Europe’s flagship annual maritime affairs conference opens tomorrow, 21 May 2026, in Limassol, Cyprus, with two days of plenary sessions, workshops and exhibitions on the sustainable blue economy. The European Maritime Day (EMD) 2026 is hosted at the Carob Mill event premises in Limassol’s old town under the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the…
Monaco / Cap d’Ail – Sixteen days remain before the start of the 83rd Monaco Grand Prix, scheduled from Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 June 2026 on the legendary Monte-Carlo circuit. The French Riviera tourism ecosystem — particularly the French communes bordering the Principality (Cap d’Ail, Beausoleil, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin) — enters its final operational phase after…
Brussels – The European Commission has put forward, on 13 May 2026, a major proposal to simplify rail travel across the EU: one journey, one ticket, full rights. The new rules would enable single-ticket bookings across multiple rail operators and grant full passenger rights protection to travellers who miss their connection — a long-standing demand…
In short: On 7 May 2026, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a provisional political agreement on the AI Act Omnibus. The deal postpones the application of high-risk AI obligations to 2 December 2027 for standalone systems, delays watermarking obligations to 2 December 2026, and prohibits AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery and…
At 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday 7 May 2026, after negotiations that ran deep into the small hours, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on the AI Omnibus — the most consequential rewrite of EU artificial-intelligence rules since the original AI Act of 2024. Although the final…
EU co-legislators struck a provisional political agreement in the early hours of Thursday 7 May 2026 on the so-called Digital Omnibus on AI — a regulation amending the AI Act that postpones key compliance deadlines and adds a new prohibition on AI “nudification” apps. As the formal adoption process accelerates, the deal will reshape the…
EU co-legislators struck a provisional political agreement in the early hours of Thursday 7 May 2026 on the so-called Digital Omnibus on AI — a regulation amending the AI Act that postpones key compliance deadlines and adds a new prohibition on AI “nudification” apps. As the formal adoption process accelerates, the deal will reshape the…
The three European laureates of the 2026 European Charlemagne Youth Prize will be unveiled on Tuesday 12 May 2026 at a ceremony in Aachen, Germany — the symbolic city of European unification where the senior Charlemagne Prize is traditionally awarded on Ascension Day. From 531 applications to 27 national winners The prize, run jointly by…
The Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the EU hosted an informal meeting of Ministers for European Affairs in Nicosia on 10 and 11 May 2026, gathering EU national representatives — together with candidate countries and the United Kingdom — for a forward-looking discussion on the bloc’s next long-term budget, its enlargement architecture, and the…
On 10 May 2026 passengers began disembarking the MV Hondius cruise ship in Tenerife in a multi-nation repatriation operation, after a hantavirus outbreak that has reported 8 cases including 3 deaths since 2 May, with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on site stressing this is not another COVID.