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Europe's energy and security tensions are colliding at the top. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas is backing Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries as legitimate self-defence, even as Kyiv navigates pressure from Washington over Trump's proposed energy ceasefire. Kallas also called Trump's Russian diesel deal a direct gift to Putin, framing it as a strategic concession that undermines European unity ahead of a critical Brussels summit on energy prices and long-term budget planning.
Shifting to France, where the film industry is sounding a serious alarm. More than one hundred seventy figures from French cinema are warning that proposed two thousand twenty seven budget measures, including doubling the VAT on Canal Plus pay-TV subscriptions, could effectively wipe out hundreds of productions. For a country that treats cinema as cultural infrastructure, not just entertainment, the stakes are existential.
And in the world of telecom, Mobileum's Spark events in Lisbon and Frankfurt put a spotlight on where the industry is heading. Operators are exploring how agentic AI and automation can move networks from reactive systems to genuinely self-managing ones. It is a quiet but consequential shift in how the pipes that carry our digital lives actually get run.
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