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Should Bonne depart — his resignation had not been accepted as of early Monday evening — it would leave Macron without one of his most trusted foreign policy advisers as he prepares to navigate a world order rife with instability and dominated by Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated as U.S. president next week. “It’s a mess,” said one former French diplomat. “The domestic political situation, the impossible budget talks, the future relation[ships] with Trump and Algeria, France’s waning influence in Europe and Africa …. We are going to have to work hard to bounce back.” It’s an open secret in…

Es ist eine Kehrtwende, die Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock verärgern und auch Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius wenig positiv stimmen dürfte. Anders als noch vor Weihnachten will das Bundeskanzleramt nun doch vorerst keinen weiteren drei Milliarden Euro an Ukraine-Hilfen zustimmen. Es sei unredlich, dies vor der Wahl zu tun, sagt die SPD. Die Grünen dagegen nennen es unverantwortlich. Was der Streit mit Scholz’ Rentenversprechen im Wahlkampf zu tun hat, wie sich die Stimmung zwischen SPD und Grünen dadurch deutlich eintrübt und wie die Ukraine dabei das Nachsehen hat, analysiert Gordon Repinski. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht er dann mit dem Vorsitzenden des Auswärtigen Ausschusses im…

Yet that doesn’t mean only European providers can offer sovereign cloud solutions. American providers might also be able to protect customer data from United States government access through technical measures such as client-side encryption, encryption with third-party key management or confidential computing. If securely implemented, the American provider can then only disclose data in its encrypted form. In addition, United States law allows cloud providers to challenge production orders under certain circumstances, including on the basis of comity. Whether such measures can reduce the risk of foreign government access to an acceptable level depends on the nature of the data…

Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude oil exporter, was the ringleader of a group of oil-rich nations including Russia and Iran that successfully blocked efforts to limit plastic production during last month’s talks in Busan, South Korea. And there’s no reason to think they won’t try to pull the same thing this year. “Saudi Arabia is now investing heavily in its environmental diplomacy,” said one negotiator from within the self-named high-ambition coalition, who was granted anonymity to discuss the closed-door talks. “I think there aren’t many delegations that can boast such a talented team of negotiators. [It] has the firing…

L’extrême droite nationaliste allemande se tourne de plus en plus vers des alliés idéologiques à l’étranger pour gagner la légitimité qu’elle rêve d’avoir dans son pays. Cette ambition paraissait évidente samedi. Lors du congrès de l’Alternative pour l’Allemagne (AfD), Alice Weidel, candidate pour devenir la prochaine chancelière, a remercié Elon Musk d’avoir diffusé l’événement sur son compte X, où il a été vu par des millions de personnes dans le monde entier, offrant au parti d’extrême droite une audience bien plus grande que celle à laquelle il est habitué. “Je voudrais remercier Elon Musk, qui retransmet en direct cette conférence…

That also comes to building up Europe’s own defense industry. Rutte applauded the EU’s European Defense Industry Programme, a €1.5 billion cash pot that will be aimed at spurring local arms production, calling Europe’s current weapons sector “too small, too fragmented and too slow.” There is a dispute over whether non-EU companies should have easy access to EDIP, but Rutte warned that it should not be used to exclude allies. “Involving non-EU allies in EU defense industrial efforts is vital, I believe, for security of Europe,” he said. “Transatlantic defense industrial cooperation makes us all stronger.” Better together In his…

“It was an obvious mistake for Fico to believe that his shadowy schemes with Moscow could go on indefinitely,” he wrote, adding that although Kyiv offered its assistance to Slovakia, Fico “arrogantly refused.” Fico began Monday’s video statement, also released as an open letter, by saying he wouldn’t comment on Zelenskyy’s remarks because he didn’t want to “further escalate tensions.” He reiterated that the decision to stop the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine was causing “extensive damage to Ukraine itself, to Slovakia and to the European Union in particular.” “I want to fully focus on resolving the situation related…

PARIS — Six semaines après l’adoption d’une motion de censure contre le projet de loi de finances du gouvernement Barnier, la rédaction de POLITICO se mobilise à nouveau pour vous décrypter en direct la déclaration de politique générale de François Bayrou à l’Assemblée nationale ce 14 janvier 2025.  Quelles annonces, quelles nouvelles orientations en matière institutionnelle, régalienne, économique ? Quelles concessions le nouveau Premier ministre fera-t-il à ses oppositions pour éviter d’être à son tour renversé ?  Réponses en direct avec nos journalistes spécialisés, sur place à l’Assemblée nationale comme à la redaction, à partir de 14 heures 30 :

“It’s worth getting rid of bureaucratic barriers since there’s a war in Europe and you cannot treat [the] defense industry the same way you’d treat, say, milk production anymore,” Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said. Kosiniak-Kamysz said that the group’s next meeting in Paris will discuss in more detail how to finance the development of Europe’s arms industry to make it a “flywheel” of the continent’s economy. | Sergei Gapon/Getty Images Germany’s Boris Pistorius rejected Trump’s 5 percent call, saying such a spending surge would eat up about 40 percent of Germany’s government budget. However, he did welcome NATO’s effort…

The meeting of the defence ministers from the EU’s largest countries together with the deputy defence minister of Great Britain comes as Poland begins its rotating presidency of the EU and as Europe braces for the unpredictability of a new Donald Trump presidency. Defence ministers from Poland, France, Italy, and Germany met in Warsaw on Monday to discuss military aid to Ukraine and security in Europe.The meeting of the defence ministers from the EU’s largest countries together with the deputy defence minister of Great Britain comes as Poland begins its rotating presidency of the EU and as Europe braces for…