SNEAK PEEK โ JD Vance lands in Paris as the U.K. tries to get on message.ย โย Peter Kyle says an AI bill will avoid upsetting voluntary agreement with AI labs. โย The U.K.โs own mini-summit kicks off in London. Good morning and happy Tuesday, This is Tom, coming to you from a cold press room in [โฆ]
Loss of USAid funds will sow โchaos and confusionโ and force independent media outlets to shut down, says RSF Donald Trumpโs foreign aid freeze will lead to a decline in the number of independent media outlets across the world, causing a surge in misin…
Intentionally or not, concerned businesses, the ascendant far right and traditional conservatives are coming together to rewrite green rules.
Heads of state, top government officials, CEOs and scientists from 100 countries are meeting for an AI summit in Paris, where challenging diplomatic talks are expected as tech titans fight for dominance in the fast-moving technology industry. For in-d…
Opposition from the financial services sector on the FiDA bill found sympathy within the French government, which called for its demise.
MPs on Treasury select committee request information from past two years
SNEAK PEEK โ As the AI Action Summit kicks off, the U.K. is tempted against signing its main declaration. โ Peter Kyle takes his investment pitch to Paris. โ Back at home, thereโs a backlash against the Home Office over encryption. Good Monday morning, This is Tom in Paris. You can get in touch with [โฆ]
With a cease-fire holding in Gaza, Israel shifts its war to the West Bank.
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Would be chancellor Friederich Merz breaks post-war convention of no political deals with far rightOn a foggy, frigid morning in Saxony, far-right MP Renรฉ Bochmann could not believe his partyโs luck in the final days of the German election campaign, wi…
The judge limited access to โcivil servants with a need for accessโ who have โpassed all background checks and security clearances.โ
Aides to the president and Elon Musk suspected USAID officials were trying to go around a funding freeze.
Disconnecting from the Soviet-era grid faced an intimidation campaign โ but it’s Moscow that could be left in a precarious position.
โThe current game is maximum chaos,โ one industry leader says of the current state of Canada-U.S. relations
POLITICO guides you through the essential events of this year’s Paris Artificial Intelligence Action Summit.
Moscow shows โindifferenceโ to civilian humanitarian corridor offer, says Zelenskyy; France delivers Mirage jets. What we know on day 1,080Russia said it was battling a new Ukrainian offensive in Kursk, as Kyiv offered a humanitarian corridor for civil…
POLITICO a fait l’objet d’un dรฉbat sur X cette semaine. Certains รฉlรฉments prรฉsentรฉs รฉtaient mal informรฉs, d’autres tout simplement faux. Remettons les pendules ร l’heure.
It’s latest tit-for-tat move after Russia booted out a British diplomat late last year.
Police have provided information on the gunman who opened fire and killed 11 people at an adult education centre on Tuesday in the Swedish city of รrebro.
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Inspired by the rare disease communityโs passionate drive to advance policies that provide equitable access to care, UCB spearheaded Aspire4Rare: a global initiative supporting the development of rare disease policies.
The pilsner plan is finding parts of the electorate other initiatives can’t reach.
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There is no information as to whether the ePrivacy regulation will be withdrawn by the Commission.
Green lawmakers claim the U.S. president’s son shot a rare duck in an EU conservation zone.
A man opened fire on an adult educational center in the town of รrebro on Tuesday. The police did not give any information about his profile or motive.
The existence of the FBIโs informal working group on the issue has not been disclosed publicly before.
British intelligence services reportedly told the Labour leader his account could have been compromised.
The platforms were presented with various scenarios based on past experience of attempted election manipulation, such as information manipulation through deepfakes to distort content.
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Euractiv has mapped all DeepSeek-related open investigations and requests for information from European data protection authorities.
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Italy’s food is supposed to be the world’s healthiest. So why are so many of its kids obese?
Adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls Keith Kelloggโs plan a failure after US envoy says he thinks both sides โwill give a little bitโ; British PM says Putin โrattledโ by Trump threats. What we know on day 1,076See all our Ukraine war coverageDonald Tru…
Social media companies including TikTok, Meta and X took part in an election stress test on Friday.
The Chinese AI firm recently emerged as a fierce competitor to industry leaders like OpenAI.
Air traffic controller shortages, soaring travel demand, a surge of airport near-collisions and complaints of congressional dysfunction escalated before the U.S. saw its first fatal domestic airline crash since 2009.
The Chinese AI model will have to provide information on the processing of EU data after politicians, NGOs and researchers expressed concerns about the safety of Europeans.
Mutations in the virus make is more likely to jump species, warn the EU’s disease and food agencies.
Man sent coordinates and photo of steering wheel to his girlfriend allowing officers to locate car and rescue himSpanish police have rescued a man who was kidnapped and bundled into the boot of a car after he managed to alert his girlfriend by sending …
Incoming British ambassador to the U.S. says his comments were “ill-judged” and Trump has won “fresh respect.”
Heโs said the UN bodyโs head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, treated China better than him during the pandemic.
Brussels hopes simplifying green compliance rules will boost Europe’s flagging economy. Green groups fear something more sinister.
New Chinese model suggests winning the AI race could be done on the cheap.
The new directive puts some aid organizations at risk of bankruptcy.
Jos Leijdekkers, reportedly the son-in-law of African countryโs president, was sentenced to 24 years in prisonOne of Europeโs most wanted men, the Dutch crime boss Jos Leijdekkers, is hiding out in Sierra Leone, Dutch prosecutors have said.The statemen…
The Auschwitz nazi death camp has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list for decades. UNESCO has been pivotal in keeping the memory of what happened during the Shoah alive and has just released a new series of guidelines for teachers and journ…
Several studies have said the virus originated naturally โ but U.S. intelligence changed its assessment over the weekend.
