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Digital ID kerfuffle The app the Commission issued this month is the latest hiccup in a years-long effort to get tech apps up and running to check the age of internet users. Brussels and EU member capitals have already spent two years working on “digital identity wallets,” which should be available across Europe by the end of 2026. But the EU executive announced last July it would roll out a “mini-wallet” designed to help tech platforms check the age of their users, as worries mounted about the impact of social media on the health of children. The mini-wallet was meant to come out before the broader digital ID apps; it’s the one the Commission showcased in mid-April and is officially recommending to…
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By Theo Farrant & AP Published on 28/04/2026 – 7:00 GMT+2 A new experimental town near Mount Fuji is being developed in Japan as a large-scale testbed for robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous, zero-emissions transport in everyday life. The settlement, which currently spans about 47,000 square metres, is already partially inhabited, with early residents moving through streets shared with autonomous vehicles, delivery robots and AI-driven systems. ‘Woven City’ is being developed by Toyota, and is named as a nod to the Japanese manufacturing company’s origins in textile loom manufacturing. “Woven City aims to collaborate with mobility from the perspective of social infrastructure. By…
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Today on the pod, we’re talking money, money, money. An important vote on the EU’s next long-term budget is happening in the European Parliament. Zoya and Nick discuss how lawmakers are pushing for a bigger cash pot … which will likely cause a stir with some countries. We unpack the battle lines already starting to form. Also, the College of Commissioners is meeting in Strasbourg to discuss how drafting legislation could be made more efficient — although critics warn this could weaken important safeguards. Plus, last week the Commission unveiled an age verification app…
Die Amtszeit von Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier endet im kommenden Jahr, am 30. Januar 2027 wählt die Bundesversammlung seinen Nachfolger oder seine Nachfolgerin. Markus Söder hat den Startschuss in die Debatte gegeben, Friedrich Merz pfeift zurück, alle anderen positionieren sich. Gordon Repinski mit einem Plädoyer für eine Kandidatin oder Kandidaten, die oder der Aufbruch symbolisiert. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview der stellvertretende Fraktionschef der Grünen, Andreas Audretsch zur Frage: Sind die Grünen die bessere Reformkraft als die SPD? Im Talk: Jonathan Martin aus Washington. Der Senior Political Columnist liefert den Überblick nach dem versuchten Anschlag beim White House Correspondents’ Dinner im Hilton, ordnet Trumps…
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Kruger added: “They don’t like politicians moralizing, but they do think that our politics and policy should reflect the culture of the country, which is actually quite traditionalist. That’s the tension that we’re in.” Public First’s Research Manager Jules Walkden said: “The public views ‘Judeo-Christian values’ as an important part of the country’s history, but not of modern-day politics. Reform’s move towards religious messaging is therefore unlikely to expand its base.” “A majority of the public, including Reform’s own supporters, oppose a greater role for religion in politics, with most voters also resistant to it being used as a political…
The move exposes a gap between political red lines in Brussels and messy national realities, where the far right’s rise is making it harder for mainstream parties to govern without them. Socialists in Brussels were unaware of the plans in Romania, according to two officials familiar with the matter, granted anonymity to speak frankly. Iratxe García, chair of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D), told POLITICO she expects its Romanian peers to work with pro-European forces in future. The 2024 EU election produced the most right-wing Parliament in the bloc’s history. The far-right Patriots group — home to France’s Marine Le…
Published on 27/04/2026 – 17:20 GMT+2•Updated 17:22 Around 20,000 seafarers on hundreds of vessels, including oil and gas tankers and cargo ships, have been stuck in the Gulf, unable to cross the Strait of Hormuz, according to the latest data. Normally about a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas transits the waterway. Roughly 80 vessels passed through the strait in the week of 13-19 April, according to the maritime data firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence, compared to approximately 130 or more transits per day before the war. Dozens of ships have come under attack since the war started,…
Pope Leo XIV met with the first woman to lead the world’s Anglican Christians on Monday, the newly enthroned Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, urging unity to evangelise more effectively. The papal audience at the Vatican comes in the 60th anniversary year of the first formal ecumenical statement between the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, signed in 1966 at St. Paul’s Outside the Walls basilica by Archbishop Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI. The visit, part of what Mullally called a four-day pilgrimage to Rome, is her first trip abroad since taking up her groundbreaking role last month as the…