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Europe's fight with big tech over tax, data and disinformation
Europe's fight with big tech over tax, data and disinformation
Economy
by  AFP

The European Union scored two major legal victories on Tuesday in separate cases that left Apple and Google owing billions of euros. On Tuesday, the EU's top court upheld a 2.4-billion-euro fine first issued against Google in 2017 for illegally favouring its own price comparison service.

UK's Starmer vows 'partnership' with unions but warns on pay
UK's Starmer vows 'partnership' with unions but warns on pay
Economy
by  AFP

Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday pledged to reset industrial relations strained by widespread strike action, as he became the first UK leader to address the annual meeting of Britain's trade unions in 15 years. "Partnership is a more difficult way of doing politics," Starmer said, seeking to draw a line under years of strike action and tensions between unions and the previous administration.