Our daily morning stroll around the world

🇫🇷 France became the first country to make abortion a constitutional right. While abortion has been legal in France since 1975, local activists launched efforts to make abortion rights irreversible following the US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. The new amendment, which had the support of ~80% of French citizens, was officially approved in a 780-72 parliamentary vote yesterday.

🇪🇺 The EU fined Apple ~$2 billion for limiting music-streaming competition. The bloc’s antitrust penalty came after an EU investigation – prompted by a Spotify complaint – found that for the past decade, Apple has unfairly restricted music streaming rivals from promoting cheaper alternatives outside its App Store. Apple unsuccessfully argued that the EU’s investigation didn’t find any credible evidence of consumer harm.

🇩🇪🇷🇺 Russia leaked a conversation involving high-ranking German military officers. The 38-minute audio leak, posted by Russian state-funded media on Friday, includes topics like the possible delivery of advanced missiles to Ukraine – which Germany’s government has publicly rejected – and the fact that some British troops were deployed in Ukraine. German authorities haven’t questioned the leak’s authenticity, though they framed it as a Russian "hybrid disinformation attack" intended to sow discord.