The contraction strengthens the argument for increasing spending incentives in Japan as the economy prepares to take a hit from Trump’s tariffs.
Category: 3. Europe
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Japan's economy shrinks as Trump trade war hits exports and confidence
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Why was Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok preoccupied with ‘white genocide'?
Like other chatbots, Grok is prone to falsehoods known as hallucinations.
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How Europe is shaping the future of digital identity
PowerPoint-Präsentation Mirela Ciobanu, Lead Editor at The Paypers, continues her coverage of key takeaways from EIC 2025 in Berlin—this time spotlighting the progress made by European countries on the European Digital Identity…
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Europe ‘more interesting’ amid tariff tensions
Market volatility has led Canadian pension giant Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan to balance caution and conviction as it looks to deploy capital selectively across regions and sectors.
Speaking at PEI Group’s third annual
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India and Pakistan look to EU to defuse conflict in different ways
Ambassadors of India and Pakistan to the EU speak to Euronews in the wake of a flaring of relations between the two nuclear powers following a terror attack. Both countries are looking to the EU for assistance, but their approaches differ.
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Eurovision 2025: Final lineup set after second semifinal
The final lineup for the 69th Eurovision Song Contest is set after Thursday evening’s second semi-final, with 26 countries set to compete in front of thousands of fans in Basel, Switserland in the grand final on Saturday.
Those who made the cut include classically trained Austrian…
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Personal average tax rates in Europe: Which countries saw the biggest rise in 2024?
Workers pay not only income tax but also social security contributions. Together, these two components make up the personal average tax rate, expressed as a percentage of gross wage earning. This combined rate is often referred to as the “tax burden”.
Personal average tax rates…
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Man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie faces sentencing in New York
A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February. He is expected to be sentenced today, with Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt saying he will request the maximum 25 years in prison for the 2022 attack that left Salman Rushdie blind in one eye.
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Esther Lynch — A shy but unwavering force for Europe’s workers
This article features in The EU’s Unsung Heroes, read the full magazine here.
Four minutes before the interview was due to start, a call from the comms department: Esther Lynch is hesitant to be featured in a magazine about unsung heroes, because…
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Can Eurovision succeed in uniting through music? | Radio Schuman
While avid Eurovision fans have been counting down the days to Saturday’s final, Europe’s “biggest party” was drawing criticism. Can organisers succeed in keeping politics off the stage?
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