Category: Politico News

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has awarded his country’s Order of Freedom to Elon Musk Wednesday, amid efforts to persuade Musk to expand access to his Starlink network. Zelenskyy’s presidential decree praises Musk for “protecting people’s lives and freedom, and developing relations between the peoples of Ukraine and the United States of America.” Musk’s Starlink satellite […]

“[T]he GDPR has strangled small businesses and tech firms alike in a web of unnecessary regulation … Ten years after the Brexit referendum we should not still be following ridiculous EU privacy laws that hurt British businesses,” Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick said in a statement.   The EU GDPR provides for a wider set […]

Guterres and ICRC chief Mirjana Spoljaric underlined that targeting civilians in war is a violation of international humanitarian law, and said they fear that machines won’t be able to tell the difference between combatants and non-combatants. Both called for a ban on autonomous weapons which produce unpredictable results and anti-personnel weapons that deliberately target human […]

The officials were the targets of so-called “state-sponsored spearphishing,” the presentation said, a term for state-backed, targeted and bespoke campaigns to get specific people to click on dodgy links or open malicious attachments. Hackers used “social engineering techniques” to trick EU officials, crafting personalized messages that were more likely to get targets to take the […]

Since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin has stepped up efforts to bring privately owned assets — including industrial and defense-related companies — under state control. Around 805 companies were transferred to the state between 2022 and 2026, according to Vadim Yakovenko, head of the Federal Agency for State Property […]

Merz did not attribute the attack in his remarks Tuesday. “We are working intensively on that together with the security agencies, and we will present our findings and comment on them shortly,” he said. According to German outlet Bild, Merz told members of his Christian Democratic Union party in a private meeting Monday that the […]

A question of sovereignty The key theme looming over the Icelandic referendum is sovereignty. But it’s an issue that cuts two ways, and polls suggest the referendum is on a knife-edge. A Gallup poll in mid-August gave the “Yes” camp a wafer-thin advantage, with 51.5 percent support. While “Yes” campaigners like Eggertsson stress the regional […]

The Ceuta crisis erupted at the end of July, when tens of thousands of people entered the coastal semi-exclave in North Africa in the space of 24 hours, forcing Spain to deploy the army after border forces were overwhelmed. Sánchez flew to Ceuta and branded the crossings an “attack” and a violation of Spain’s territorial […]

“It’s really important that we consider them together,” Edwards says of social care and assisted dying. “I don’t think that there is a reason to delay” changing the law, she argues, highlighting £125 million provided by Starmer’s government for adult and children’s hospices. (A Public Accounts Committee report said this one-off funding did not directly […]