This is how Britain could actually rejoin the EU after Brexit (www.independent.co.uk)
What are their chances in your opinion? I have a demoing l feeling this is a long time coming.
European Citizens' Initiative for high-speed train connections between European capitals (eci.ec.europa.eu)
the initiative does not go to far into details with this, but any acceleration of trans-european railway extensions is good in my book - you may want to read this...
EU should ban targeted advertising (algorithmwatch.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/979542...
France is telling tourists to stay away from its biggest landmarks (www.timeout.com)
OpenAI Lobbied the E.U. to Water Down AI Regulation (time.com)
Behind the scenes, OpenAI has lobbied for significant elements of the most comprehensive AI legislation in the world—the E.U.’s AI Act—to be watered down in ways that would reduce the regulatory burden on the company, according to documents about OpenAI’s engagement with E.U. officials obtained by TIME from the European...
Poland may combine EU migration referendum with election (www.reuters.com)
Brexit has failed - we must now return to the centre of Europe, Lord Heseltine says (www.independent.co.uk)
Powerful illegal drugs are inundating Europe and sending corruption and violence soaring, EU says (apnews.com)
BRUSSELS (AP) — New harmful illicit drugs are inundating a flourishing market for traffickers amid violence and corruption hurting local communities across Europe, the EU’s agency monitoring drugs and addiction said Friday....
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
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)
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...
Spotify fined € 5 Million for GDPR violation (noyb.eu)
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.
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....
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....
Poll: Most Europeans support neutrality in US-China conflict (responsiblestatecraft.org)
Eurozone slips into recession as revised data shows two quarters of economic contraction (www.cnn.com)
Authoritarian French regime legalizes remote camera and microphone activation in smartphones (www.francetvinfo.fr)
Sweden has 309% private debt to GDP ratio (take-profit.org)
The EU Is Becoming Cash Strapped (www.thefinancialtrends.com)
Watch out Ukraine, here comes the Hungaro-Austrian Empire (www.politico.eu)
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)
As the Russia-Ukraine crisis drags on, NATO has become the pronoun of destabilizer of regional security. (www.globaltimes.cn)
European Union’s Digital Euro May Run on UTXO — Like Bitcoin (blockworks.co)
