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France was the second-biggest source of traffic for Pornhub in 2024 behind the United States, according to the company’s own statistics. A NordVPN spokesperson told POLITICO they have seen a 170 percent increase in usage since Wednesday. “We see similar spikes wherever digital freedoms are threatened or content is censored,” the spokesperson said. Demand for VPNs overall increased by 334 percent on June 4, compared to the average of the 28 previous days, said ranking site Top10VPN. France had set a deadline of June 7 for adult content sites to implement age verification measures. Aylo says France’s measures do not…
By Euronews Travel with AP Published on 05/06/2025 – 11:16 GMT+2Severe storms in southern Germany forced a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing late Wednesday after violent turbulence injured nine people on board, German police said in a statement Thursday.The flight, travelling from Berlin to Milan with 179 passengers and six crew members, encountered turbulence so intense around 8:30 pm that the pilot was forced to make an unscheduled landing at Memmingen Airport in Bavaria. Eight passengers and one crew member were hurt.Three people were taken to the hospital in Memmingen for treatment; the other injured people were released after receiving outpatient…
The opinion gives the European Commission clout in its clash with Budapest over fundamental rights, which most recently escalated after Orbán’s government banned Pride events in mid-March and authorized police to use biometric cameras to identify organizers and attendees. Advocate-general opinions are nonbinding. However, they do often signal where the court will land in its final ruling, which usually comes out within months following the opinion. The European Commission opened an infringement procedure in July 2021 after Hungary adopted the law, which seeks to bar children from seeing LGBTQ+ content across television programs and advertisements, books, sex education classes and…
Published on 05/06/2025 – 11:00 GMT+2•Updated 11:04Hungary infringed EU law by prohibiting or restricting access to LGBTQ+ content, the EU top court’s advocate general said in an advisory opinion on Thursday.Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Tamara Ćapeta also suggested that Hungary breached fundamental values of the 27-member bloc, enshrined in Article 2 of the EU’s Treaty. The opinion of the advocate general is legally non-binding. However, the judges typically consider this, and in most cases, the final verdict aligns with this statement. If the judges of the court agree with the opinion of…
👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈 Sky News’s Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics. More details of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s spending squeeze next week are trickling out – including a U-turn on the winter fuel allowance, which we now know is happening in the spending review. The political implications of the U-turn, rather than the broader spending review itself, threaten to dominate the political narrative for the next week and more. How much pressure will that pile on Sir Keir Starmer and his chancellor?
“Issues like nuclear cooperation are issues where we can work together with the U.S.,” Miliband told POLITICO last month. “We might be doing it with a different perspective — but we can work together.” Trump last weekend announced a series of executive orders aimed at firing up U.S. nuclear power, at the same time tech giants like Google and Microsoft lobby on both sides of the Atlantic for government-backed SMRs to help run their energy-scoffing data centers. One litmus test of the Treasury’s approach will be how many firms are awarded an SMR contract, amid fears officials will ultimately plump…
“Russians are scaling up not only the production of drones but also the means of radio electronic warfare,” Andriy said, adding: “At our part of the front, radio frequencies change every two weeks. So, when the state supplies us with drones, only about 20 percent of them are usable. We constantly have to spend additional funds and time to reconfigure those drones.” Russia is producing its long-range drones at its own version of Silicon Valley, a special economic zone in Alabuga, Tatarstan, where it has concentrated production lines for Iran’s Shahed drones, also known as Geran in Russia. The Kupol…
As Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets US President Donald Trump for the first time at the White House on Thursday he’ll be aware of how predecessors have tackled the transatlantic relationship.The stars don’t augur well, however. During his first stint in office, Trump regularly made disparaging remarks about Germany and developed a non-relationship with Chancellor Angela Merkel characterised by mutual personal dislike.Trump’s erratic trade policy, which has the EU and Germany specifically in its sights, as well as Trump’s retreat from traditionally solid transatlantic positions on common defence and Russia have, challenged Merz before he even moved into the…
“This item is now cheaper by €0.50! Hurry!”, “Sure to leave? You will lose €200 reward”, or “FREE SHIPPING – don’t miss out!” These are just some of the messages with which clothes retailer Shein bombards its users in an effort to nudge them into buying more, according to consumer rights group BEUC.While such aggressive sales tactics are not necessarily illegal in themselves, they could cross the line when combined with other forms of manipulation, BEUC argued in a formal complaint for unfair practices filed on Thursday with the European Commission and the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network (CPC).They are calling…
Federbett-Botschaft: Die US-Regierung spielt den Merz-Besuch herunter, die Visite sei ein Staatsbesuch wie jeder andere auch, hört unser US-Kollege Eli Stokols. Die deutsche Seite betont, dass Merz – anders als Scholz – im Gästehaus neben dem Weißen Haus übernachten darf. Immer positiv: „Wir sehen seit Wochen, dass auch die Gespräche zwischen den Mitarbeitern in einem sehr positiven und konstruktiven Ton verlaufen”, betonte Merz-Sprecher Stefan Kornelius. Vor der PK im Oval Office lunchen Merz und Trump, sprechen unter vier Augen und mit Beratern. Sie „werden sehr viel Zeit haben, Unstimmigkeiten oder Stimmigkeiten auszuräumen oder sich zu mögen”, sagte Kornelius. To be…