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Data centre operators poured billions into new facilities for AI across Europe and beyond, but capacity lagged behind the US and China and local environmental opposition grew.
Swedish business leader Jacob Wallenberg warned that overly strict EU AI rules risk stifling competitiveness, as investors shifted toward AI-driven gains in markets such as Japan.
The European Commission agreed to cut bureaucracy and reduce controls for farmers across the EU, easing access to CAP funds after protests and pressure from the European Parliament.
Two people died at the ATP Finals in Turin, with one collapsing in the Inalpi Arena stands and another at a fan festival, Spiegel reported.
Carmakers delayed battery deals with miners and scaled back electric-vehicle targets as falling commodity prices and weak EV demand left miners struggling to fund projects and squeezed established automakers.
Ten years after the Nov. 13, 2015 Paris attacks, Islamic State–linked gunmen and bombers killed 130 people in coordinated strikes across Paris, including Bataclan and Stade de France.
Rosalía released her new album "Lux" and drew widespread critical praise, prompting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to call it "dazzling."
Sahra Wagenknecht relinquished the chair of Germany’s Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), saying she would remain politically active and naming Fabio de Masi and Amira Mohamed Ali as successors.
Spanish cartoonists El Roto and Flavita Banana published editorial cartoons in El País on 11 November 2025, with Flavita Banana marking Bookshop Day.
European pornography diversified and normalized: new small-scale production emerged in Finland, female viewership rose and some former performers said they had left the industry.
Belgium sent letters to about 150,000 17-year-olds inviting them to a voluntary one-year military service paying €2,000 a month, to begin September 2026.
Apollo Sports Capital acquired on Monday a majority stake in Atlético de Madrid, valuing the club near €2.5 billion, while Miguel Ángel Gil Marín and Enrique Cerezo remained in leadership.
Sahra Wagenknecht resigned as chair of her Germany-based BSW party and said she would not seek re-election but would remain to lead a "Grundwertekommission."
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was released from a Paris prison and allowed to serve his five-year sentence at home under judicial supervision after the Paris appeals court ordered it.
La jueza de Catarroja rechazó abrir una pieza por falso testimonio contra la periodista Maribel Vilaplana y negó pedir los documentos que firmó Carlos Mazón en El Ventorro.
An appeals court in Celle ruled Christian B., the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance, could live abroad, saying a Germany-only restriction breached his freedom of movement.
