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Paris prosecutors have opened a formal investigation against Telegram founder Pavel Durov as part of a probe into organised crime-related activities on the messaging app. To break it all down, we are joined by our Paris-based technology reporter, Théophane Hartmann.

Kazakhstan, a nation with vast natural resources and ambitious growth targets, is positioning itself intending to double its economy to $450 billion by 2029 and is calling on the EU to invest in new in-country value-added production.

Kazakhstan, a nation with vast natural resources and ambitious growth targets, is positioning itself intending to double its economy to $450 billion by 2029 and is calling on the EU to invest in new in-country value-added production.

Patient organizations in Bulgaria are launching a public campaign to force the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) to provide free biomarker diagnostics to people with oncological diseases.

Patient organizations in Bulgaria are launching a public campaign to force the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) to provide free biomarker diagnostics to people with oncological diseases.

Poland is between a rock and a hard place, registering whooping cough cases by the thousands while the availability of vaccines remains scarce.

Poland is between a rock and a hard place, registering whooping cough cases by the thousands while the availability of vaccines remains scarce.

Poland is between a rock and a hard place, registering whooping cough cases by the thousands while the availability of vaccines remains scarce.

Poland is between a rock and a hard place, registering whooping cough cases by the thousands while the availability of vaccines remains scarce.

Italy could be in line for a prominent role in the next European Commission, said the leader of the conservative group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, citing the heavy support Italian government leaders received in the European elections.

Italy could be in line for a prominent role in the next European Commission, said the leader of the conservative group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, citing the heavy support Italian government leaders received in the European elections.

Italy could be in line for a prominent role in the next European Commission, said the leader of the conservative group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, citing the heavy support Italian government leaders received in the European elections.

The president of the influential farmers union, FNSEA, expressed regret over Paris's lack of involvement in shaping the new European Commission, urging French politicians to reengage actively in Brussels, in a press conference on Thursday (29 August).

The president of the influential farmers union, FNSEA, expressed regret over Paris's lack of involvement in shaping the new European Commission, urging French politicians to reengage actively in Brussels, in a press conference on Thursday (29 August).

The president of the influential farmers union, FNSEA, expressed regret over Paris's lack of involvement in shaping the new European Commission, urging French politicians to reengage actively in Brussels, in a press conference on Thursday (29 August).

Bulgaria's Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, which represents the country's Turkish minority, is trying to oust its co-leader, Delyan Peevski, who is facing US and UK sanctions for corruption.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was in Paris on Thursday (29 August) to make the case for his "once-in-a-generation reset" with the EU, just a day after meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

France's Health Innovation Agency (Agence de l'innovation en santé, AIS) plans to invest €170 million in innovations to improve preventative healthcare in eight fields, including children's health, mental health, chronic and rare diseases.

The German government is expanding bans on knives in public spaces in response to a terror attack in Solingen, boosting police competences and plans to speed up deportations of criminal asylum seekers and Dublin-cases.

While the absence of any viable coalition government in France, a situation lasting 50 days and counting, may be new for the French, it is not unusual in other EU countries. That said, the longer this continues, the more it stains Emmanuel Macron’s reputation on the EU stage.