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Piergiovanni’s appointment also signals the president’s heightened attention to a policy area that has become increasingly political, both externally, in the context of transatlantic trade tensions, and internally, as the bloc looks to revisit rules on mergers and public industry funding in an effort to boost economic growth. Earlier this week, the Commission halted an antitrust decision targeting search giant Google under U.S. pressure in trade talks. The EU executive is also under increasing pressure to bend rules on public industry funding — or state aid — to allow EU countries to funnel cash into their industries. There are also…
By Euronews Published on 04/09/2025 – 13:00 GMT+2 An image is circulating widely on social media claiming to show an Allied forces WWII nurse taking the names of soldiers who died during the D-Day landings in Normandy in France. The picture is typically shared with captions saying that the men were buried in makeshift graves on Omaha Beach before proper cemeteries were built, and that nurse Clara Thompson wrote down the names of each soldier that she tended to. Her notebook was supposedly found decades later in her daughter’s attic. The image has appeared all over Facebook and X, but the…
By Lina Ferreira Published on 04/09/2025 – 11:17 GMT+2 Lisbon City Council has decided to shut three more funicular cable railways for inspection, after at least 15 people were killed when one derailed on Wednesday. The accident on the Glória funicular, a popular tourist attraction in the city centre, also injured more than 20 others. The dead were all adults, according to Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon’s Civil Protection Agency, who did not disclose the victims’ nationalities. Foreigners were among the 21 wounded, she added, noting that the injured came from Cape Verde, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, South Korea…
By Euronews Published on 04/09/2025 – 12:57 GMT+2 •Updated 13:33 The head of Russia’s largest bank has said the country’s economy has reached a stage of “technical stagnation.” Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok, German Gref, who runs Sberbank, said that Russia would have to slash interest rates to avoid a recession. GDP data from July and August showed “quite clear symptoms that we are approaching zero,” after figures from the second quarter of the year revealed signs of economic stagnation, Gref noted. As the significant cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine was sparking inflation,…
Published on 03/07/2025 – 19:30 GMT+2 Trent Alexander-Arnold transferred from Liverpool to Real Madrid on a free transfer, much to the disdain of the club and fans alike. This is due to the loophole created by the Bosman ruling and reflects a growing trend of football players moving for free at the end of their contracts. ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ…
For decades, geologists have struggled to explain the massive earthquakes which struck Lisbon in 1755 and 1969. Now a fissure in the tectonic plate 200 kilometres off the coast of Cabo de São Vicente (Sagres) may finally offer a clue to the forces behind earthquakes in the Portuguese capital. This fissure, which has only just been discovered, has been forming for at least five million years, according to a study by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon recently published in the journal Nature Geosciences. The 1969 earthquake that shook Lisbon and other regions of Portugal and the…
By Pascale Davies with AP Published on 02/09/2025 – 22:19 GMT+2 OpenAI has announced a series of parental controls for its AI chatbot ChatGPT, which includes notifying parents when their child is distressed. It comes after a lawsuit was filed against the company and its CEO Sam Altman by the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who committed suicide in April. The parents alleged that ChatGPT created a psychological dependency in Adam, coaching him to plan and take his own life earlier this year and even wrote a suicide note for him. OpenAI says new parental controls that will allow adults to manage which…
Published on 27/08/2025 – 7:00 GMT+2 Travellers may soon be able to reach key European cities on high-speed trains without the rush and crowds of central London’s St. Pancras International station. To rival Eurostar’s grip on cross-Channel travel, Uber has announced the upcoming launch of Uber Trains. This will allow 10 high-speed trains to offer direct connections to cities like Brussels, Paris and Lille through the Channel Tunnel, from east London’s Stratford International Station The transport giant has partnered with startup Gemini Trains for this project, which could start operating as early as 2029, pending construction and approvals. Gemini Trains…
Dame Anna Wintour ended months of speculation today when she named Chloe Malle her successor as head of editorial content at Vogue – one of the most influential fashion publications. While Wintor, 75, will remain chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director of American Vogue and its 27 editions around the globe, Malle, 39, will now be editor of Vogue.com. Malle is the daughter of actress Candice Bergen and the late French director Louis Malle. She joined Vogue as social editor in 2011, moved on to contributing editor in 2016 and has held her current position since 2023. “Vogue…
“If the question is: Do we have confidence in this government? The answer is no, we don’t,” said Le Pen after meeting with Bayrou Tuesday. Le Pen promised in July to stand in any new elections despite her legal troubles. A National Rally official, who like others quoted in this piece was granted anonymity to candidly discuss the case, told POLITICO that the party is not considering finding a replacement. A Le Pen adviser explained that if new elections were called, she would likely then submit her paperwork to run with election authorities in her constituency, which would undoubtedly be…