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Fund the open ecosystem, not the closed copy
Imec's Leuven cleanrooms already run High-NA lithography, and Brussels holds the Chips Act 2.0 tools to scale them. Washington is building a copy of Leuven with American interests first.
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Imec's Leuven cleanrooms already run High-NA lithography, and Brussels holds the Chips Act 2.0 tools to scale them. Washington is building a copy of Leuven with American interests first.
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Gefion is approaching full capacity and gained a new owner as demand is expected to rise at least sixfold within five years. One Danish supercomputer is luck; a European network of them, owned across borders, would be a plan.
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A Bremen satellite with paying customers is set to launch on an American rocket, while the €22.1 billion pledged in Bremen sits next to European launch firms that need orders. Buy the rockets and the satellite chain becomes fully European.
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Canberra paid its way into Horizon Europe and its scientists will work on equal terms with ours from 2027. The 2028 framework should make full association, European Research Council grants included, the standard offer to every country that meets the rules.
The spacecraft has entered its early characterisation phase around Didymos, four years after NASA's Dart impact altered the asteroid's orbit. First detailed images will be presented in Berlin on 25 November.
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Seventy-one per cent of the public backs it and billions in joint defence money are already moving, so the doubters are behind the facts. The next summit should put a European command on the agenda and tie the cash to it.
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Washington's tariff threat names every ship that might carry fuel to Cuba, wherever it trades, and that includes ours. One common position and protection for the firms it penalises is Europe's to decide.
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Moscow wants each NATO country signing its own pact, Finland already said no. A single mandate, carried by Kallas, turns Europe's seat at the next talks into the answer.
Microsoft reversed a network change and worked to restore capacity while 46 of 48 UK police forces were found to route email through the cloud service. The Federal Office for Information Security said there were no indications of a cyberattack.
Ukraine's latest refinery strike, on Lukoil's Volgograd plant, left four workers dead, and the campaign since late October has hit plants with over a third of Russia's refining capacity.
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One European campaign beat a sixty-year Russian hold on a UN post, by a single vote. EU governments should agree a common candidate before every future contest, so one flag fields it and all of them fight for it.
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From early 2027 imec's pilot line hands European designers the tools to model leading-edge chips. Parliament and the Council must keep their own mid-2027 date and pass Chips Act 2.0, so those designs are made in Europe.
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Gamesa has only just cleared break-even, with a 0 to 2 percent margin expected for 2027. Full-speed buybacks through 2030 would hand investors the reward while the wind ramp, and the €164 billion backlog, still wait for the cash.
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Moscow refused to widen the talks, so our defence must not be settled in a phone call. Back the one seat we have already chosen: ceasefire first, then a settlement Europe endorses only because it was in the room.
Warsaw city hall put the turnout at about 250,000, organisers at up to one million, as flares and firecrackers defied a city ban. Police secured more than 450 pyrotechnic items across the route.
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Slovakia and France want European electricity pricing reformed, and they are right. When your reactors are cheaper than everyone's gas, your bill should show it.
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Sweden's record spending still leaves NATO's capability targets unmet, and money alone will not close the gap. Only a binding legal framework for joint procurement and shared planning can, so the EU should build one modelled on the Nordic agreement.
Police in each country judged the emailed warnings not credible, and investigators are tracing the messages to a hacked university account in Taiwan.
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Helsing's Clarity does what NATO once bought from America, with the decision kept in human hands. Waiting past the Bundeswehr's own 2027 deadline is not prudence, so fund the finalists and let performance pick the winner.
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Hackers shut down supermarket refrigeration from Palermo to Helsinki, and each capital answered alone. Italy's Sala Cyber blocked 630,000 malicious events, and the EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday can extend the Tallinn Mechanism so it shields every member state.
Counter Terrorism Policing detained the 41-year-old near Gloucester on 10 November under the National Security Act 2023, with police and the FBI working together on the case.
Seven member states and the EIB Group agreed the first closing of the Tech Champions fund-of-funds, aiming to mobilise up to €80 billion in venture capital.
