Europe is rushing to provide Ukraine with an alternative to billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network after the United States suspended military aid

The EU’s top court has fined Luxembourg €375,000 for failing to implement a directive on whistleblowers into national law on time. The European Court of Justice issued a ruling against five countries on Thursday, imposing fines ranging from €375,000 on Luxembourg to €34 million on Germany.

A new law (New Law) implementing the EU Directive on cross border conversions, mergers and demergers (Mobility Directive) entered into force on

Luxembourg’s rate of approximately 1.25 births per woman in 2023 is one of the lowest in the entire EU, according to data published on Friday by the bloc’s official statistics agency.

The EU Court of Justice on Thursday fined five countries for failing to adopt rules to boost protection for whistleblowers who expose fraud, tax evasion, data breaches and other misdeeds. The court handed a fine of 34 million euros ($36.

The European Union's highest court, the European Court of Justice, ruled that Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia and Luxembourg were too slow to incorporate new EU rules to protect insiders who expose fraud and abuse.

Germany receives largest fine at $36.7M, followed by Czech Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg, Estonia - Anadolu Ajansı

More European defence is needed and EU countries should go ahead even if some of them don't agree, Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden told reporters on Thursday ahead of meeting other EU leaders in Brussels.

The European Union's highest court in Luxembourg is to decide on Thursday whether Germany has failed to adequately protect whistleblowers. The case is based on a complaint by the European Commission from March 2023 alleging that Germany did not implement EU legislation on time.

Zalando, Europe's biggest online fashion retailer, on Thursday criticised EU tech regulators for lumping it in the same group as Amazon and AliExpress, saying it should not be subject to as stringent provisions of the bloc's tech rules as the other two companies.