85 percent of the French are in favor of tightening immigration law, according to a survey conducted by the Elabe Institute for BFMTV. Respondents want to bring back tougher punishment and expulsion of immigrants if they commit crimes.more
Alexandre, a resident of Mouscron in southern Belgium, received an electricity bill of €1,279,611.43, RTL Info reports. "I checked the amount three times and thought I was hallucinating," the man said.more
From today, smoking marijuana in the red light district of Amsterdam is punishable by a fine of 100 euros. The ban on smoking grass in the very center of the city is to reduce nuisance for the inhabitants of the capital of the Netherlands.more
The risks associated with the development of artificial intelligence (AI) are existential because it has the potential to harm or kill many, many people in the near future, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned in London.more
Unclear way of settling hours worked, insufficient health insurance, expensive and moldy quarters - seasonal workers on German plantations work in dramatically bad conditions - according to the report "This is not Europe. Exploitation in the harvest of asparagus, strawberries and vegetables in Germany", prepared by Oxfam an international humanitarian organization.more
Commonly referred to as the "Queen of Rock and Roll", Tina Turner died at her home in Kusnacht, Switzerland, on Lake Zurich, after a long and serious illness, her representative Bernard Doherty announced yesterday.more
China's semiconductor industry fears that Japan's chip export embargo, due to come into force in July, could also affect the production of older generations of chips used in, for example, cars or washing machines, writes the Financial Times.more
Mark Zuckerberg has announced that users of this popular messenger will soon be able to correct errors or add more information to messages already sent.more
A week ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle became the target of a car chase by photojournalists who tried at all costs to take pictures of them. The theory that this car chase was merely a PR ploy by the Sussex’s to warm up their image has become very popular online. A spokesperson for the couple has now spoken out on the matter.more
Researchers from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Leiden University have started a pilot programme to grow rice on peat land near Leiden, the two universities said in a press release.more
With the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games being held in Paris, the government wants to displace thousands of homeless, mainly migrants from the Paris region to the province, arguing that the number of hotels willing to host them is falling. This approach raises doubts among humanitarian organisations, French media reported today.more
The unthinkable is becoming a possibility. The US Congress may fail to raise the debt limit and lead to the technical bankruptcy of the United States. If this happens, every economy will be affected, stock markets will collapse and global markets will panic, warns the Economist.more
Air pollution in the Paris metro with fine particles is five times higher than the standards recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), according to a report by France Televisions station 'Vert de rage'.more
Fourteen Portuguese municipalities, popular with tourists, already charge holidaymakers a so-called tourist tax for overnight stays. This ranges from one to two euros.more
The 30-year-old woman who fatally hit a Polish woman in the sub-Brussels town of Tervuren and fled the scene of the accident has turned herself in to the police. She testified that she drove away from the scene because she thought she had hit a branch or a deer, Inspector Filip Steppe of the Flemish police reported today.more
Despite nearly three million unemployed people in Spain, more than a third of companies are struggling to find workers. Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs complain of a shortage of labour; in the hotel and construction industry this deficit is more than 50 per cent. - according to the latest Business Activity Survey presented by the Bank of Spain.more
The Italian region of Emilia-Romagna is slowly coming back to life after catastrophic flooding. The water has already subsided in many towns and cities, and the cleaning of mud from houses, basements, and stores continues uninterruptedly. Classes in schools are being resumed gradually. The situation is still difficult in the Ravenna area, where three thousand buildings have been destroyed. The regmore
I can't give a more precise number of F-16 fighters that we will get from Western allies, but there will be dozens of them," Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Colonel Yuri Ihnat conveyed. He added that to replace the post-Soviet air fleet, Ukraine needs about 150 fighters.more
The EU formally approved today the setting of the next elections to the European Parliament for the period from 6 to 9 June 2024, the EU Council announced on its website.more
400-500 euro was the price of one night's stay in many hotels in Venice on the penultimate weekend of May, on the days of the inauguration of the Architecture Biennale. Sums of 700 euros were also not uncommon. Also in other Italian cities at the beginning of the holiday season there is a significant increase in hotel prices; the most in Florence and Milan - by about 40 percent.more
From Cape Canaveral, Florida, a Falcon 9 rocket took off yesterday with four participants on the first private flight to the International Space Station (ISS) organized by the American company Axiom Space. Among the participants of the flight are two Saudis, a man and a woman.more
Due to the new activity of the Etna volcano in Sicily, the airport in Catania has been closed until 9am on Monday or until the end of the current eruption, the airport management announced yesterday.more
