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The European Commission sanctioned Google on Sept. 5, for abusing its dominant position in the bloc’s advertising technology market. | Beata Zawrzel/Getty Images Incidentally, European corporate leaders, who sometimes urge the Commission to be less rigorous in its enforcement of competition rules, should also keep these past cases in mind — especially if they want a more innovative and competitive European economy, as we all do. Perhaps they should put the issue into a broader perspective and think twice. With its Microsoft decision, the Commission — followed by several other competition authorities across the world — allowed for the emergence…
The effort has come under fire for a perceived lack of transparency, but in an interview with the BBC, Pavel called such complaints “efforts to undermine the initiative.” However, ANO’s skepticism about the ammunition effort has struck a chord with Czech voters. A June poll by the Stem organization asked about the level of Czech support for Ukraine: 49 percent said it was too much, 29 percent that it was about right, and 6 percent felt it was not enough. Czech President Petr Pavel has said that before the initiative, Russia had a tenfold advantage in artillery ammunition, but that…
By Roselyne Min with AP Published on 16/09/2025 – 7:00 GMT+2 Imagine commuting in a capsule through a long tube, floating on magnetic fields. And doing that at the speed of 700 km/h. This potential new form of mass transit is getting closer to becoming a reality, according to the Dutch company Hardt Hyperloop. Hyperloop is a depressurised tube in which passenger-capsules can travel at an extreme speed thanks to reduced pressure. This is an idea many engineers around the world have been working on since Elon Musk proposed it more than a decade ago. The Tesla and SpaceX boss said it could…
Der Bundestag steckt mitten im “Haushalts-Ironman”. Während der Etat 2025 erst beschlossen wird, rollt bereits die Debatte um den Haushalt 2026 an. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert die Lage im Finanzministerium, spricht über Sparvorgaben, Schuldenbremse und die offene Flanke bei Subventionen. Klar ist: Die härtesten Einschnitte drohen nicht jetzt – sondern 2027.Gleichzeitig steht die Außenpolitik unter Spannung: Polens Präsident Karol Nawrocki ist in Berlin, ohne Presse und ohne Charmeoffensive. Hans von der Burchard erklärt, warum Berlin mit dem neuen Staatsoberhaupt hadert, welche Rolle Sicherheitsfragen nach dem Drohnenvorfall spielen und warum eine engere Zusammenarbeit trotz Nawrockis Reparationsforderungen unausweichlich bleibt.Im 200-Sekunden-Interview plädiert Paul Ziemiak…
US President Donald Trump said the military on Monday again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing three aboard the vessel, hinting that the targeting of cartels could be further expanded. “The Strike occurred while these confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuela were in International Waters transporting illegal narcotics (A DEADLY WEAPON POISONING AMERICANS!) headed to the U.S.,” Trump said in a Truth Social post announcing the strike. “These extremely violent drug trafficking cartels pose a threat to National Security, foreign policy, and vital US Interests,” Trump wrote. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office later on Monday, Trump said…
Memory politics After Tusk’s government came to power, it dropped the demands of the previous PiS government that Germany pay €1.3 trillion in reparations — a figure Nawrocki continues to back. The Tusk government, while believing there is a moral case for reparations, maintains they are legally a non-starter and argues that pursuing them undermines Poland’s ties with Germany, its largest export market. Instead, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has suggested that the German government give a “visible sign” that Germany acknowledges the damage Poland suffered during the war, such as “a documentation center, a center for dialogue that recognizes the suffering of the…
Starmer has brought in multiple officials who worked under former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to try to turn things around. But one person who speaks regularly to No. 10 argued that unlike Blair, the current prime minister doesn’t have a “Starmerite” ideological caucus, and that MPs’ loyalty to him was forged during his 2024 election victory. Economic stagnation On the left of British politics, where Starmer also has his detractors, the public discontent has been given a different diagnosis. Labour MP Clive Lewis, a key figure in a new group called Mainstream, which has been set up to fight…
Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz steht außen- wie innenpolitisch unter Druck: Während Israel mit einem Angriff auf Katar die diplomatischen Bänder in der Region zu zerreißen droht, mahnt Donald Trump aus der Ferne – und Merz muss den schwierigen Spagat zwischen Solidarität und Distanz meistern. Hans von der Burchard analysiert die Reaktionen auf Marco Rubios Israel-Besuch und die Rolle Deutschlands. Gleichzeitig ringt die neue Energieministerin Katharina Reiche mit der Neujustierung der Energiewende. Ihr Energiewende-Monitor sorgt für Debatten: weniger Tempo beim Ausbau der Erneuerbaren, mehr Gaskraftwerke, ein Fokus auf Versorgungssicherheit statt CO₂-Neutralität. Was das konkret bedeutet, erklärt Josh Groeneveld vom neuen POLITICO-Newsletter „Energie…
The pair met with officials from the U.S. National Security Council, the State Department and Vance’s office, the people said. An AfD official, granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, said they did not meet with the vice president. A White House official confirmed the meeting and said that representatives of the national security council, the vice president’s office and the State Department attended. The talks focused on democratic participation and election procedures in Germany, according to the AfD and White House officials. Paul, whose candidacy was disqualified by a German court earlier this year, was presented as a case…
Luxembourg intends to recognize the state of Palestine, Prime Minister Luc Frieden and Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel told a parliamentary commission on Monday. According to local media, the final decision on the recognition is expected to be taken later this month at the U.N. General Assembly in New York in coordination with several other countries, including France and Belgium. The announcement comes after months of hesitation by Luxembourg’s government and amid growing calls by European leaders for an end to Israel’s war in Gaza, launched after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. Local health officials say over 60,000 Palestinians have…