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Outdated and overlapping laws are holding Europe’s telecommunications sector back, but a Digital Networks Act and new merger guidelines could hold the key to making it competitive again

The approval of amendments also gives Slovak national law precedence over EU law

The social networking giant was recently fined €200 million over the ad shakedown under the EU’s Digital Markets Act

The decision comes as a growing list of European countries threatened to pull out of the 2026 contest in Vienna if Israel is permitted to take part again

Belgium, backed up by several other countries, has firmly rejected calls to outright seize the assets and hand them to Ukraine

“Taking Putin’s money and leaving the risks with [Belgium]. That’s not going to happen,” Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said in New York. Most of the assets are held in Euroclear, a Brussels-based clearing house – making Belgium a key player in EU negotiations

Bucharest’s budget deficit is by far the largest in the EU. Is this an economic danger – or a political one?

One of the online data brokers is located in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission told Euractiv, another is in an unspecified EU country

The Boeing deal follows Turkish Airlines' December 2023 announcement of a 355-plane order from European rival Airbus

The agenda notes a growing need to "ensure simpler, more effective, and coherent oversight of EU digital legislation"

The AfD hosted – without permission – an election-night party at their offices in February that triggered a legal dispute

In today's edition: Commission bites back at Apple, UN AI dialogue

India is also working with a French company to develop and manufacture fighter jet engines at home

For the first time in German politics, "there is a willingness to be resolute"

Several major European drugmakers have already announced plans to invest in the US

A Telesat lobbyist fired up debate by claiming "the fact that space is becoming a junkyard is a myth"

In today's edition: ITRE fights for pharma, Alzheimer's drug, Choose Europe

In today's edition: China, REACH, CBAM

Plus a look-ahead to next week's informal EUCO in Denmark

In today’s edition: Friedrich Merz urges the EU to unlock €140 billion in Russian reserves as an interest-free loan to Ukraine, Kyiv prepares to brief EU leaders on its ‘drone wall’ strategy against airspace incursions, the Netherlands and Uganda agree on a pilot hub for rejected migrants amid legal uncertainty, and Moldova becomes the centre of a fight over identity and direction in Europe’s east