EU leaders back Ursula von der Leyen for second term as president
Estonia’s PM, Kaja Kallas, set to become the EU’s top diplomat, while former Portuguese PM António Costa takes over as president of the European Council
EU centrists’ deal paves way for von der Leyen to return as commission president
Agreement between three pro-European blocks would make Estonian PM top diplomat and former Portuguese PM council president
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Claude 3.5 suggests AI’s looming ubiquity could be a good thing
In this week’s newsletter: If you don’t like chatbots popping up everywhere, get ready to be peeved. But the latest version of Anthropic’s shows AI is becoming more useful – and, crucially, affordable
EU-regulated ‘sustainable’ funds invest £14bn in biggest polluters
African and Asian artists condemn ‘humiliating’ UK and EU visa refusals
Wine, beer or spirits? Europeans can’t kick their traditional drinking habits
Labour would comply with ICC arrest order for Netanyahu, Lammy reiterates
Shadow foreign secretary repeats belief in ‘rules-based order’ and also says UK would not seek EU membership
UK says importers making ‘deliberate errors’ on forms to avoid Brexit border charges
New checks for plant and animal goods from the EU came into force on 30 April
‘It was a nightmare. It still is’: the cost of doing business, eight years after Brexit
The vote to leave the EU was sold as a way to cut red tape, but for many it ended up doing the opposite. The Observer asked six businesses about the fallout for them
