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Older generations often lament that music was better in their day, but was it more complex? A new study, which evaluated classical and jazz music in particular, believes these genres have become simpler – and that it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Hoping to identify long-term patterns in musical evolution, a team of Italian researchers surveyed approximately 20,000 MIDI files of music from between 1600 and 2021. “We first considered how to measure the ‘complexity’ of music in a way analogous to approaches used for text,” Niccolò Di Marco, an assistant professor at the University of Tuscia in Italy and…
The Parliament also called for more earmarking of funds for EU programs, and the imposition of new, EU-wide taxes on online gambling, tech giants such as Amazon and Google, and crypto firms. The Commission’s proposal for the 2028 to 2034 period envisages €1.8 trillion for expenditure on areas such as subsidies for farmers, industrial development and international aid schemes. In addition, it earmarks around €165 billion to pay back the common debt that was issued to finance the EU’s post-Covid recovery package — a measure that makes the total budget rise to €1.984 trillion. Parliament is calling for the total size…
Published on 28/04/2026 – 7:58 GMT+2•Updated 12:16 On today’s show: Top story: Euronews EU News Editor Maria Tadeo on Europe’s energy crisis as Macron has revived a call for Eurobonds – joint European debt issued by all 27 EU member states. Interview with Abir Al-Sahlani, Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe), live from Strasbourg. Euronews correspondent Laila Humairah on the latest Middle East developments as tensions continue to impact global markets. Euronews’ Angela Skujins on China slamming the EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ strategy. Explainer by Jakub Janas: The business model behind the four Champions League finalists and what it…
Turkish miners starting their 8th day of hunger strike are surrounded by police in Ankara as they as they attempt to march to the Ministry of Energy. Police use pepper gas against the miners who tried to break the barricades and against those who join the protest in solidarity. “We have our receivables, our compensations, our union rights, we are due 5-6 wages, our boss pays us only a very small portion of what is due to us”, one of the miners tells AFP. The protest began after workers set out from nearby Eskişehir on April 13, reaching the capital…
Published on 28/04/2026 – 11:46 GMT+2 The headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in Utrecht has been seized as a precautionary measure by order of a court in the Netherlands, in the context of the litigation opened by the cuts in renewable energy premiums approved in Spain in 2013. The measure is in response to the enforcement on Dutch territory of international arbitration awards in favour of various investor funds. According to the court documents, to which local media have had access, the property – valued at around €10m and registered in the name of the Spanish Institute of Emigration -…
In a separate speech Monday, Abela quickly shifted into campaign mode and said his party would bring security by delivering “ambitious but sustainable” plans for Malta’s future and promised his government would focus “on your wellbeing,” according to local media. Leader of the center-right Nationalist Party, Alex Borg, responded in a Facebook video telling supporters that “we are ready” for an early election. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola is a high-profile member of the Nationalist Party. Abela has been prime minister since 2020, and his Labour Party has been in power since 2013. Labour is currently leading the opposition Nationalist…
Last week, US President Donald Trump shared an image of eight Iranian women he claimed had been sentenced to execution, asking Iranian leaders to release them. The next day, he followed up on his Truth Social platform, alleging that the women had been pardoned, with four released immediately and four sentenced to prison for one month. Iran’s judiciary-linked Mizan News Agency responded to Trump’s first post, calling it fabricated. None of the women pictured in the image received a death sentence, according to the agency. It claimed that several of the women had been released, whilst the others faced charges…
Published on 28/04/2026 – 10:38 GMT+2 A man who was indicted for the 2002 murder of Run-DMC’s Jame Master Jay has pleaded guilty for his role in the shooting of the hip-hop pioneer. Jay Bryant, 52, pleaded guilty to a federal murder charge, telling a judge that he helped other people get into a recording studio to ambush the DJ, born Jason Mizell. “I knew a gun was going to be used to shoot Jason Mizell,” Bryant told a federal magistrate. “I knew that what I was doing was wrong and a crime.” Bryant did not name the other people…
The Ukrainian Army General Staff confirmed the attack on Tuapse on Tuesday, claiming the refinery is involved in Russia’s army supply chain in the occupied territories of Ukraine. But Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s unmanned systems forces, hinted this was just the latest attack. “Tuapse 3.0. Groundhog Day remake. Regular thermal disposal of black [Russian] gold, caused, of course, by spontaneous combustion,” Brovdi snarked in a post on Facebook on Tuesday. Ukraine has been systematically attacking Russia’s Tuapse refinery and port since mid-April. Local authorities took four days to extinguish a blaze after an attack on April 20. Locals complained…
Young entrepreneurs — aged 20 to 29 — make up 8% of the EU’s workforce, with more than two million people. The highest rates, according to the latest numbers from Eurostat, are found in Slovakia (12%), Malta (10.5%) and Romania (10%). The Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Latvia, Cyprus, Belgium, Poland, Finland, Croatia, Denmark and Lithuania all showed rates between 8% and 10%. At the same time, Ireland (5%), Bulgaria (5%) and Spain (6%) reported the lowest proportion of young entrepreneurs. A baby-entrepreneur boom? On top of those two million people, there’s an additional 69,000 teenage entrepreneurs, meaning entrepreneurs aged…