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US emissaries Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spent five hours on Monday trying to negotiate a peace deal with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine. According to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, agreement was reached only 'on a few points', and Washington and Moscow 'still have a lot of work to do'. Both sides agreed to keep quiet about the results of the negotiations. Europe's media see this as treading water.

The presidents of the four Visegrad states – Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland – met in Esztergom, Hungary, on Wednesday. But Poland's right-wing conservative head of state Karol Nawrocki cancelled a planned meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after Orbán visited Putin in Moscow last week.

France's President Emmanuel Macron has launched a campaign against fake news. He plans to build on the idea of Reporters Without Borders and label media as reliable or unreliable in order to stem the spread of disinformation. His critics accuse him of wanting to control the media and of curbing the freedom of the press. Macron insists that independent experts would award the certificate, not the state.

Responses to a public consultation on a review of the EU's big tech rulebook indicates concern over gatekeepers self-preferencing their AIs, the Commission said on Thursday

But the upcoming Quality Jobs Act may only offer recommendations, rather than binding rules

“The Franco-German friendship will survive this – but German industry will not survive a further delay,” said centre-right MP Volker Mayer-Lay

If Europe wants pharma deals like the UK, a ‘fundamental mindset shift’ is needed says MEP Sandro Gozi

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The EU's competition commissioner confirmed a competition procedure will be opened to investigate Meta folding its AI assistant tech into the messaging platform

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