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Donald Trump setzt die EU massiv unter Druck: Sein Energieminister Chris Wright fordert die Freigabe europäischer Dieselreserven, um amerikanische Rekordpreise zu drücken. Andernfalls droht ein US-Exportstopp, der auch in Europa einen Preisschock auslösen würde. Ob Brüssel der Erpressung nachgibt, beleuchtet diese Folge. Innenpolitisch bahnt sich der nächste Krach an, nachdem das Kanzleramt die geplante Zuckersteuer von Finanzminister Lars Klingbeil gestoppt hat. POLITICO-Gesundheitsexperte Anton Dieckhoff analysiert, warum das Vorhaben am CSU-geführten Landwirtschaftsministerium scheitert und wie ein Kompromiss aussehen könnte, der die Verbraucher schont. Zum Tag der Deutschen Einheit blickt der amtierende Bundesratspräsident und Bremer Bürgermeister Andreas Bovenschulte (SPD) auf den Zustand…
Is Brussels trying to freeze EU funds to a German state that voted for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in an election in early September? According to several social media posts amassing thousands of views, likes and shares, and often with a picture of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attached, it is. They allege that millions, or even billions, of euros could be withheld from the state of Saxony-Anhalt, located in east-central Germany, after voters handed the AfD a landslide victory on 6 September. However, the 39 seats it won were not enough to command a…
Europe’s gray-zone war with Russia is getting harder to ignore. Sarah Wheaton speaks to security expert and author Elisabeth Braw about how Europe should respond as sabotage, arson, cyberattacks and attacks on critical infrastructure become more frequent and more dangerous, who pays when businesses are targeted, and what happens when one of them turns deadly. They also discuss Braw’s new book, The Undersea War: The International Battle for Supremacy at the Bottom of the World, and the increasingly contested cables, pipelines and infrastructure hidden beneath the seabed — another target in this growing gray-zone conflict. You can read Elisabeth’s most…
Published on 01/10/2026 – 11:00 GMT+2•Updated 11:08 Montenegro may fall short of translating all EU laws accurately before it joins the bloc. The European Commission is weighing several options for a temporary derogation, including letting the country use an existing EU language in the meantime. Montenegro aims to become the EU’s 28th member by 2028. But first it must adopt and translate the so-called acquis, the tens of thousands of EU laws that form the bloc’s legal framework. Brussels is growing wary that it will not finish in time. “Montenegro will need to produce translations of the acquis into its…
Madrid’s Prado Museum and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum have joined forces to restore the memory of women in art. The two major European galleries are pooling efforts to revisit the shared history between Spain and the Netherlands and to give women artists, patrons and key figures the prominence they have always deserved in their rooms. The centrepiece of this agreement is an international postdoctoral fellowship that will start in 2027. The aim is to delve into the collections and shed light on women’s roles during the Habsburg era, with findings that will inform upcoming projects at both museums and culminate in a…
Ces pays, ainsi que l’exécutif européen, se sont mis d’accord sur trois points, selon ces mêmes interlocuteurs : réagir à la pression d’une “voix coordonnée”, veiller à ce que “toute décision concernant la libération des stocks soit portée au niveau de l’AIE [l’Agence internationale de l’énergie]”, et s’efforcer d’“apaiser les tensions dans les échanges avec les Etats-Unis”. L’AIE, dont le siège est à Paris, coordonne la politique énergétique des pays développés et a supervisé le déblocage de stocks pétroliers en début d’année, à la suite de la fermeture du détroit d’Ormuz. L’idée, c’est de “désamorcer” la situation, a expliqué l’une…
The European Commission has concluded that Ukraine’s financial and military needs for this year are fully met, one month after Kyiv flagged a $27 billion (€23.92 billion) shortfall in its Ministry of Defence that caught Brussels off guard. “Today, through coordinated joint efforts, we have identified the means to cover Ukraine’s budget and defence needs for 2026,” the Commission said in a vaguely worded statement shared by President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday. “We have also reconfirmed the steps needed to ensure their timely release.” With this, the executive closes the debate that began in late August when Ukrainian…
Protests continued at French schools on Wednesday as students called for more resources and better learning conditions. In Saint-Denis, around 50 students demonstrated outside Paul Eluard High School, where a fire was seen outside the school. In Rennes, riot police intervened after students gathered at an underground station, while several schools were affected by vandalism, including damaged vehicles, burnt gates and a vandalised reception area. Students also cited a lack of funding and problems with school timetables and facilities.
“He says he wants to unite the country,” Farage said of Burnham. “A second referendum will divide the country bitterly in a way perhaps we’ve never seen before. “If Andy Burnham — the ‘King of the North’ — wants a fight in Doncaster and the Red Wall with me on rejoining the European Union, then bring it on, I say.” The choice of Doncaster for the speech was no coincidence. The northern city strongly voted to leave the EU, and lies in the so-called “Red Wall” that was once Labour’s industrial heartlands. “He might have just given me the biggest…
By Jean-Philippe Liabot & Andreas Rogal with AFP Published on 01/10/2026 – 20:15 GMT+2 A protest movement in France’s high schools intensified on Thursday, with students setting fire to bins and erecting blockades outside schools in an increasing number of cities. The students have been protesting overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities. Several school principals have been injured, harassed or assaulted at high schools, according to reports from regional education authorities, prefectures and union representatives. Police have already detained hundreds of protesters at the lycées, which students aged 15 to 18 attend for their final three years of secondary education in France. There have…