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North Korea’s China consulates hit with sweeping inspection, pre-dawn raids

North Korea’s consulates in China were subjected to a sweeping inspection last month, with auditors conducting unannounced pre-dawn searches of staff residences on multiple occasions, Daily NK has learned. A...

Senate blocks bid to limit Trump’s power to attack Cuba

The US president has repeatedly hinted at a possible regime-change operation on the island ...

Ireland to end state-provided housing for Ukrainians

The move is expected to affect some 16,000 Ukrainian migrants housed in accommodation provided...

Mindich at center of fresh leaks: What do they reveal about Zelensky’s fugitive business partner?

The Ukrainian leader’s links to the businessman charged in a high level corruption case...

COVID-19 has killed a million Americans. Our minds can’t comprehend that number

COVID-19 has killed a million Americans. Our minds can’t comprehend that number https://ift.tt/q0slWFk One million deaths. That is now roughly the toll of COVID-19...

Ombudsman criticizes European Commission on ‘revolving doors’

The European Commission should take a tougher approach to former staffers’ moves to the private sector, European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly said following a wide-ranging...

Yvo Volman

One of the biggest EU tech rulebooks looming in the fall, the Data Act, was mostly drafted in Luxembourg, not Brussels. It’s where Yvo...

Zakaria Boufangacha

Dutch union FNV has become a tormentor of gig economy platforms like ride-hailing app Uber and food-delivery app Deliveroo. Zakaria Boufangacha, vice president and...

Volker Wissing

No list of the most influential people in the digital world would be complete without someone from the German government. And Volker Wissing, the...

Eric Demuth

Being the CEO of a young company backed by tech venture capitalist Peter Thiel is promising — you can ask Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg (Thiel...

Emmanuel Marill

When war in Ukraine erupted, Airbnb was quick on its feet to offer support to Ukrainian refugees — and to European governments. Airbnb promised...

Aurélie Caulier

Aurélie Caulier, the newly elected chair of Brussels’ European-only tech lobby, comes at a perfect time. As Europe celebrates a new law to curb the...

Ian Brown

In an era when Big Tech lobbying has reached new heights both in Brussels and Washington, framing the narrative and providing clarity and unbiased...

Wojciech Wiewiórowski

When Wojciech Wiewiórowski took over the European Data Protection Supervisor role from the late Giovanni Butarelli in 2019, he had a tough act to...

Tech 28 class of 2022: The ranking

https://ift.tt/lZbTLED May 18, 2022 at 07:30AM POLITICO

Peter Wennink

The world’s microchips sector is snowed under — and Peter Wennink is selling the shovels. As chief executive officer of Dutch firm ASML, Wennink leads...

Joe Jones

Post Brexit, the U.K. wants to flex its data muscles. The government is pushing reform of the data protection rulebook it inherited from the...

Sebastian Kurz

After you’ve become your country’s youngest-ever leader, what do you do for an encore? If you’re Sebastian Kurz, the now-former Austrian chancellor — at...

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