Category: 3. Europe

ANCOM oversees the Digital Services Act in Romania, the European Union’s social media rulebook that governs how platforms like TikTok and X moderate online speech.

“We’ve never seen something like” what happened in the November 2024…

“This war, particularly on tariffs, is like a boomerang being thrown,” he said. Those using tariffs are “forgetting that [the boomerang] is coming back.”

Nicușor Dan, the mayor

Nicușor Dan is an independent candidate who has been the mayor of Bucharest, Romania’s capital, since 2020. 

A mathematician, he moved into activism and politics in the late 1990s upon his return from Paris,…

The SPD has core disagreements with him in those areas — and little incentive to budge now that Merz has already given them their big wish on borrowing. For Merz, the other key problem is that due to the increasing power of radical parties…

How did it go? Flattery will get you everywhere, including, apparently, into the good graces of Trump. Starmer showered the president with praise, expertly playing on his well-documented admiration for the British monarchy by theatrically…

Musk, the largest political donor to U.S. President Donald Trump’s successful 2024 election campaign, has assumed a loosely defined government role in which he spearheads efforts within the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut…

“[U.S. President Donald] Trump’s anti-democratic actions at home have fueled a global climate where autocrats elsewhere feel empowered to further crush dissent,” she said.

Trump, who regularly calls for his political opponents to be…

“What was done to President Tayyip Erdoğan and to me in the past should not be done to Ekrem İmamoğlu either … We must not lose the rule of law and justice. Otherwise, Türkiye will lose,” Gül said.

In 1998, Erdoğan was convicted…