BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France, Germany and 10 other European Union countries want the European Commission to use its powers under the Digital Services Act to protect the integrity of European elections from foreign interference, a letter signed by the 12 countries showed.

According to the results of last year, Poland's GDP grew by 2.9%. A clear acceleration is visible — a year earlier, experts recorded only a symbolic increase of 0.1%. This is reported by the Polish edition Gazeta.

European countries say they are eager to help reconstruct war-ravaged country and build bridges with its new leaders.

Paris asked the European Union on Friday to indefinitely suspend new regulations requiring large corporations to identify and address environmental or human rights impacts in their supply chains.

France’s economy faces stagnation with GDP growth forecast at just 0.6% for 2025 and a 6.1% budget deficit in 2024.

France is pushing to cut red tape at European Union level, calling for a "massive pause" in new EU regulations, a delay in rules requiring companies to report on their environmental footprint, and changes to even freshly passed laws.

Eurozone growth slowed to a halt in the fourth quarter last year, dragged by contractions in major powers Germany and France which were held back by economic headwinds and political instability. At one end of the eurozone spectrum Spain saw its economy expand by 3.

Danish PM Frederiksen, however, signalled she had "no reason to believe there is a military threat to Greenland or Denmark."

AI, biotech and affordable clean energy will be the focus of an EU drive to make the bloc globally competitive and ensure it keeps pace with rivals the United States and China, according to a draft European Commission paper seen by Reuters.

Visitors from non-EU countries will be charged extra to enter Paris' Louvre, French President Emmanuel Macron announced in a speech on Tuesday.

Some European Union sanctions against Syria are being lifted, France's foreign minister said on Monday, as part of a broader EU move to help stabilise Damascus after the ousting of President Bashar al-Assad in December.

France is lifting some sanctions against Syria, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told reporters on Monday as top diplomats from the European Union met in Brussels to discuss a coordinated