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Global trade is fracturing: here’s why the EU needs the Green Deal more than ever

As an environmentally conscious consumer, buying a new phone can be challenging. Today, most chips come from East Asia, assembly happens in China, and tracing the environmental and social impact of production is all but impossible. On top of that, rare-earth elements from China are increasingly used as geopolitical leverage.

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Paris hosts AI summit, with spotlight on innovation, regulation, creativity

France is making a bold bid to establish itself as a global leader in artificial intelligence governance, as Paris prepares to host the 2025 AI Action Summit. Against the backdrop of growing regulatory measures across Europe, France aims to strike a balance between innovation and ethics.

Radio France Internationale

Baltic nations count final hours to ending electricity ties to Russia

Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia and Belarus

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January Sets 'Surprising' Heat Record: EU Monitor

Last month was the hottest January on record, Europe's climate monitor said Thursday, despite expectations that cooler La Nina conditions might quell a streak of record-breaking global temperatures.

International Business Times

Firms raising prices ahead of trade tariff hikes, report finds

A poll of 1,500 businesses by HSBC found 39% of are increasing prices in anticipation of higher tariffs.

The Independent UK

Dail returns to usual business after speaking time row resolved

TDs attention focused on the government’s response to Storm Eowyn and the housing crisis.

Evening Standard

Belarus election: how ‘Europe’s last dictator’ held onto power as his opponents were jailed or exiled

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The electoral authorities announced that the man known as “Europe’s last dictator” – the only president the country has had since it held its first “democratic” election in 1994 – had won…

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A special tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders over Ukraine wins backing from European institutions

A project to establish a court to prosecute the Russian leaders who orchestrated the invasion of Ukraine has taken a major step forward, with an announcement from a group of international organizations, including the European Union and the Council of Europe, working together with Ukraine

The Independent UK

Windows 11’s Start menu search gets new, clearer labels, as Microsoft tries to avoid EU regulation trouble

Microsoft is updating Windows 11’s Start menu search in the EEA (European Economic Area) to comply with EU rules, separating on-device and Bing web search while adding more user control options.

TechRadar

Tesla Sales Fall In Germany As Musk Backs Far Right

Tesla sales plunged in Germany last month, official data showed Wednesday, after billionaire owner Elon Musk waded into the country's election campaign by vocally backing the far right.

International Business Times

An EU fund to help troops move quickly is too small and poorly managed, auditors say

Auditors say a European Union fund meant to help speed the deployment of troops and military equipment around the 27-nation bloc in times of conflict is too small and poorly managed to be effective

The Independent UK

Europe bans emotion-tracking artificial intelligence under landmark AI rules

EU AI Act aims to protect people from AI-based discrimination, harassment and manipulation

The Independent UK

Steel Decline Sparks Protests And A Movie In Belgium

Thousands of steelworkers took to the streets of Brussels on Wednesday to demand EU help for a sector whose decline is the subject of a documentary on show at Belgian cinemas.

International Business Times

Ukraine: prospects for peace are slim unless Europe grips the reality of Trump’s world

When EU leaders gathered for their first ever meeting solely dedicated to defence issues on February 3, in Brussels, the war in Ukraine was uppermost on their minds. Yet, three weeks before the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine is only the tip of an iceberg of security challenges…

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Novo Nordisk confident despite Trump tariff risk as sales of weight-loss jab soar

Europe’s biggest firm, whose sales of Wegovy almost doubled, feels it can ‘meet demands’ of US administration

Evening Standard

Apple hits out at pornography app allowed onto EU iPhones

A pornography content browser called Hot Tub has been launched on an alternative app marketplace allowed on the iPhone by EU competition laws.

International Business Times

EU Seeks New Import Fee On E-commerce Packages

The European Commission announced Wednesday it would seek to impose new fees on e-commerce imports, as part of efforts to tackle a surge of "harmful" products into the bloc -- the bulk of them from China.

Fortune

China and Europe target Big Tech in scramble to fight back against Trump's tariff broadside

Chinese antitrust authorities look into Google and Apple, as the EU threatens seismic moves if the U.S. uses tariffs to twist its arm.

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The Independent UK

Trump’s comments on US-owned Gaza ‘concerning’ – Irish foreign affairs minister

Irish premier Micheal Martin said that it ‘remains to be seen where this leads’.

The Independent UK

Poland can't get its money back after the EU fined the country's previous, conservative government

Poland won’t get any money back after its previous, conservative government was hit by a record-breaking fine by the European Union for ignoring a court order to undo changes to its judicial system

The Guardian - UK

EU to tighten checks on goods sold by sites such as Shein and Temu

European Commission also urges EU lawmakers to phase out exemption on customs duties for parcels under €150

Evening Standard

EU’s Sefcovic and UK’s Thomas-Symonds have ‘productive’ talks on closer ties

Sir Keir Starmer will host the EU’s leaders for a summit in May as part of his effort to ‘reset’ relations with Brussels after Brexit.

Fortune

The thorny question of French retirement reform is on the table again under France's new government. Does it stand a chance?

Today, the French retirement reform is an expensive system, threatening to break the economy.

Radio France Internationale

British PM Starmer to host EU leaders in first post-Brexit summit to strengthen UK-EU ties

Keir Starmer will host EU leaders in May for a landmark summit aimed at strengthening UK-EU ties and exploring new avenues for cooperation.

The Guardian - UK

EU leaders talk the talk on defence. But where will they find the billions to pay for it?

Europe may have as little as three to five years to prepare for a potential Russian attack – it must get real about borrowing to protect peace, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre

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