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La présidence de la BCE est l’un des postes les plus influents d’Europe, commandant une puissance de feu financière sans pareille. C’est pourquoi les gouvernements nationaux se sont toujours battus avec acharnement pour promouvoir une personne favorable à leurs propres besoins et priorités. Les négociations sur la succession de Christine Lagarde risquent d’être intenses et seront encore compliquées par la montée des populistes sur le Vieux Continent, rendant plus difficile pour les partis politiques européens traditionnels de garder la main sur le processus de nomination aux postes clés. Ce problème a été mis en lumière la semaine dernière lorsque le…
Team USA skiers Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, along with Italy’s Federica Brignone, are among the many skiers who have expressed concern during these Olympic Games about the accelerating melt of the world’s glaciers. And Olympic host city Cortina is a fitting place for them to be talking about climate change: glaciers once visible from town have dramatically shrunk. Many have been reduced to tiny glaciers or residual ice patches at high elevations among the jagged peaks of the Dolomites. Any Olympian or spectator wishing to lay eyes on a major glacier would have to take a long drive on…
The previous Conservative government appointed Michael Grade, a Tory peer, as chair in 2022. His term ends on April 26, and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, which is leading the recruitment process, hopes to announce his replacement before then. The interview panel, which is made up of civil servants and independent members, will now hand Technology Secretary Liz Kendall a shortlist of approved candidates. Former Conservative Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright is also in the running, according to the same two people quoted above. Wright, one of the architects of the Online Safety Act (OSA), has been critical of…
Roads and pathways were blanketed with snow in southern Romania on Wednesday after heavy snowfall and strong winds hit the region disrupting traffic, air, and rail services. In the capital, Bucharest, commuters faced delays as snow covered tracks and roads caused disruption to services while drivers were also seen struggling to free their snowed-in vehicles. Parts of highways were also closed in the south of the country, several trains were cancelled and Bucharest airport announced that some planes were diverted to other airports. Black Sea ports were also closed due to the adverse weather.
Space is not only about scientific exploration and economic opportunities. It’s also a political field, some might even say a battlefield, completely tied to developments on Earth. For example, on 24 February 2022, just before Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a cyberattack struck satellite providers in Europe and Ukraine, impacting telecommunication systems across the continent. The satellite service targeted was KA-SAT, operated by the United States (US) company Viasat. The attack caused disruptions to energy infrastructures and internet outages across Europe, leaving several public authorities, businesses, and users in Ukraine without internet. In May 2022, the European Union…
Back in January, Radev met with the heads of various parliamentary groups, trying to task them with forming a government, but did not succeed. Radev then stepped down on Jan. 19 to start his own election campaign with Iotova, who had served as vice president, taking office shortly after. She appointed Andrey Gyurov, a former deputy governor of Bulgaria’s National Bank, as caretaker prime minister. Gyurov superseded the country’s last prime minister, Rosen Zhelyazkov, who resigned in December, following weeks of anti-corruption protests against his government. His Cabinet, which took office in January 2025, survived six no-confidence votes before collapsing.…
Europe doesn’t have an innovation problem, but a scale problem, says the latest report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), noting how the continent excels at research and pilot projects, but consistently fails to convert technological breakthroughs into large-scale industrial deployment. The hefty report was presented on Wednesday as energy ministers gather on the sidelines of the IEA’s ministerial meeting to take stock of the latest technological achievements in the energy sector. Among the technologies assessed are the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), fusion energy, or carbon capture and storage – all set to play a role in the…
Ukraine and Russia wrapped up the second day of the diplomatic talks in Geneva after just under two hours of talks on Wednesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that the negotiations included two tracks: military and political. “All three sides were constructive on the military track”, he said, referring to the initial briefing by the Ukrainian delegation, adding that “the military basically understand how to monitor a ceasefire and the end of the war, if there is political will.” “They have basically agreed on pretty much everything there. Monitoring will definitely involve the American side. I consider this a constructive…
By Anna Desmarais & AP Published on 18/02/2026 – 15:22 GMT+1 An Indian university was reportedly asked to leave an artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi after one of its professors displayed a robotic dog made in China but claimed it was their own invention. Galgotias University was ordered to take down its stand at the India AI Impact Summit after Nehan Singh, a communications professor at the university, told a state-run broadcaster that the robotic dog at their display was from the university. The robot was identified by Internet users as the Unitree Go2, which is sold by China’s Unitree Robotics for…
Merz said in general that he is “very, very, very cautious when it comes to legal bans on something like this [social media],” but that the “consequences” of fake news, AI-generated images and platforms like TikTok “make things more challenging.” Protecting children at school “must come first,” the chancellor said, adding that the idea children must be introduced to digital tools early “doesn’t hold water” as otherwise “you would also have to serve alcohol in primary school so they get used to it.” Members of Merz’s Christian Democratic Union also expressed their support for a ban. Thorsten Frei, head of…