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All new cars sold in Europe from July 2024 will be required to have a black box. An event data recorder is also mandatory for small trucks and vans. Starting in July 2024, all newly registered cars in the European Union must be equipped with an “event data recorder” (EDR) as a standard feature. This […]
Tesla has cut prices for its Model Y cars across Europe, a week after it cut prices in China, Reuters reports. The price decline, as well as downgrades from brokerages UBS and Wells Fargo, led to a nearly 3% drop in Tesla shares, which exacerbated the stock’s poor start to 2024. Tesla has reduced the […]
TikTok has announced the launch of its first European data center – at least partially – as it moves user data to a new center in Ireland. The data migration is expected to be completed by Q4 2024. According to dev.ua, the data center in Ireland was supposed to be launched in early 2022. Then […]
Until recently, the only way for Europeans to connect to the Internet on a plane was local Wi-Fi, often for an additional fee. Thanks to a new law adopted by the European Commission, passengers on flights to the EU will soon be able to use regular mobile internet in flight. The European Commission has announced […]
As part of the new initiative, more than 200 major European cities will donate generators to Ukraine to help it survive the winter. Many city administrations expressed their desire to help Ukraine even before the project was launched. The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metzola, said that the EU launched a campaign called ‘Generators […]
Russia’s spy network in Europe has been dealt the ‘most significant strategic blow’ in recent history after the coordinated expulsion of diplomats in connection with the invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, in Great Britain alone, 100 diplomatic visas have been refused in recent years, according to the head of the British Security Service, […]
In Moscow, they created a situation where the European Union does not really need Russian gas, although before the great war with Ukraine, the EU was the main sales market for the Russian Federation. So far, Europe has only partially given up on Russian gas, but even this has seriously hit the Kremlin’s energy ambitions. […]
The gas storages of the European Union are almost 90% full, and exports from the USA and Norway made it possible to compensate for the decrease in Russian supplies. The European gas market is undergoing drastic changes. Due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the new sanctions confrontation between the Russian Federation and Western countries, […]
On September 14, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen from Strasbourg left for a working visit to Kyiv, where she will meet with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, and among other issues on the agenda is Ukraine’s accession to the European system of free roaming. Last week, Ukraine took an […]
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands have completely stopped accepting documents from Russian tourists. The rest of the EU countries continue to issue visas to Russians, but under new, more complicated conditions. According to the decision of the European Union, the agreement on the simplified visa regime with […]