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“The AI industry is very nascent and we would probably be able to make better choices if we waited five years,” he said. Another battleground is a voluntary set of rules for general-purpose AI model providers, which are the most complex AI models such as OpenAI’s GPT and Google’s Gemini, where AI companies have sounded the alarm bell on the rules turning into another burden. But civil society groups are pushing back against deregulation, and that’s likely to make discussions on any changes to AI laws as fraught as the first time around. The language in Wednesday’s strategy was debated…

With Georgescu having been hit with a contentious ban on standing for election, far-right candidate George Simion is now flying high in the polls for the re-do ballot — and Romania’s mainstream parties are scrambling to stop him.  The Eastern European country of 19 million people borders Ukraine and is one of NATO’s key eastern flank members, with access to the Black Sea. A victory by a far-right candidate in the presidential election threatens to bring Bucharest more in line with U.S. President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement while harming EU plans to continue aiding Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s…

BRUXELLES — L’Union européenne prévoit de réduire les objectifs d’achat de gaz naturel, alors même que le président américain Donald Trump insiste sur le fait qu’acheter plus de gaz est le seul moyen de mettre fin à sa guerre commerciale. Mardi, les pays de l’UE ont avancé dans leurs projets d’assouplir les objectifs obligatoires de remplissage des stocks avant l’hiver, dans le but de payer moins cher leurs approvisionnements, indiquent quatre diplomates à POLITICO. Ainsi, l’UE fait fi des exigences de la Maison-Blanche, qui veut que le Vieux Continent dépense 350 milliards de dollars de plus pour acheter du gaz…

My Wildest Prediction is a podcast series from Euronews Businesswhere we dare to imagine the future with business and tech visionaries. In this episode, Tom Goodwin talks to Dom Price, a work futurist at Sydney-based software company Atlassian, about his commitment to making companies re-evaluate their approach to success. Productivity is one of the most valued qualities by both companies and individuals. In a 2022 survey by EdTech company Headway, over half of the 1 million participants from across Britain, the US and Australia said that they prioritised productivity over health, financial gain, and happiness. But in trying to efficiently turn inputs…

Zusammen mit seinen POLITICO-Kollegen Rixa Fürsen, Hans von der Burchard und Jürgen Klöckner gibt es von Gordon Repinski die Blitzanalyse zu den Inhalten des heute vorgestellten Koalitionsvertrags zwischen Union und SPD. Ihr hört, was drin steckt bei den Themen Inneres, Verteidigung, Europa und Gesundheitspolitik.  Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es morgens um 5 Uhr. Gordon Repinski und das POLITICO-Team bringen euch jeden Morgen auf den neuesten Stand in Sachen Politik — kompakt, europäisch, hintergründig. Und für alle Hauptstadt-Profis:Unser Berlin Playbook-Newsletter liefert jeden Morgen die wichtigsten Themen und Einordnungen. Hier gibt es alle Informationen und das kostenlose Playbook-Abo. Mehr von…

NATO chief Mark Rutte and Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba have vowed to further deepen military ties while stressing the need to jointly tackle growing threats from China, North Korea and Russia.Japan, which has stepped up defence ties with the US and allied countries in the Indo-Pacific, has also sought closer ties with NATO, fearing that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine could embolden China’s assertiveness in the region.”A stronger NATO will benefit Japan greatly,” Ishiba said at a press conference with Rutte, who was visiting Japan for the first time since becoming secretary general of the defence alliance in October.In a…

Stock markets worldwide keep swinging as President Donald Trump’s trade war keeps escalating. In the US, the S&P 500 was bobbing between small gains and losses in early trading on Wednesday. The index is about 19% below its record set less than two months ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened lower, by 0.5%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite started trading 0.5% higher. Shortly after the opening bell, however, all the three main indexes turned green, by 4pm CEST in Europe, the Nasdaq was up by 1.2%, while the Dow Jones and S&P 500 rose 0.3%.Some of the best performing…

If we know we need to take action on climate change, why aren’t we doing it? That’s the fundamental question posed by a new UN report which offers a theory of why change is so difficult.2025’s Interconnected Disaster Risks report from the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) finds that our systems are no longer serving us.When it comes to climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and other big environmental crises, its authors say many of today’s solutions are superficial fixes that can even impede real change. “Society is at a crossroads,” says Professor Shen Xiaomeng, director of…

A glowing blue spiral was spotted in European skies on Monday evening, causing a stir on social media. The swirls were seen across Europe with reports of sightings from the United Kingdom, France, Norway, Germany, Ukraine, Denmark, and Poland. The spiral was visible for several minutes before it faded. The phenomenon was likely caused by the aftermath of a SpaceX rocket launch in the United States, according to the Met Office, the UK’s national meteorological and climate agency. “The rocket’s frozen exhaust plume appears to be spinning in the atmosphere and reflecting the sunlight, causing it to appear as a spiral in the sky,”…

Montserrat will likely keep her other jobs as head of delegation of Spain’s People’s Party and the EPP group vice chair in Parliament, while taking on the extra full-time job as secretary-general. Weber has routinely placed key allies from the Parliament in top positions, including French MEP Xavier-François Bellamy as treasurer and former Belgian MEP Tom Vandenkendelaere as his chief of staff. He has sidelined opponents such as his current, and outgoing, Secretary-General Thanasis Bakolas, who has previously openly challenged him. The EPP, the most powerful European party dominating the EU’s policymaking institutions, is undergoing an internal job reshuffle and…