Daily brief
The European Commission threatened Mexico with tariffs over forced labor, while also dismissing US tariff threats on the same issue as unjustified. The EU is pursuing a broad tech sovereignty drive, planning to reduce reliance on US and Chinese digital infrastructure, drop Google as the European Parliament's default search engine, and boost domestic capabilities in chips, cloud, and AI.
The EU could lose 1.3 million jobs due to an energy price surge linked to the Iran war, the Commission said.
The EU Commission proposed more debt for the energy transition and relaxed budget rules amid Iran war 'turbulence'.
Meta lost a court fight over EU Messenger rules, and the EU Parliament switched to a French search engine from Google in a tech sovereignty push.
The EU launched the OceanEye initiative as the US scaled back ocean monitoring programmes, and removed Greece from its crisis list after 16 years.