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“There might be more like-minded countries for the EU to work with than you would have thought,” added the source, who was granted anonymity to speak freely. The EU has racked up accords in recent months, including with the Mercosur bloc of South American countries and with Mexico — and wants to do a free-trade deal with India this year. Šefčovič announced the agreement in Brussels after meeting with Korean Trade Minister Cheong In-kyo. In comments to reporters, he emphasized the importance of the digital deal as efforts to head off a transatlantic trade escalation stall. Although the European Union’s…

UK firms are reluctant to hire due to subdued growth prospects and rising labour costs, two new studies show. UK vacancies continued to decline in February as businesses paused or slowed their hiring plans due to a subdued economic outlook and rising payroll costs. According to KPMG and REC’s latest job market survey, the number of vacancies fell for the sixteenth month running in February.The report, compiled by S&P Global after surveying around 400 UK recruitment and employment consultancies, showed that permanent vacancies continued to decline at a slightly sharper pace than temporary roles.Permanent staff appointments fell for the twenty-ninth month…

Appeals Centre Europe says Meta started implementing its non-binding decisions. Three in four complaints received since November by the Irish Appeals Centre Europe (ACE), which gathers complaints from social media users about content removal or moderation under the EU’s platform rules, were from Facebook users, the authority said in a statement.Some 21% relate to TikTok, and 3% from YouTube, ACE added.The organisation, which began its work late last year to provide an alternative to often costly and time-consuming legal routes to redress and to reduce the burden on regulators and courts, said it received more than 1,500 complaints from users challenging the…

– Wie die Grünen und selbst die FDP die Union und ihren Kanzlerkandidaten in der Hand haben. Eine Analyse mit Rasmus Buchsteiner. – Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Ex-CSU-Verkehrsminister Peter Ramsauer über den Umgang mit den Grünen und warum das Milliardenpaket seiner Meinung nach weniger wuchtig ist, als es scheint. – Zwischenphase: Bald nicht mehr im Kanzleramt, dafür in einer Koalition mit der Union – die SPD lässt sich den Appetit trotzdem nicht verderben. Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es morgens um 5 Uhr. Gordon Repinski und das POLITICO-Team bringen euch jeden Morgen auf den neuesten Stand in Sachen Politik — kompakt,…

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who succeeded Duterte in 2022 and became entangled in a bitter political dispute with the former president, has decided not to rejoin the global court. But the administration said it would cooperate if the ICC asks international police to take Duterte into custody. Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by police at Manila’s international airport Tuesday on order of the International Criminal Court in connection with a case of crime against humanity filed against him, the Philippine government said. Duterte was arrested after arriving from Hong Kong and police took him into custody on orders…

No. 10 has previously said it is aiming for “moonshot missions” in AI, quantum and space. The document remains vague on these missions, talking about collaboration on R&D, talent and procurement as an initial phase of the partnership. Britain’s pitch notably avoids mention of thorny issues like tariffs and regulation for now. But tariffs could come to a head as soon as Wednesday, when 25 percent steel and aluminum tariffs come into effect. U.K. negotiators are pressing for a last-minute exemption. The pitch also echoes some of the Atlantic Declaration, an agreement which the countries’ former leaders, Rishi Sunak and…

Knowing that the alliance’s military leader would always be an American avoided the political competition that historically afflicted Europe. If that were to change, would, say, the Élysée accept a German or British SACEUR? Moreover, the alliance’s European side would, by necessity, include many nations with foreign policies that might be in conflict with those of its core powers. And even if these leaders could be convinced to hold back their vetoes on a given issue, the delays required for arm-twisting could be considerable — as was demonstrated by the drawn-out process of Sweden’s accession to NATO. Using such a…

This article was originally published in Spanish Located just 60 kilometres from Guatemala City, it is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth. Guatemala’s Fuego volcano, considered by seismologists to be one of the most active volcanoes in the world, is currently erupting. Authorities in the Central American state have already evacuated nearly 300 families but warn that another 30,000 people in the area, located some 60 kilometres from the capital, could be at risk.The eruption began Sunday night and so far no casualties have been reported. Authorities have closed all schools in the vicinity and a key road connecting…

Potra was referring to a decision by Romania’s Central Election Bureau on Sunday to block Georgescu from running for the presidency in May. The bureau said Georgescu had violated Romania’s election rules while coming out of nowhere to win the first round of the presidential vote last November, partly on the back of a wildly successful TikTok campaign. The Constitutional Court later annulled his victory, flagging undeclared campaign financing and fraudulent use of digital technologies, with an alleged Russian operation seen as having influenced the result. Georgescu has appealed the bureau’s decision. Shortly after Sunday’s announcement, scores of Georgescu supporters clashed with riot police in downtown…

Virkkunen said the Digital Services Act (DSA) is “content-agnostic” and that Brussels and national regulators “have no power to moderate content or to impose any specific approach to moderation.” Rules defining unlawful speech or illegal content, such as child abuse material, are outlined in separate EU or national legislation. She argued, on the contrary, that the law “guarantees” free speech since platforms must be transparent about how they handle content. Jordan had pressed Virkkunen in January to address “serious concerns with how the DSA’s censorship provisions affect free speech in the United States.” He warned that the DSA, which only…