By Calum Muirhead Updated: 12:03 GMT, 3 March 2024 British savers are at risk of losing out in a crisis that is threatening the existence of a popular and low-cost way of building a nest egg, campaigners have warned. Investment trusts have been a key part of the stock market […]
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The European Union will strengthen control over carriers’ compliance with agreements on transporting grain from Ukraine to address concerns of protesting farmers and free up trade, Reuters reported on March 1, citing the EU Transport Commissioner Adina Valean. Farmers across Europe have been protesting over a range of issues, including […]
The EU on Friday used new regulatory powers to query Meta about ad-free subscriptions to Facebook and Instagram as well as claims some voices are suppressed online in a phenomenon known as “shadow banning”. The European Commission made a request for information under the mammoth content moderation law known as the […]
BRUSSELS — The European Union said Friday that it will pay 50 million euros ($54 million) to the main provider of aid in Gaza next week after the cash-strapped U.N. agency agreed to allow EU-appointed experts to audit the way it screens staff to identify extremists. The UNRWA agency is […]
Meta Platforms was hit with privacy complaints on Thursday as eight EU consumer groups asked watchdogs to act against the Facebook owner for alleged breaches of the bloc’s privacy rules when it collects user data. The complaints by consumer groups in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain to data protection authorities in their countries add to previous grievances over Meta’s trove of […]
The European Union’s chief prosecutor, Laura Codruța Kövesi, has warned against criminal organizations having too much influence on democratic structures. “In our proceedings, we see businesspeople, politicians or civil servants protecting criminal organizations,” she told Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, in remarks published on Friday. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office is […]
The EU has commented on the statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who addressed Russia’s Federal Assembly [the parliament] on 29 February. Source: Peter Stano, European Commission’s Foreign Policy Spokesperson, during the daily briefing in Brussels Details: “This speech should be viewed in the context of the upcoming presidential election […]
The EU’s administrative watchdog has called for a change to Europe’s search and rescue rules after an inquiry into last year’s sinking of a rusty fishing boat in which hundreds of people are thought to have died. The European ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, said current rules prevented the EU’s border and […]