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Foreign Minister Lin addresses Formosa Club meeting in Taiwan

The Formosa Club is holding its annual conference from Oct. 24 to Oct. 28 in Taipei City, with 49 legislators from the European Parliament and 19 European national legislatures...

North Korean teen defies mother to join army

A widowed mother in Tanchon, South Hamgyong province, has begged her son’s school to...

North Korea screens young single women for factory jobs in China

North Korea has begun final screening of unmarried female workers in their 20s bound...

Smuggling ban drives North Korean units to cheap Chinese work

North Korea’s foreign currency-earning units are scrambling for low-paying contract manufacturing work from China...

Sebastian Siemiątkowski

“Trying my best to be the nightmare of the bank establishment worldwide!” — Sebastian Siemiątkowski, co-founder and CEO of Swedish fintech company Klarna, is...

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...

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