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Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has been urged to open a new chapter in EU food policy and overhaul the current CAP system in the process following recommendations of a reflection group. ADVERTISEMENTAnnounced by von der Leyen in last year’s State of the Union address, the strategic dialogue for the future of EU agriculture was conceived to cope with increasing polarisation in the agriculture and food policy debate.The group, gathering representatives from 29 farmers’ cooperatives, agribusinesses, NGOs, civil society, financial institutions, and academia, has worked for over seven months to produce a more than 100-page report crafting a vision…

A federal judge has ordered Donald Trump and his campaign to stop using the song ‘Hold On, I’m Coming’ amid a lawsuit filed by soul legend Isaac Hayes’ estate.

The far-right AfD party alone won a third of the votes in two eastern German states on Sunday, as residents of Thuringia and Saxony begin to take stock of the results.

It’s not the first time the US facial recognition company has been fined in Europe. ADVERTISEMENTDutch authorities fined US facial recognition company Clearview AI €30.5 million for building an illegal database, the watchdog said on Tuesday. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) also issued the company a penalty of up to €5 million for non-compliance. Euronews Next has reached out to Clearview AI but did not receive a reply at the time of publication. The DPA said in a statement that “Clearview should never have built the database with photos, the unique biometric codes and other information linked to them”. Facial recognition technology…

Beleri was freed after a court in Fier accepted his request to be released on probation with six weeks remaining in his prison term.

Ukraine’s capital was pounded with missiles in the early hours of Monday, prompting residents to take cover. Over the weekend, Kyiv had launched its biggest attack on multiple Russian regions since the beginning of the war.

Updated: 01/09/2024 – 13:24 GMT+2Germans are casting their votes on Sunday in Saxony and Thuringia, in the east of the country, in an election that could see the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) become the strongest party for the first time and produce painful results for the unpopular national government.

As temperatures drop and the crowds begin to thin, September and October are fantastic months for a walking holiday.

Updated: 31/08/2024 – 15:15 GMT+2Voters will go to the polls in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia this Sunday in an election likely to be closely watched as an indicator of public sentiment towards the country’s government. Read full article

Until Sunday, the Geneva Watch Days bring together tens of thousands of watch collectors and enthusiasts around 52 brands. Euronews attended the event, which has become a major fixture on the watchmaking calendar.