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Wirtschaftswende auf dem Prüfstand: Kanzler Friedrich Merz trifft heute auf der Internationalen Handwerksmesse in München eine Art „Verbandsquartett“. Er ist zum Gespräch mit den Spitzen der Verbände aus Industrie, Arbeitgebern, Handel und Gewerbe sowie dem Handwerk verabredet. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert das Standing des Kanzlers bei den Verbandschefs und die harten Erwartungen der Industrie, während der Frust über aufgeschobene Reformen im Mittelstand wächst. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview dazu: Handwerkspräsident Jörg Dittrich über „brennende Hütten“ in den Betrieben und seine klaren Forderungen an den Kanzler vor dem heutigen Spitzengespräch. „Mehr Warken wagen“: Im Bundestag soll heute die angepasste Krankenhausreform das Parlament passieren. Gesundheitsministerin Nina…
The statistics are sobering. Today, one in four European adolescents is overweight or obese, according to the World Health Organization. This is not merely a matter of individual choice or poverty. This trend is driven by a food landscape where ultra-processed, low-nutrient options have become the most accessible and affordable default for almost every family, regardless of socio-economic background. For many children, school meals are the only reliable window of high-quality nutrition in a day otherwise dominated by a broken food system. On the production side, our farmers are protesting for fair incomes, while the climate crisis demands a shift…
This week, Merz — a man who was once congratulated on his tan by none other than U.S. President Donald Trump himself — was back in the Oval Office, sat in near-silence as the FIFA Peace Prize-winning American leader and bombing enthusiast threatened to “embargo” Spain for not spending more on defense and for condemning U.S. strikes on Iran. That’s made Merz about as popular in Spain as the incorrect pronunciation of paella. Incidentally, I initially misread the name of the U.S. mission against Iran, Operation Epic Fury, as Operation Eric Fury. Turns out there’s an American hip-hop artist called…
SONDAGE CLUSTER 17 X POLITICO. Quelques jours après la mort de Quentin Deranque, la ville est polarisée entre les soutiens du maire sortant Ecologiste, Grégory Doucet, et ceux de l’ancien président de l’Olympique lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas. Feb 19 3 mins read
It’s the latest in a series of laws aimed at streamlining and firming up EU migration rules following the 2024 EU election, which delivered a shift to the right. That includes a push to boost deportations and to allow countries to deport migrants to non-EU countries that aren’t the person’s country of origin. Swedish lawmaker Charlie Weimers, lead negotiator for the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists group, said the compromise resulted from negotiations it held with the center-right European People’s Party and the far-right Patriots and Europe of Sovereign Nations groups. “Now we see this cooperation taking form over time…
Negotiators ultimately agreed that veggie sausages and burgers can continue to be sold. The French MEP behind the terminology ban, Céline Imart, hailed the outcome as an “indisputable victory for our farmers.” The agreement, she added, “recognizes the value of farmers’ work and protects their products, which are the result of unique expertise, against a form of unfair competition.” Imart, a grain farmer, also pushed for protections to extend to “cell-cultured products” — i.e. meat grown in labs — which she has previously described as a threat to traditional agriculture. For frustrated lawmakers, the move takes Europe in the wrong…
The real reason Ukraine was prepared to repair the pipeline, he added, was to unblock a €90 billion loan from the EU that Hungary has vetoed. “We hope a certain person in the EU will not keep blocking the 90 billion … and Ukrainian soldiers will have weapons,” Zelenskyy added. “Otherwise, we will give the address of this person to our armed forces, our guys. Let them call him, speak with him in their own language.” Hungary holds parliamentary elections on April 12, and Orbán faces defeat at the hands of his rival, Péter Magyar of the pro-EU Tisza party,…
But a trade union representing defense workers in the U.K. is now arguing that government efforts to slash costs by reducing staffing at His Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth, home of HMS Dragon, are to blame. That position was disputed by the private contractor leading on the site as well as the MOD, which said that its service requests have been fulfilled by the contractor, Serco, and that work is proceeding “at pace” to get HMS Dragon ready to deploy. “All requests that have been made to Serco to support the preparation of the ship have been fulfilled,” an MoD spokesman…
Les déclarations contre le système d’échange de droits à polluer, pilier de la politique climatique européenne, portent les attaques contre la régulation environnementale à un autre niveau. Feb 17 10 mins read
By Tokunbo Salako with AP Published on 05/03/2026 – 18:36 GMT+1•Updated 19:14 Pop singer Britney Spears has reportedly been released after being arrested over a charge that’s not been made clear by Los Angeles police. According to the Ventura County Sheriff’s office, she was detained on Wednesday night and records show she has court date fixed on 4 May. Spears, born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, was a teen pop phenomenon who became a defining superstar of the ’90s and 2000s. She rose to fame from Disney Channel’s The Mickey Mouse Club to MTV and beyond, with such era-defining hits like ‘……