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Finance Watch warns of online tactics influencing retail investors
Online design tactics can influence consumers and retail investors, including minors, to make decisions that may not be in their best interests, while making information about potential risks less prominent, Finance Watch has warned.
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Europe
EU countries push back against Brussels power tariff rules
European Union governments are pushing back against a Brussels drive to reshape electricity network costs, watering down plans for coordinated tariffs as the fight over the bloc’s expensive and congested power grids becomes increasingly political.
Economy
EU electric car registrations jump 63% as Chinese brands gain ground
New electric car sales jumped by nearly two-thirds in August 2026 compared to their levels last year as fuel prices hit fresh records in the European Union. But German carmakers struggle to benefit from a broader recovery of the EU car market.
Europe
Euroviews. Europe’s payment sovereignty problem is not what we think
Europe's payment sovereignty problem is not what we think, writes Joachim Wuermeling, a former regulator at the European Central Bank (ECB). The real exposure is not the card in your pocket, but the currency behind it. Europe must strengthen the euro’s international role.
Europe Today
Kubilius: 'Palantir is a great company'
As the presidents of Lithuania and Poland meet the CEO of controversial tech company Palantir Technologies at the United Nations General Assembly this week, the EU's defence chief has come out in support for the enterprise, saying AI developments for warfare are "crucial".
Culture news
'Shipwrecked': Greek PM wants urgent talks on Parthenon Marbles return
Talks on the future of the Parthenon Marbles appear to have reached an impasse according to new reports, as Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis renews diplomatic efforts for all sides to resume stalled negotiations.
Business
UK major banks make first interbank payments with tokenised deposits
Britain's largest banks have completed what the industry describes as the first transactions anywhere using tokenised deposits to move money between one another, a milestone for a blockchain-based form of bank money that the Bank of England favours over privately issued stablecoins.
Europe Today
The AI battlefield: Europe embraces the ‘new normal’
Good morning. It’s Thursday, and my name is Angela Skujins. On today’s agenda: exploring the role of artificial intelligence (AI) on Europe’s battlefield, keeping the international justice system accountable, and how to stop the world’s islands from sinking.
Culture news
Ok computer: Would you call a sculpture created by an AI robot art?
In Italy's Carrara marble quarries, a centuries-old craft is being transformed by artificial intelligence. Robots can now carve complex sculptures from blocks of stone, raising a fundamental question: if a machine does the carving, where does the art begin and the craft end?