Author: Euronews

The CEO of Web Summit, Paddy Cosgrave, has confirmed on social media that he’s returning to the post. ADVERTISEMENTCosgrave took a step back from Web Summit operations for six months after resigning as its chief executive following comments he made on the Israel-Hamas conflict.”When I stepped back last year, it was the first time I had taken time off in 15 years. It gave me time to think about Web Summit, its history, why I started it on my own from my bedroom and what I wanted it to be,” he said on LinkedIn and Twitter.”I took the time to…

Brussels, my love? explores the potential threat of Trump 2.0. What would happen if a NATO ally were attacked by Putin? Would Trump respond proportionately and in the interests of America’s closest partners? Or would he take the view that he bore no responsibility to respond? ADVERTISEMENTIs the EU fully prepared in the event of Donald Trump returning to the White House? In the last few weeks of his campaign, Republican candidate for president Donald Trump  has given the world a glimpse of his potential approach to Europe, and the war in Ukraine – if he were to return as…

Countries like the UK and Norway are still significantly reliant on North Sea energy resources. However, harsher tax measures have led to several energy companies, such as Shell, pulling back from their offshore oil fields. Source link

The controversial hire of an MEP from EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s own party to a lucrative official post has drawn backlash from lawmakers, activists and her own lieutenants. Source link

Intel has become the latest tech company to release its own artificial intelligence chip, in an attempt to weigh in on the AI boom. ADVERTISEMENTThe semiconductor race continues to heat up with more players trying to overtake each other, in an effort to harness the full capabilities of artificial intelligence. Intel has recently launched its Gaudi 3 AI chip, in what seems to be the company’s answer to Nvidia’s H100 graphic processing unit (GPU), as more tech companies aim to manufacture chips which can use big AI technology.The Gaudi 3 chip is essentially an accelerator chip, and is mainly designed…

The worry of gaining weight is a common excuse for smokers not to quit. The Cube takes a look at a new study which found that both starting smoking and liftetime smoking may increase abdominal fat. Source link

French fossil fuel giant is under scrutiny for its operations in a region dominated by conflict and violence. ADVERTISEMENTFrench multinational TotalEnergies’ intended resumption of natural gas extraction in Mozambique risks falling foul of the EU’s nascent Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, NGOs have claimed.After a terror attack in 2021 killed dozens of people in northern Mozambique, energy majors TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil and Eni terminated operations in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado region. However, during a presentation of TotalEnergies’ 2023 annual results held in February, CEO Patrick Pouyanné said it intended to resume operations in the southern African country this year.NGO Climate Action…

The Netherlands’ Sophie IN ‘T Veld and Germany’s Damian Boeselager were chosen by Volt in Brussels as lead candidates for the European Parliament election. ADVERTISEMENTVolt is a transnational political movement that brands itself as a ‘truly European Party’.Boeselager was the only Volt member elected in 2019. Now the party is running in 16 EU countries.Volt’s priorities are deepening integration, fighting climate change and building an EU army.Volt has a “symbolic” transnational list of candidates from different countries, but the real lists differ from one member state to another.If some candidates are elected, they would join the Liberal of the Greens…

Housing costs are well past last summer’s peak, although affordability issues continue to hamper the UK market. Source link

Europe is being targeted both from within and from outside, Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday. Source link