
Meta To Cough Up € 1.2 Billion for Breach of Privacy Laws
It is the heftiest fine an EU watchdog has ever imposed on a tech firm, with Amazon being the previous record holder.

It is the heftiest fine an EU watchdog has ever imposed on a tech firm, with Amazon being the previous record holder.

In the latest battle between EU regulators and U.S. tech firms, Brussels claims that Apple benefited from tax breaks from the Irish government while Dublin struggles to keep both sides happy.

Despite the outrage in Vienna, Budapest thinks it’s unfair that Hungarian taxpayers pay for the prison costs of foreign human traffickers, who make up 13% of the entire prison population.

The results paint a picture of a region in transition: Sinn Féin steps up to the plate as a moderate party of government while unionists face uncertainty triggered by post-Brexit realities.

Party insiders expect tensions to boil over at a special conference next month, with the establishment centre-left party struggling to respond to the rise of the FPÖ.

Russia is suspected of having poisoned two dissidents in Berlin.

The era of “small, technologically sophisticated armies” is gone, and we must return to mass conscription “to cope with large-scale, high-intensity warfare,” PM Ciucă, an ex-military general, said.

The liberal Left in Germany, through its plan to lower the voting age to 16 at the federal level, appears to be seeking to expand its voter base, just as they have sought to do via pro-mass migration policies.

“At a time when the Americans may have a more national outlook concerning threats—white supremacism, repeated shootings, conspiracy—they must not forget what for us in Europe appears to be the primary threat: Sunni terrorism,” Gérald Darmanin said.

This mobile app is part of a wave of digitalization that’s rapidly transforming the way we create knowledge, costing us the loss of control over our private and public spaces.
Meloni’s government has turned the page on COVID-19: as of November 1st, the obligation to wear masks in hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic centres will be over.
The chief inspector for the Central Police Station in the city of Valencia, Ricardo Ferris, has been fired after publicly stating that “practically all street crime is committed by illegal immigrants.”
Ukraine’s push for €500 million a month from Germany for rebuilding efforts is clashing with the reality of a German economy in rapid decline. German social democrats are considering taxing the rich to pay for reconstruction.
The elections had been extremely volatile, as Da Silva’s socialist and Bolsonaro’s nationalist visions duked it out. One has, for now, gained momentum.
Last week also saw a military-aged migrant from Somalia go on a knife rampage which left two dead and one seriously injured in the city of Ludwigshafen, in Rhineland-Palatinate.
The statement, spoken by a prominent member of the Thuringian state parliament for the CDU, come as polls have indicated the AfD is the most popular party in the state.
Given the concern over foreign interference in democratic processes the European Union has been expressing of late, Spain’s VOX has asked whether the Commission is investigating George Soros.
To Chris Janssens of Vlaams Belang, the disinformation campaign targets “right-wing opinions” for fact-checking, while “left-wing opinions would be given free rein.”
The four parties of the governing coalition explained that they had not taken over a “laid table” but rather a pile of problems that will take a long time to solve.
Putin accused the West of “stoking of war in Ukraine,” destabilising the global food and energy markets, destroying pan-European gas pipelines, and ignoring Russia’s security concerns through NATO expansion.
The German parliament passed an amendment that may put people who deny any genocide or war crime, regardless of time or place, behind bars for up to 3 years.
Member states have been deeply divided on the best way to handle the energy crisis, and the meeting kept all options on the table, with Germany finally giving in to the possibility of price caps.