Beekeeping - Photo by Anete Lusina on Pexels

There were 9.4 million beehives on EU farms in 2023, according to Eurostat, with the number of beehives increasing by 1.3 million (+16%), from 8.1 million in 2020.

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The EU Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into whether Google breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded to YouTube, for artificial intelligence (‘AI’) purposes.