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Published on 06/06/2025 – 12:09 GMT+2•Updated 12:32Ukraine’s defence forces claim to have launched a “preemptive” strike as Russia was preparing for a large-scale drone and missile attack on Ukrainian cities. The General Staff reported that Ukraine hit a Russian airfield and military facilities on the eve of Moscow’s massive attack overnight on Friday. Kyiv says on the night of 6 June it hit Engels airfield in Russia’s Saratov region, a place of concentration of Russian aircraft left over from the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) operation. Also in the Saratov region, numerous hits were confirmed on at least three fuel reservoirs on the eve…
Published on 06/06/2025 – 11:48 GMT+2The EU published a digital strategy on Thursday to diversify and expand digital alliances with “like-minded partners” such as Japan, South Korea, Canada and India, but no mention was made of the US.This year, digital trade agreements with Singapore and South Korea were signed to facilitate data flows – despite critics warning it could pave the way for threats to personal data. The bloc also plans to structure its growing diplomatic network through the creation of a Digital Partnership Network, aimed at connecting these relationships in a more strategic and coordinated way. But while the strategy highlights a wide array…
The Joint GP IT Committee — which represents GPs across the UK in discussions related to the use and management of GP data — asked NHS England to refer itself to the data watchdog over the issue following a meeting last Thursday. But Michael Chapman, director of research and clinical trials at NHS Digital, wrote to seven members of the committee that evening saying the review would instead be carried out in-house by the organization’s data protection officer “to establish the facts ahead of any approach to the [Information Commissioner’s Office],” citing “standard procedure when data protection concerns are raised,”…
Less than a week after lavishing praise on each other in the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, fell out spectacularly and publicly. In a war of words that escalated on Thursday, both men took to their own social media platform to attack the other. Although many political analysts had predicted that their alliance would not last, the speed with which it imploded was nevertheless dramatic. Just last Friday, Trump was celebrating Musk’s work as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), overseeing the slashing of billions of dollars in federal…
The eurozone economy posted a stronger-than-expected performance in the first quarter of 2025, with growth largely driven by investments and exports, reinforcing expectations that the European Central Bank (ECB) will adopt a more cautious approach to further rate reductions.Gross domestic product (GDP) in the euro area expanded by 0.6% quarter-on-quarter, marking the fifth consecutive quarter of expansion, according to Eurostat’s third estimate released on Friday. This figure represents an upward revision from the previous 0.3% estimate and marks the highest quarterly growth rate since the third quarter of 2022.For the broader European Union, economy also grew by 0.6% in the…
Following the implosion of U.S. President Donald Trump’s bromance with the world’s richest man Elon Musk on Thursday, European politicians indulged an emotion they haven’t felt recently toward Washington: Schadenfreude. Radosław Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, went for a classic rendition of the German loanword for taking delight in another’s misfortune. “See, big man, politics is harder than you thought,” he said on X, Musk’s own social media platform. The barb was squarely aimed at the tech billionaire, who had previously called Sikorski “small man” in a war of words on X in March. Thierry Breton, Europe’s former internal market…
But Kadis said the new act would go well beyond the scope of the MSPD, providing a framework to implement the wide-ranging goals of the new European Ocean Pact, a policy promise of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s second term. Those goals include cutting red tape, promoting sustainable aquaculture and fishing, boosting ocean tourism, strengthening maritime defense and investing in ocean science. “The [Ocean] Act will ensure that existing targets linked to the ocean are identifiable under one roof and will facilitate their coherent and effective implementation, while at the same time decreasing administrative burden,” Kadis said Thursday. But…
“We would like to take it to the highest level,” he added, in a seeming reference to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Kara-Murza made the remarks after addressing members of the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday together with Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of former Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison last year. Navalny’s team claims he was murdered on Putin’s orders. Ilya Yashin, another Russian opposition politician who took part in Thursday’s discussion in Brussels, said the EU could mediate between Russia’s democratic movement and Ukraine’s government. “We want to start this dialogue with Ukraine,”…
By Emma De Ruiter with AP Published on 06/06/2025 – 8:09 GMT+2An overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv has killed at least four people and injured 20 others, city mayor Vitali Klitschko said, as air raid sirens rang out during a wider combined attack across Ukraine.Klitschko said search and rescue operations were underway at several locations.Multiple explosions were heard in the capital, Kyiv, where falling debris sparked fires across several districts as air defence systems attempted to intercept incoming targets, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Administration.“Our air defence crews are doing everything possible. But we must protect one…
Dans son sillage, plusieurs autres sénateurs (principalement LR), font leur entrée au gouvernement et à des postes stratégiques. Marie-Claire Carrère-Gée devient ministre chargée “de la coordination gouvernementale”, sorte de bras droit de Michel Barnier (une fonction qui ne survivra d’ailleurs pas à ce gouvernement). Le président de la commission des Lois, François-Noël Buffet, est nommé à l’Outre-mer puis ministre délégué à l’Intérieur sous François Bayrou. Chargée du Commerce extérieur, Sophie Primas deviendra ensuite porte-parole du gouvernement Bayrou. Nathalie Delattre est passée, elle, des Relations avec le Parlement (sous Barnier) au Tourisme (sous Bayrou), tandis que Françoise Gatel est chargée de…