- Jul 16
German conservatives to elect Spahn's successor on 29 July after surrogacy resignation
The CDU/CSU parliamentary group will convene a special session on 29 July at 14:00 in Berlin to elect a new chair, after Jens Spahn resigned on Saturday under pressure from Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his own party over his use of a surrogate mother in the United States.
- Jun 16
French spy agency DGSI to replace Palantir with local firm ChapsVision, citing digital sovereignty
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced the switch on Tuesday, framing it as a necessary step to reduce strategic dependency on U.S. technology, following Washington's recent restriction of Anthropic's AI models for non-U.S. users.
