Dave Cottlehuber, the founder of SkunkWerks, a small tech infrastructure firm in Austria, says he has been moving the company’s few servers and databases away from US providers to European services since the start of the year. “First and foremost, it’s about values,” Cottlehuber says. “For me, privacy is aContinue Reading
BERLIN: German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) held “open and constructive” talks towards forming a coalition, a joint statement said on Friday (Feb 28) without giving details. Parliamentary arithmetic means the centre-left SPD is the most likely ally to help Merz’s conservativesContinue Reading
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has invited more than a dozen European and EU leaders to a Sunday (Mar 2) summit to “drive forward” action on Ukraine and security, his office said. Ahead of the main summit, Starmer will chair a morning call with Baltic nations, before welcoming UkrainianContinue Reading
In a separate call on Saturday with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Starmer reiterated “UK’s ironclad support for Ukraine”, according to Downing Street. “They agreed that this was a significant moment for the future of Ukraine and European security at large,” said the statement, which comes amid a strained relations between WashingtonContinue Reading
