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European lawmakers have given the green light to tougher enforcement measures on imported goods traded under the EU27’s carbon border tax during the European Parliament’s environment committee vote on Wednesday. The carbon border tax on products such as steel, aluminium, cement, and fertilisers will kick off its operational phase in January 2026, at which point companies will start paying for emissions generated by their products. With the European Commission slated to announce new measures to increase monitoring of companies importing into the European Union, lawmakers voted 68-7 to speed up the legislative process. Under the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM),…

Farmers in northern Greece disrupted traffic at border crossings on Wednesday in an escalating protest over delayed European Union-backed subsidy payments linked to an investigation into a corruption scandal. Convoys of tractors blocked routes to North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey forcing drivers into lengthy detours. In the central city of Larissa, farmers emptied milk in the main square before continuing their march to reinforce local motorway blockades. Further north in Serres farmers set up road blockades and some bypassed police checkpoints to march on the customs office in Promahona, near the border with Bulgaria. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said…

Before Borell, Mogherini was in charge of the EEAS between 2014 and 2019, after which she went on to become rector of the elite College of Europe, which is now at the center of the fraud case. Stefano Sannino, another central figure in the scandal, was secretary general of the EEAS under Borrell before taking a senior position as head of the European Commission’s Middle East and North Africa department in early 2025. In the ongoing probe being led by Belgian police and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), Mogherini and Sannino are suspected of having rigged a tender process…

Published on 03/12/2025 – 14:53 GMT+1 Istanbul-based shipping company Besiktas Shipping announced on Tuesday it is halting all operations with Russia, citing unacceptable security risks following an attack on one of its vessels. “After a thorough assessment, we have concluded that the risks posed to our vessels and crew have become untenable,” the company said in a statement. “As the safety of our personnel and assets is our highest priority, we are halting all such operations.” Besiktas Shipping owns the Panama-flagged oil tanker Mersin, which sustained four external explosions on 27 November while anchored near the Senegalese capital Dakar. The…

Published on 03/12/2025 – 15:07 GMT+1 •Updated 15:12 Anthropic has begun laying the groundwork for a possible stock market listing as competition between artificial intelligence firms heats up. That’s according to a report in the Financial Times which claims the company has appointed the Silicon Valley firm Wilson Sonsini to advise on an eventual public offering. Anthropic did not immediately reply to Euronews’ request for comment. One FT source said the move could position the San Francisco-based group to pursue an IPO as early as 2026, although the company has made no commitment to going public and stressed that it…

LONDON — The British government dismissed on Wednesday Vladimir Putin’s claim that Europe wanted a war with Russia as “Kremlin claptrap.” The Russian president accused Europe on Tuesday of being “on the side of war” and made clear Moscow was “ready right now” to fight a war just hours before peace talks with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. But Keir Starmer’s spokesperson dismissed Putin’s comments as “yet more rhetoric” that was “as dangerous as it is wrong.” They said “European nations are united in supporting Ukraine’s right to self-defense under international law” and “NATO’s…

Published on 03/12/2025 – 11:54 GMT+1 The European Commission just announced a list of 235 energy projects eligible for fast-track funding. It includes 100 hydrogen projects, with a total investment of over €80 billion. That is a big budget for the energy transition. But there is a catch. Critics warn that 90% of these hydrogen projects were submitted by gas operators. They worry the EU might be financing hydrogen-ready pipes that will actually carry dirty fossil gas for years, because the green supply is simply not there yet. That could be seen purely as greenwashing. Ideally, we want green hydrogen…

The world’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) companies are failing to meet their own safety commitments, according to a new assessment that warns these failures come with “catastrophic” risks. The report comes as AI companies face lawsuits and allegations that their chatbots cause psychological harm, including by acting as a “suicide coach,” as well as reports of AI-assisted cyberattacks. The 2025 Winter AI Safety Index report, released by the non-profit organisation the Future of Life Institute (FLI), evaluated eight major AI firms, including US companies Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, xAI, and Meta, and the Chinese firms DeepSeek, Alibaba Cloud, and Z.ai.…

Finnish President Alexander Stubb said in an interview published Wednesday that conditions for a just peace in Ukraine are unlikely to be met.“The reality is that peace can be good, bad, or some kind of compromise. The reality is also that we Finns must prepare for the moment when peace comes, and that all the conditions for a just peace we’ve talked so much about over the past four years are unlikely to be fulfilled,” Stubb said in an interview with MTV Uutiset.He added that “we are closer to peace today than yesterday” and that the coming days and weeks…