(Natural News) Leaked documents show that the socialist Spanish government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wants to ban all end-to-end encrypted messaging within the European Union. The document is a survey commissioned by the European Council, a body within the European Union’s executive branch. The survey polled member countries’ views on the regulation of encrypted […]

(Natural News) The European Union has fined Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, ordering the California-based tech company to pay €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) over violations of data privacy laws. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced the decision to penalize Meta on May 22. It followed an extensive investigation into the operations of Facebook in the continent. […]

(Natural News) The vast majority of Russian oil exports had been rerouted to China and India as Moscow continues to reduce its dependence on the European Union (EU) oil trade.  In April, Russian oil exports reached their highest level in 14 months, with almost 80 percent heading to Asian markets due to Western sanctions, according to a recent report […]

(Natural News) Hungary has blocked the release of the latest military aid package from the European Union (EU) to support Ukraine and has vowed to keep blocking it until a Hungarian bank is taken off Kyiv’s list of so-called “international sponsors of war.” The bank in question is the OTP Bank, the largest commercial bank in Hungary […]

(Natural News) Farmers in the Netherlands are at risk of having their lands seized under the guise of curbing supposedly harmful emissions, and the Dutch government has made it its goal to seize up to half of the country’s farmland. The government of the Netherlands has just been given the green light by the European Union’s […]

(Natural News) Ukraine is running out of imported munitions from countries like Poland, which said “we simply don’t have the ammunition” in a recent statement about the matter. While Russia has more than enough bullets to keep the war going indefinitely, Ukraine is running dry, according to Polish Armed Forces chief of staff General Rajmund […]

(Natural News) The popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT is scraping people’s data from their conversations with the program without their consent – a move that could lead to the chatbot being banned throughout the entire European Union. This is according to the Italian data protection agency Garante, which said  ChatGPT collects data in a way that is incompatible […]

(Natural News) Italy has banned the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT over privacy concerns, and has also launched an investigation over its maker OpenAI. The Italian Data Protection Authority (IDPA) confirmed the ban on ChatGPT late last month, but clarified that the prohibition is temporary. Once OpenAI complies with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), […]

(Natural News) The United States and Japan signed a trade agreement Tuesday, March 28, on electric vehicle (EV) battery minerals. The agreement bolsters both countries’ battery supply chains and gives Japanese automakers broader access to the $7,500 U.S. EV tax credit. A senior Biden administration official said the deal prevents the two countries from approving bilateral export […]

(Natural News) A member of the European Parliament (MEP) has warned that the European Union (EU) is in danger of “criminalizing” the use of physical cash in favor of using digital currencies with its new anti-money laundering laws. Politicians in the European Parliament, the EU’s main legislative body, have long been campaigning to impose an […]