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“I see three steps on the EU level: mandatory legal requirement for age verification, a ban on harmful and addictive practices for minors and stronger enforcement,” she told POLITICO. Denmark has imposed a ban on smartphones in schools since February, following France’s lead in 2018. A similar ban in Belgium came into effect this month. Five EU countries — Denmark, Greece, France, Italy and Spain — are testing a European Commission age verification app, a new system designed to protect children online. Last year, Ireland’s Department of Health established an online health task force to examine the links between specific…
Die Industrie und ihre politischen Unterstützer drängen seit Monaten darauf, die Gesetzgebung abzuschwächen, um die Verwendung des Verbrennungsmotors weit über 2035 zu ermöglichen – unter anderem durch Ausnahmen für Hybride oder alternative Kraftstoffe. Von der Leyen überraschte die Branche am Mittwoch, als sie in ihrer Rede zur Lage der Union eine Initiative für „kleine, erschwingliche Autos“ ankündigte, die sich auf die Entwicklung von in Europa hergestellten Elektroautos für preisbewusste Verbraucher konzentrieren soll. In einem Papier, das den Teilnehmern vor dem strategischen Autodialog zugesandt und von POLITICO eingesehen wurde, ging von der Leyen dem Thema Emissionen aus dem Weg und versprach…
An EU Commissioner and the executive have labelled as wrong and concerning a decision by the Ghent Festival to cancel a concert by an Israeli conductor over his alleged views on the Israeli government. The Ghent Festival cancelled the concert by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra scheduled for next week citing insufficient clarity over its Israeli conductor Lahav Shani’s attitude to the Israeli government. “We are deeply concerned by the cancellation of the concert and the implications it carries,” a spokesperson for the Commission told Euronews. “Banning people from stages or concert halls, unless they spread hate and violence, is against…
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Foreign interference is “something we must take into account, and that we do take into account, since in making an assessment of this type of acts that have taken place in the Paris area since October 2023, we have nine cases,” Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau told BFMTV on Friday. “It started with the blue Stars of David,” Beccuau said, referring to an incident that saw the symbols daubed on building walls in the French capitals’s 14th district in October 2023 — and was later linked to pro-Russian interference. “Then came the ‘red hands,’ then splashes of green paint,” she said…
It’s spiralling out of control. The assassination of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk was just the latest in a surge of politically motivated violence in the United States. US President Donald Trump touched upon this in his video statement, but he only listed attacks against right-wing targets. The problem reaches much deeper. Since the two assassination attempts against Trump himself in the summer of 2024, we’ve seen the killing of a health care executive in New York; attacks on Democratic National Committee buildings in Arizona and the Republican Party headquarters in New Mexico. There was the firebombing of the home of the…
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By Euronews with AP Published on 12/09/2025 – 14:34 GMT+2 After a lifetime of spurning would-be business suitors, the late Italian designer Giorgio Armani instructed his heirs to sell a 15% minority stake in his vast fashion empire within 18 months, according to his business will posted online on Friday by the Italian daily La Repubblica. He also demanded that this stake should be sold to either the French conglomerate LVMH, the eyewear giant Essilor-Luxottica, the cosmetics company L’Oréal, or another group of “equal standing”. Later, the will said, an additional 30% to 54.9% stake should go to the same buyer between three…
De Wever — a Flemish nationalist politician — joins a growing chorus of critics, including Germany’s commissioner for culture, Wolfram Weimer, and Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor. Both called the cancellation “antisemitic.” “Equally troubling is the unprecedented requirement that artists provide written statements of their political views,” De Wever added, referring to the organizers who said they had asked Shani to detail his stance on Israel’s war in Gaza, but he declined to answer. Contacted by POLITICO, a spokesperson for the festival declined to comment on De Wever’s statement. Festival organizers previously said the cancellation was “in no way motivated…
A Greek abbot accused of attempting to illegally sell church relics for €200,000 has claimed they were his grandmother’s, presenting his defence during a marathon pre-trial hearing on Thursday. The abbot, from the Mega Spilaio monastery in the Peloponnese, and five other suspected accomplices were arrested on Monday, following an investigation by Greek police. The suspects, who are being held in custody while awaiting trial, are accused of forming, directing and joining a criminal organisation. The other charges they face also include embezzlement. The six have denied all the charges against them. Police said the network attempted to sell 17…