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That would hand him sweeping legal powers to control national supply and demand of gas, with which gas companies would be legally required to comply, powers that can be over-ruled only on the say-so of the king — a responsibility Butterworth acknowledged with a nod, saying, “I’ve always found that quite fascinating myself.” The NEC position has existed since the 1990s. Butterworth has held it since 2022. Since the invasion of Ukraine, he has been “more cognizant of” potential scenarios involving “loss of supply from the North Sea,” he said — as might be caused by a Nord Stream-style attack…
On Tuesday, events across Germany commemorated the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul had some strong words of support for Israel. “As a German, I am automatically the clearest defender of Israel, not just as Johann Wadephul,” he told Paul Ronzheimer, host of Germany’s number one daily current affairs podcast. Wadephul praised himself for being “the one who always stands most clearly on Israel’s side” when he is surrounded by his EU counterparts in Brussels. At the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Tuesday, the names of the Israeli victims on that day were…
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Der Koalitionsausschuss steht an und die Themen werden eher größer als kleiner: Bürgergeld, Verbrenner-Aus, Wehrpflicht, Krankenversicherung. Rasmus Buchsteiner berichtet, warum der Kanzler trotzdem optimistisch ist vor dem Treffen. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview erklärt Armand Zorn, stellvertretender SPD-Fraktionschef, wie sich seine Partei ein Aufweichen der strikten Verbrenner-Richtline für 2035 vorstellen könnten. Und im Gespräch: Rahm Emanuel, ehemals Stabschef im Weißen Haus unter Obama, Bürgermeister von Chicago, zuletzt Botschafter und heute womöglich ein Kandidat für die US-Präsidentschaftswahlen in einigen Jahren. Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es jeden Morgen ab 5 Uhr. Gordon Repinski und das POLITICO-Team liefern Politik zum Hören – kompakt, international,…
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Call to arms Quevrin said Thales Belgium is seeing “unbelievable” demand for its rockets as NATO scrambles to secure its skies. A majority of its current production is going to Ukraine. The rockets made in its Herstal site and Évegnée Fort factory can be used against drones, with the laser-guided version targeting larger, high-altitude UAVs like Iranian-designed Shaheds, while their unguided siblings instead release thousands of steel balls upon detonation to take out swarms of smaller, low-altitude drones. In recent weeks, the military alliance has drawn sharp criticism for its response to recent airspace incursions, after NATO warplanes used multimillion-dollar…
“We have a global problem, so this requires really a global solution that has to touch on everybody,” the Commission official said about the global measures. They were granted anonymity, as is customary, to brief ahead of the announcement. The world produces more steel than it consumes and the total capacity of all plants around the world adds up to five times the European demand. With the plans, Brussels would match Canada’s steel protections but not go as far as U.S. President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariff, which applies from the first ton on virtually all imports. The U.S. also…
In an juddering political car wreck, the president on Monday accepted the shock resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, after barely 27 days, only to then task him with finding a path out of the latest mess by Wednesday evening. Macron’s own camp seems exasperated. Former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who now leads Macron’s centrist party Renaissance, appeared on national television on Monday evening and said he “no longer understands” the president’s decisions. Edouard Philippe, another former prime minister under Macron and a candidate in the next presidential election in 2027, took things one step further on Tuesday, calling on…
The comments — made during a campaign event for Dutch center-right party Christian Democratic Appeal ahead of national elections Oct. 29 — are another shot across the bow of the EU’s embattled artificial intelligence law. ASML, Europe’s leading tech company by market cap, has been campaigning to pause the parts of the law that are not yet implemented. In July, the company’s executives signed onto a letter from 46 companies calling for a two-year pause. The company in September became the largest shareholder of French AI company Mistral with a €1.3 billion investment, strengthening the influence of ASML when it…
Known as Israel’s “Car Wall,” the wrecks were seized by militants during the assault that left more than 1,200 people dead. The site has since become a sanctuary and symbol of remembrance for those who lost their lives in the unprecedented attack. At dawn that day, nearly 4,000 Hamas-led attackers crossed the barriers from Gaza and rampaged through southern Israel. Among their targets was the Nova music festival, where hundreds of young people were killed as militants descended on the crowd using paramotors. Questions over how the attackers managed to breach Israeli defences and operate for hours before the army…