European Parliament and European Council sources told CSIS that when writing the AI Act, their intention was that fine-tuning a model would not immediately trigger regulatory obligations. Indeed, the rules for GPAI models are intended…
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With war still raging in Ukraine, Russian Olympic hopes look bleak
With a little less than one year until the Winter Olympics unfold in Italy, Russia’s hope to do battle on snow and ice on the world’s biggest sports stage appear to melt by the day.
Unless peace quickly comes to Ukraine and the International…
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Ukraine’s Daunting Choice: Trading Its Land and People for Future Security
Wars are almost always about land. Ukraine’s determined and heroic defense of its sovereign territory against horrific Russian aggression attests to that fact. As we noted in an earlier article in War on the Rocks, restoring Ukraine’s…
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Why Eastern European countries are boycotting supermarkets
A wave of discontent over rising supermarket prices has spread through the Balkans and beyond in the past weeks, intensifying pressure on governments to defend consumers.
At the latest meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels on 27…
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Amid Russia war, Ukraine building US$1.4 billion holiday resort in Carpathian Mountains
Ukraine might be fending off a full-scale Russian invasion but a brand new holiday resort is taking shape in the western Carpathian Mountains.
It will offer 25 hotels with more than 5,000 rooms, in a ski area kitted out with lifts and a range of…
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US says European security no longer its primary focus – the shift has been years in the making
European defence ministers left their meeting in Brussels on February 12 in shock after the new US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, told them they could no longer rely on the US to guarantee their security.
Hegseth said he was there…
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EU-US trade: how tariffs could impact Europe | Topics
What Parliament is calling for
Shortly after Trump’s re-election in November 2024, MEPs already debated what this would mean for EU-US relations.
In the week Trump was inaugurated as US president, leading MEPs called for continued transatlantic…
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Maps: Ukraine’s Borders Pre-2014 Invasion to Now
The question of where Ukraine’s borders with Russia should be drawn in any peace negotiations came into sharp focus this week after Pete Hegseth, the U.S. defense secretary, said that it was “unrealistic” for Ukraine to try to regain all of…
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Europe leads in productivity potential, US strong in innovation
The most productive countries in the world are in Western Europe, according to the Productivity Potential Index (PPI), created by global consulting firm Strategy& and the World Governments Summit….
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Russian Interference: Coming Soon to an Election Near You
Romania’s political turmoil just escalated and it perfectly exemplifies how Russia can rely on domestic actors to do much of its bidding to weaken the EU and NATO.
The Romanian Constitutional Court’s annulment of the first round of the…
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