Source: European Central Bank (video statements)
Faizaan Kisat* (International Monetary Fund)
with Davide Furceri (International Monetary Fund), Domenico Giannone (Johns Hopkins University), Raphael Lam, and Hongchi Li (all International Monetary Fund)
Discussant: Maximilian Schröder (European Central Bank)
Source: European Central Bank (video statements)
Chronos-2: From Univariate to Universal Forecasting
Pablo Guerron* (Boston College)
with Abdul Fatir Ansari, Oleksandr Shchur (all Amazon Web Services), Jaris Küken (Amazon Web Services; University of Freiburg), Andreas Auer (Amazon Web Services), Johannes Kepler (University Linz), Boran Han, Pedro Mercado, Syama Sundar Rangapuram, Huibin Shen, Lorenzo Stella, Xiyuan Zhang, Mononito Goswami, Shubham Kapoor, Danielle C. Maddix, Tony Hu, Junming Yin, Nick Erickson, Prateek Mutalik Desai (all Amazon Web Services), Hao Wang (Amazon Web Services; Rutgers University), Huzefa Rangwala, George Karypis, Yuyang Wang, Michael Bohlke-Schneider (all Amazon Web Services)
Discussant: Francesco Ravazzolo (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Source: European Central Bank (video statements)
Keynote speech: Policymakers’ Uncertainty
Stephen Hansen (University College London)
Source: European Commission (video statements)
The European Commission has launched an investigation into Snapchat over potential breaches of the Digital Services Act. This comes after the platform has failed to respect its own terms and conditions. With 97 million users across the European Union, children as young as 10 years old use the platform daily, which is below the age limitation. Following this breach of the Digital Services Act, the European Commission has launched an investigation on Snapchat.
Source: European Commission (video statements)
Many pornographic platforms are in breach of the Digital Services Act, particularly when it comes to enforcing effective age restrictions. That means that minors, some as young as 7 years old, can access these sites without limitation, which can lead to negative impacts on their development. The EU is taking action, and platforms now have the opportunity to respond and demonstrate compliance.
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Remarks by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the 75th plenary meeting of the 80th session of the General Assembly on the International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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Secretary-General António Guterres for his part said “today is more than a time of remembrance. It’s a moment to confront the lasting legacies of inequality and racism. We will never forget the victims of slavery, and you must never forget the malevolent system that sustained it for so long.”
Guterres said, “this was not simply forced labour. It was a machinery of mass exploitation and deliberate dehumanisation of men, women and children.”
He said, “the transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity that struck at the core of personhood, broke up families and devastated communities.”
The Secretary-General welcomed “steps some countries are taking to apologise for their role in the evil of slavery, and to join an honest dialogue about its lasting consequences, but far bolder actions and many more states are needed, and this includes commitments to respect African countries ownership of their own natural resources, and steps to ensure their equal participation and influence in the global financial architecture and the UN Security Council.”
Full remarks: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statements/2026-03-25/secretary-generals-remarks-the-international-day-of-remembrance-of-the-victims-of-slavery-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
President Cyril Ramaphosa conduct a site visit to the Dark and Silver City community, Mangaung.
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
Closing remarks by Deputy President Paul Mashatile during the SA-China Bi-National Commission
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Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
The Public Accounts Committee hears from the civil service pension scheme administrator, Capita, on the progress it has made addressing recent failures.
Witnesses:
Richard Holroyd – Chief Executive Officer at Capita Public Services
Chris Clements – Managing Director at Capita Public Services
https://committees.parliament.uk/event/26804
Source: European Commission (video statements)
AGILE is the EU’s new €115 million funding instrument designed to accelerate disruptive defence technologies from lab to battlefield — at record speed.
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🔹 Open to EU Member States, Norway & Ukraine
For more details on AGILE, follow the link: https://link.europa.eu/dxvfxrxx
