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The retaliation does not yet respond to Trump’s imposition of 20 percent “reciprocal” tariffs on all EU exports, which came into force on Wednesday, and his latest 25 percent tariff on cars. Trump has also said tariffs on pharmaceuticals are coming soon. The European Commission is considering putting forward its countermeasures on those tariffs as early as next week. “It will for sure be soon. I expect it could be as early as next week,” trade spokesperson Olof Gill said Tuesday. Trump demands that the EU reduce its trade surplus with the U.S., for instance by buying unrealistic amounts of…
Germany’s steel giant ThyssenKrupp wants to cut 11,000 jobs. Europe’s metal industry is in crisis. US tariffs, exorbitant energy prices, global overcapacity, competition from cheap steel from China… The European Commission is trying to save what can be saved – with a ‘Steel Action Plan’. The European Commission calls its strategy for industrial competitiveness and decarbonisation the ‘Clean Industrial Deal’. Far too much steel is produced worldwide. And now the new US government is also threatening tariffs: 25 percent on all steel and aluminium imports. As a result, there is a risk of international trade flows being diverted away from the…
How can we stop artificial intelligence (AI) from stealing our content? US-based web services provider Cloudflare says it has come up with a solution to web scraping – by setting up an “AI labyrinth” to trap bots.More specifically, this maze is aimed at detecting “AI crawlers,” bots that systematically mine data from web pages’ content and trap them there. The company said in a blog post published last week that it has seen “an explosion of new crawlers used by AI companies to scrape data for model training”.Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) requires enormous databases for training its models. Several tech companies…
One beach on the Italian island of Sardinia will only be accessible to visitors by booking through an app this summer.Crescent-shaped Tuerredda beach has already been capping visitor numbers at 1,100 per day since 2020. The new digital measure, expected to be in place by July, aims to ease the strain on local resources and infrastructure. Many of Sardinia’s spectacular beaches are protected from overtourism with similar restrictions, with transgressors facing fines of up to €3,500.The island’s coastline is renowned for its pristine stretches of sand and is frequently voted as one of the top places in Italy for a…
Three years after flying into the Cannes Film Festival with Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise is returning to the Croisette this year with Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning – his rumoured swansong as superspy Ethan Hunt. The film will screen out of competition at the 78th edition of Cannes on 14 May and the Cannes accredited members of the Euronews Culture team are getting giddy already. Until you get our verdict and hopefully making your own mind up when the film hits theatres on 23 May, you can check out the trailer, which looks mighty promising and seems like Final Reckoning could redeem the…
The Chinese finance ministry announced on Wednesday it will impose another 50 percent tariff on all goods coming from the United States, after Washington’s sweeping 104 percent tariff on Chinese goods took effect. “The U.S.’s practice of escalating tariffs on China is a mistake on top of a mistake, which seriously infringes on China’s legitimate rights and interests,” the ministry said in a statement, adding the move was “adding insult to injury.” The response comes as trade tensions have soared between Beijing and Washington, after Trump said he would tack another 50 percent in his “reciprocal” tariff package. In practice,…
The US has said it is “alarmed” by the arrest of an American academic in Thailand who has been charged with insulting the country’s monarchy. Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University who specialises in the Thai military, could face years in prison if convicted under the country’s strict lèse-majesté laws.Under article 112 of the Southeast Asian nation’s penal code, a single charge of insulting the king, the queen, the heir apparent or the regent carries a maximum 15-year jail sentence. Chambers has also been charged under the Computer Crimes Act, which is punishable by up to five years in…
Another week, another celestial event to marvel at. This weekend, the Moon will appear to take a chunk out of the Sun during a partial eclipse.The eclipse will be visible across Europe on Saturday, as well as western Africa, eastern North America, and northern Asia. For the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun will shrink the most for the northeastern United States, Greenland, and eastern Canada.For even a partial eclipse, you’ll still need to remember to shield your eyes.Here’s what to expect in Europe, when you can see it, and how to watch it safely.What happens during a partial…
The deal clears the way for Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), to be sworn in as Germany’s next chancellor within weeks. The coalition deal comes at a moment of profound uncertainty for Germany and Europe after Trump last week slapped 20 percent tariffs on the EU, a move that could hit Germany’s export-oriented economy particularly hard. It also comes as Merz vows to strengthen his country’s military in response to the threat Putin poses to Europe and the weakening of the transatlantic alliance Germany had long depended on for its defense. These twin shocks — to…
Britain’s defence industry is urging the EU and UK to strike a security pact as early as next month and not to make it conditional on a wider reset, so it can access a new €150 billion European instrument to ramp up defence spending.In a letter addressed to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and European Council chief Antonio Costa, the heads of the UK’s main aerospace, industry and tech associations say a security pact “must be a central deliverable of the upcoming UK-EU summit” to be held in London on 19 May.”Such an…