European Court Backs Transatlantic data Pact — for now
A Luxembourg ruling has saved US-EU data transfers, even if the reprieve may prove temporary. The European Union’s General Court, the bloc’s second-highest court, upheld the US-EU Data Privacy Framework, dismissing a French challenge that sought to annul the 2023 agreement allowing personal data to move freely across the Atlantic….
EU fines Google nearly €3bn for ‘abusing’ dominant position in ad tech
European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a €2.95bn ($3.5bn) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, marking the fourth such antitrust penalty for the company as well as a retreat from previous threats to break up the tech giant. The European…
Norway’s highly polarised election
Centre-left has rallied but uproar over cost of living and oil fund investment in Israel means outcome is hard to predict. Norway goes to the polls on Monday after an unusually close-fought and polarised election dominated by the cost of living, wealth taxes, oil fund investment in Israel and relations…
How an 18th-century Portrait Stolen by the Nazis Was Recovered 80 Years Later in Argentina
Painting was spotted online by Dutch journalists when the daughter of a former Nazi official put her house up for sale in Mar del Plata. There was nothing very remarkable about the middle-aged couple who lived in the low, stone-clad villa on calle Padre Cardiel, a quiet residential street in…
The French government is on the brink – and Le Pen is the only winner
François Bayrou may have thought it was a smart pre-emptive move to call a parliamentary vote of confidence in his minority government ahead of a planned national protest day on 10 September and the start of a fraught parliamentary budget season.Determined not to meet the same fate as his predecessor…