EU should ban targeted advertising (algorithmwatch.org)
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France is telling tourists to stay away from its biggest landmarks (www.timeout.com)
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Brexit has failed - we must now return to the centre of Europe, Lord Heseltine says (www.independent.co.uk)
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European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
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The biggest economy in the euro area, Germany’s, is in a bad way. And its ills are a main cause of the euro’s own weakness. (a throwback to 1999) (www.economist.com)
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Amazon’s chokehold over online shopping in the EU and UK (www.somo.nl)
Amazon has taken over Europe. After a 20-year-long expansion, supercharged during Covid-19, the US giant is now by far the dominant e-commerce company in Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Spain. In these countries, Amazon is the main port of call for online shoppers. That has made the company nearly unavoidable for independent...
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Spotify fined € 5 Million for GDPR violation (noyb.eu)
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Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian PM, dies at 86 (www.bbc.com)
The former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has died at the age of 86, Italian media reported on Monday.
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Former Prime Minister of France explains during a recent audition at the French National Assembly that the large majority of foreign interference in France is committed by the Americans. (twitter.com)
Germany and France in talks about shared railway tickets (www.sueddeutsche.de)
Sorry for the German source, I couldn’t find an English one....
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Why did Sweden sterilise up to 30,000 people against their will? (www.euronews.com)
Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976. The first country in Europe to later abolish forced sterilisation was carrying out a policy under which between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised....
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Sweden has 309% private debt to GDP ratio (take-profit.org)
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Authoritarian French regime legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones (www.francetvinfo.fr)
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The EU Is Becoming Cash Strapped (www.thefinancialtrends.com)
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Watch out Ukraine, here comes the Hungaro-Austrian Empire (www.politico.eu)
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That's a truly shocking number: due to inflation, one third of the French have only 100 euros left on the 10th of each month to live for the remaining 20 days of the month (www.bfmtv.com)
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25 NATO-led peacekeepers injured in Kosovo in clashes with Serbs outside municipal building (apnews.com)
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Poland is marking the 80th anniversary of the 1943-44 massacre of some 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in regions that were under Nazi German occupation, and which are now part of Ukraine. (apnews.com)
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Germany suffered its first recession since the start of pandemic, extinguishing hopes that Europe’s top economy could escape such a fate after the war in Ukraine sent energy prices soaring. (archive.ph)
Ukraine war a critical issue in upcoming elections in Slovakia as Eduard Heger steps down (peoplesdispatch.org)
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Leaked recordings expose shocking state corruption in ‘US governed’ Moldova (thegrayzone.com)
Half of Brits Don't Trust Met Police and Fear Arrest if They Join Peaceful Protests. A Shining Example of Western Democracy in Action. (www.bylinesupplement.com)
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Turns out that despite all the rhetoric, it's not clear how EU could actually decouple from China in practical terms (www.economist.com)
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Priest, scientist on trial in Germany over climate protest (www.cp24.com)
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