Tag: Elections
Many Indians Don’t Trust Their Elections Anymore
On March 21, a little less than a month before India’s national elections, the main opposition party, Congress, held a press conference to announce that its campaign was paralyzed. The government had earlier frozen the party’s bank accounts in connection with an alleged tax violation from the 1990s. Now the party was struggling to support its parliamentary candidates, and its ground organization had sputtered to a halt.
Later that evening, fewer than 10 miles away, cops and paramilitaries
Welcome to the AI election – POLITICO
This article is part of a series, Bots and Ballots: How artificial intelligence is reshaping elections worldwide.
Callum Hood has the power to undermine any election with a few keystrokes from his Boston apartment.
Hood, a British researcher, fired up some of the latest artificial intelligence tools made by OpenAI and Midjourney, another AI startup. Within seconds of him typing in a few prompts — “create a realistic photo of voter ballots in a dumpster”; “a photo of long
Macron’s explosive home front in the Gaza war
PARIS — In the days after Hamas struck Israel, French President Emmanuel Macron made a national address vowing his “unreserved solidarity” with Israel.
A month later, he swerved to redress the balance, organizing a conference to support Gaza, joining calls for a cease-fire. In the days and months following Israel’s ground operation and airstrikes, Macron has amped up his support for Gaza, organizing aid airdrops with Jordan and even dispatching a helicopter carrier turned hospital ship to treat a trickle … Read more
Last EU-US tech council before elections, cloud sovereignty requirements deleted from EUCS – Euractiv
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“Regardless of whoever is going to be next year in the White House or in the Berlaymont, this strength has to continue to be nurtured and developed.”
– An EU official said at the EU-US Trade and Technology Council in Leuven, Belgium, on Thursday.
Story of the week: The European Commission played down fears that the EU-US
EU Commission probes Alphabet, Apple, Meta; issues guidelines for addressing digital risks to elections – Euractiv
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“We suspect that the suggested solutions put forward by the three companies do not fully comply with the DMA [the EU’s Digital Markets Act].”
– Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s executive vice president in charge of competition policy, told a press briefing on Monday.
Story of the week: The European Commission is opening non-compliance investigations into Alphabet,
Microsoft-Mistral AI deal raises concerns, European telecom standardisation elections launched – Euractiv
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“France shouldn’t boast and wave the word ‘sovereignty’ left and right. The government completely lacks coherence.”
– centrist Senator Catherine Morin-Desailly told Euractiv, commenting on the Mistral AI – Microsoft deal
Story of the week: The announcement of Paris-based company Mistral AI’s first commercial distribution partnership with US Big Tech Microsoft drew reactions from politicians in Brussels
Can anybody stop Ursula von der Leyen? – POLITICO
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For a brief moment last year, it looked like Ursula von der Leyen’s bid for a second term as European Commission president just might be in trouble.
In an unscheduled trip to Israel in October, she had stood next to Benjamin Netanyahu and expressed unreserved solidarity in the country’s battle against Hamas.
Her statement would not have been out of place in the mouth of a U.S. president or, indeed, a German politician (which is, after all, what von
The ‘dirty dozen’ of Davos – POLITICO
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It’s that time of year again: Leaders, business titans, philanthropists and celebs descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos to discuss the fate of the world and do deals/shots with the global elite at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
This year’s theme: “Rebuilding trust.” Prescient, given the dumpster fire the world seems to be turning into lately, both literally (climate change) and figuratively (where to
Taiwan at election crossroads as war threat looms – POLITICO
This story was originally published in German by WELT, a sister publication of POLITICO in the Axel Springer Group.
Nate Lin wants to be prepared for war.
On a Saturday morning in November, Lin, a 35-year-old Taiwanese man, practices how to apply a tourniquet to his right arm. In this fictive scenario, he’s been shot and is in danger of bleeding to death.
“It has to be pulled tighter to stop the bleeding,” warns the instructor.
It’s not the kind
all the winners from a wild year in UK politics – POLITICO
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LONDON — It was meant to be the year two quiet technocrats, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, brought calm to the fevered Westminster swamp. Unfortunately SW1 didn’t get the memo.
Politics remained pretty much as wild in 2023 as it has been since David Cameron — back in action as U.K. foreign secretary — last stalked the corridors of power.
POLITICO hardly need remind you that with a general