Category: Jobs

The European Commission looks set to propose a three-year delay to a 10% tariff on sales of electric vehicles between the EU and the UK, in a major boost for car industries across Europe. Duties were due to kick in on 1 January 2024 but all the major carmakers in the UK and Europe including...

The joint venture of South Korea’s LG and Canada’s Magna is building its first European factory in Miskolc (North-East Hungary), and the HUF 20 billion (EUR 52.7 Million) investment will create more than 200 new jobs in the city, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced in Budapest on Tuesday. The minister said...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform economies and increase global GDP by trillions of euros over the next 10 years. At the same time, AI technologies present significant new challenges for workers’ rights, including new forms of automation, workplace surveillance, and discrimination. Labor disputes are already impacted by developments of AI in the...

An anonymous reader shares a report: A somewhat obscure guideline for developers of U.S. government websites may be about to accelerate the long, sad decline of Mozilla’s Firefox browser. There already are plenty of large entities, both public and private, whose websites lack proper support for Firefox; and that will get only worse in the...

[Dubai, UAE, December 5, 2023] The Talent & Green Summit was held today at the University of Dubai during the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 28). The Summit brought together 36 participants in Huawei’s Seeds for the Future 2.0 talent program from 22 countries. Scholars from...

European recyclers have raised concerns over plans to hand out free CO2 allowances to steelmakers, saying the methodology considered by Brussels puts recycled steel scrap at a disadvantage compared to primary steel made from iron ore, which is more polluting. The European Commission is preparing to launch a public consultation on revising the Free Allocation...

Hungary is one of the winners of the electric car transition and thus of the new European economic era, also thanks to the best possible cooperation between the government and market players, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at the announcement of the investment by the U.S. company BorgWarner. The foreign minister...

SAINT-FONS (France) – Symbio, an equally owned joint venture between Forvia, Michelin and Stellantis, is inaugurating SymphonHy today, its first gigafactory, a center of technological and industrial excellence. Located in Saint-Fons, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, SymphonHy is the largest integrated fuel cell production site in Europe, confirming Symbio’s role as a technological and industrial leader....

Jon Porter reports via The Verge: UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has laid out how porn sites could verify users’ ages under the newly passed Online Safety Act. Although the law gives sites the choice of how they keep out underage users, the regulator is publishing a list of measures they’ll be able to use to...

schwit1 shares a report from the New York Post: A landmark study out of the University of Adelaide and University of Essex has found that living in a private rental property accelerates the biological aging process by more than two weeks every year. The research found renting had worse effects on biological age than being...