Europe

The top of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, is looking at a company-wide ban on political advertising in Europe out of concern that otherwise, Facebook and Instagram will not be able to comply with future EU…
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By 2026, drivers of electric cars on the main European thoroughfares must be able to charge their vehicle every sixty kilometres. Negotiators from the European Parliament and the Swedish EU Presidency have reached a political agreement.…
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The loan of 400 million euros that the Italian government provided to the airline Alitalia in 2019 is illegal state aid, the European Commission has ruled. Italy must recover the money plus interest from the company. In May 2017,…
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Tesla wants to expand its factory near Berlin, where production only started last year. The American manufacturer of electric cars announces this. Tesla has submitted a permit application to the German state of Brandenburg, and the…
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A strike at German airports again caused many disrupted and cancelled flights. Düsseldorf Airport expects that many of the 391 planned take-offs and landings cannot occur. At Stuttgart airport, no regular passenger flights can take…
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CEO Ulrich Körner of the troubled Swiss bank Credit Suisse calls on his staff to keep a cool head and to focus on the facts to stop the unrest around the bank. He also promised to move ahead quickly to streamline the bank's operations.…
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says the bankruptcies of US banks Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank do not threaten French financial institutions. The German financial regulator BaFin issued a similar reassuring…
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Thousands of people took to the streets in the Spanish capital Madrid on Sunday to protest against abortion. The reason is the approval of a law in the Spanish parliament that broadens access to abortion. Carrying green balloons…
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