnโ€™t confined to the cultural right.

โ€˜I was only a childโ€™: Greenlandic women tell of trauma of forced contraception

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Women say being fitted with IUDs without their consent left them with pain, shame and lasting reproductive difficultiesDanish minister urged to meet Greenland coil scandal womenHedvig Frederiksen had been at her new school in Paamiut, Greenland, for on…

โ€˜Get on a planeโ€™: Danish minister urged to meet Greenland coil scandal women

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Exclusive: Territoryโ€™s government calls for visit to listen to those thought to be living with consequences of forced fitting of IUDsโ€˜I was only a childโ€™: women tell of trauma of forced contraceptionThe Danish health minister should โ€œget on a plane and…

EU probes Apple, Google and Meta over digital rules compliance

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Companies face fines of up to 10 percent of their global annual turnover if European Commission decides they are breaking the laws.

The Markus Ferber affair: When lawmaking meets business

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The relationship between a powerful German MEP and a Dutch businessman blurred the lines between public service and private gain.

Vaughan Gething โ€” meet Europeโ€™s first Black head of government

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Vaughan Gething’s election will be a key test of relations with Westminster โ€” and unity in his own ranks.

Franceโ€™s Macron faces backlash over u-turn on legal definition of rape

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In a video seen by AFP on Wednesday (13 March), French President Emmanuel Macron said he was in favour of including the notion of consent in the criminal definition of rape – a significant U-turn, given that France opposed the idea in an EU directive i…

MEPs vote to allow compulsory licensing of patented drugs in emergency situations

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During the European Parliamentโ€™s plenary session on Wednesday (13 March), MEPs adopted their position on a law which could enable companies to produce medicines without the consent of the patent holder in crisis situations.ย 

Macron announces aid in dying bill under strict conditions

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The French parliament will examine the bill in May.

Net zero meets the NIMBYs: Inside the battle for the UKโ€™s biggest solar farm

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U.K. politicians have pledged to quadruple solar generation by 2035. There is one problem โ€” no one wants to live next door to acres of fields crammed with solar panels.

Top EU court finds widely employed consent system violates EU privacy regulation

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The European Court of Justice on Thursday (7 March) found the Belgian association IAB Europe’s consent system for auctioning personal data in breach of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.

Ukrainians are still waiting for Abramovichโ€™s billions

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Proceeds from the sale of Chelsea FC are embroiled in a property rights quagmire.

Greenlandic women sue Danish state for contraceptive โ€˜violationโ€™

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Group of 143 allege they were fitted with coils without consent or knowledge between 1966 and 1970, when some were childrenNearly 150 Greenlandic women have sued the Danish state, alleging that they were fitted with the contraceptive coil without their…

Elon Muskโ€™s X could face EU antitrust crackdown under new DMA rules

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X, TikTok-owner Bytedance and travel website group Booking said they run digital services that could qualify them as so-called gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act.

College of Europe professor โ€˜canโ€™t continueโ€™ roles, sexual harassment probe finds

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‘The Committee considers that the Defendant cannot continue in his role as [redacted], nor as a professor at the College of Europe.’

All Keir Starmerโ€™s Labour U-turns in one place

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POLITICO lists 26 (and counting) key walkbacks in Starmerโ€™s spell as opposition leader.

EU’s first gender-based violence law a ‘big disappointment’

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The EU has adopted a provisional agreement on a directive to combat violence against women, the first-ever EU rules to fight gender based violence. But it does not include rape as ‘sex without consent’, or a ban on forced sterilisation.

Bangladesh launches investigation into children โ€˜wronglyโ€™ adopted overseas

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Police start to interview witnesses following Guardian reports on adoptions to the Netherlands nearly 50 years agoPolice in Bangladesh have launched an investigation into historical allegations that children were adopted abroad without their parentsโ€™ c…

Orbรกnโ€™s blackmail is outrageous โ€” but the EU must be smart

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Brussels and member countries need to become more nimble in working around the blocโ€™s troublemakers.

France, Germany, Netherlands side with conservative EU countries in split over rape definition

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Feminist NGOs have criticised France, Germany and the Netherlands for blocking the inclusion of consent-based definition of rape in the EU’s directive to combat violence against women as December’s negotiations on the law once again stalled.

Polandโ€™s political war heats up

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President Andrzej Duda and PM Donald Tusk are at daggers drawn over efforts to restore the rule of law in Poland.

Poland against EU Commission prolonging trade policy with Ukraine

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Poland will not give its consent for the EU Commission to prolong the special trade policy regarding Ukraine, said Deputy Agriculture Minister Michaล‚ Koล‚odziejczak, signalling that despite different points on many issues, Donald Tuskโ€™s government would…

The New EU Asylum Laws, part 3: the Resettlement Regulation

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Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway University of London*

Photo credit: Voice of
America, via Wikimedia
Commons *Sentences with an asterisk have been updated since the original post in light of later developments. Most recent update: 14 May …

Sweden closer to NATO membership after Turkish parliamentary committeeย vote

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The Turkish parliamentโ€™s foreign affairs committee gave its consent to Swedenโ€™s bid to join NATO on Tuesday, drawing the previously nonaligned Nordic country closer to membership in the Western military alliance. Swedenโ€™s accession protocol will now n…

They wonโ€™t get rid of me, Meloni promises at right-wing political festival

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni promises to stay until the end of the legislature as long as she has the consent of the Italians, she said at Fratelli dโ€™Italiaโ€™s annual event where many leaders, including Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, UK Prim…

UK mulls social media curbs for kids โ€” but whoโ€™s even asking?

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Even those advocating most strongly for child safety online seem queasy about a ban for under-16s.

EU Commission seeks third way between โ€˜pay or consentโ€™ in voluntary pledges

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The EU’s consumer protection department presented draft pledging principles for the digital advertising industry as part of its initiative to phase out cookie banners that include the provision of a third, less intrusive alternative to the pay-or…

Paris under fire after latest refusal to adopt EU-wide rape definition

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France again voted against incorporating rape into the EU directive on combating violence against women during inter-institutional trilogue talks between the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament on Wednesday (13 December).

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