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As soon as their lacking aircraft is lastly again on earth, passengers on Flight 828 within the cult US television show Manifest rapidly realise their lives are inextricably entangled. What ties them collectively shouldn’t be apparent at first. The extra astute might hyperlink the EU Parliament’s oddly laid-back angle in …

Former EU commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos held conferences with EU fee vice-presidents at a time when he was being paid by Struggle Impunity, an NGO linked to the Qatari corruption allegations. In a press release on Tuesday (20 December), the European Fee mentioned his current conferences held between Vera Jourova and …

Most within the central European Visegrad international locations help welcoming Ukrainian refugees, however that’s largely depending on who they blame for the battle, a a new survey has discovered. A majority in Czechia, Hungary, and Poland are open to their international locations internet hosting Ukrainian refugees, in response to a …

Take heed to article On the early morning of 10 December, I stepped off the Hainan Airways flight and set foot in Brussels within the brisk midwinter. I’m no stranger to this metropolis. Throughout earlier visits to EU headquarters on issues associated to arms management and the Joint Complete Plan …

China is about to elevate its COVID journey ban and reopen its borders, at the same time as rising infections additional strained the well being system and roiled the economic system. Chinese language individuals, reduce off from the remainder of the world for 3 years by COVID-19 curbs, flocked to journey …

Civil society organisations, together with teams that work to guard human rights, are beneath rising risk in Europe itself. The risk as of late would not come simply from repressive governments like these in Russia or Turkey. Nor it’s even confined to democratic states on the highway to authoritarianism like …

The European Union has spectacular digital ambitions and an equally-impressive array of initiatives, proposals, directives and laws, all designed to make the bloc ‘match for the digital age’. And there is a lot to suggest within the EU plans. Because the bloc underlines, the digital transition ought to actually work …

Within the wake of the biggest corruption scandal to hit the European Parliament in over a decade, its president Roberto Metsola blamed “malign actors linked to autocratic third nations” after Belgian police discovered luggage of money on the residence of vice-president Eva Kaili. However the parliament, and particularly its Bureau, …

A day after President Vladimir Putin mentioned he was open to negotiations over Ukraine, Russia’s international minister lashed out, saying Kyiv and the West sought to destroy his nation and Ukraine should meet Moscow’s calls for or its military will. Putin’s supply to speak was dismissed by Ukraine, as his …

“There is a scene in [the 2002 US film] Minority Report when police throw down what appear to be pebbles, which increase into spider-like robots, search for individuals and climb on their faces to scan their retinas,” stated Kenneth Cukier. Cukier is deputy editor of The Economist journal and writer …

Margrethe Vestager, widely-regarded as considered one of Europe’s strongest ladies, could spend most of her skilled life making an attempt to make the continent “match for the digital age” (her official job title as EU commissioner) — but she is adamant that know-how should not management our whole lives. “My …

December 28, 2024 — that is when EU guidelines mandate iPhones must drop Apple’s lightning cable and begin utilizing a standard charging port — according to all different smartphones. The brand new EU legislation enters into pressure Tuesday; it requires that inside two years smartphones and different small digital gadgets …