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2025 European Heritage Awards winners announced
Awards ceremony at the European Cultural Heritage SummitThe Grand Prix laureates and the Public Choice Award winner – each receiving €10 000 – will be announced during the ceremony taking…
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Poland Hosts EIT’s Regional Innovation Booster Pilot to Help Close Europe’s Innovation Gap
The EIT Regional Innovation Booster is a new flagship initiative of the EIT, offering targeted support to startups and scaleups in modest and moderate innovator countries, helping them grow towards…
Europe
Colombia: Joint Press Release on negotiations on a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
Brussels, 12 June 2025 — In a significant step forward for bilateral relations, the European Union and Colombia have officially launched negotiations on a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA)…
Charities
Yellow Tent of Help and Hope Arrives in Senigallia Scientology Volunteers bring Relief Training and Community Care
KINGNEWSWIRE / Press Release / Senigallia, Italy — June 12, 2025 — After 12 days of outreach, inspiration, and direct community support, the iconic Yellow Tent of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers has concluded…
Economy
Trade: Coreper endorses the Council’s negotiating position on FDI screening revision
Brussels, 11 June 2025 — In a significant step toward reinforcing the European Union’s economic security, the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) has endorsed the Council's negotiating position on the…
Human Rights
The world pledged to end child labour by 2025: So why are 138 million kids still working?
There are 10,000 children in Madagascar who, like Tenasoa, work in the largely unregulated mica industry. The silicate is used in paints, car parts, and cosmetics – to add a…
Europe
Steal, Deal, Repeat: Cybercriminals cash in on your data
In its newly released 2025 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) , Europol has issued a chilling warning: the digital underworld is no longer just about hacking into systems—it’s about…
Human Rights
World News in Brief: Women’s health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation
It warned that without immediate support, women and girls will continue to pay the price of this crisis with their lives, as hundreds of thousands are being left without access…
Europe
sustaining global cooperation in a fragmenting world
Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the People’s Bank of China in BeijingBeijing, 11 June 2025It is a pleasure to be back here in Beijing.Some years ago,…
Human Rights
Myanmar on the ‘path to self-destruction’ if violence does not end
Since then, “there has been no end to the violence, even though thousands have been killed and thousands more injured,” said UN Special Envoy to Myanmar, Julie Bishop, on Tuesday,…