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An Elysée official said the deal would bring “limited benefits” to the EU economy and that it doesn’t sufficiently protect European farmers. The announcement comes hours before a key vote by member countries on the deal. Alongside Poland, France has been the fiercest opponent of the deal — but it lacks the numbers to stall it on Friday, especially if Italy backs it. If the deal is approved, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will fly to Paraguay to sign the accord as next week. The Mercosur bloc’s other members are Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
The United States could run Venezuela and tap into its oil reserves for years, President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Thursday, less than a week after toppling its leader Nicolás Maduro. “Only time will tell” how long Washington would demand direct oversight of the South American country, Trump told The New York Times. But when asked whether that meant three months, six months or a year, he replied: “I would say much longer.” The 79-year-old US leader also said he wanted to travel to Venezuela eventually. “I think at some point it’ll be safe,” he said. US…
BRUXELLES — Le réseau social X d’Elon Musk est dans le viseur des autorités à travers l’Europe après que son intelligence artificielle Grok a produit une série de deepfakes de nus, dont des représentations de mineurs dévêtus. L’affaire devient rapidement le dernier test en date pour l’Europe, qui doit déterminer si elle ose sévir contre Elon Musk et d’autres plateformes des géants américains, sachant qu’elle s’attirerait les foudres Donald Trump, dans un contexte de crise de confiance transatlantique majeure et de menaces sur le Groenland. Il y a tout juste un mois, Bruxelles a infligé une amende de 120 millions…
Belgium is looking to house foreign prisoners abroad as part of its crackdown on migration and is open to partnerships with countries in the Western Balkans and beyond, the country’s Minister for Asylum and Migration, Anneleen Van Bossuyt, has told Euronews’ interview programme 12 Minutes With. Asked about her recent mission to Albania and Kosovo to explore renting or building prison space to house irregular migrants convicted of crimes in Belgium, Van Bossuyt said: “We are looking at every possible solution to increase the return rate. That’s one of the possibilities that we are looking into together with the ministry…
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LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday vowed to take action against Elon Musk’s social media platform X after its Grok artificial intelligence system produced a flood of non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes that included depictions of minors. “It’s disgraceful, it’s disgusting, and it’s not to be tolerated. X has got to get a grip of this, and Ofcom has our full support to take action in relation to this,” Starmer said in a broadcast interview after thousands of nude deepfakes were published on X. “This is wrong, it’s unlawful, we’re not going to tolerate it. I’ve asked for…
By Alessio Dell’Anna & Léa Becquet Published on 08/01/2026 – 17:03 GMT+1 The vast majority of businesses based in the European Union have moved jobs abroad, with India being the most favoured destination outside the bloc. Outsourcing is a way for tens of thousands of entrepreneurs to save money — and perhaps to survive. However, it also means slashing positions domestically, which, in most cases, don’t get replaced. In fact, the trade balance is negative. Due to outsourcing, EU countries lost around 150,000 jobs, roughly three times more than those created through the same process between 2021 and 2023, a recent Eurostat report…
Russia attacked Ukraine with almost a hundred drones overnight on Thursday, as Moscow continues to target energy infrastructure across the country. Following another massive attack the night before, Moscow again targeted the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, resulting in power outages in both. Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine was left without power around 10 pm local time on Wednesday. Electricity and heating gradually began returning after 3 am on Thursday, Zaporizhzhia regional governor Ivan Fedorov said. “This was the first total blackout across the entire region in recent years, but all services were on site from the very first minute,” Fedorov stated.…
The UK is bracing for severe travel disruption as Storm Goretti powers up, bringing heavy snow and plunging temperatures. A rare red wind warning has been issued by the Met Office for south-west England, while amber alerts for snow are in place in Wales, the Midlands and parts of northern England. Airports and rail operators are taking precautions, with closures and widespread cancellations coming into effect this evening. Channel Island airports close for Storm Goretti Both Jersey and Guernsey, islands in the Channel, have said they will close their airports at 6pm this evening. At Jersey airport, most flights have…
Le Pen will be back in court next week to appeal the verdict. Though the State Department has since denied the Spiegel report as “stale and false,” the mere hint of a National Rally-MAGA liaison was enough to quickly put the party on the defensive — especially given that Washington sanctioned a French judge at the International Criminal Court that issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a press release dated Wednesday, the National Rally said it condemned the sanctions against the ICC judge and watches closely for “any pressure of unacceptable nature on the judicial…