Taxes on cigarettes 'no longer' deter smokers, says EU

Solar panels, wind-turbines, electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies require minerals including aluminium, cobalt and lithium — which are mined in some of the most conflict-riven nations on earth, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, and Kazakhstan.

Large Language Models could give the powers trained data-journalists wield, to regular boring journalists like me — who don't know how to use Python. And that makes me tremendously excited, to be honest.

The European Commission and Poland are to hold an international conference to help find the 16,000 Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.

"What is critical is sending ammunition to Ukraine fast, because that might bring a change in this war," Estonia's prime minister Kaja Kallas said.

Polish abortion rights activists Justyna Wydrzyńska was last week sentenced for giving abortion pills to a 12-week pregnant woman. She will appeal. But with a court stacked by politically-appointed judges, her chances of overturning it are slim.

A new report by Corporate Europe Observatory details how German business interests have shaped German and European hydrogen policies.