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Press Review: European media reacts to White House spat

Posted by March 1, 2025

Zelenskyy left the White House without signing a deal after President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated the Ukrainian leader for being "

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USAID freeze opens door to Russian influence in Eastern Europe

Posted by February 25, 2025

Giorgi Gogua, the founder of Project 64, a multimedia startup producing explanatory journalism in Georgia, said USAID money made up around 40 percent of its

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Vance’s week of waging war on EU tech law

Posted by February 15, 2025

Germany is heading for an election on Feb. 23, and officials and disinformation experts have flagged several coordinated efforts to influence the vote throug

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European Union launches probe into fashion website Shein

Posted by February 11, 2025

The European Union has launched a probe into fast-fashion giant Shein, as the European Commission pushes for the Chinese site to provide information on illegal

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Elon Musk’s ‘Nazi’ salute sparks fury from Europe’s left wing

Posted by January 21, 2025

The salute immediately generated a viral and divided response, with online critics attacking Musk for the gesture and supporters minimizing its significance.

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Elon Musk believes he got Trump elected. Now he’s coming…

Posted by January 21, 2025

Depending on who you talk to in Europe, Elon Musk is either a courageous champion of free speech hero or a petulant and dangerous troublemaker. “He’s using

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Don’t go soft on US Big Tech, EU Parliament urges

Posted by January 20, 2025

Top liberal parliamentarian Valérie Hayer separately accused the Commission of a "deafening silence" on Musk's meddling in European politics when she spoke

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Who’s been invited? World’s far-right populists pack guest list for…

Posted by January 16, 2025

While the European centrist mainstream has been sidelined — EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has conspicuously not been invited — plenty of s

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Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US…

Posted by January 11, 2025

Zuckerberg complained that the EU had forced U.S. tech companies operating in Europe to pay "more than $30 billion" in penalties for legal violations over th

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Brussels will be watching whether Musk breaks EU law in…

Posted by January 9, 2025

The Commission hasn’t yet imposed any of its potential DSA penalties. Fines could go as high as 6 percent of global yearly revenue, and regulators could or

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Elon Musk uses X to roast European leaders, promote the…

Posted by January 8, 2025

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy tweet support for expanding H-1B visaElon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy face MAGA backlash over foreign workers after tweeting out supp

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TikTok Shop Begins European Rollout

Posted by December 10, 2024

TikTok’s in-app shopping feature has gone live for users in Spain, marking the first step in an expansion of ByteDance Ltd.’s fastest-growing business acros

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