The European Commission has designated ChatGPT as a very large online search engine and Reddit and Roblox as very large online platforms under the EU’s Digital Services Act. The services are required to assess and mitigate systemic risks arising from their platforms and algorithmic systems.

Marine Le Pen would beat every presidential rival according to a recent Elabe poll, defeating even Édouard Philippe in a hypothetical runoff. Despite a significant shift in mainstream voter sentiment in favour of Le Pen, French banks remain reluctant to lend to her campaign, continuing the long-standing institutional exclusion imposed on National Rally ahead of the 2027 vote.

A man in his 40s suffered life-threatening injuries after falling onto the Danube embankment following a fight near a Budapest nightclub. Police are investigating the incident, while the venue says neither its staff nor security used pepper spray during the altercation.

‘A country’s energy supply cannot be reduced to a preference for one technology over another, and its energy mix cannot be redesigned according to the political cycle of a single government. Energy strategies are built for decades, not for four-year terms.’

Iceland held a referendum over the weekend on restarting accession negotiations with the European Union. The people of the small Nordic island nation have chosen the ‘No’ option, which received 52.8 per cent of the vote, against the ‘Yes’ option’s 47.2 per cent.

Germany’s Social Democrats have been hit by an awkward scandal after a former local official was filmed naked, shouting ‘Heil Hitler’ and performing the Nazi salute. The footage surfaced while the SPD was simultaneously campaigning against the AfD, depicting the party as an extremist threat and invoking precisely the history of Nazi Germany.