Category: 3. Europe

On Thursday, lawmakers moved to strengthen its safeguards, including a provision to suspend the agreement if the US imposes additional tariffs above 15% or introduces new duties on EU goods. Another would halt the deal if the US threatened the EU’s territorial sovereignty.

The intervention raises the stakes in a dispute that has been building since the Biennale Foundation confirmed earlier this month that Russia would return for the first time since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The decision has already drawn condemnation from more than 20…

“As a parent, lawmaker and European, I find today‘s vote in the European Parliament hard to understand,” Home affairs Commissioner Magnus Brunner told POLITICO after the vote. The decision will leave “countless victims without visibility or protection,” he said, noting that Europe hosts the…

“This shows that NATO allies recognise our changed security environment, and the need to meet our collective obligations,” NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte wrote in the report. “I expect the NATO Summit in Ankara this July to build on our achievements in 2025. There is no room for…

“During the first two months of this year, 60 per cent of all civilian casualties were in frontline regions (and) almost half of those killed were older persons,” said Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al-Nashif. 

In a scheduled update on the war to the Human Rights Council in…

Kim responded by saying that both leaders share similar positions on international issues and slammed Western countries for their interventionist mentality. “We oppose unlawful pressure on Belarus from the West and express support and understanding for measures taken by the Belarusian…

Pistorius suggested any potential deal would follow a more flexible procurement approach. Pointing to Germany’s recent purchases of loitering munitions, he said Berlin is shifting away from locking in long-term contracts upfront and instead testing systems in practice before deciding…

A landmark social media addiction trial in California on Wednesday found Meta and YouTube negligent for designing addictive social media platforms that harmed a child, ordering them to pay $3 million in compensatory damages.

In its probe into Snapchat, the EU could fine Snap, the parent…

The findings are some of the fastest to land under the DSA, after the investigation was launched in May 2025. The platforms now have the right to access the Commission’s evidence and offer a defense. If the Commission’s views are confirmed, the companies face fines of up to 6 percent of…