The international night culture conference "Dance Floor of Democracy" will take place at Tallinn's HALL club October 9, bringing together European night culture leaders, city officials, researchers and artists.

Estonia's only dedicated artichoke grower says this summer's conditions were ideal for the crop, now thriving after years of testing different varieties and growing methods.

Estonia needs a national regional development strategy with a status comparable to sectoral development plans, and regional policy must be coordinated at the government level. Responsibility for considering regional impacts must lie with a sufficiently high management level in every ministry, write Rivo Noorkõiv, Veiko Sepp, Kersten Kattai, Garri Raagmaa, Mihkel Laan, Ülari Alamets and Mikk Lõhmus

Support for the Reform Party rose to 15 percent in Emor and ERR's September poll, the party's best result in more than a year. Parempoolsed also recorded its best-ever result, with 10 percent support.

Estonia's only dedicated artichoke grower says this summer's conditions were ideal for the crop, now thriving after years of testing different varieties and growing methods.

Rescue workers' pay will rise faster than inflation or by roughly the same amount and those whose demands are being met should not complain too much, Finance Minister Jürgen Ligi (Reform) said.

Artur Konontšuki koduklubi Rostocki Seawolves kaotas Saksamaa korvpalli kõrgliiga mängus Ludwigsburgile 78:81, mis on nende esimene kaotus sel hooajal.

Briti köögist pärit kalapirukas on mõnusalt kreemine, pealt kuldne ja krõbe ning sobib eriti hästi jahedasse nädalalõppu. Suitsukala annab klassikalisele roale mõnusa sügavuse.

The pontiff delivered the warning on the first day of his trip to France on Friday.

The satellite station is used in part to provide internet coverage to neighbouring Ukraine, the government says.

The EU had said X "deceives users" by selling blue ticks without "meaningfully verifying" accounts.

The average price of a litre of diesel at the pump stands at 198.32p, according to the RAC motoring body.

BERLIN — U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is preparing to travel to Berlin in early October for talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, according to two people familiar with preparations for the visit. The trip will be Burnham’s first to Germany since becoming prime minister in July and will give the two leaders a chance to meet as Britain’s new government looks to put fresh energy into relations with one of its most important European partners. Both Downing Street and the German chancellery declined to comment. Burnham took office on July 20 after replacing Keir Starmer, whose government had come under growing pressure following electoral losses, internal Labour Party disputes and weak public support. Starmer’s departure capped a turbulent final period in office in which domestic political problems increasingly dominated his government’s attention. The change in leadership came less than a year after Starmer and Merz had made a major push to bring Britain and Germany closer. The two governments signed the Kensington Treaty in July 2025. It laid out plans for closer work across defense and security, economic ties, transport and migration. Defense has become one of the strongest parts of the relationship. Britain and Germany signed the Trinity House Agreement in October 2024, creating a framework for much closer military and defense-industrial cooperation. Since then, they have expanded work on joint weapons projects and military coordination while remaining major European supporters of Ukraine. Burnham now has the chance to give those efforts new political momentum while setting his own approach to Europe. He entered Downing Street promising an intense domestic focus, but has since embarked on a diplomatic blitz, including meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy along with France’s President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Donald Trump. While Burnham is enjoying an early bout of optimism about his leadership, he will meet a German government facing significant domestic pressure.  Merz’s Christian Democrats suffered sharp losses in two state elections this month, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has gained support nationally. POLITICO’s Poll of Polls puts the AfD at 28 percent, ahead of the Christian Democrats at 20 percent. For both governments, the October meeting offers an early opportunity to show that the closer relationship built over the past two years can continue under new political leadership in London.

The European Commission has failed to keep pace with AI developments, Axel Voss, a key German conservative lawmaker on tech policy, said in an interview. An EPP ally of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the European Parliament, Voss criticized the way the Commission is enforcing its artificial intelligence rules in the wake of a series of AI hacking incidents, including OpenAI-powered agents going rogue and breaking into the AI company Hugging Face. “The whole working method of the European Commission is not adapted to these extremely fast-changing … developments,” he said to Anne McElvoy on the Brussels Playbook Week Ender podcast. The enforcement of the EU’s 2024 AI Act, which mandates that companies take measures to avoid losing control of their models, “is not on the level [where] we would like to have it,” he added. The comments shine the spotlight on the European Commission’s Artificial Intelligence Office, which was put in charge of enforcing the AI Act in August. Voss also said the Commission’s overall response to the fast pace of technological developments is lagging, singling out von der Leyen’s State of the Union last week. “The Commission … also the State of the Union is not ambitious enough regarding digital developments,” said Voss, who is a member of the German Christian Democratic CDU, to which von der Leyen belongs. One area where Voss sees a need for further regulation is liability of AI companies when their technology does damage. “What has been wrong from the beginning of this mandate is not to think about liability of AI,” he said. “This can have an effect on every company.” POLITICO reported Monday that other European Parliament members have floated a proposal to add product liability provisions to address gaps in the AI Act.

Tigray was cut off from the world during the 2020-2022 civil war, which killed around 600,000 people.

Ukraine's president added that eight regions have come under attack by Russian forces since the start of the day.

The pope is set to deliver a landmark speech on AI development and discuss Europe’s futureLater today, Pope Leo will go to the Élysée Palace for (another) formal welcome and a meeting with authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps, before visiting Unesco and delivering a speech on AI in mid-afternoon.He is then expected to go on a stroll through the streets of Paris, before going to the restored Notre Dame Cathedral. Continue reading...

Critics say decree also banning burqa in schools shows Italian PM worried about losing far-right voters in next year’s electionsThe Italian government has been accused of ramping up divisive rhetoric to try to court far-right voters ahead of next year’s general election after it passed a decree aimed at capping the number of newly arrived migrants in classrooms and banning the burqa and niqab in schools.The prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, who leads the far-right Brothers of Italy party, said her government had approved what she called “commonsense measures that do not divide but genuinely help to integrate”. Continue reading...

Pledge comes as container shipping through key Bab al-Mandeb Strait reaches highest level in almost three years

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