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The European Union on Sunday said it will guard against any abuse during Russia’s presidency of the United Nations Security Council during the month of April, according to the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

Climate activists in Italy turned a Baroque-style fountain at the foot of Rome’s Spanish Steps black on Saturday, in a protest they said evoked an “end of the world” scenario.

Finnish politics could see a dramatic shift to the far right in elections on Sunday as an anti-immigration party aims to replace “rock star” Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats.

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Italy’s Data Protection Authority on Friday temporarily banned OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and launched a probe over a suspected breach of the artificial intelligence application’s data collection rules.

The brothers will be placed under house arrest with immediate effect.

In our weekly review, we look at the European Commission President’s speech on relations with Beijing, as well as inflation figures and an agreement on renewable energy sources.

Ambassador Fu Cong said Ursula von der Leyen’s speech on China was ridden with “misrepresentations and misinterpretations.”

Talking Europe interviews Tytti Tuppurainen, Finland’s minister for European affairs, following the Hungarian parliament’s ratification of Helsinki’s application to join NATO. Finland and Sweden both applied nearly a year ago, in what was seen as a huge shift in European security. But obstacles have slowed down the two countries’ progress on that path towards the Atlantic Alliance. Tuppurainen also touches on her country’s energy transition and the main issues in the upcoming parliamentary election in Finland on April 2.

A right to die with dignity, or a slippery slope to legalised murder? Debates over assisted dying have been going on in Europe for a long time, but they seem to have intensified, with France, Belgium, Portugal and Ireland all recently re-considering their legislation, or at least launching consultations on the subject.