After roughly 70,000 migrants rushed the Ceuta border fence on 30 July 2026, a surge partly driven by viral videos that left nearly 100 people dead, the European Union pressed Meta and TikTok to act.
The EU's new border system requires fingerprint and photo scans of non-EU travellers, including Britons, entering Europe's Schengen travel area.
A Canadian company has found a large oil and gas field in the Baltic Sea off Poland's coast — reportedly Poland's biggest find since World War Two.
Spain and Italy have started checking travelers crossing between their two countries, each retaliating after the other imposed checks first.
EU interior ministers meet Tuesday to decide whether to bring back border checks across Schengen, Europe's passport-free travel zone, after a migration crisis at Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa.
A Shanghai company called Aishengna, founded only in 2023 and backed by the state, has started full-scale production of DUV lithography machines, the equipment that uses light to print circuit patterns onto silicon and that every computer chip needs to be made.
Since clearing its 86-12 procedural vote, the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026 has been narrowed to cap tariffs at 100 percent on the top five Russian energy buyers. Twelve EU states, including Czechia, still import some Russian energy, and Democrats warn the tariff power Trump would gain never expires.
Hamas said Friday it agreed to a US-brokered plan under which it would disarm and Israeli troops would withdraw from Gaza.
Italy, Finland and Austria are demanding that Spain be suspended from Schengen, the European agreement that lets people cross many borders without passport checks, after about 60,000 people crossed into Spain's Ceuta enclave in North Africa.
BMW reported a clear drop in profit, and several other German carmakers released similarly bad results in the same week, according to Tagesschau.
From Sunday, a European Union law called the AI Act requires companies to say clearly when a chatbot, image or video was made or altered by artificial intelligence.
The European Commission wants a new tax on companies with yearly sales above €100 million, with the money going straight to the EU instead of coming from national governments.