France’s current legislation only allows businesses deemed essential, including restaurants, to remain fully open. The owners of nonessential shops can operate on the holiday but only without employees — a rule that several bakeries reportedly breached last year. The controversial measure proposed by conservative party Les Républicains was approved last year in the Senate. President […]
Continue Reading“The key for us, why we want to join the EU, is obviously common values that we all believe in, and secondly, it’s the single market, it’s half a billion people versus half a million Montenegrins,” Spajić said. “And the third thing is it’s a peace project, maybe even the last peace project on Earth […]
Continue ReadingThe poll comes as Europe is trying to boost homegrown technology across artificial intelligence, cloud, telecoms and beyond, and reduce its reliance on foreign tech giants, notably American and Chinese firms. While people trust European tech companies more, only half of respondents (51 percent) said they trust homegrown tech firms with their personal data. Slightly […]
Continue ReadingKYIV — Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an Orthodox Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, following repeated calls by Kyiv for a pause in hostilities over the holiday period. The ceasefire would start at 4 p.m. on Saturday and last until the end of Sunday, the day Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter, the Kremlin said in a statement […]
Continue ReadingTrump’s attacks on NATO, his threats to annex Greenland — reiterated on Wednesday — as well as the tariffs he’s imposed on allies and the Iran war are all undermining European confidence in America. The European Pulse survey, conducted by Cluster17 for POLITICO and beBartlet, polled 6,698 Europeans across Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Poland and […]
Continue ReadingTensions flared further in December when President Vučić snubbed an EU-Western Balkans summit. Vučić, who has maintained close ties with Moscow throughout its war with Ukraine, bemoaned the sluggish pace of negotiations for EU membership. In a joint article with his Albanian counterpart in February he said he would prefer to pursue closer economic alignment […]
Continue ReadingThe U.S.-Israeli war with Iran — which has now entered a two-week ceasefire — has seen the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, in a move that has led to a sharp increase in oil prices. Starmer has tried to position Britain at the center of a coalition of countries helping to reopen the Strait, […]
Continue ReadingThe tech company made the announcement after finding that its new Claude Mythos model outperformed most humans at “finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities.” Listen AI generated Text-to-speech
Continue ReadingMartin rejected the protesters’ demands for a meeting, saying they did not represent any industry body and were trying to blackmail the government. It would set a dangerous precedent, he said, particularly given that the government last month already cut tax on petrol and diesel by 15 cents and 20 cents per liter, respectively. “The […]
Continue ReadingThis wouldn’t be the first time that EU capitals have raided the profits of energy companies to ease economic pain. The EU introduced a temporary windfall tax in the wake of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which also led to prices soaring. The Commission is also preparing a package of measures to […]
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