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Since then, Baltic Sea sabotage has proliferated, hitting telecom, gas and power links connecting Sweden, Finland, Germany, Latvia and Estonia. Just a few weeks ago, a communications cable linking Berlin and Helsinki was again damaged off the Swedish coast.  It’s a simple operation to pull off.  To start, the costs are extraordinarily low. “Potentially, it’s just bribing a captain to lower the anchor,” said Christian Bueger, an international relations professor and maritime security expert at the University of Copenhagen. “That’s really cheap if you’re thinking about military-style, security operations.”  The target is also easily within reach of a ship’s anchor.…

The European Commission has been urged to work on new AI liability rules after it pulled out of an existing proposal, in a letter sent to the EU executive on Monday by civil society and consumer groups.The signatories — which include consumer group BEUC, and privacy advocates Article 19 and Mozilla – said that the “EU needs rules to address the legal gaps left by the AILD withdrawal and ensure a fairer, simpler path to compensation for all people affected by AI systems, including consumers in the EU, in case of harm by an AI system.”In the Commission’s 2025 work…

Digital services will “inevitably come into focus,” said Finnish EPP lawmaker Aura Salla, who is also a former top lobbyist for Meta in Brussels. EPP President Manfred Weber said on Tuesday that the “digital giants only pay little to our digital infrastructure where they benefit so much.”  Some EU countries are adding to the chorus. On Thursday French government spokesperson Sophie Primas said the EU’s next wave of retaliation could target “digital services that are currently not taxed. ”  The Commission is set to fine Apple and Meta for violating digital competition rules, the first such fines to be issued…

Häkkänen’s comments echo those of German Defense Boris Pistorius, who last month asked his U.S. counterpart Pete Hegseth to “develop a roadmap to avoid gaps in capabilities, organize burden sharing progressively, to know who does what” in case the U.S shifts forces from Europe to the Indo-Pacific. Pistorius said he got no answer from either the White House or the Pentagon. European countries are scrambling to recalibrate the continent’s defenses as the administration of Donald Trump wages economic war against the EU, warms ties with Russia, warns it may not defend NATO allies it feels underspend on defense, and threatens…

Did you know that the EU was the world’s biggest importer of textiles and apparel in 2023, importing about €176.9 billion worth of apparel, according to the World Trade Organisation?  France, Germany, Italy and Spain were some of the largest importers within the bloc. Much of this is because of the surge in fast fashion seen in recent years, boosted by companies such as Temu and Shein, who offer products at extremely low prices. According to Cascale, a global non-profit alliance bringing together brands, manufacturers and retailers, European consumers each buy about 42 pieces of apparel yearly and send approximately 12kg of…

– Schwarz-rote Koalitionsverhandlungen:Warum Merz und Linnemans Problem nicht die SPD und Klingbeil sind, sondern die CSU und Söder.  – Im 200-Sekunden-Interview:Die stellvertretende CDU-Vorsitzende Silvia Breher über innerparteilichen Ärger über die Ergebnisse der bisherigen Gespräche zwischen CDU und SPD zur Koalition und wie viel Wirtschaftswende in Projekten wie Mütterrente oder Agrardiesel-Subvention wirklich steckt.  – Reaktion auf Trumps Zölle:Hans von der Burchard über das heutige Treffen der EU-Handelsminister in Luxemburg zwischen Entschlossenheit zu antworten und Sorge vor weiterer Eskalation.  – Überraschende Wortmeldung:Wie Elon Musks Hoffnung auf eine “Free Trade Zone” zwischen der EU und den USA ganz ohne Zölle womöglich einen endgültigen…

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Working with Starlink “is a dependence that can be decided in the White House or [Trump’s private residence] Mar-a-Lago,” Eutelsat Chief Executive Officer Eva Berneke told POLITICO. “It’s good to have multiple options.” But today’s Starlink alternatives aren’t ready to take on Musk — including Eutelsat, by Berneke’s own admission. “If we were to take over the entire connectivity capacity for Ukraine and all the citizens, we wouldn’t be able to do that. Let’s just be very honest,” Berneke said. “But I do think we can provide capacity for some of the critical use cases of government.” Few firms have…

The new PM, an endocrinologist with no political experience, will likely be in place until at least 2027, when Serbia holds simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections. Lawmakers have until April 18 to approve him, or risk setting the stage for an early election. Vučić added he expects to meet United States President Donald Trump in the coming months and will raise the issue of tariffs. On April 2, as part of a wave of U.S. levies on countries around the world, Trump announced a 38 percent tariff on Serbia, which is set to take effect this week. That figure was…

During an aggressive speech to the crowd on Sunday, Le Pen again claimed that the verdict was politically motivated and that her fight was for “truth and justice.” Le Pen called the European Union’s anti-fraud unit, OLAF, a “totalitarian organism” and pinned the investigations into her party on the Parliament’s former social democratic president, Martin Schulz. “The system’s only purpose is to stay in place, no matter the cost,” Le Pen said. Boasting support from other far-right politicians in Europe, Le Pen said that “in all European countries, national leaders are prosecuted,” pointing to her Italian ally Matteo Salvini. She…