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In 2024, almost 1.2 million people were granted citizenship in EU countries, compared to 762,100 in 2014, according to the EU statistical office.

I believe a conviction without evidence is not ⁠justice, it could be part of a cover-up and even a crime. I am willing to share evidence with national and international regulators.

The German Federal Prosecutor's Office ordered the arrest of two individuals accused of spying on a businessman supplying drones to Ukraine for military use.

For the first time, one or more French investigating judges will examine the conditions of the possible criminal liability of Fabrice Leggeri in the carnage that has resulted in thousands of deaths in the Mediterranean, particularly children and women.

The new checks, part of the EU's new Entry/Exit System (EES), collect digital personal records of third country nationals travelling to the Schengen area and replace the manual stamping of passports.

Until the late 1960s, the agency was shaped primarily by leaders who had been socialized under National Socialism. It was not until the generational shift beginning in 1969 that a fundamental transformation took place.

At first, it sounds almost too simple like someone claiming they've solved European immigration with nothing more than a calendar and a backpack. But this little pattern, when used intentionally and legally, becomes one of the most elegant travel strategies in the world. It lets you stay in Europe far longer than any tourist visa seems to allow, all without breaking rules, overstaying, or navigating complicated immigration systems.

In late December 2025, Elon Musk's AI company xAI updated its Grok chatbot, integrated into the social media platform X, with a new image-editing feature. Within days, users were exploiting it to generate realistic sexualised images of real women and girls without their consent, including content that regulators said depicted minors in a manner that constituted child sexual abuse material.

Investigators discovered the gangs were brazenly offering to transport migrants from Calais to Dover in the back of trucks and touting it as a "taxi service". In one promotional video, three migrants are seen reclining on a mound of soft white packages inside a truck. One of the young men gives a thumbs-up to the camera. "By truck, Safe reach London UK in 2 hours," reads the caption.

Yesterday (Jan. 20), the Commission unveiled its revised Cybersecurity Act proposal after months of behind-the-scenes negotiations that reportedly caused substantial friction between officials and member states. This sweeping update introduces measures to identify and potentially exclude "high-risk" third countries and companies from Europe's critical digital infrastructure across 18 essential sectors, including energy systems. As cybersecurity threats continue rising since the original Act took effect seven years ago, the EU is essentially drawing new battle lines in the global tech landscape.

The European Parliament has taken a rare and telling step: it has disabled built-in artificial intelligence features on work devices used by lawmakers and staff, citing unresolved concerns about data security, privacy, and the opaque nature of cloud-based AI processing. The decision, communicated to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in an internal memo this week, reflects a deepening unease at the heart of European institutions about how AI systems handle sensitive data.