Italy said it was transferring 49 migrants picked up in the Mediterranean to new processing centers in Albania, in the third such attempt facing hurdles by courts. More information with FRANCE 24 correspondent in Rome, Seema Gupta.
We may not be able to change how people ingest information, but we can and should place guardrails around the evidence we use to inform the public.
Warehouse strike in Russia โdestroys 200 Shahed dronesโ; Ryazan oil refinery hit again, says Kyivโs military. What we know on day 1,069Russia on Sunday claimed its troops had captured Velyka Novosilka, a strategically important town in the Donetsk regi…
The Latvian Navy sent a patrol to inspect a vessel possibly involved in causing the damage and is contact with NATO allies.
The billionaire’s main sources of information on the European Union consist of a dozen very active X accounts with highly selective approaches to the news.
The intelligence agency has said for years it couldnโt say with certainty where the pandemic originated from.
The presidentโs first week showed a stark contrast with his predecessor.
Bidders from countries that require information sharing with national governments or have a high hacking activity must submit plans to ensure data remains within Europe.
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Political acrimony is rocking Bratislava.
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Pressure from human rights organizations follows a POLITICO investigation into TotalEnergies plant.
Security industry guns-for-hire are warned they could face jail time if they work for hostile states โ even accidentally.
The proposals are to be discussed during next week’s meeting of EU foreign ministers.
Negatives clearly outweigh the positives, says editor-in-chief.
AI training transparency has become a priority as GPAI systems rely on large datasets that often contain personal and copyrighted information.
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“How is this not a lobbying gig?” asks a Greens MEP.
The city of Paris said the lack of moderation has made using the platform “impossible.”
Donations are flying in from some of the worldโs biggest companies โ and though many have contributed before, the checks this year are bigger.
EU health care sector pummeled with cyberattacks in recent years.
Some crew members of France’s atomic-armed submarines publicly shared workouts via the Strava app, inadvertently disclosing sensitive patrol schedule information. FRANCE 24’s Vedika Bahl reports.
Le Premier ministre a esquissรฉ ses dossiers des prochains mois, en se gardant de trop entrer dans les dรฉtails.
Baltic Sea country leaders are meeting in Helsinki after a series of incidents involving energy and data cables.
The treatment of Trumpโs Pentagon pick will likely determine how other nominees fare.
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The Commission can be run from a hospital bed, an EU spokesperson says.
Trump has said he wants to use active duty U.S. troops to quell protests and round up immigrants. Will the military comply?
His departure was disclosed in a court filing submitted Saturday afternoon to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.
New U.S. sanctions against Russia target Serbia’s main gas company, at the same time that Azerbaijan claims to not be able to deliver its supply.
The mishap only came to light when the military was called to ask when they would collect their mines from an IKEA warehouse.
Aid promised at Ramstein meeting covered air defence, information technology, demining, naval forces, air forces and artillery. What we know on day 1,052See all our Ukraine coverage Continue reading…
God! Martians! A “communist” Hitler! It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.
PM says her relationship with U.S. president-elect is “very solid” and insists his recent incendiary remarks flow from a “peace-through-strength” approach.
โOne seemingly inauthentic Facebook account identified by researchers was found to post over 100 times a day,” the Centre for Information Resilience noted.
Up to 150 experts in Brussels and Seville will be checking whether Musk’s livestream interview boosts the German far right.
The EUโs pharma sector joins forces to call for the EU to support a more rapid move to electronic product information (ePI).
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Azerbaijan has fought a series of wars against Armenia in recent years.
La Commission europรฉenne indique quโelle va รฉtudier si X a donnรฉ un avantage injuste ร lโextrรชme droite pour les รฉlections allemandes.
“Thereโs not a centrist left-wing government in Europe that will be able to withstand that onslaught,” the right-wing podcaster says.
Vienna could be about to get its first far-right leader since World War II. Europe’s mainstream sees trouble brewing.
In a world less constrained by international norms and rules, and increasingly governed by sheer power, the strictures that long constrained nuclear proliferation are in danger of loosening โ if not untangling altogether.
European Commission says it will study whether X gives unfair boost to far right in German election.
Le magnat de la tech est en relation avec de nombreux responsables politiques dans le monde. Les gouvernements europรฉens nโont pas encore trouvรฉ comment gรฉrer le fait dโรชtre dans son collimateur.
News of the talks comes shortly after the Italian PM visited President-elect Donald Trump in Florida.
We listened to three hours of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Lex Fridman so you don’t have to.
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(3/5). The archives of KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin challenge the notion that French intelligence services were never infiltrated during the Cold War: Throughout the 1950s, agent Pierre Chaignot provided the Soviets with valuable counter-intelligence …
Our California ballot-measure reporter heads to Switzerland on the 150th anniversary of its first federal referendum to see what a state mad about direct democracy can take away from the country that devised i
The “chameleon” tech billionaire is one of the most powerful politically connected people in the world. Europe’s governments are still working out how to deal with being on his bad side.
German Chancellor appeals to the EU executive to slash regulation and support industry with subsidies โ only to be accused by his conservative opponents of stealing their policies.
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Green heating has an image problem, especially where climate-sceptic parties hold sway. Now energy groups are promoting them on grounds of cost, status and energy securityA few dozen people had gathered on the dancefloor of the nightclub in eastern Ger…
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No such connection has yet been uncovered, the president said.
President-elect says his administration will โfully support the City of New Orleans.โ
