
Le Pen Rebukes Russia Links Report
The RN dismissed the parliamentary report as a Macronist hit job, as polls show the party to be the primary beneficiary of a backlash against the ruling government in Paris.

The RN dismissed the parliamentary report as a Macronist hit job, as polls show the party to be the primary beneficiary of a backlash against the ruling government in Paris.

The Abraham Accords Network was launched with little fanfare by Roberta Metsola and urges the EU to support the landmark normalisation agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbours.

Metsola has been pushing for a reform of Parliament’s anti-harassment guidelines. Meanwhile, media reports allege that she has stalled a harassment probe into a Spanish MEP.

GLOBSEC delegates responded with “hearty” applause, though some wanted more details regarding the president’s support for Ukraine.

Fifteen member states are in favor of extending the EU’s upcoming surveillance law to end-to-end encryption, while Spain would outright ban it in the entire EU.

The directive is likely to come into effect before next year’s EU elections and facilitate decoupling from regimes such as China on human rights grounds.

So-called content-creating ‘generative AI’, spearheaded by the popular ChatGPT, is “a complete game-changer.”

The €500 million subsidy plan to boost domestic defense production—part of the wider €3 billion arms procurement scheme—can now be finalized during the Council’s upcoming July summit.

Right-wing populists and socialist anti-war MEPs spoke out against the anti-disinformation report.

Service providers using crypto-assets, for their part, must register as such and conform to certain security standards, including to do with the avoidance of money laundering.
The tug-of-war over the Ocean Viking proves that the French government is at loggerheads with the new Italian government and that the atmosphere is not one of courteous discussion or compromise.
Following the death of a cyclist in a traffic accident in Berlin, during which ambulances were held up by climate activists, the CDU has called for stricter punishment for activists.
The lower house of the German parliament votes to cut EU payments to Hungary over rule of law reforms.
When using their bank or credit cards, test subjects received messages at the point of purchase that informed them on how much carbon they had either saved or emitted.
Before ratifying Sweden’s NATO bid, Erdoğan wants to see “concrete steps” first. For Sweden, that means coming down hard on Kurdish groups Turkey deems terrorist in nature, as well as extraditing persons wanted by Ankara.
The new British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is reportedly planning to amend the Equality Act 2010, which governs transgender issues
Since car manufacturers currently end up paying a carbon tax on combustion engines, the EU argues that electric cars will become cheaper than combustion engine cars, as electric vehicles aren’t subject to such a penalty.
Charles Michel is growing increasingly impatient with Ursula von der Leyen’s failure to come up with measures to blunt the pain of high energy costs inflicted on EU citizens and companies.
Meloni came to the European capital with peaceful intentions and moderate rhetoric. She said she wanted to “dismantle” the hostile discourse built around her person, based largely on misunderstandings.
The German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach had been sued for spreading ‘fake news’ for his earlier claims about the safety of COVID vaccines, but a court excused these statements as free speech.
Several scandals have exposed the internal dysfunctions and lack of truthfulness of many bishops, despite protests of transparency by the Church of France.
A growing area of concern, according to the numbers released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, is the number of people who are neither working nor studying.