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Bloomberg
2 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
X Says it Will Resist ‘Politically Motivated' French Probe
Elon Musk's X said it won't accede to French authorities' demands in a probe into alleged bias and manipulation of the social media platform's algorithm. 'X remains in the dark as to the specific allegations made against the platform,' the company said in a post on its Global Government Affairs handle on Monday. 'X believes that this investigation is distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda and, ultimately, restrict free speech.'
Al Arabiya
2 days ago
- Business
- Al Arabiya
Musk's X denies French allegations of fraudulent data extraction, algorithm abuse
Elon Musk's social media platform X said on Monday it denied all allegations made by French authorities over manipulation of its algorithm and 'fraudulent data extraction,' adding that it has not acceded to the demands made in a French criminal investigation. 'French authorities have requested access to X's recommendation algorithm and real-time data about all user posts on the platform in order for several 'experts' to analyze the data and purportedly 'uncover the truth' about the operation of the X platform,' X said, adding that they denied the demands since they 'have a legal right to do.'
The Sun
6 days ago
- Politics
- The Sun
French coastguard hand boat full of migrants life jackets as dozens more set sail for UK after ‘one in one out deal'
A FLOOD of migrants raced across a French beach to get on an overcrowded dinghy - with the coastguard handing them life jackets. The group of migrants raced to get on an inflatable dinghy to leave the coast of northern France in an attempt to cross the Channel. 7 7 7 It comes after a new migrant deal was agreed between the UK and France in a bid to tackle the small boats crisis. The migrants were pictured trying to board the dinghy on the beach of Petit-Fort-Philippe in Gravelines, near Calais, France. Around 40 people, believed to be about half of the full group that scrambled over the sands, left the coast of France. French authorities in an inflatable boat out at sea approached the overcrowded dinghy, passing those on board lifejackets. No police were seen on the beach when the groups of people came out of the sand dunes and attempted to board the black inflatable boat. It comes after a new 'one-in-one-out' migrant deal was agreed with the country. But France will be able to choose which migrants to take back - prompting fears that the UK will be stuck with dangerous criminals. The details of each migrant selected for return will be given to France, allowing it to reject those with a criminal record or deemed a security risk. Both France and the UK will have a veto over which of the small boat migrants they take in. Britain will take into account if the migrants have a connection to the country and if they have lived here before. Revealed in the Plan: Migrants arriving via small boat will be detained and returned to France in short order A one-in, one-out system will operate with migrants sent back to France in exchange for asylum seekers The plan is merely a pilot scheme - which could be canned if it doesn't work Only 50 a week will be sent packing - a fraction of the thousands crossing into the UK There may be an uptick in migrants stowing away in cars and lorries, or taking more dangerous routes into the country. Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron confirmed a one-in-one-out deal will return small boat migrants to France - but only 50 a week will be sent packing. The PM hailed the "groundbreaking" returns' scheme as "aggressive" - but admitted it was merely a pilot plan that would deal with just a fraction of the migrants trying to cross the Channel every day. n a joint press conference with the French President, Sir Keir confirmed that in exchange for sending unlawful migrants back, the UK will accept asylum seekers from Calais who have "legitimate claims" and family in Britain. Only those who haven't tried to enter the country illegally before will be eligible for the scheme, which will come into force "in weeks". The PM hailed the plan as "hard-headed, aggressive action" and boasted that "previous governments tried and failed to secure results like this". But the agreement is the equivalent of just 2,600 returns annually (50 a week), compared with the 44,000 who have arrived since Labour took power a year ago. And this year alone more than 21,117 migrants have crossed the Channel - a 56 per cent rise on the same period in 2024. But Sir Keir admitted the new deal won't necessarily end the crisis, saying: 'There is no silver bullet here". And it was revealed the plan could descend into a legal wrangle - with "returned" migrants able to launch lengthy battles through the courts. It means the system could get bogged down with ongoing legal cases - and the whole plan thwarted in the same way that Rwanda flights were grounded by lefty lawyers. 7 7 7
Telegraph
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Starmer has blown another negotiation
It is difficult to think of a better summary of the travails of Sir Keir Starmer's government than the farcical circumstances of his press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron. While Sir Keir and Mr Macron were announcing a pilot scheme that would see some migrants arriving on Britain's shores sent back to France – with an equivalent number in turn coming the other way – up to 600 migrants made the journey across the Channel. With the number of migrants returned to France on a weekly basis speculated to be as few as 50, it could take three months to undo yesterday's crossings alone. For his part, meanwhile, Mr Macron used his time in front of the press to pin the blame on Brexit, rather than the curious inability of the French authorities to crack down on people smuggling within their territory. It was a poor attempt at deflecting blame, particularly when the declaration issued by the British and French governments noted that the implementation of any deal would be subject to 'prior legal scrutiny' from the bloc, illustrating once again the way in which Brussels has tied its members hands in the fight against illegal migration. But if the French President's accusation was astray there was, at least, a grain of truth in the insinuation that the Channel crisis is at least in part of Britain's making. As it stands, the deal struck with Macron will be woefully inadequate to the task of combating the trade across the Channel. The idea is to dissuade illegal crossings by threatening those who arrive with deportation. But between the efforts of the open borders legal lobby and their friends in the judiciary, it is hard not to suspect that attempts to actually remove people from our shores will rapidly be bogged down in the courts, weakening the disincentive. Sir Keir, having made much of the Conservative Party's struggle to implement its Rwanda plan, may well find that his alternative, too, founders on the judiciary. Moreover, with the numbers arriving quite possibly exceeding departures, the idea that the scheme will function as a disincentive may also prove woefully misguided. Deals such as that struck between the EU and Turkey which proved successful did so because they removed vast numbers of arrivals rather than a tiny fraction. Without this guarantee, the crossings will continue, deal or no deal.
Bloomberg
07-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
UK Moves Closer to Approving Sizewell C Nuclear Plant Project
The UK government moved a step closer to approving the construction of two nuclear reactors in Sizewell after reaching a deal with French authorities over the involvement of Electricite de France SA. Under the agreement reached over the weekend, the French state-owned owned utility — which is already building a pair of reactors in Hinkley Point in the UK — will retain a stake in the Sizewell C project of just 12.5% while the UK government and other investors will hold the rest, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
