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Europe needs to up its space game to fend off Musk, Russia and China

The continent needs to focus on cheaper satellites to stay in the space race, NATO’s Admiral Pierre Vandier tells POLITICO.

May 4, 2025 6:00 am CET

Why TikTok ruling sparks trouble for EU-China relations

The US has similar concerns over how Chinese authorities can access data from the popular app.

May 2, 2025 5:09 pm CET

TikTok hit with €530M fine after illegally sending users’ data to China

Video-sharing app had for years claimed it did not store European personal data on servers in China.

May 2, 2025 12:00 pm CET

France wants EU parcels levy to stem flood of cheap Chinese fast fashion imports

France fears U.S. President Donald Trump’s China tariffs will flood Europe with cheap goods via small parcels.

May 1, 2025 4:00 am CET

Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves

The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.

April 30, 2025 3:15 pm CET

Microsoft would push back against Trump order to suspend European cloud operations

Company to change contracts amid concerns that services will get tangled in US-EU fight.

April 30, 2025 10:19 am CET

EU views break from US as ‘unrealistic’ amid global tech race

A draft strategy obtained by POLITICO points to the difficulty of unwinding years of American technological dominance.

April 30, 2025 4:01 am CET

Points for kills: How Ukraine is using video game incentives to slay more Russians

Ukraine has created a macabre points scheme based on video games to boost the effectiveness of its soldiers.

April 29, 2025 4:50 pm CET

‘This is a hostile and political act’: White House slams Amazon amid tariff standoff

Amazon is reportedly considering listing how much tariffs are adding to the price of items.

April 29, 2025 3:45 pm CET

Privacy officials’ travel to home countries sets off EU alarm bells

Privacy regulator’s secretary general traveled on the EU’s dime to Spain, his home country, far more often than to other countries.

April 29, 2025 4:46 am CET

Why did the lights go out in Spain and Portugal? 

And what does it mean for Europe, its power grids and its electricity?

April 28, 2025 8:59 pm CET

Europe has risky reliance on China for low-tech chips, auditors warn

Brussels is far from meeting its targets to reshore microchips manufacturing.

April 28, 2025 6:32 pm CET
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French researchers to Macron: Take care of us before wooing Americans

Plans to attract U.S. researchers to France were quickly criticized by members of the research community.

April 28, 2025 2:17 pm CET

Merz announces first German Cabinet choices

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting hands key ministries to CDU veterans and business figures, setting the tone for a more conservative, security-focused government.

April 28, 2025 10:06 am CET

EU governments consider appeasing Trump on global minimum tax

Capitals fear retaliation from the U.S. and are considering changing the rules to grant American companies an exemption from a crucial provision of the global tax deal.

April 28, 2025 4:00 am CET

Trump talks tariffs. The EU talks free trade with the rest of the world.

With the United States throwing up the highest trade barriers in a century, Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission is on a mission to do trade deals with everyone else. 

April 25, 2025 4:31 am CET

Hungary on EU watchlist over surveillance at Pride

Budapest has opened the door to using AI facial recognition to identify LGBTQ+ protestors.

April 25, 2025 4:30 am CET

Europe faces ‘decisive moment’ in energy security battle, von der Leyen warns

Without action, twin threats of Russian sabotage and high prices will batter the bloc, the Commission President said.

April 24, 2025 4:44 pm CET

After EU fines, Big Tech wants Trump to swoop in

Two big penalties overseas could be just what the industry needed to get the White House’s attention. Will Trump now try to roll back European tech rules?

April 24, 2025 9:43 am CET

European Commission blacklists groups lobbying for Huawei

EU executive won’t meet with lobby groups “acting on Huawei’s behalf” following bribery scandal.

April 24, 2025 4:25 am CET

Apple’s EU fight is transatlantic tension in a nutshell

The tech giant was hit by another European fine. It’s just the latest chapter in the battle over digital regulation ― and maybe a whole lot more.

April 24, 2025 4:23 am CET

Time was right for US Big Tech penalties, EU competition chief says

The European Commission has been accused of dragging its feet to avoid inflaming Donald Trump’s trade war.

April 23, 2025 6:30 pm CET

The EU has fined Meta and Apple. What happened to X?

As digital enforcement kicks in, a high-profile investigation into Elon Musk’s X is still open.

April 23, 2025 6:25 pm CET

Socialists urge EU tech chief to deliver results in blockbuster US tech probes

European Commissioner Henna Virkkunen is facing growing pressure to wrap up investigations into TikTok, Meta and X.

April 23, 2025 4:44 pm CET
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