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En juin, le Parlement a désinvité de hauts cadres de la société à une audition sur les conditions de travail dans les entrepôts, les élus estimant que les intervenants proposés n’occupaient pas des postes assez élevés pour répondre de manière crédible aux accusations visant l’entreprise. L’audition était censée ouvrir la voie à une trêve, après que l’institution a observé une série d’absences similaires, et était une chance pour Amazon de récupérer ses badges pour ses lobbyistes, selon des communications internes vues par POLITICO. Amazon avait proposé d’envoyer Stefano Perego et Lucy Cronin, respectivement vice-présidents des opérations et de la politique…
Her pro-neutrality and often anti-Western agenda could prove a point of attack for her opponents, given how she often has traveled in the jet stream of Ireland’s far-left fringe, most controversially in a 2018 visit to Syria that featured zero criticism of the dictator then in charge, Bashar al-Assad. The outcome of Ireland’s presidential election — which the government could schedule at any time between September and early November — will depend on whether Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin decide to field their own candidates. Martin, the great survivor of Irish politics currently serving his second term as taoiseach, has…
The Israeli military said it targeted more than 120 sites across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including what it described as Hamas tunnels and weapons depots. Twenty-two bodies were taken to a hospital in Gaza City, where grieving relatives gathered in the morgue before holding funeral prayers outside. Among the dead were 11 children and three women, health authorities said. At least 19 others were killed in Khan Younis.With ceasefire talks stalled in Qatar and food supplies critically low, malnutrition rates among children have nearly doubled, deepening the crisis facing Gaza’s 2 million residents.
A European Commission proposal to simplify digital rules affecting the digital sector, slated for publication in December, should also cover the recently adopted AI Act and Digital Services Act (DSA), Danish digital affairs minister Caroline Stage Olsen told Euronews in an interview.“I think it’s important to underline that there are no sacred cows here. We should look through all of our digital regulations and we should all, all 27 member states, look into where we can simplify [them],” Stage Olsen said.Denmark took the helm of the rotating chairmanship of the meetings of the EU ministers this month, and will have…
Published on 16/07/2025 – 16:47 GMT+2Les Francofolies de Spa, a staple of Belgium’s summer music festival season since 1994, is at the heart of a growing controversy mere days before it starts. The four-day event, which aims to promote francophone artists, kicks off tomorrow and one planned set on Friday is fueling concern – that of Franco-Israeli singer Amir, a former contestant on The Voice and France’s Eurovision representative in 2016. His presence on the billing has angered several other artists who are also due to perform at the festival, who have expressed their unease at Amir’s perceived pro-Israel stance.Artists like Lovelace,…
The Commission claimed that its budget will amount to €2 trillion because it’s factoring in a rise in inflation over the coming years and including the repayments of its post-Covid debt. However, Siegfried Mureșan, the budget negotiator for von der Leyen’s own center-right European People’s Party, described this method as “misleading.” His criticism was echoed by lawmakers from across the spectrum. The announcement fires the starting gun on at least two years of ― probably bad-tempered and tortuous ― wrangling with the European Parliament and national capitals, all of whom must approve the final sum. Many governments are likely to…
Over one in five people in the European Union was at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2024, according to the latest Eurostat figures.Despite a slight decrease of 0.4 percentage points compared to 2023, experts claim that this improvement cannot be revered.”We can’t celebrate a small decrease of 0.4 percentage points of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion when what we see is more people living on the streets, longer lines for food and growing need for social aid,” the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) wrote in a statement.Bulgaria (30.3%), Romania (27.9%), and Greece (26.9%) reported the highest…
At least 20 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in a crush at a food distribution site run by an Israeli-backed US organisation in Gaza, the group said, the first time it has acknowledged deadly violence at its operations.The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) accused the Hamas militant group of fomenting panic and spreading misinformation that led to the violence, though it provided no evidence to support the claim.It said 19 people were trampled in a stampede and one person was fatally stabbed at a hub in the southern city of Khan Younis.In turn, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry and witnesses pushed back against…
By Euronews with AP Published on 16/07/2025 – 16:27 GMT+2A coordinated international operation has hit the infrastructure of a pro-Russian cybercrime network linked to a string of denial of service attacks targeting Ukraine and its allies, the European Union’s police agency Europol announced Wednesday.Codenamed Eastwood, the operation targeted the so-called NoName057(16) group, which was identified last month by Dutch authorities as being behind a series of denial-of-service attacks on several municipalities and organisations linked to a NATO summit in the Netherlands.Europol said that the cybercrime network also was involved in attacks in Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.The police agency said the international operation “led…
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron lauded a controversial budget for next year put forward by Prime Minister François Bayrou as a courageous step toward righting the country’s finances. Government spokesperson Sophie Primas told reporters Wednesday that during the weekly Cabinet meeting, Macron told Bayrou and other government ministers that the plans unveiled Tuesday — which include getting rid of two public holidays, slashing thousands of public service jobs and axing €5 billion in health care spending — had “the virtue of courage, audacity and lucidity.” Primas said Macron appreciated the fact that the budget plan prioritized economic growth, a possible…