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As European governments discuss stricter social media rules for children under 16, young people say they are being shut out of a conversation that directly affects them. Supporters of the proposed bans argue they are necessary to protect children from online harms, but youth activists across Europe say a blanket ban is not the answer. Instead, they are calling on policymakers to make platforms safer through stronger regulation, better enforcement, and digital literacy education. In France, Ireland, and the Netherlands, students and youth advocates say social media has become deeply woven into how their generation socialises, learns, organises, and participates…
Es ist ein Lehrstück über Fehleinschätzungen im Kanzleramt. Der Bundesrat hat die geplante 1.000-Euro-Prämie knallhart scheitern lassen. Gordon Repinski analysiert, wie die Koalition den Ernst der Lage verkennen konnte und warum die Abstimmung zwischen der A-Seite (SPD) und der B-Seite (Union) in einem kommunikativen Desaster endete. Hat die Regierung Merz die Macht der Länder schlicht unterschätzt? Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Der frühere NATO-Generalsekretär Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Er spricht über die Zukunft des Bündnisses, den notwendigen europäischen Beitrag zur Verteidigung des Kontinents und die strategischen Herausforderungen in einer instabilen Weltlage. Rasmus Buchsteiner über die bevorstehende Wiederwahl von DGB-Chefin Yasmin Fahimi. Er beleuchtet zudem…
When foreign ministers meet in Brussels today, Israel and Russia will likely dominate the agenda. Today on the pod, Zoya and Nick discuss why the bloc might finally be able to move forward on sanctioning several Israeli individuals involved with settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Plus, the EU is looking to move forward on a new round of sanctions towards Russia, hoping to pressure Moscow back to the negotiating table. Also on the show, the Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares told Zoya in an exclusive interview that the EU needs to build its own military. He argues, with Russia on its…
Should it win the Elysée in next year’s election, as polls currently predict, the National Rally would likely either make good on that proposal or redirect some of its funding toward other priorities. “People from the cinema world live in another reality, they are not aware of the financial problems of the French,” said Philippe Ballard, one of the National Rally lawmakers who led the effort to reduce state funding for the entertainment sector. Ballard said his constituents “roll their eyes” at talk of state-backed cinema at a time when they’re forced to choose between filling up their gas tanks…
Backers of the Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham fear the West gambit could trigger a contest too soon for their man to find a route into parliament. “Anyone calling for the PM to quit but using the words ‘orderly transition’ is talking about waiting for Andy,” one of his supporters said. The assumption is that a contest sooner would benefit expected candidates Wes Streeting, the health secretary, and Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister who was forced to resign from government over a tax scandal. The former is said to be drawing up a policy program, while the latter set…
British Army medics have parachuted onto the remote South Atlantic territory of Tristan da Cunha, where one of the 221 residents has a suspected case of hantavirus. The patient was a passenger on the MV Hondius and disembarked last month. The U.K. defense ministry says a team of six paratroopers and two medical clinicians jumped Saturday from a Royal Air Force transport plane, which also dropped oxygen and medical equipment. Tristan da Cunha is Britain’s most remote inhabited overseas territory 2,400 kilometers from the nearest inhabited island, St. Helena. The group of volcanic islands has no airstrip and is usually…
By Euronews with IJF Published on 10/05/2026 – 20:08 GMT+2 On the final day of the 2026 Qazaqstan Barysy Grand Slam, the heavyweights took centre stage in Astana. We’ve had two days of non-stop action. And the crowd has created an electric atmosphere. At -90kg, Guilherme SCHIMIDT of Brazil, took on Boris RUTOVIC of Serbia. With 20 seconds left RUTOVIC scored the only yuko of the contest, the 19 year old securing a gold medal in only his second grand slam. International Judo Federation Head Referee Director, Mr Armen BAGDASAROV was on hand to award the medals. At -78kg German compatriots…
The deputy head of the EU’s Frontex border control agency warned there is a “high” risk of arms being smuggled from Ukraine to the EU in the event of a deal ending the war with Russia. “There could be weapons smuggling on a larger scale. That could become a security problem for Europe,” Frontex Deputy Executive Director Lars Gerdes told WELT, owned by Axel Springer, which also owns POLITICO. He said that once the full-scale war that Russia launched four years ago ends, it would be “quite possible” for a repeat of the situation in former Yugoslavia, when illegal arms…
According to early polling, he looked to be comfortably the best-placed centrist candidate to beat the far right in the next presidential election. But more recent polling suggested his lead over former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and conservative leader Bruno Retailleau was narrowing. Both been campaigning hard to overtake Philippe. During his hour-long speech in Reims, Philippe sketched out his aims for the campaign: lowering taxes on turnover for French companies, reducing France’s public deficit, rebalancing the state pension system and fighting crime and drug trafficking. Philippe lashed out at both the National Rally and the far-left France Unbowed of…
Published on 10/05/2026 – 17:49 GMT+2 With Tehran’s streets lined up with anti-American billboards and posters amid tensions in the Middle East, Iranians turned out to visit an anti-war exhibition at one of the city’s top museums. The exhibition, titled “Art and War”, features works by Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana and James Rosenquist. These pieces, created in the 1960s pop art style, have all been selected for their anti-war themes. The works on display come from the museum’s major collection of American and European modern art, which was acquired in the 1970s by Farah Pahlavi, the former shah’s wife, and…