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Published on 26/05/2026 – 13:53 GMT+2 The document, dated May 15, was published 145-years after a former Pope Leo wrote his own warning of the advent of the 19th century industrial revolution. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Pope Leo XIV used his encyclical – a document communicating the position of the Catholic Church to its 1.4 billion followers – to denounce the “culture of power” driving the AI race, especially in developing ever more sophisticated methods of remote warfare. So is there anyway way to salve the biggest technological advancement of the 21st century? Our correspondent Angela Skujins explains.
Published on 26/05/2026 – 21:22 GMT+2•Updated 21:29 A collision between a train and a school bus at a level crossing in the small Belgian town of Buggenhout on Tuesday morning killed four people and injured five children. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “This is one of the worst accidents in the history of Belgium at a level crossing,” Thomas Baeken, spokesperson of the Belgium Railway Infrastructure Manager Infrabel, said. Nine passengers were aboard the minivan, including seven children and two adults. The bus was heading to a school for children who have specific needs in Buggenhout. “Unfortunately, there are two children who lost…
Updated: 26/05/2026 – 22:44 GMT+2 Kata Tüttő, former deputy mayor of Budapest, said the city “suffered a lot” under Viktor Orbán’s rule. Now President of the European Committee of the Regions, she also warned against a “wave of centralisation” threatening Europe’s regions. … More
By Hun Kim, Chief Partnerships Officer, of the AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), a multilateral development bank headquartered in Beijing Published on 26/05/2026 – 21:28 GMT+2 Digital infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth, but investment in this space has been uneven. Many developing economies are struggling to expand basic digital connectivity while preparing for the artificial intelligence era, resulting in a double digital divide: inadequate basic access for hundreds of millions, compounded by growing gaps in AI (Artificial Intelligence) readiness. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Correlation between internet access and development levels Limited affordable broadband connectivity, unreliable digital services, insufficient access to essential…
Imposing restrictions on goods originating from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories is only common sense, French Trade Minister Nicolas Forissier told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The country put forward a proposal alongside Sweden last month, calling on the European Union to increase trade tariffs and enforce stricter import controls on goods coming from Israeli settlements deemed illegal under international law. “With our Swedish friends, we wrote to the Commission and insisted on the necessity to have a common European position on this question, rapidly,” Forissier said on Euronews’ interview programme 12 Minutes With. “We cannot accept any import of…
German Trade Minister Katherina Reiche is travelling to China from Tuesday to Friday as Berlin’s trade deficit with Beijing continues to deepen. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The trip comes two days after several of the EU’s largest economies – France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, as well as Lithuania – issued a non-paper urging the EU to crack down on Chinese overcapacity and unfair trade practices. Berlin, however, did not endorse their call. Germany remains the main chokepoint in the EU’s strategy towards China. While Euronews previously reported that the publication late last year of Germany’s trade deficit with Beijing marked a turning…
Anti-corruption investigations in Ukraine show that the country’s institutions remain efficient despite Russia’s war, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Kachka, who’s in charge of the country’s EU integration, described the process as “the healthiest thing” in the country of some 44 million, which continues to defend itself from Russia’s all-out invasion, now well into its fifth year. “Ukraine is now living through the war and the dramatic change of its political culture,” he said in an interview on Tuesday. “Something that was a problem for the accession of Ukraine in the past, so 10 years…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the spate of recent drone incursions into the airspace of European Union (EU) countries over the past few weeks are “not isolated incidents,” as Baltic leaders and EU officials caution that hybrid threats along Europe’s eastern border are intensifying. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “This is a deliberate strategy from Russia trying to destabilise our democratic societies,” she said, standing alongside Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian heads of state at a press conference in the Vilnius on Tuesday. “When Baltic states are being tested, Europe as a whole is being tested,” she said. The EU…
The tacit approval of permits for new energy projects has emerged as one of the most politically explosive issues in the EU’s negotiations over the renewal of its ageing power grids, according to a document seen by Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Under proposals for the EU’s new European Grids Package_,_ certain stages of the permit process for energy infrastructure projects aimed at revamping the bloc’s electricity grid could automatically proceed if national authorities fail to respond within set deadlines. The idea of a silent consent for such projects is unsettling EU capitals, which fear Brussels is quietly trying to transfer power…
The question of whether the European Union should engage in direct talks with Russia to bring the war in Ukraine to an end continues to split member states, as Estonia warns that the diplomatic outreach would amount to becoming a “neutral mediator” expected to provide Moscow with sanctions relief and appease its maximalist demands. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Until now, the talks have been led by the US, which has cut all financial and military assistance to Ukraine and eased sanctions on Russian oil. “We know that Russia is desperately working to bring Europe into talks because Putin needs to win time,…