Category: World

  European roads are among the safest in the world, but the number of deaths and injuries from road accidents is still too high. Thanks to the EU’s General Safety Regulation, many safety systems have already been mandatory for all newly registered cars and vans since 2024. Starting on 7 July 2026, these vehicles will […]

Seven UK start-ups have joined the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre UK (ESA BIC UK), to develop technologies that address industrial challenges and deliver practical benefits in space and on Earth. Together, they aim to boost productivity, efficiency and decision-making across sectors from construction to environmental monitoring, helping strengthen the UK economy and the […]

The Commission has preliminary found that the addictive design of Facebook and Instagram breach the Digital Services Act. The investigation focuses on features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the platforms’ highly personalised recommender systems. Source link This article was originally published on https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1579. It is shared here under a Creative Commons license.

The 12-month study will gather the first real-world evidence on whether underground farming can be run at commercial scale, using a facility built largely for particle physics rather than agriculture. The study is supported by a UK Research and Innovation Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) STFC Facility Access Fund award for bioscience partnerships. […]

Mehdi Arfaoui, Sociologist, Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) & École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) Leanda Barrington-Leach, Executive Director, 5Rights Foundation  Tobiáš Bruno Galia, President’s Youth Advisory Board, Czech Council of Children and Youth Urs Buscke, Senior Legal Officer, European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) Alex Cooney, CEO & Co-founder, CyberSafeKids María […]

HateLab, led by Professor Matthew Williams of Cardiff University, has shown that spikes in online hate speech can be followed by increases in hate crime offline. This highlights the growing consequences of digital harms for society. The film, ‘Is the internet broken?’, explores how the internet has evolved and how research is helping to understand […]

  Europeans are overwhelmingly worried about the risks children face on social media. This is one of the highlight findings of a new EU survey about the EU’s challenges and priorities. The other main areas of concern included democratic resilience, defence and the energy transition.  Within the context of child safety online, cyberbullying and harassment top the […]

– Advertisement – In August 2026, a number of key provisions from the European AI Regulation came into force. Users must now be able to clearly recognise when they are dealing with artificially generated or altered content. The new requirements are initially aimed in particular at providers of AI systems, such as OpenAI, Google and […]

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has today set out how its prioritisation programme will affect the research projects in its Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics (PPAN) portfolio. Due to increased costs forecast in the future, the research council has conducted a prioritisation exercise for future […]

During President von der Leyen visit to Kyiv the two sides signed a new defence industrial partnership. The Commission has also launched the EU–Ukraine Drone Deal to deepen cooperation on drone and counter-drone technologies and disbursed €1 billion to support Ukraine’s drone capabilities. Source link This article was originally published on https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1624. It is shared […]