The European Union is assessing whether X has breached the bloc's tech rulebook. But what can it do if X's owner Elon Musk refuses to comply with the landmark digital services act?

It seems renaming places really is all the range in 2025, as Elon Musk has now suggested a new moniker for the English Channel. Days after President Donald Trump officially rebaptised the Gulf of Mexico with a new title, the tech guru shared his idea for doing the same on our side of the pond.

The Commission said President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House did not affect its commitment to enforcing its laws.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk addressed a rally for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on Saturday, urging attendees to move on from past guilt related to the country's Nazi history. Newsweek has contacted Musk via an email to Tesla for comment.

Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk proposed renaming the English Channel to the ‘George Washington Canal’ after America’s first president. After suggesting changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America,

Musk's support for AfD has helped what was once a fringe political party enter the mainstream, lifting it up in front of a global audience.

“We are currently assessing if the scope is large enough,” the European Commission's Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen told Bloomberg TV when asked about the ongoing probe X is facing under the EU's Digital Services Act, or DSA.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.

Thousands protested against the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which the Tesla CEO addressed on Saturday.

How to deal with Donald Trump's disruptive return to the White House and the tempestuous forays of his billionaire ally Elon Musk into European affairs?

Viewing Elon Musk’s recent forays into (electoral) politics in Europe primarily as a geopolitical wake-up call to European leaders, our analysis focuses on the promise and relative weaknesses of law and policy solutions as well as institutional arrangements the EU has put in place to protect European democracies from foreign interference.