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Two other seats of the ECB’s executive board will also need to be filled next year, as Isabel Schnabel is joining the IMF in January and the central bank’s chief economist, Philip Lane, is set to end his term in May. At their next gathering on Nov. 9, eurozone finance ministers will discuss the candidates […]

A bullish home secretary came out swinging after critics claimed she’d made a climbdown over her controversial immigration reforms. What remains from Shabana Mahmood’s original plan? And is the rest of the cabinet – including Angela Rayner – really behind her? Sam Coates – who’s been speaking to the home secretary – and Anne McElvoy […]

Different lives, shared financial ambitions For a decade, Lloyds Banking Group’s Consumer Digital Index has tracked how people across the UK engage with digital technology and the confidence they have in doing so. Its analysis shows that more than 75 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have used artificial intelligence (AI) for personal finance in the […]

“Okay, the Democrats will be much more supportive of Ukraine and NATO, but they can’t direct Trump to do things,” he added. “They can approve money, but Trump just turns around and says, ‘Well, I don’t have to spend it.’” Volker predicts Trump will step up his use of pocket rescission, a contested legal theory […]

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Streeting — who has long been a pro-EU voice within his party — reiterated that he is in favor of rejoining the EU: “My position on the EU was clear in 2016. It was clear when I had a tilt at the leadership, and I haven’t changed my view.” However, he warned that renegotiating Britain’s […]

The announcement follows dozens of supermarkets across Europe reporting disruptions to their refrigeration and freezing systems on Monday. Incidents were reported in at least six EU countries — Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands and Estonia — with some retailers reporting that refrigerator temperatures had suddenly surged to as high as 50 degrees Celsius. Commission […]

But industrial applications cannot make Europe technologically independent if others control the models and computing infrastructure behind them, Mensch said. Building European alternatives, however, poses another challenge: convincing customers to use them when cheaper Chinese models can match or outperform their European rivals. That tension has already surfaced for Mistral. German search engine Ecosia stopped […]

Germany wants to secure access to the world’s leading models while strengthening European alternatives, particularly through expanded cooperation with France and Canada, according to the report.  “We are leveraging collaborations with like-minded partners in the EU and worldwide (especially France and Canada) to benefit the German AI ecosystem and ensure sovereign access,” the report noted. […]

Belgian media reported on Monday morning that temperatures in supermarket refrigerators had suddenly spiked, leading them to throw food away. Supermarket chain Delhaize alerted its store managers early on Monday morning of problems with refrigerators, and Belgian broadcaster RTBF cited a store manager as saying that the problems were due to a cyberattack like those […]