The EU slapped a 200-million-euro ($232 million) fine on Chinese-owned online retailer Temu on Thursday for allowing the sale of illegal products, including dangerous baby toys and defective chargers. “The company failed to diligently identify, analyse, and assess the systemic risks of illegal products being offered on its platform and the resulting harm to consumers […]
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Thousands of Georgians staged a pro-Europe rally in the capital Tbilisi on the country’s Independence Day on Tuesday, to protest what critics say is the government’s democratic backsliding and anti-Western tilt. The Black Sea nation has been mired in political turmoil since parliamentary elections in 2024, which the opposition says were rigged. Opposition parties have […]
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Student protesters will take to the streets in Serbia this weekend in the first major demonstrations this year against President Aleksandar Vučić. Students have become a significant political force in Serbia over the last two years: in 2025, then-Prime Minister Miloš Vučević resigned after anti‑corruption protests led by…
Italy, Ireland and Spain have called on the EU to sanction Israel’s far-right national security minister, who posted a video showing detained activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla forced to their knees with hands bound. A global outcry erupted after Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir published a video Wednesday showing the heavy-handed treatment of foreign activists […]
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The eurozone economy will expand less than expected this year, the EU said Thursday, as the Middle East war and subsequent energy shock take their toll. The European Commission said the single currency area’s economy is expected to grow 0.9 percent in 2026, down from a previous prediction of 1.2 percent. The EU also sharply […]
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You heard that right: before the Iran war began, the United States and Israel planned to make former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – a Holocaust denier who has called for the destruction of Israel – the new leader, according to a New York Times report. Evidently, Ahmadinejad, who was under house…
US President Trump and Chinese President Xi on Thursday exchanged friendly toasts and reiterations of commitment on the first day of a Beijing summit flush with pageantry. The friendly tone suggests that both sides hope to maintain the current status quo of fragile detente in a relationship marked by deep…
The EU could force railway companies to sell rivals’ tickets on their websites and share data with booking platforms under plans to be unveiled Wednesday aiming to boost train travel, sources said. Brussels wants to improve rail connection across Europe to cut carbon emissions from air transport. But dreams of seamless cross-country journeys rub up […]
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The “resilient” NATO alliance can weather criticism from US President Donald Trump and remains crucial to underpinning Western security in the face of Russia, Canada’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand said Monday. “NATO as a defensive alliance committed to collective security could never be more important than it is today,” Anand told AFP in an interview […]
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A flurry of new schemes to launch Europe-based social networks faces a steep, rocky road to seduce users away from American and Asian giants in the sector. Founders nevertheless see opportunity in the disillusionment and distrust of major platforms that have spiked alongside transatlantic tensions under Donald Trump’s second presidency. “We think the timing is […]
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"It's time for Europe to equip itself with its own social networks."
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President Trump said the European Union must ratify its trade deal with the United States by July 4 or face "much higher" tariffs.
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European Union prosecutors have launched a probe into a possible misappropriation of EU funds, after a complaint alleged France’s far-right National Rally had used European grants to benefit its leader Jordan Bardella, a source close to the case told AFP Thursday. The complaint, filed in Paris last December by anti-graft association AC!!Anti-Corruption, was forwarded by […]
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Russia said Thursday that it was “incomprehensible” its ally Armenia hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a European summit earlier this week, and cautioned the country against deeper European integration. Ties between Armenia and its former imperial ruler Moscow have frayed in recent years. The former Soviet republic froze its membership in the Russian-led CSTO […]
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How big is the jet fuel threat to Europe’s summer holidays? The EU says it is not facing shortages yet, but it is readying for the worst — and weighing options including using US kerosene as a back-up. The US-Israeli war with Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have sent aviation fuel […]
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The Lobito Corridor mega-project linking three African countries is shifting from blueprint to proving ground in the global race for critical minerals. Linking Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, it was pitched as the West’s answer to China’s dominance in African mining. Backed by more than $2.7 billion in pledged investment, the corridor […]
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The EU in January proposed banning foreign telecoms equipment-makers over network access concerns that could pose risks to national security.
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The United States must respect its tariff agreement with the EU, the bloc’s trade chief told his American counterpart Tuesday, after President Donald Trump threatened to hike levies on European cars. The European Union and the United States struck a deal last July setting tariffs on most EU goods at 15 percent, but Trump has […]
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President Donald Trump said Friday that he will hike US tariffs on cars and trucks from the European Union next week, charging that the bloc is not complying with an earlier trade deal. The pact, which was struck last summer, had capped the US tariff on EU autos and parts at 15 percent, which is […]
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Eurozone economic growth dropped to near zero in the first three months of 2026 as surging energy costs triggered by the Middle East war pushed inflation sharply up in April, data showed on Thursday. The figures will add to fears of stagflation — high inflation coupled with low economic growth — in the eurozone because […]
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Incoming Hungarian leader Peter Magyar on Wednesday pays his first visit to EU chiefs in Brussels since his election win, looking to turn the page on the bad blood of nationalist Viktor Orban’s tenure. While Orban often used trips to the city to showcase his opposition to the European Union, Magyar is looking to kickstart a […]
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Europe endured a historic heatwave across Nordic countries, shrinking glaciers and record sea temperatures in 2025 as the fast-warming continent faces more frequent climate extremes, a new report showed Wednesday. “The climate indicators … are quite worrying,” Mauro Facchini, a European Commission official, told journalists. The European State of the Climate report underscores the urgent […]
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The European Parliament on Tuesday threw its weight behind a more ambitious and bigger long-term EU budget, demanding new taxes to ramp up future spending. The EU executive last year proposed a nearly two-trillion-euro ($2.3-trillion) long-term budget bazooka for 2028-2034 that includes paying off the bloc’s coronavirus-related debt. EU lawmakers rejected that proposal, and called […]
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The European Union and United States signed an agreement Friday to coordinate on the supply of critical minerals needed for key industries including defense, as China’s dominance becomes a growing concern. The pact marks a rare embrace by President Donald Trump’s administration of the role of the EU, which it often berates as it instead […]
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The EU on Wednesday gave a preliminary green light to unblocking a 90-billion-euro ($106 billion) for Kyiv, after a months-long row between Ukraine and Hungary over a damaged pipeline. Diplomats said Budapest was given 24 hours to sign off definitively as it waits for Russian oil to arrive through the Druzhba pipeline after Kyiv said […]
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Britain’s government is set to announce legislation next month to move the country closer to the European Union, as the Iran war sours the UK’s so-called special relationship with the United States. President Donald Trump’s unpredictability and stream of insults towards America’s historic ally is adding impetus to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s bid to deepen […]
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The European Union expects to start releasing a new 90-billion-euro loan to Ukraine in the second quarter, the bloc’s economy chief told AFP on Thursday. EU economy commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis was speaking on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s spring meetings, which brought finance ministers, central bankers and other leaders to […]
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European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday that an EU-developed age verification app was ready to go, as the bloc pushes to better protect children from online harm. Brussels has been under pressure to come up with more stringent measures to safeguard children online as several EU capitals move ahead with plans to […]
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And they may make Orban pay in a general election on April 12 that could spell an end to his 16-year rule.
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With the war in the Middle East sending global fertiliser prices soaring, the EU is coming under pressure from farmers and some member states to take action. Agriculture sector representatives are due in Brussels for talks with the European Commission on April 13, as many complain the conflict risks plunging an already strained industry into […]
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