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Inflation in the eurozone quickened in December for the second month in a row, as rising prices for energy and services kept it uncomfortably above the European Central Bank’s target. Consumer prices rose by 2.4 percent on an annual basis across the currency area, up from 2.2 percent in November, Eurostat said in a release. In monthly terms, prices rose 0.4 percent. Inflation in services remains the biggest contributor, up 4.0 percent annually, and up a chunky 0.8 percent just from November. Energy prices rose 0.6 percent on the month, bringing them back above year-earlier levels after four months of…

“I’m excited to be a small part of the future of AI and emerging technologies,” White said on his Facebook page in response to his appointment. Last week, Meta appointed Joel Kaplan, who once served as former U.S. President George W. Bush’s White House deputy chief of staff, as its chief global affairs officer — another sign that the company wants to build bridges with the incoming Trump administration. Zuckerberg also met with Trump in November at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, and the company donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. Meta also added John Elkann, CEO of holding…

This article was originally published in French On the first day of the new year, gas supplies from Russia to Moldova’s pro-Russian separatist territory were halted. For Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean, the Kremlin aims to destabilise the pro-European government in Chisinau. Since 1 January, Transnistria, the pro-Russian separatist region of Moldova, has been cut off from Russian gas supplies via Ukraine, a consequence of Moscow’s ongoing war against Kyiv — prompting Chisinau to accuse the Kremlin of orchestrating a security crisis within its borders. The disruption in supplies has created a dire situation for the region’s 450,000 residents, leaving them…

US public health agencies said the risk to the general public remains low. The first human death from bird flu has been recorded in the US, amid concerns that the virus could become more transmissible among people.The patient, who was over 65 and had underlying health conditions, was hospitalised in mid-December with the country’s first severe case of H5N1 avian influenza, which has been spreading mostly among farm workers since last year.The patient contracted H5N1 in Louisiana after being exposed to both “backyard flock” and wild birds, according to the state health department.The Louisiana agency said the patient did not…

👉Listen to Politics At Jack And Sam’s on your podcast app👈 Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard are back for 2025 with their guide to the day ahead in politics in under 20 minutes. As the prime minister attacked those spreading misinformation online about child grooming gangs, how will the backlash from his opponents roll on? The Conservative Party is attempting to force a vote on a new national inquiry into child sexual exploitation, but does it have any legs? The government is already planning to tighten the law in its upcoming Crime and Policing…

Minutes before the first barrage began, up in the hills, volunteers and conscripts serving in the Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army began noticing that the Russian peacekeepers who stood between them and enemy lines were jumping into vehicles and leaving in a hurry. Across the dusty gulf of no-man’s-land, they could see camouflage netting being pulled off Azerbaijani military hardware and ambulances lining up on the asphalt roads leading to the positions opposite, flanked by barbed wire and landmines. Ruben’s wife, Nouné, had taken their two girls to the dentist. He grabbed his jacket and ran out of the house to go and…

But there are product-specific targets too. For example, the 27 countries should be recycling at least 65 percent of their packaging waste — like takeaway containers, paper wrappers and cardboard boxes — and 65 percent of all the electronic goods (think of all those phones, tablets, electric whisks and vacuum cleaners) placed on the EU market in the last three years.  It’s hard to know exactly if the region is on track to meet these targets or not, since the latest data from the EU’s statistical office, submitted by EU governments themselves, is from 2022. Still, POLITICO can make an…

Watson has been fighting for the rights of whales and the wider environment for more than 50 years – and is showing no signs of slowing down. Paul Watson’s passion for the sea can be traced back right to the start of his life – and it’s a love affair which has continued ever since. The founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a direct action group focused on marine conservation activism, he was raised in a fishing village in eastern Canada and was so enchanted by the ocean that he “ran off” aged 17 to join the Canadian coast…

The planned Clean Industrial Deal, due on Feb. 26, will include “an emergency and strategic plan for certain sectors in difficulty and a long-term strategy for all players and sectors,” he said. This will work as “a business plan” making it clear how much investment or skilled workers they need, he said. The Commission is preparing emergency plans for energy-intensive industries such as steel, aluminum and other metals, cement, and energy, he said. To stoke demand, “we’re also going to create decarbonized public procurement markets” by “moving toward public procurement with clauses that enable us to reinforce the rules favoring…

Mit der Forderung nach einem Karenztag hat der Allianz-Chef Oliver Bäte eine jahrzehntealte Diskussion um Arbeitnehmerrechte neu entfacht. Sollten krankgemeldete Angestellte am ersten Tag ihrer Krankheit auf das Gehalt verzichten müssen? Zuletzt wurde dies 2005 intensiver diskutiert; damals lehnten auch Union und FDP die Forderung ab. Doch im Jahr 2025, in Zeiten der Wirtschaftskrise, zeigen sich Teile der CDU offen dafür. Warum mit diesem Thema kein guter Wahlkampf zu machen ist, die Diskussion aber zugleich unglaublich wichtig für das Land ist, bespricht Gordon Repinski unter anderem mit dem POLITICO-Gesundheitsexperten Jürgen Klöckner. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview dazu äußert sich der Unions-Fraktionsvize Sepp Müller.…