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Non-EU nationals will need to stop for a longer time before a passport control officer or use self-service kiosks at airports, ports and international rail terminals to provide fingerprints and have their photo taken. On subsequent internal Schengen border crossings, travellers will not need to repeat the registration, as their data on file will be used to record their entries and exits digitally. Biometric data is retained in the EES system for three years, which is extended to five if no exit has been recorded. The system is being introduced in all Schengen zone countries — EU countries as well…
Updated: 11/10/2025 – 12:00 GMT+2 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this October 11th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
A growing body of academic literature has found extensive links between non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) — a category that includes hedge funds and private equity, as well as private credit — and the traditional banking sector. “Through these linkages, shocks can propagate rapidly across entities, sectors, or jurisdictions, especially when multiple institutions respond simultaneously to market stress,” said the authors of a paper at this year’s ECB research conference in Sintra, Portugal. They wrote that nearly one tenth of banks’ assets in the European Union were claims on NBFIs, and that 10-15 percent of banks’ deposits also came from non-banks.…
Published on 11/10/2025 – 8:50 GMT+2 •Updated 8:51 Geert Wilders, the Dutch leader of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) said he is suspending campaigning activities for the upcoming national election, following reports that he was a possible target of a suspected plot in Belgium to kill politicians. Three young men were arrested in Belgium on Thursday after investigators discovered a homemade explosive which the suspects were reportedly planning to attach to a drone to carry out the attack. Prosecutors said the police raids were part of an investigation into “attempted terrorist murder and participation in the activities of a…
Paco Cabezas has come a long way from his beginnings in Seville and being a boy who once dreamed of making films to becoming one of Spain’s most prolific directors. He’s found fame and fortune too in Hollywood and earned a reputation for having a unique audiovisual style that gracefully mixes genres. Cabezas is widely credited for adding his signature touch to every production in which he participates. If you’re a regular TV addict, there’s a very good chance you’ve seen his work. He’s the filmmaker behind successful series such as ‘Penny Dreadful’, ‘The Umbrella Academy’, ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl…
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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister — less than a week after Lecornu’s stunning resignation as PM plunged France into a political crisis. Lecornu’s most pressing task is now to get a budget submitted to lawmakers ahead of a legislative deadline Monday. This developing story will be updated.
“Estonia believes in an information society and including young people in the information society,” Estonia’s minister of justice and digital affairs, Liisa-Ly Pakosta, told POLITICO. Tallinn is in favor of enforcing existing rules designed to offer protections, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, rather than changing the current age restrictions, Pakosta said. That bans children under 13 from consenting to their data being processed, with countries able to increase that threshold. An age limit on social media would be a “very easy thing to do,” but countries should instead invest in better education for the digital age, she…
“There’ve been cases when the Nobel committee awarded the prize to people who’ve done nothing for peace,” Putin said, without naming names. “That’s damaged the prize’s prestige.” While he demurred when asked whether he felt Trump deserved the prize, the Russian president — who is currently waging a bloody, years-long war in Ukraine and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes — said Trump “is really doing a lot to solve crises that have lasted years, in some cases decades.” Trump “sincerely is aiming for peace” in Ukraine, Putin said, adding “the most striking example” of his…
Published on 10/10/2025 – 19:28 GMT+2 An explosion at a military munitions plant in the US left several people dead and missing, authorities said on Friday, as secondary blasts forced rescuers to keep their distance from the burning field of debris. The explosion, which people reported hearing and feeling miles away, occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems in Tennessee. The company’s website says it makes and tests explosives at an eight-building facility that sprawls across wooded hills near Bucksnort, a town about 97 kilometres southwest of the state capital, Nashville. “We do have several people at this time unaccounted for. We are…