European Union

Thirty companies, including US giant Meta (Facebook, Instagram), as well as researchers and associations, are calling on the European Union to “clarify” its regulations on artificial intelligence, in their open letter made public today.

European Union regulators said on Thursday they're looking into one of Google's artificial intelligence models over concerns about its compliance with the bloc's strict data privacy rules.

Ireland's Data Protection Commission said it has opened an inquiry into Google's Pathways Language Model 2, also known as PaLM2.

The European Union said Friday that it's adding Chinese online retailer Temu to its list of platforms facing the bloc's highest level of digital scrutiny.

Because it has more than 45 million users, Temu is being classed as a "very large online platform" under the the EU's Digital Services Act, a wide-ranging rulebook designed to clean up online platforms and keep internet users safe.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday a U.N. court ruling telling Israel to stop its offensive in Gaza's Rafah must be implemented, as European ministers met Arab counterparts in Brussels.

Israel has continued to strike Rafah as its government has dismissed Friday's ruling from the International Court of Justice.

BRUSSELS - The EU noted with concern Monday's "Kosovo Police" operation at the offices of the Serbian Postal Savings Bank in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

In the run-up to the European parliament elections in June, many Greeks are focussed on what for them is the big issue: finding a home.

Soaring rents, record-breaking numbers of tourists and a surge in foreign investment in property all mean that getting affordable housing here is an uphill task.

And thousands of people face the same challenge.

Microsoft will unbundle its Teams platform from its popular Office suite around the world, expanding a policy it had implemented in Europe to assuage EU antitrust concerns, the company has said.

The European Commission launched an investigation last year to see whether the U.S. tech giant was "abusing and defending its market position" by bundling the software together.

Microsoft's financial backing for ChatGPT maker OpenAI may be subject to European Union merger rules, EU antitrust regulators said on Tuesday, underscoring a similar warning from its UK peer in December.

The US software giant, which last year committed to invest over $10 billion into OpenAI with a non-voting position on the board, has said it does not own any portion of OpenAI.

The European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union announced on Tuesday a 560 million euro ($613.87 million) financing package for North Macedonia to build a railway line to neighboring Bulgaria.

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