As Google continues to navigate its relationship with publishers, regulators, and news readers, the company is starting a pretty drastic test: it will remove news articles from European Union-based publishers from Search.

As part of Google's efforts to comply with the European Copyright Directive (EUCD), news from EU publishers will disappear in a limited test.

Italian authorities say they have dismantled a network of European art forgers who made fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them with the help of complicit auction houses.

Investigators discovered six forgery workshops and seized more than 2,100 fake artworks with a potential market value of about $215 million.

The operation uncovered a network of forgers in Spain, France and Belgium who produced the works, said Eurojust, the European Union agency for judicial cooperation.

European farmers started protests against the EU-Mercosur free trade deal on Wednesday (Nov 13), saying increased South American imports will hurt the European Union’s agriculture, and the largest French farm union called for nationwide actions from Monday.

French agricultural organisations are calling for protests against the EU agreement with Mercosur due to threats to European agriculture, reports the Polish Press Agency (PAP). Demonstrations are set to begin on 18th November.