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BUSINESS
EU AI Act Allows Melodies to Choose Collaboration, Not Censorship
Europe leads in AI music ethics as UMG partners with Udio, redefining creativity, copyright, and regulation in the digital age.
EUROPE
East Germany: Cheap Rent to Live in a Ghost Town
Desperate towns now offer weeks of cheap housing rent to strangers. This isn't marketing; it's survival.
BUSINESS
Make Europe Secure Again: Gulf Energy Underwrites Europe’s Transition
UAE LNG deal boosts Germany’s energy security and defence role, marking a new Gulf–Europe compact amid shifting global power.
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Fairphone Enters the Office, Not the High Street
As Radboud University announced Fairphones for staff on 16 January 2026, effective 1 February, a niche ethical handset gained an ally that ordinary shoppers still rarely offer.
Big Tech Giants Take Over the European Public Square
Invisible code, engineered thousands of miles away, dictates the daily cadence of European voices.
Guilty by Involvement: Britain, Berbera, and Red Sea Tensions
Britain’s state-backed bets on a Red Sea port are now dragging London into a genocidal war in Sudan and a high-stakes diplomatic collision with Saudi Arabia.
Timbuktu Manuscripts Return as Museums Raise Prices
As 28,000 manuscripts arrived back at the Timbuktu Ahmed Baba Institute in August 2025 after 13 years in Bamako, Paris's Louvre raised standard admission to €22, marking the latest divergence in how access to Africa's written past is being rearranged.
Houthi Payroll Politics and Riyadh’s Bet to Secure Yemen Peace
Yemen’s government workers wait for paychecks as Riyadh bets that money will buy the peace that ten years of war was unable to secure.
