EU-Canada trade accord upgrade: Brussels and Toronto launch negotiations for a Digital Trade Agreement
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EU-Canada trade accord upgrade: Brussels and Toronto launch negotiations for a Digital Trade Agreement
Council of Europe Media Freedom report: As of 31 December 2025, 148 journalists and other media actors were held in detention across Europe.
Russia was the leading jailer, followed by Azerbaijan, Belarus and TΓΌrkiye. @coemediafreedom.bsky.social
EU Commission launches investigation into Shein under DSA for its addictive design, lack of transparency of recommender systems, and the sale of illegal products
EU Commission approves Googleβs acquisition of cloud-native security platform Wiz
Europeβs next-generation weather satellite, Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder (MTG-S), sends back first images @esa.int
πͺπΊ EUCO October 2025: Ukraine, defense, climate policies, housing crisisβ¦
New day, another story about elections being upset by the impact of AI: deepfake video of Irish presidential candidate rocks the campaign.
pro.politico.eu/news/207018
βΌοΈThe EP has given its final green light to rules clarifying the cross-border enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation. #GDPR
EP work was led by rapporteur @marketkag.bsky.social
πRead more: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
International Criminal Court: Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman declared guilty of 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur, Sudan
For the first time, there were more women than men in the incoming astronaut class.
Europe's first deep-space optical communication link
The European Space Agency successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASAβs Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometres away. @esa.int
Arrivals at the 5% NATO summit in The Hague
Zorionak! @esa.int #50YearsOfESA
European Commission opens formal proceedings against Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos for suspected breaches of
DSA regarding protection of minors
Over 50 million Europeans will be asked to #vote this Sunday in #elections in #Poland, #Portugal & #Romania. What appeared on their screens recently?
π Based on 1.551 articles by 33 orgs part of the EDMO #factchecking network, take a look at recent #disinformation dynamics in π΅π±π΅πΉπ·π΄&πͺπΊ: loom.ly/fOQ68os
Europe Day
EU Commission refers Czechia, Spain, Cyprus, Poland and Portugal to the Court of Justice of the European Union due to lack of effective implementation of the Digital Services Act
Irish Data Protection Commission fines TikTok β¬530 million and orders corrective measures following Inquiry into transfers of EEA User Data to China
More revelations in #HuaweiGate: Lobbyists for the Chinese tech giant allegedly paid tens of thousands of euros to MEPs who signed a pro-Huawei letter. The scheme appears to have been endorsed by Huaweiβs Chinese management in the EU, a leaked doc reveals. www.ftm.eu/articles/hua...
The Cortland Standard, 157 year-old family-owned daily in New York, is shutting down in part because of Trumpβs 25% tariff on goods from Canada
www.cortlandstandard.com/stories/good...
The UKβs Online Safety Act is enforceable from today.
And the regulator, Ofcom, has started an βenforcement programmeβ focussed on cloud platforms hosting child sexual abuse material. Ofcom recomends platforms use perceptual hash matching
Interesting given ongoing Apple/UK encryption fight π
Record drop in children being born in the EU.
In 2023 3.67 million babies were born in the EU, a 5.4% decrease from the 3.88 million in 2022. This is the largest annual decline recorded since 1961. Eurostat
Paris : trafic des Eurostar interrompu depuis Bruxelles vers la Gare du Nord après la découverte d'une bombe de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Defining moment for the EU: Europe of defense
CΔlin Georgescu claims concerning annulment of presidential election in Romania rejected by European Court of Human Righ
February 2025 #C3S Climate Bulletin: Third warmest February globally. Global average temperature was 0.63Β°C above 1991-2020 average. 1.59Β°C above pre-industrial levels highlights persistent warming trends.
Full Climate Bulletin: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...
Microsoft is retiring Skype in May. Skype
became one of the most successful European tech companies, founders Zennstrom πΈπͺand Friis π©π° sold it to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion.
Practical guidelines for German elections digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...
Despite the talk about its huge potential, Ukraine isnβt known to hold any reserves of the main rare earths elements sought after by Trump