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Tag: Europe

25Jul By AdminsNo Comments

Trump says US will investigate EU trade practices, claiming the bloc unfairly fined tech giants

The United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices, US President Donald Trump said on Friday, claiming the bloc has unfairly levied billions of dollars of fines against Google, Apple and other US tech giants. The Republican president made the announcement a day after the EU hit Google with a fine of €890 million ($1.5 billion), after it said the technology behemoth broke digital antitrust regulations by setting up Google Play and its ubiquitous search engine to corral consumers toward its own services and apps to the detriment of competitors. A woman walks by a giant screen displaying the Google logo at an event at the Paris Google Lab on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris, Feb. 9, 2025. AP Photo/Thibault Camus ...
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18Jul By AdminsNo Comments

German politician resigns over surrogacy child controversy

Reuters 46-year-old Jens Spahn announced he and his husband had become parents earlier this week German centre-right politician Jens Spahn has resigned as parliamentary group leader of the country's governing coalition after being accused of hypocrisy over his use of a surrogate mother in the US to have a child. Surrogacy is prohibited in Germany - a policy backed by his Christian Democrat party (CDU) and, several years ago, by Spahn himself - although raising a child born to a surrogate mother abroad is not. He wrote in a statement on Saturday: "I have realised that my personal happiness - founding a family together with my husband and becoming a father - is not compatible with my political office." Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who leads the CDU, called ...
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18Jul By AdminsNo Comments

Many Ukrainian soldiers outraged over removal of defence minister, troops tell BBC

Olga Ivashchenko/Bloomberg via Getty Images Crowds took to the streets of Kyiv on Thursday following the removal of defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov "My operation is scheduled for tomorrow," says the disfigured soldier, still recovering from his terrible injuries. "I hope when I wake up after the anaesthetic, Fedorov will be back at the Ministry of Defence," the unnamed soldier says in a video posted on Telegram. "Otherwise, everything I was fighting for will have been in vain." Among Ukraine's battle-weary soldiers and wounded veterans, there's a collective sense of outrage at this week's political developments. President Zelensky's decision not to re-appoint his successful young defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, in his latest cabinet reshuffle, has...
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18Jul By AdminsNo Comments

Hungary’s president agrees to stand down after parliament backs removal

Getty Images Sulyok said he had no constitutional recourse to challenge the amendment Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok has agreed to step down, signing an amendment to the country's constitution which will end his presidency at midnight on Sunday. Prime Minister Péter Magyar's Tisza party had steamrolled the law change through parliament to oust Sulyok - widely seen as a loyalist of former prime minister Viktor Orbán who lost power in April after 16 years. Sulyok had five days to sign the amendment or risk a protracted constitutional crisis and impeachment proceedings. He confirmed he would agree to the law change as the deadline passed on Saturday evening, but in a statement accused Magyar's government of violating the rule of law. He said the amendme...
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26Jun By AdminsNo Comments

Poland’s Tusk calls for ‘mutual respect’ during row with Ukraine

Reuters Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky together in Kyiv in February Poland's prime minister has called for "truth" and "mutual respect" at an event on rebuilding Ukraine that Volodymyr Zelensky skipped amid a diplomatic row between the two neighbours and allies. Donald Tusk opened the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdansk without the Ukrainian president after he was stripped of Poland's highest state honour over the naming of a military unit after controversial World War Two fighters. Warsaw and Kyiv have fallen out over the allusion to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), who many Ukrainians consider freedom fighters but who Poland accuses of genocide. The row comes as Ukraine seeks further support and investment as i...
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26Jun By AdminsNo Comments

Paris restricts alcohol consumption and sales as Europe’s heatwave shifts east

Getty Images French authorities have announced public alcohol consumption and sales bans in Paris, in a bid to ease pressure on the capital's hospitals during the heatwave. Parisians will be restricted from drinking alcohol in public from noon on Friday until 07:00 on Saturday. The measures will be in place during the same hours from Saturday to Sunday. Heatwave conditions that have left Spain, the UK and France sweltering for days are set to shift to the east, with forecasters in Germany and the Czech Republic warning of extreme conditions. Temperatures in Germany could hit 40C across the country on Friday. An extreme weather warning is now in place in much of the Czech Republic. Getty Images Temperatures in Italy are yet to peak, with over 40C expected o...
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