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Meta has agreed to major changes to Facebook and Instagram following a multimillion-dollar US settlement, including two-hour daily limits and nighttime restrictions for under-18s. The EU is pursuing a similar case under the Digital Services Act, but could go further by tackling addictive design and algorithms promoting harmful content.

Russia has quietly complied with an EU demand to eject some 20 diplomats from Brussels, amid a noisy dispute with Berlin on diplomat expulsions and the Leipzig airport sabotage plot.

Violence, threats and discrimination against lesbians and gay men demand a serious human-rights response.

The damages of climate change are being compounded by inaction; yet even if global warming slows, the harm is permanent. A new UN report highlights the dangers the world can expect if our governments in and out of the EU keep on this path

The plan comes amid opposition from both Spain and France, noting similar previous efforts have failed to deliver results - at enormous financial and human expense.

Russian airstrikes killed a total of 400 Ukrainian civilians in July because Kyiv did not have enough interceptor missiles, but Greece and Spain declined to open their stockpiles at an EU defence ministers' meeting in the Druids Glen golf club.

Kyiv endures relentless drone and missile attacks that kill civilians and empty supermarket shelves. Meanwhile, Russia’s struggling space-internet project risks limiting its own ability to dominate the skies over Ukraine.

The EU-Mercosur trade deal faces an important early test of its provisions on farming produce, with the EU insisting that the pact requires South American states to align with the bloc on phytosanitary standards.

Trump is targeting the International Criminal Court with sanctions. The EU has a tool to fight back, but so far, it isn’t using it. 🇪🇺 The US has imposed asset freezes and financial sanctions on senior ICC officials, escalating pressure on the Hague-based court. Now the EU is being urged to activate its little-known “blocking statute”, which could prohibit European banks and companies from complying with those US sanctions. Why it matters? → EU leaders have promised “unwavering support” for the ICC. → The blocking statute could turn that political support into legal protection. → The wider question is whether Europe is prepared to defend the independence of international justice when Washington applies pressure. Read the full story on EUobserver 👉 https://lnkd.in/eU2gbH-t Investigative. Influential. Independent. Your EUobserver.

As Europe keeps spending far more on fighting wildfires than preventing them new economic strategies have to be thought over.