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9:19 GMT+1 The EU has a ‘responsibility’ towards candidate countries Euronews sat down with Marta Kos last week for a group interview in which the enlargement commissioner said that the EU has learnt from its mistakes with the UK and Georgia and is now prepared to be “more assertive” including by investing in candidate countries to counter fake narratives.Kos, who took office in December last year, said 2025 marked a departure for the way the European Commission approached enlargement, notably because “it was the first time that we invested resources, we have invested men and women power to help fend…
Published on 04/11/2025 – 8:39 GMT+1 Three-time Academy Award nominated actress Diane Ladd, best known for her roles in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and in David Lynch’s Wild At Heart, has died at 89. Ladd’s death was announced by her daughter, Oscar-winning actress Laura Dern, who issued a statement saying her mother and occasional co-star had died at her home in Ojai, California, with Dern at her side. Dern, who called Ladd her “amazing hero” and “profound gift of a mother”, did not immediately cite a cause of death. “She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress,…
The situation is “very unusual,” said Anne Witt, a professor in competition law at EDHEC Business School in Lille, France. “Structural remedies are almost unprecedented at the EU level,” Witt added. “It’s really the sledgehammer.” In its September decision, the Commission took the “unusual and unprecedented step,” per Witt, to ask Google to design its own remedy — while signaling, if cautiously, that anything short of a sale of parts of its advertising technology business would fall foul of the EU antitrust enforcer. “It appears that the only way for Google to end its conflict of interest effectively is with…
Home sales in Ireland plummeted in the second quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2024, according to data from Eurostat. It was one of four EU countries that saw a fall in year-on-year house sales while overall EU home sales posted healthy growth of 10%. The number of homes, including new builds, sold in Ireland fell by 10%, while sales also dropped in Malta by 6.2%, in Hungary by 5.7%, and in Finland by 5.6%. Kate Everett-Allen, head of European Residential Research at Knight Frank, said: “Ireland’s 10% drop continues to reflect stretched affordability and persistent…
To join the European Union, countries must align with the acquis, the collection of laws, regulations, standards and policies of the 27-member bloc. This includes technology and digital infrastructure requirements, such as digital wallets and online government services, as well as cybersecurity defences that match the rest of the EU and regulate emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). As Euronews prepares to host its EU Enlargement Summit, we wanted to take a look at how candidate countries are doing in some areas of technology to meet European Union standards. Digital wallets In 2024, the European Union passed a resolution…
Außenminister Johann Wadephul sorgt mit seiner Syrien-Aussage für Aufruhr in der Union. Gemeinsam mit Nikolaus Doll von WELT analysiert Gordon Repinski, wie Wadephuls Worte die Partei spalten, warum der Kanzler eingreifen muss und welches Kommunikationsproblem sich in der Regierung zeigt. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht Manuela Schwesig, Ministerpräsidentin von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, über ihre Erwartungen an den Kanzler, über Wirtschaft und Arbeitsplätze im Norden und über den wachsenden Druck durch die AfD in ihrem Bundesland. Außerdem geht es nach New York, wo der Demokrat Zoran Mamdani bei den Bürgermeisterwahlen den Wahlsieg holen könnte. Jonathan Martin von POLITICO in den USA erklärt, warum der 34-Jährige…
Updated: 04/11/2025 – 7:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this November 4th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
By AP with Doloresz Katanich Published on 04/11/2025 – 7:05 GMT+1 OpenAI and Amazon have signed a $38 billion (€33bn) deal that enables the ChatGPT maker to run its artificial intelligence systems on Amazon’s data centres in the US. As part of the deal, announced on Monday, OpenAI will be able to power its AI tools using “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia’s specialised AI chips through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon shares rose 4% following the announcement. The agreement comes less than a week after OpenAI altered its partnership with longtime backer Microsoft, which until earlier this year had been the…
Ten people defended themselves in front of a Paris court last week against cyberbullying charges brought against them by Brigitte Macron, France’s first lady. The defendants, eight men and two women between the ages of 41 and 60, are accused of sexist and transphobic harassment over a series of videos and posts that claimed Brigitte Macron was born “a man.”. The Macron cyber harassment case is one of many being brought forward by public figures in France. The country criminalised cyber harassment for the first time in 2014, with a maximum penalty of up to 3 years in prison and…
Today, as the world reaches a critical juncture in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, the EU must choose: match scientific breakthroughs with political will and investment or retreat, putting two decades of hard-won progress at risk. Having saved over 70 million lives, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (the Global Fund) has proven what smart, sustained investment can achieve. But the impact of its work — the lives protected, the life expectancy prolonged, the systems strengthened, the innovations deployed — is now under threat due to declining international funding. The real question is no…