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Updated: 09/10/2024 – 9:46 GMT+2 King Frederik and Queen Mary of Denmark hosted a state banquet at Christiansborg Palace on Tuesday evening to honour Icelandic President Halla Tómasdóttir and her husband, Björn Skúlason, during their official visit to Denmark on October 8 and 9. This marks the first state visit between the Danish royals and the Icelandic president. King Frederik and Queen Mary of Denmark hosted a state banquet at Christiansborg Palace on Tuesday evening to honour Icelandic President Halla Tómasdóttir and her husband, Björn Skúlason, during their official visit to Denmark on October 8 and 9. This marks the…

A new book by Séan Scullion, “Churchill’s Spaniards – Continuing the Fight in the British Army 1939-46”, tells the story of about 1,200 Spaniards who enlisted with the British army to fight Hitler in the war. Ángel Camarena took part in one of the most dangerous SAS operations of the Second World War when 30 troopers lost their lives after being ambushed by the Nazis.He survived the battle to fight again for the elite fighting force in another operation as the British army crossed the Rhine in the dying days of the war in their trademark jeeps.Camarena also took part…

More than six years after it took effect, Europe’s mighty data-protection rulebook is getting its second wind — by stymieing the artificial intelligence plans of Big Tech giants. In just a few months, Google, Meta, X and LinkedIn have paused or delayed AI projects in the European Union, blaming an old yet familiar foe: Brussels red tape. The regulatory flex is coming mainly from data protection authorities, which have the power to enforce the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) in particular has wielded its significant powers to block AI rollouts from the world’s biggest…

The U.K. and the EU are finally talking again. But the City of London is still out in the cold. Despite being the U.K.’s most globally important industry, accounting for 12 percent of GDP and providing 2.5 million jobs, the finance sector is stuck on the sidelines even as relations with the EU thaw. The two sides are rekindling their friendship as the new Labour government in Britain pushes to improve tense relations via a Brexit “reset.” That drive culminated in a first meeting between Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels Oct.…

LONDON — Liz Truss pushed through $1.15 billion in U.K. taxpayer support for a Mozambique gas project now embroiled in allegations of abduction, murder and rape. Truss’ moves to back the project as trade secretary in the spring of 2020 were opposed by then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson and many of her Conservative Cabinet colleagues. Britain’s new Labour government is now weighing whether to continue to offer taxpayer-funded direct loans and guarantees to U.K. exporters and banks supporting French energy major TotalEnergies’ $20 billion liquefied natural gas project in northern Mozambique. Last month POLITICO reported that a Mozambican military unit operating…

Oliver Rolofs is a strategic security and communication expert and the director of the Austrian Institute for Strategic Studies and International Cooperation. He was previously the head of communications at the Munich Security Conference. It was a big bang, Israel’s targeted killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last week. And the reactions to his death could hardly have been more varied. Many in Israel, Iran and Lebanon who, for decades, have been held hostage or attacked by rocket fire from Hezbollah and the mullahs rejoiced; the mullahs themselves made vows of revenge; and Europe’s foreign ministers chimed in with expectedly…

Milton is just the latest system in a storm season that scientists say is the weirdest they’ve ever seen. Hurricane Milton strengthened as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, heading toward Florida and threatening to hit one of the state’s major population areas with powerful storm surges, heavy rain, and damaging winds, just two weeks after the deadly Hurricane Helene inundated the coast.Milton, which returned to Category 5 status on Tuesday afternoon, is threatening the Tampa Bay area, which is home to more than 3.3 million people and has managed to evade a direct hit from a…

No party or coalition secured an absolute majority in the French National Assembly in the snap election held over the summer. France’s two-week-old government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier survived a no-confidence vote on Tuesday.A total of 197 MPs voted in favour of this no-confidence motion, short of the 289 votes needed to achieve an absolute majority to topple the government.The no-confidence motion was deposited by a group of 192 lawmakers of the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) coalition composed of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI), Socialists, Greens and Communists. Despite securing the most seats in the National Assembly…

BRUSSELS — Ahead of next month’s United Nations climate summit, the European Union is playing its cards close to its chest. The bloc’s finance ministers on Tuesday approved the 27 countries’ joint negotiating position regarding the central issue of the upcoming summit — funding for climate action — but did not reveal how much cash EU governments would be willing to put up. That’s a deliberate negotiating tactic, two European diplomats and one EU official confirmed, as the bloc — much like other developed countries — wants to make the precise amount of funding contingent on expanding the group of donors. “I don’t expect a…

From ice-cream sundae carts to mimosas and warm nuts, the perks of first class taste better when they’re free. Heading on your honeymoon or travelling for a big birthday? It may have crossed your mind to ask for a free flight upgrade.But could it really result in you sipping Champagne in a sky-high armchair or will you simply get an eye roll from the airline staff?Frequent flyers from Reddit’s travel community have weighed in on the topic, sharing real-life experiences and insights on how flight upgrades work. To back it up, Euronews Travel spoke to some of Europe’s biggest international airlines…