On Tuesday the EU’s executive body, the Commission, followed up that fixed deadline by putting out guidance for developers on how to comply with this aspect of the bloc’s AI rule book.

Developers seeking help with staying on the right side of the law when it comes to applying artificial intelligence in the region are likely to be keen to parse the advice. Breaches of the law’s rules on prohibited use cases can attract the stiffest penalties: up to 7% of global turnover (or €35 million, whichever is greater).

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Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/eu-puts-out-guidance-on-uses-of-ai-that-are-banned-under-its-ai-act/

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EU diplomats and officials said the unexpected green light for talks took place as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban – who had for weeks said he would block such a deal – agreed to leave the room, knowing the other leaders would go ahead and vote.

Orban confirmed that he had abstained from the vote at the EU summit on what he called a “bad decision”. It was unclear at this stage what exactly he could be getting in return.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-set-summit-showdown-ukraine-with-hungarys-orban-2023-12-13/

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Extensive damage to an undersea gas pipeline and communications cable connecting Finland and Estonia “could not have occurred by accident” and appears to be the result of a “deliberate … external act”, Finnish authorities have said.

“It is likely that the damage to both the gas pipeline and the communication cable is the result of external activity,” the Finnish president, Sauli Niinistö, said on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday, adding that the cause of the damage was not yet clear.

Local media cited unnamed government sources as saying Russian sabotage was suspected, while regional security experts said a Russian survey vessel had recently been observed making repeated visits to the vicinity of the Balticconnector pipeline.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/10/undersea-pipeline-damage-appears-to-be-deliberate-says-finland

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The European Parliament is to vote on a non-binding resolution on Thursday urging European Union capitals to deem Hungary unfit to assume the EU presidency in the second half of 2024.

This will be a crucial period just after European elections that will determine the bloc’s next legislature and its next executive, the European Commission.

Hungary is viewed in Brussels as a black sheep in the EU — a backslider on democratic norms and one that obstructs some EU deliberations, including sanctions on Russia, to try to gain national advantage.

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Source: https://news.yahoo.com/eu-discomfort-hungary-chairing-bloc-123924274.html

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In the three years since the UK’s official withdrawal from the EU, the Northern Ireland Protocol has been an ongoing point of contention, which even led to the collapse of the government in Belfast last year.

What’s in the deal?

Under the current arrangements, all products arriving into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are checked, as the province effectively remains in the EU’s single market for goods, while the rest of the UK does not.

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The European Union’s governing agencies have prohibited employees from using TikTok on work devices, citing data and cybersecurity issues.

Both the European Commission and the Council banned the social media app, which has come under fire in Europe and the United States in recent months.

Banning TikTok on official devices
On Thursday, Commission employees received an email informing them that the Chinese-owned social media app must be uninstalled from all company devices by March 15.

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Source: https://www.firstpost.com/world/eu-tightens-the-screw-on-tiktok-european-commission-bans-staff-from-using-tiktok-on-work-devices-12204272.html

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Reaching consensus among the bloc’s 27 nations has become more complicated with the growing influence of the far-right in the politics of several member states.

The issue, kicked along the road for years, will be on the agenda of a Thursday meeting of EU interior ministers, with a focus on how to speed up the process of returning undocumented migrants to their country of origin in cases where their asylum bid fails.

Sweden, the current holder of the EU presidency, will host the meeting.

The Scandinavian country, among the more generous in terms of giving asylum before 2015-2016, has since October had a coalition government reliant on a nationalist far-right party, the Sweden Democrats (SD).

That alliance “is really stepping up the restrictive approach” introduced under the previous Swedish government, an expert at Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, Bernd Parusel, told AFP.

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Source: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230125-eu-grapples-with-asylum-reform-as-migrant-entries-surge

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The Chief Minister of Gibraltar has said the territory will have an “uncomfortable” experience if the UK and, EU and Spain cannot finally agree on a post-Brexit arrangement. Fabian Picardo warned Gibraltarians that a transition phase may be necessary, which could mean some difficulties for the Rock.

In his New Year’s speech, he said: “The agreement may be uncomfortable at first in some areas.

“Like joining the European Union, I may have been initially uncomfortable in 1972. But a ‘no deal’ would also be very uncomfortable.”

Mr Picardo added that he and his colleagues are working “day and night” to reach a deal, but warned it will not be an easy dispute to resolve.

He continued: “What we are negotiating is hugely complex… From product labelling to the taxation of goods, the final treaty is likely to be hundreds of pages long.

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Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1720439/brexit-gibraltar-uncomfortable-reality-eu-spain

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“We have set all the tools necessary in place in the European Union,” von der Leyen said in an interview with Bloomberg. “It is important not only to dry out the war chest of Russia but also very important for many vulnerable countries to have an acceptable level of prices.”

However, the price cap is yet to be decided, she added.

In October, the EU agreed to impose a cap on the prices of Russian oil as part of its eighth package of sanctions against Moscow for invading Ukraine. Once the price cap is implemented, European entities will only transport Russian oil if the prices are below a fixed level.

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Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/european-union-ready-to-enforce-russian-oil-price-cap-says-commission-president_4861870.html

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