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With flight prices currently on the rise, short-haul city breaks are likely to be one of Europe’s biggest travel trends this summer as holidaymakers swap costly long-haul escapes for cheaper, easier getaways. Now, in the latest City Costs Barometer by the UK’s Post Office Travel Money, it has been revealed which European cities offer the best, and worst, value for travellers once they arrive in the destination. In its largest comparison yet, the annual report analysed the cost of 12 everyday tourist items for two people across 50 cities. Giving travellers a snapshot of what a city break could actually…

“C’était un débat plus humaniste que théologique, dans lequel certains représentants d’entreprises technologiques étaient personnellement investis — quand d’autres sont restés dans les éléments de langage”, poursuit le même. “La réunion montre en tout cas qu’une partie du Vatican ne rejette pas la technologie en tant que telle, mais veut la mettre au service de l’homme”.  Les participants conviés par la Human Technology Foundation préparent une note de synthèse issue de ces échanges. Elle sera transmise à l’ambassadrice française au Numérique, Clara Chappaz, avec pour objectif d’influencer les débats sur le numérique qui auront lieu dans le cadre du G7,…

Published on 25/05/2026 – 6:10 GMT+2•Updated 6:13 Polls for mayoral elections in some 749 Italian municipalities reopen on Monday following the first day of voting on Sunday, the final electoral test before the 2027 general election. More than six million Italians are eligible to vote in the election to elect mayors and new municipal councils in 700 municipalities, including a regional capital, Venice, and fifteen provincial capitals. According to local reports, Sunday’s poll saw around 46.5% voter turnout, slightly lower than the previous election, where turnout was recorded to have been 50.1%.was recorded to be 50.1%. The run-off, for municipalities…

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Now an expert with the Holy See, Salobir chairs the executive committee of the Human Technology Foundation, an organization that promotes ethical reflection on technology and counts Google, Palantir and Qualcomm among its members. Working with the French Embassy to the Holy See, Salobir helped launch a “French AI Observatory in Rome” in 2024, creating a forum for closed-door exchanges between the technology sector and Vatican officials. Starting under Pope Francis, they have grown more frequent recently. The April 29 meeting was one of those. In addition to Salobir and the French government official El Haïry, those attending the meeting…

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said that fragmentation is a pan-European phenomenon and is not unique to Cyprus. “I’m not worried; I believe these are part of democracy, and the democratic system has a way of self-regulating in the end. This government was not supported by major parties in parliament anyway,” he told POLITICO in an interview on May 23. “What matters is for a government to act rationally, to act as the government of all Cypriots.” Cyprus — which holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU until the end of June — has ⁠a presidential system of…

Lithuania issued an air alert on Wednesday after a stray drone was detected close to the country’s border with Belarus, with NATO’s Baltic air-policing mission activated as a result. The incident came after two Ukrainian drones, intended for Russia, came down over an empty oil storage facility in Latvia earlier this month — sparking a crisis that has led to the collapse of the governing coalition. A NATO jet shot down a drone in Estonian airspace last week. “Russia’s public threats against our Baltic States are completely unacceptable,” von der Leyen said in a message posted on social media last…

Hundreds of riot police entered the Ankara headquarters of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party after supporters blocked the building following a court ruling dismissing the party leadership. Video showed officers using tear gas and pushing through entrances to remove party leader Ozgur Ozel. The ruling named former CHP chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu as interim leader as part of an ongoing probe into the party. Rights groups condemned the move, calling it a major blow to democracy and the rule of law in Turkey.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday rejected a German proposal to grant Ukraine associate membership in the EU because it would leave Kyiv without a voice inside the bloc. “There can be no complete European project without Ukraine, and Ukraine’s place in the European Union must also be complete — full and equal,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X. “It is important to open the clusters” on negotiation areas, he said. “It is important to make meaningful progress in the negotiations. It is important to work at one hundred percent for security and for our people,” Zelenskyy stressed. German…

Russia’s military pummeled Kyiv overnight with large-scale drone and missile attack that killed at least two people and injured scores of others, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday. Moscow’s forces used some 600 drones and 30 missiles, including at least one Oreshnik, a powerful hypersonic ballistic missile that is capable of carrying nuclear weapons, Ukraine’s air force said. “The largest number of missiles was directed at the capital — at ordinary residential buildings, at schools,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X. “The Russian strike effectively destroyed the Chornobyl Museum, damaged the National Art Museum and the building…