Chrupalla calls for broader support on migration policy, while Tritschler pushes to copy US deportations. The dispute could shape whether Remigration stays a campaign theme.
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Russia, Ukraine and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi over Ukraine's post-war order. Our leverage, from sanctions to reconstruction, sits in Brussels, so EU leaders in Dublin must agree on one negotiator with a written mandate.
The Greek coastguard and Frontex pulled survivors from four boats south of the island between Saturday and Monday, including a toddler taken to hospital. Frontex named the eastern Mediterranean the EU's busiest route in October.
The Joint Expeditionary Force agreement aims to deter future threats from Russia, after El País reported in July that the US would cut forces pledged to NATO. Command runs from the UK's Northwood headquarters.
Canada becomes the first non-European participant in the EU's Safe defence procurement scheme, and the EU says the model could extend to Japan, South Korea and Australia.
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Thirteen funds own 100,000 homes in Spain, and a country is reaching for expropriation because the market outgrew it. Europe should finance affordable rental supply before every capital improvises its own drastic law.
The Council wants unlimited approvals limited to low-risk substances, while 550 scientists urge suspension and EFSA says about 50 more experts would cut reassessment delays.
EU governments relocated fewer than 9,000 asylum seekers in 2026 against an agreed figure of 21,000, and the Council must now set each country's share by the end of next year.
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Moscow set the guest list, and Europe still has no one to send. On 13 November EU leaders must name a single negotiator with a standing mandate, before the next round opens.
Rescuers and police died in the attack, which the UN says may have violated international humanitarian law. Talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegations are set for Abu Dhabi on 10 and 11 November.
The 10th Panzer Division tests new loitering munitions as Germany's brigade in the country grows toward full strength by the end of 2027.
Threats disrupted airports in Madrid, Prague, Sofia and Brussels on 5 November, and investigators have not yet established who sent them.
Ericsson, Kongsberg, Nokia, Patria and Saab launched the Nordic Compass Defence Track in August, and the six firms now pitch joint missile warning, maritime and digital projects to five governments.
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Anduril's software now connects the whole counter-drone chain, while the ministry cut its own innovation budget. Urgency can be the reason once. It cannot become the standing excuse.
The French justice minister backed Édouard Philippe for 2027 and called for a Europe of power, not discussion, at a Barcelona event with Spain's foreign minister.
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86 senators voted for sanctions on Russia and one waiver undid them. The Council should stop budgeting around American promises and borrow together to build European defence.
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Eight national drafts against addictive design, written together, are one common mandate from eight democracies. The Commission's fragmentation warning protects delay, and delay is what the platforms want.
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Close the chapters by the end of 2026 and sign the treaty on schedule, so the governments in the Council prove that merit moves at the speed of the willing, not at the speed of the slowest capital.
The newly listed people and companies in Russia's military-industrial complex face asset freezes, and natural persons face travel bans, and turn over at least €20 billion a year. Work on a 22nd sanctions package continues without an adoption date.
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Europe built an air-gapped cloud that no American kill switch can reach, then Scotland paused approvals and Denmark could put the data centres it needs to the back of the power queue. That has to change now.
The debate builds on a September report naming Russia the EU's primary security threat and follows the Commission's proposed Cybersecurity Act overhaul. The file now sits with the Parliament's industry committee.
D·Vision SDR scans from 500 MHz to 8.7 GHz, covering the band Russia's Molniya drones moved to in June. Experts warn a Russian shift to digital video could sideline it.
The Central Election Commission confirmed her win over Gyurov in the November 1 runoff, with all 15 members voting in favour.
The stabilisation force would count more than 10,000 members, run without US technology, including Starlink, and stay away from the front line. No ceasefire is in force yet.
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Karol Nawrocki has refused for seven months to swear in four judges elected by Poland's parliament. When one office stalls a constitutional court, Europe is right to say the answer is a working court, not a standoff.
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Brussels has the evidence, the findings and the law to stop infinite scroll and autoplay. It must decide now, because a patchwork of national bans leaves you unprotected in Lisbon or Tallinn.