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Published on 03/02/2026 – 5:35 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump urged the House of Representatives on Monday to end the partial government shutdown, but neither Republican nor Democrat lawmakers appeared ready to quickly approve the federal funding package he brokered with the Senate without first debating their own demands over immigration enforcement operations. Democrats are refusing to provide the votes House Speaker Mike Johnson needs to push the package forward as they try to rein in the Trump administration’s deportation operations, after a second US citizen was fatally shot by immigration agents in Minneapolis. The standoff forces Johnson to rely…
By Egle Markeviciute, EU Tech Loop and Euronews Published on 03/02/2026 – 7:01 GMT+1 The European Commission has finally published a draft text of the Digital Networks Act (DNA), possibly one of the most important legislative initiatives this year, which will replace the 2018 European Electronic Communications Code (EECC). The EECC was adopted in 2018, and Member States were supposed to transpose it into their national laws by December 2020. Ultimately, it took six years to transpose, with the European Commission itself acknowledging that full transposition “was only completed in 2024” (DNA (4)). Reaching an agreement on the DNA will be…
POLITICO’s daily audio briefing on what’s moving Brussels — and why it matters. The Brussels Playbook Podcast is the audio extension of the Brussels Playbook newsletter. Hosted by the Chief EU Correspondent Zoya Sheftalovich, the podcast runs Monday through Thursday, offering a clear, reporting-driven guide to EU politics in under 15 minutes. It’s a perfect companion for your morning coffee. Each episode takes listeners inside the decisions, power shifts and debates shaping the day in Brussels — and explains how they connect to national capitals across Europe. Clear, conversational and shaped by reporting from the heart of the EU, the…
If you are a Western leader who has been on the receiving end of United States President Donald Trump’s mercurial decision-making, chances are you are considering a trip to Beijing. The past two months have seen France’s Emmanuel Macron, Ireland’s Micheál Martin, Canada’s Mark Carney, Finland’s Petteri Orpo and Britain’s Keir Starmer make the journey to the Chinese capital. Germany’s Friederich Merz is expected to land later this month. The official visits, largely focused on securing greater access to the notoriously restrictive Chinese market, coincide with a steady rise in transatlantic tensions caused by Washington’s ever-expansive foreign policy, including, most…
Published on 03/02/2026 – 6:34 GMT+1 A court in Bangladesh sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in prison on Monday, and her niece, Tulip Siddiq, who is a UK lawmaker, to four years, in two cases involving a government township project near the capital, Dhaka. Judge Mohammed Rabiul Alam of the Special Judge’s Court-4 also handed down seven-year prison terms to another niece of Hasina’s, Azmina Siddiq, and nephew, Radwan Mujib Siddiq. The country’s official corruption watchdog filed the cases alleging that Hasina colluded with government officials to illegally secure six plots in the Purbachal New Town…
Food prices in the EU rose by 2.8% in 2025 compared with the previous year. Inflation was much higher for some products, reaching 10% for certain items according to Eurostat. Which countries recorded the highest food inflation in 2025? Which food products saw the biggest price increases? And were there any products where prices fell? Prices in Turkey skyrocket Turkey was a clear outlier when it comes to food inflation, with prices going up by a whopping 32.8% in 2025, underscoring Turkey’s wider inflation problems. The next-highest increase was far lower, at 7.6% in Kosovo. Within the EU, Romania recorded…
Published on 03/02/2026 – 7:00 GMT+1 Shark bites dominated headlines earlier this year after four unprovoked attacks were recorded within just 48 hours along Australia’s east coast. The series of disturbing incidents saw a 12-year-old boy rushed to hospital with critical injuries after swimming in Sydney Harbour on 18 January. He later died from the attack. The next day, an 11-year-old had their surfboard destroyed by a shark at Dee Why Beach. Hours later, a man was attacked in the nearby suburb of Manly. On 20 January, a surfer “sustained a wound to his chest” after a shark struck around…
The worries are fueled by the sycophantic nature of chatbots, which aim to be helpful for their users and please them as much as possible. “The AI is trying to make us, in the immediate moment, feel good, but that isn’t always in our interest,” Bengio said. In that sense, the technology has similar pitfalls to social media platforms, he argued. Bengio said to expect that new regulations will be introduced to address the phenomenon. He pushed back, however, against the idea of introducing specific rules for AI companions and argued that the risk should be addressed through horizontal legislation…
Published on 03/02/2026 – 6:06 GMT+1 Tourists hoping to get close to the Trevi Fountain in the Italian capital, Rome, had to pay €2 starting on Monday, as the city inaugurated a new fee structure to help raise money and control crowds at one of the world’s most celebrated waterworks. The first tourists to pass through the new ticket check seemed unbothered, noting that it was a small fee to pay to gain access to the historic fountain, made popular by Federico Fellini’s film “La Dolce Vita”. “Before, there were problems accessing the fountain. There were a lot of people.…