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A central output of the project is the Gender Gap in Investments Dashboard, developed by Dealroom. The dashboard is a prototype repository that already presents a clear picture of the current state of the gender investment gap using Dealroom data. It brings together information on company founding teams and venture funding outcomes across Europe in a single, accessible interface. The dashboard is not an endpoint. It is designed as a foundation that can, over time, incorporate additional data sources, improve coverage, and offer a more nuanced view of how gender, sector, funding stage and geography interact. The long-term ambition is…
The EPF has been tracking the rise of what they call the “anti-gender” movement across Europe, and found that hundreds of groups targeting so-called gender ideology — including think tanks, church-run advocacy groups, political parties and media — had raised $1.18 billion between 2019 and 2023, up from $81 million between 2009 and 2018. The groups cover a range of policies from abortion to sex education, with transgender rights making up a large part of the lobbying. LGBTQ+ groups argue the mainstream politicization of such debates is part of a rolling back of fundamental rights, while gender-critical groups believe that…
Belgium’s Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot has summoned Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to the country, over his comments accusing Belgium of antisemitism and lashing out against its health minister.“Any suggestion that Belgium is antisemitic is false, offensive, and unacceptable. Belgium condemns antisemitism with the greatest firmness,” Prévot wrote Monday evening in a long post on X, calling White’s statements “unacceptable.”“Personal attacks against a Belgian minister and interference in judicial matters violate basic diplomatic norms … The Ambassador has been immediately summoned for a meeting this Tuesday,” Prévot continued.White on Monday criticized Belgium’s handling of a case in Antwerp where three…
Harris’ comments came after the finance ministers of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland met in Brussels, behind closed doors, earlier in the day to discuss how best to speed up Europe’s plans to take on Wall Street. That’s a problem for the likes of Dublin, which has a direct stake in the plans to deepen the bloc’s financial markets. Most money managers in Europe do the bulk of their business in Ireland and Luxembourg, which oppose efforts to create a single EU watchdog for the biggest financiers across the bloc. Monday’s E6 gathering was the second meeting…
But the checks have angered Berlin’s neighbors, in part for creating traffic headaches at border crossings, and led to tit-for-tat retaliation from Warsaw. A Berlin court also deemed the most controversial measure of Berlin’s border regime — namely turning away asylum seekers at its frontiers — to be in violation of European law. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has sought to crack down on migration under pressure from the far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is now the largest opposition party in Germany’s federal parliament. The AfD is currently polling neck-and-neck with Merz’s conservatives. Border controls of the type implemented by…
Robert Duvall, who played the role of a smooth mafia lawyer in “The Godfather” and a colonel in “Apocalypse Now” died at the age of 95 on Sunday. The iconic actor’s death was announced on Monday by his wife Luciana Duvall. “Yesterday we said goodbye to my beloved husband, cherished friend, and one of the greatest actors of our time. Bob passed away peacefully at home,” she wrote. Blunt-talking, prolific and glitz-averse, Duvall won an Oscar for best actor and was nominated six other times. Over his six decades-long career, he shone in both lead and supporting roles, and eventually…
According to prosecutors, the suspect obtained bomb-making plans online and received instructions from other members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on handling explosives. He is also accused of buying materials to produce an explosive called triacetone triperoxide (TATP), and of trying to buy firearms online. Prosecutors further allege that he encouraged another 19-year-old Austrian national to carry out a knife attack on a security guard at a mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in March 2024 that left five injured. The two men, and other separately prosecuted individuals, planned two other terrorist attacks in Dubai and Istanbul,…
The European Union has beefed up its data security policies in recent years, in part due to concerns around foreign technology vendors. A group of lawmakers in November urged the Parliament to ditch internal use of Microsoft software in favor of a European alternative, POLITICO reported. The institution in 2023 also banned the use of social media app TikTok on staff devices and recommended that MEPs delete it from their phones. The latest move to switch off AI tools concerns built-in features like writing and summarizing assistants, enhanced virtual assistants and webpage summaries in both tablets and phones, an EU…
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Published on 16/02/2026 – 17:38 GMT+1 French police searched the Arab World Institute in Paris on Monday as part of an investigation into former French Culture Minister Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline over suspected financial links to late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The raid at the institute and other locations followed a preliminary investigation opened on 6 February into “laundering of aggravated tax fraud” against the Langs, the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office said. Lang, 86, resigned from the presidency of the institute earlier this month after documents released by the US Department of Justice showed…