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Europe's AI regulatory push is moving fast, but speed without coherence risks undermining the very innovation it seeks to unleash. MedTech Europe sets out what proportionate, workable AI rules must deliver for patients and the healthcare sector.

Also, in Thursday’s edition: EU entry exam, super rats, abortion funding, return hubs

Global warming is helping rat populations explode across the continent

The renewed NATO debate could benefit Cyprus’s president

Letting users self-declare their age is ineffective for stopping kids from accessing inappropriate content, says privacy regulator the ICO

Study finds poorer countries often pay more for the same treatments

The International Monetary Fund's EU director warns the electricity price gap between the centre and periphery is widening

Market watchers say the current shock differs in key ways – at least for now

It is not enough to legislate against hate crime and incitement. The law must address hate crime motivated by antisemitism and enforced against all those who call for violence against Jews

EU sanctions 19 Iranian officials and entities but new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly excluded

Too much bureaucracy is paralysing entrepreneurship and democracy, says Business Circle leader

The deal would add key asks from left and right to the time-starved AI simplification package

How did it come to this? And is the battle for meat labels finally over?

Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was not among those hit by the measures, according to diplomatic sources

The Spanish prime minister has made tackling hate speech on social media a priority

The 32-nation International Energy Agency has agreed to release 400m barrels - about four days of global demand - to dampen global prices

The ECR group is trying to block EU social funding for abortion access

The organisation said EU countries would have to cut back on social programmes or rely on joint debt

Kyiv said it was aware that a group of Hungarians had crossed the border but stressed there was no plan for talks with officials

Spain has refused to implement laws to harmonise its taxation system in line with EU rules