EES: Portugal and Italy will not suspend digital border checks for Brits, says European Commission

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China announced record export numbers for 2025, a year when US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade policy caused turmoil in the global economy. Beijing on Wednesday reported the world’s largest-ever trade surplus – the value of goods and services sold overseas compared to its imports – at $1.19tn (£890bn). It’s the first time China’s…

Investigations have been opened into eight companies, including ticket resellers and driving schools, by the UK’s competition regulator as part of a review of online pricing practices. The cases are the first launched by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) under new consumer protection powers, and are looking at actions such as mandatory additional charges,…

Over the past three weeks, Elon Musk and his lawyers have argued in a California federal court that Sam Altman – with whom he founded OpenAI – has swindled him out of millions of dollars and reneged on the ChatGPT-maker’s original non-profit mission. Musk and Altman themselves testified in a case in which the future…