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Allongés sur votre serviette de plage, ou en pleine randonnée en montagne, vous commencez à vous demander à quoi ressemblera votre rentrée ? Pas de panique, POLITICO est là avec son guide des rendez-vous politiques de la fin de l’été. Aug 18 4 mins read
Keine Brandmauer in München:Nach zwei Jahren sind drei AfD-Politiker wieder auf die Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz eingeladen. MSC-Chef Wolfgang Ischinger setzt auf Dialog statt Ausgrenzung, auch wenn die Entscheidung für Kritik bei den Grünen und Sicherheitsbedenken in der Union sorgt.Pauline von Pezold und Gordon Repinski analysieren die Hintergründe der Einladung und das juristische Tauziehen hinter den Kulissen. Wahlkampf-Check Mecklenburg-Vorpommern:In Schwerin zeichnet sich ein Zweikampf zwischen SPD und AfD ab, während die CDU in Umfragen bei 13 Prozent stagniert. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview bezieht CDU-Spitzenkandidat Daniel Peters Stellung: Wie viel „Politikwechsel“ ist mit ihm machbar und wo zieht er die Linie gegenüber der AfD? Eskalation…
The case boils down to moves by Tusk’s pro-EU administration to reject decisions by some judges appointed under the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) administration that led Poland’s government from 2015 to 2023. The Giżycko judge ruled that the couple’s original divorce judgment was legally “non-existent” because it had been signed off by one of the “neo-judges” appointed under reforms designed by previous Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro. EU courts later ruled that Ziobro’s overhaul had undermined judicial independence, leaving Tusk’s government grappling with how to dismantle the system without undermining legal certainty. It’s unclear how many similar rulings may exist…
On U.S. relations, Schmit criticized the Commission for not publicly defending former commissioner Breton, who was handed a travel ban by Washington over what it views as unfair efforts to regulate American social media and tech giants. Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told POLITICO at the time that the College of Commissioners agreed to provide Breton with legal and financial support. Breton was the commissioner who pushed through and helped enforce the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), a piece of regulation designed to enforce content moderation policies on large online platforms. Schmit said the laws that the U.S. is unhappy about…
By Sertac Aktan with AP Published on 01/02/2026 – 22:05 GMT+1 An intercity bus rolled off a road in southern Turkey’s Antalya province on Sunday, killing nine people and injuring dozens more, according to local officials. Images showed the vehicle lying on its side on an embankment off a highway slip road in Döşemealtı, a district to the northwest of Antalya city centre. Ahmet Kodaz, a passenger who survived the crash, described the terrifying moments before the accident. “We were travelling from Isparta to Antalya. There was already fog on the road, and the driver was going very fast,” he said. “When we…
By Rafael Salido with AP Published on 01/02/2026 – 22:45 GMT+1 Almost a month after the US military operation that deposed former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, the United States has taken a new step towards normalising relations with Caracas. The chargé d’affaires for Venezuela, Laura Dogu, arrived in the South American country on Saturday to reopen the US diplomatic mission, which has been closed for seven years. “I have just arrived in Venezuela. My team and I are ready to work,” Dogu confirmed in a message posted on the X account of the US embassy in Caracas, accompanied by images of her arrival…
Published on 01/02/2026 – 21:01 GMT+1 The third edition of Web Summit Qatar has officially opened to sold-out crowds, with over 30,000 innovators, entrepreneurs and tech fans arriving in Doha. This year’s summit brings together more than 1,600 startups, 900 investors and 400 speakers from around the world, making it the largest edition in Qatar so far. Running from 1–4 February, the summit features talks, panels, networking opportunities and showcases of the latest technology and innovation. Participants come from over 120 countries, with leading global companies including IBM, Microsoft, Huawei and Qatar Airways among the event’s partners. Shifting tech power…
Published on 01/02/2026 – 20:33 GMT+1 Grain wagons from Russia were dispatched to Armenia through Azerbaijani territory on Sunday, as reopening transit routes remains part of the normalisation process between Baku and Yerevan. A total of 25 grain wagons, weighing at 1,746 tonnes, have been sent from Russia to Armenia via a transit through Azerbaijan. So far, a total of 285 wagons, carrying nearly 19,900 tonnes of grain, have been transported. In the past few months, several shipments of this kind have already taken place. The first batch of grain to Armenia via Azerbaijan was sent in November last year,…
London could also be asked to pay a fee to join the loan. France, with the support of other countries, last week suggested that third-party countries that take part should contribute. They made the argument that since EU member countries pay interest on the loan it would be unfair if non-EU countries don’t pay anything, according to three EU diplomats. However, British officials said this idea was not under active discussion. A U.K government spokesperson said: “We do not comment on internal EU processes,” pointing out that the country has so far committed a total of £21.8 billion in support for…
French IT giant Capgemini announced on Sunday that it was putting up for sale its subsidiary working with the US immigration police (ICE), at the heart of international controversy over the violent methods used by these federal agents. The company has been in the spotlight for several days because of a contract, revealed by the NGO Observatoire des Multinationales, that its US subsidiary, Capgemini Government Solutions, signed with ICE to identify foreign nationals on US soil and track their movements. In a press release, Capgemini explained that “the usual legal constraints imposed in the United States on contracting with federal…