Category: 3. Europe

Mandelson’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He has previously said he was wrong to have continued his association with Epstein, who died in 2019, and apologized “unequivocally” to Epstein’s victims. Mandelson has said none of the Epstein emails released…

Greek political parties have clashed over the affair for years, as an expanding list of cases revealed the highly invasive surveillance tool on the phones of opposition politicians, government ministers, military officials, journalists and business executives. The Greek government has denied…

The European Parliament voted to support it in December. Some MEPs who opposed it said it infringed upon EU and national rules.

The Commission said Thursday it “it is not necessary to propose a new legal instrument” because “EU support can already be provided relatively quickly by Member…

Predator spyware, marketed by the Athens-based Israeli company Intellexa, can get access to a device’s messages, camera, and microphone. Its use was illegal in Greece at that time but a new law passed in 2022 has since legalised state security use of surveillance software under strict conditions.

Europe enters a more contested decade than any since the end of the Cold War. Yet the frontline shaping its security is no longer limited to land, sea, air or even space.  

It runs directly through the digital backbone that powers modern life: the networks,…

Rome, he said, will formally ask the European Commission to pause the system until changes are made to emissions benchmarks and allowance allocation rules, including delaying the phase-out of free allowances.

Urso also called for the introduction of a stable support mechanism for exporting…

Droht ein neuer Handelskrieg zwischen der EU und den USA? Nachdem der Supreme Court zentrale US-Zölle für rechtswidrig erklärt hat, steht der sogenannte 15-Prozent-Deal zwischen Brüssel und Washington erneut auf der Kippe. Joana Lehner und Jürgen Klöckner besprechen,…

With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a “rupture” with the post-WW2 order.

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