Packed prisons have been a recurring topic in Belgium for months. Two weeks ago, the director of Haren Prison in northern Brussels resigned due to frustrations over the conditions and staffing shortages. Belgium prison staff have also repeatedly staged strikes in recent months. A mid-May report by a prison oversight body found that Belgium’s prison […]
Continue Reading“2029 is not a German timeline. It’s NATO-agreed intelligence,” Freuding said. “All 32 NATO partners agree that Russia might have the capability to invade a NATO partner country in 2029.” But he warned that Russia could move before then, despite the war in Ukraine entering its fourth year and Kyiv saying that Moscow has suffered […]
Continue ReadingMeta is largely tuning out a suggestion from President Donald Trump that the U.S. government should forge a financial partnership with top artificial intelligence companies, the social media giant’s chief global affairs officer said Wednesday. “Honestly, it’s just not something that I’ve spent — we’ve spent a ton of time on,” Joel Kaplan said during […]
Continue ReadingThe order caps months of back-and-forth. After Brussels opened its probe in December and warned in February that it might force Meta’s hand, the company dropped the outright ban in March but started charging rivals a fee to get back on. The EU executive responded that the fee amounted, in practice, to locking out rivals, […]
Continue ReadingThe EU wants to bar former or current soldiers who have served the Russian armed forces from entering the bloc, according to EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. “Europe’s door should not be open to Russia’s (ex-)combatants,” she wrote on X. The measures include new export restrictions on goods that could be used by Russia’s […]
Continue ReadingAccording to Brussels, North Africa and the Middle East holds around 2,300 gigawatts of renewable-energy potential, more than twice the EU’s current installed capacity. Solar and wind power can be produced 30 to 40 percent more cheaply than in Europe, the Commission estimates. Yet the scale of the challenge remains enormous. The Commission’s own estimates […]
Continue Reading“This ‘35% by 2035’ target will be one of the defining priorities of our COP31 presidency,” he added. “We will work to bring together a strong global coalition that is ready and determined to act in support of this objective.” The plans are part of the summit’s so-called action agenda, which is designed to coordinate […]
Continue ReadingThe EU itself is calling on other countries and regions to step up observation. “Due to the complicated nature of ocean observation, no single country or region can observe the ocean alone. This must be a global effort with diplomacy at its forefront,” said the European Commissioner for Oceans Costas Kadis at the Neptune Forum, an event on ocean exploration […]
Continue ReadingIn a joint statement on Sunday, Merz and his counterparts in France and the U.K. — together with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — called for “direct dialogue between Ukraine and Russia with active U.S. and European participation” and set out five conditions to achieve peace, including an immediate and complete ceasefire. The current contact line between […]
Continue ReadingThe NSPCC’s chief executive Chris Sherwood welcomed the announcement, describing it as a “major step forward in our fight against online child sexual abuse.” “Time is up for Big Tech. Now Government must focus on holding them to account to ensure this transformational change for young people’s safety is quickly delivered,” he said. Last month […]
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