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By AP with Eleanor Butler Published on 26/06/2025 – 7:29 GMT+2President Donald Trump will control the so-called “golden share” that’s part of the national security agreement under which he allowed Japan-based Nippon Steel to buy out American steelmaker US Steel. That’s according to disclosures filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.The provision gives the president the power to appoint a board member and have a say in company decisions that affect domestic steel production and competition with overseas producers.Under the provision, Trump — or someone he designates — controls that decision-making power while he is president. However, control over those…
HABECK KAM NICHT: Die Nachricht, über die POLITICO schon am Montag berichtet hatte, erreichte Robert Habeck offenbar erst gestern: Er sollte im Haushaltsausschuss zur geplatzten Northvolt-Förderung aussagen. Party statt Northvolt: Offenbar wurde vergessen, Habeck rechtzeitig vorzuladen, berichtet der Spiegel. Das Sekretariat habe nur die Tagesordnung aktualisiert, ihm aber erst am Mittwoch kurz vor 11 Uhr geschrieben. Die Folge: Er kam nicht. Der Tagesordnungspunkt wurde wegen einer Ausschuss-Grillparty am Abend fallen gelassen. Union sauer: „Das ist ein verantwortungsloses Machtspiel“, sagte Unions-Fraktionsvize Sepp Müller zu Tom. Habeck gehe es nicht „um wirtschaftliche Sorgfalt, nicht um parlamentarische Kontrolle“. Nachfolgerin Reiche sagte in ihrer…
Nach Den Haag nun Brüssel – und Friedrich Merz bringt auch Kampfansagen mit. Vor dem EU-Gipfel fordert er weniger Regulierung, mehr Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und eine veränderte Migrationspolitik. Doch in der Union der 27 regiert manchmal eben auch das Misstrauen – und der deutsche Führungsanspruch trifft auf leise Skepsis. Wie Merz sich durchsetzen will, analysieren Gordon Repinski und Hans von der Burchard. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview erklärt EVP-Chef Manfred Weber, warum Europa sich militärisch endlich emanzipieren muss, wieso er den Merz-Kurs unterstützt – und wie Trump Europa paradoxerweise in die Eigenständigkeit schubst. Außerdem: Die Mindestlohnkommission verhandelt über eine neue Untergrenze. 15 Euro? Kaum erreichbar.…
That is the core idea behind NATO’s Article 5 collective defense guarantee, and yet, Trump doesn’t buy into it. “There’s numerous definitions of Article 5,” he told reporters on his way to the summit. “You know that, right? But I’m committed to being their friends.” In reality, however, its definition is clear: “An armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.” And so far, it’s been invoked precisely once — after the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the U.S., leading every single ally to deploy troops and capabilities…
The decision to hand over the Chagos Islands came after a non-binding ruling from the International Court of Justice pressured the U.K. to allow Chagossians — who were removed between 1968 and 1973 to make way for the Diego Garcia base — to return, ending years of legal uncertainty. But conservative critics of the Chagos deal in the U.K. have argued it hands control of the strategically vital territory to a country with links to China, and represents poor value for British taxpayer money. De Mauley’s committee launched a brief probe into the implications of the transfer shortly after the deal…
“Space is congested and contested,” a Commission official said ahead of Wednesday’s proposal in a briefing with reporters. The official was granted anonymity to disclose details ahead of the formal presentation. The EU executive wants to set up a database to track objects circulating in space; make authorization processes clearer to help companies launch satellites and provide services in Europe; and force national governments to give regulators oversight powers. The Space Act proposal would also require space companies to have launch safety and end-of-life disposal plans, take extra steps to limit space debris, light and radio pollution, and calculate the…
The North Atlantic alliance agreed on a new defense spending target of 5 percent of GDP at the June 24-25 summit — a figure Trump had demanded for months. With this commitment in place, NATO’s European members now hope Trump will scale back the tariffs he has imposed on the bloc. But Trump didn’t appear immediately satisfied, chiding Spain for failing to commit to the 5 percent target. Calling Madrid’s reluctance to agree to the target “terrible” Trump said the U.S. would make Spain pay “twice as much” in ongoing trade talks. “If Spain doesn’t pay 5 percent they’ll pay back…
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Rutte even called Trump the “daddy” for intervening in the fighting between Israel and Iran. Other leaders also laid it on the U.S. president. Rutte even called Trump the “daddy” for intervening in the fighting between Israel and Iran. | EPA/SEM VAN DER WAL “This is the success of President Donald Trump,” Poland’s pro-Trump President Andrzej Duda told POLITICO. “He was the one who demanded that NATO nations raise their defense spending.” As a result, during the leaders’ roundtable, which was kept to a tight two-and-a-half hours, Trump struck an unexpectedly measured tone, according to someone inside the room, who…
Weber also lambasted the greenwashing bill — supported by centrist and left-leaning groups— that is at the heart of the political crisis. “The fact that businesses will in future have to have ecological advertising approved before it is used is grotesque bureaucratic madness, and I will not support it,” he said. Two days before the Commission said it was killing the bill, known as the Green Claims Directive, the EPP sent a letter to the Commission saying it wanted the law dead. That timing fed a growing sense among the center-left bloc that the EPP — the biggest group in…