Dave Cottlehuber, the founder of SkunkWerks, a small tech infrastructure firm in Austria, says he has been moving the company’s few servers and databases away from US providers to European services since the start of the year. “First and…
Category: 3. Europe
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The Continent’s Risky Task of Keeping Kyiv in the Fight—and Defending Itself
Relations between the United States and its European allies have proved tempestuous during the first two months of the second Trump administration. From his first days back in office, President Donald Trump has emphasized significant…
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A United Europe Is What the United States Used to Want
“Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Italy, and Western Germany should form one federated state. To help this America could afford to spend a lot, because we’d get something successful, strong, sturdy. But the [European]…
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Iftar in a church: Brussels' Molenbeek district celebrates diversity to showcase community
The Iftar comes as part of Molenbeek’s bid to become the 2030 European Capital of Culture, in which the district hopes to ‘flip the script’ on its infamous narrative.
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Brussels' Molenbeek district hosts Iftar in church to boost European Capital of Culture bid
The Iftar comes as part of Molenbeek’s bid to become the 2030 European Capital of Culture, in which the district hopes to “flip the script” on its infamous narrative.
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Streaming revenues exceeded $20bn for the first time ever in 2024, says Global Music Report
The music recording industry is seeing growth that ‘many other sectors would be incredibly envious of’, but what’s driving it?
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Jetzt müssen Merz und Klingbeil lösen – POLITICO
– Mehr Uneinigkeit bei den Verhandlungen als erwartet: wie jetzt “die da oben” den Zwist und Streit lösen müssen, der in den Arbeitsgruppen nicht ausgeräumt werden konnte.
– Erneuter Angriff auf die Demokratie: Wie die EU mit der Türkei umgehen wird, nach der…
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Ukrainian and US officials hold ‘productive’ ceasefire talks in Riyadh
The talks come a day before US officials are set to meet with Russia’s delegation.
Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov announced on Sunday that talks between US and Ukrainian delegations in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, were “productive and focused” and with…
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UK considers pulling the plug on £180M Brexit trade system – POLITICO
“We are talking about many hundreds of millions in benefits to business, trade and growth and at the time HMG had budgeted for this.”
Costs rack up
A Freedom of Information Request submitted by POLITICO shows that HM Revenue and Customs has spent at least £105.18 million on the…
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Romanian media watchdog defies Musk over censorship claims – POLITICO
ANCOM oversees the Digital Services Act in Romania, the European Union’s social media rulebook that governs how platforms like TikTok and X moderate online speech.
“We’ve never seen something like” what happened in the November 2024 presidential election, Popescu…
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