The council is holding itself to strict standards on energy and EVs as it seeks to be close to carbon-free by 2030.
Category: 3. Europe
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Gothenburg fined for missing renewable energy goal. Here’s why it’s happy to take the hit
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Nationwide strike across Belgium severely disrupts public transport and other services
Strikes are becoming increasingly more common across the country as Belgians express discontent with new coalition government.
Workers from both the public and private sector in Belgium have walked off the job for 24 hours in a national strike that has severely…
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Russia officially moves to legalize the Taliban – POLITICO
The Russian hearing is scheduled for April 17 and will be held behind closed doors, the Supreme Court press service said in a statement, state-owned media outlet TASS reported.
“The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has received and accepted for consideration an administrative…
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How does the EU's support for Ukraine stand after three years of war?
A new study shows that between 2022 and 2024, support for Ukraine and its displaced people has decreased.
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Sweden’s PM says Europe needs to do more to retain tech companies
European companies such as Spotify, Smurfit Kappa and Flutter Entertainment have left the continent to list in the US in recent years, with Klarna revealing plans to do the same soon too.
Sweden’s prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has warned that Europe needs to focus…
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Help us develop non-English/Chinese AI models, Japan asks EU
Concerns about language bias affecting LLMs have led to call for cooperation between Japan and EU.
Japan is looking to cooperate with the EU on AI in an attempt to develop models that are not based on English and Chinese since these languages dominate generative models,…
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Zelenskyy calls for stronger allies’ action to break Russia’s war capacity
Meanwhile, Russia used two ballistic missiles and 131 drones in its aerial assault, Ukrainian authorities reported.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the US and its partners to increase pressure on Russia to “break its capacity to wage war”.
In his…
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Germany and Italy diverge on inflation: What implications for the eurozone?
Germany’s inflation eased to a four-month low in March, while Italy’s rose to its highest in over a year, highlighting diverging trends. The mixed data suggest uneven disinflation across the eurozone ahead of the bloc’s inflation release.
Preliminary consumer…
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‘Wellness rooms’: Why more people are opting to create self-care spaces in their homes
It started with converting rooms for new purposes during COVID. Now some designers say that people are looking for “wellness rooms” in their homes.
During the pandemic, homes were sometimes transformed to serve different purposes, with people adding everything from…
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Irish privacy watchdog has ‘unresolved questions’ about Meta’s AI tool
The tech giant has introduced MetaAI across Europe, after it halted the launch in the bloc last year due to ‘regulatory uncertainty’.
The Irish data protection authority still has open questions about Meta’s AI tool which the tech giant started to roll-out across…
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