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Vier Tage vor der Landtagswahl in Rheinland-Pfalz steht für die SPD weit mehr als nur eine Staatskanzlei auf dem Spiel. Nach dem Desaster im Ländle droht Ministerpräsident Alexander Schweitzer im Duell gegen Herausforderer Gordon Schnieder (CDU) der „Baden-Württemberg-Effekt“. Gordon Repinski analysiert, warum ein Verlust der Bastion Mainz die Bundes-SPD in eine existenzielle Depression stürzen würde und weshalb der Kurs der Parteispitze am Kernwähler vorbeigeht. Ausgerechnet zum zehnten Todestag von Guido Westerwelle kämpft die FDP um ihre nackte Relevanz. In Rheinland-Pfalz wird die Partei in Umfragen nicht einmal mehr ausgewiesen. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht FDP-Chef Christian Dürr über den harten Reformkurs, die…
A shock ruling has overturned Senegal’s victory in January’s chaotic Africa Cup of Nations final, awarding the title to host nation Morocco instead. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) said its appeals board ruled that Senegal is “declared to have forfeited the final” after its players briefly walked off the pitch in protest to a penalty being awarded to Morocco in the final minutes of the match. Senegal’s players later returned and the game restarted, but their eventual 1-0 win in extra time now becomes a 3-0 default win for Morocco. Senegal has said it will appeal the decision, but…
Brussels and Canberra relaunched trade negotiations after Donald Trump’s return to the White House last year. They had collapsed amid acrimony at the end of 2023 amid disagreements over quotas on beef and lamb. The breakthrough comes as the EU looks to get closer to the Pacific-centered CPTPP trade bloc through its deepening bonds with Australia. In a letter to EU leaders shared Monday, von der Leyen said the EU and Australia were in “the final stretch towards concluding” their trade agreement. “In addition to removing trade barriers, it will also facilitate access to critical raw materials — such as…
The Strait of Hormuz closure after US and Israeli strikes on Iran has driven up oil and gas prices, reigniting a debate Brussels thought was settled. This new crisis brings Europe’s energy vulnerabilities back into focus. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen acknowledged the bloc’s dependence, warning that Europe is still too reliant on fossil fuels. Energy ministers across the bloc are now demanding answers. Europe has faced similar energy insecurity before. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine abruptly severed pipeline gas supplies the continent had relied on for decades, forcing Brussels to pivot fast and resulting in Europe sourcing…
American medical technology company Stryker confirmed on March 11 that a cyberattack had disrupted its global network. Employees across the company’s offices found the logo of Handala, an Iran-linked hacking group, displayed on their login pages, the Wall Street Journal reported. The attack targeted Stryker’s Microsoft environment, though the full scope of damage and a timeline for restoration remain unclear. Handala claimed responsibility and to have exploited Microsoft’s cloud management platform, Intune, to remotely wipe more than 200,000 devices across 79 countries, according to cyber intelligence platform SOCRadar. Euronews Next has contacted Microsoft to verify the claim. The group said…
Published on 18/03/2026 – 7:00 GMT+1 The United States’ national parks remain a jewel in the country’s tourism crown, drawing millions of visitors each year to their vast landscapes and outdoors adventures. Despite disruption caused by a prolonged 43-day government shutdown, more than 323 million recreation visits were recorded across 406 park sites in 2025, according to the National Park Service (NPS). There were more than 13 million overnight stays with 26 parks setting new visitation records. In total, visitors spent nearly 1.4 billion hours exploring the parks. “America’s national parks continue to be places where people come to experience…
“My best guess, but spoken with no conviction at all, is that this gets sorted out somehow in the next few weeks, and by the middle of the year, oil prices have come back down a fair amount,” said William English, a former top staffer at the Fed who is now a professor at Yale University. “But there’s a real risk, of course, that things go on for longer and are more damaging. And in that case, all bets are off.” The specter of a prolonged global energy crunch could dash the hopes of consumers, businesses and investors worldwide for…
Europe is working hard to end the standoff with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán over the €90 billion loan promised to Ukraine. Host Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart, senior EU politics editor, discuss how likely it is for the deadlock to be resolved before tomorrow’s meeting of EU leaders now that Kyiv has agreed to work with the bloc to repair the Druzhba pipeline. Orbán has held off on greenlighting any funding until Ukraine fixes this pipeline that carries Russian oil into Hungary. Also on the pod, Brussels is trying to do something about its startup problem. The European Commission…
“That’s his strategy,” said a Socialist Party adviser who, like others quoted in this story, was granted anonymity to discuss party politics. “We are capable of taking a dive in elections, but France Unbowed never takes a dive, they never go under 10 percent” in national elections, the adviser said. “But there isn’t a scenario in which he wins in a runoff vote against Bardella.” The difficulty for the moderate left is compounded by the fact that Mélenchon is one of the most charismatic politicians on the left. He has even drawn the reluctant admiration of Le Pen’s niece, Marion…
“If the opposition wins just a simple majority, Orbán will have a lot of tools to make it almost impossible for a new government to be formed or even for a new parliament to be convened,” she said. “He could engineer a constitutional crisis and declare an emergency.” Orbán’s supporters, for their part, point to the prime minister’s past as proof that he is ready to accept the result of an election. Voted out after his first term in 2002, Orbán bided his time and staged a comeback eight years later. If there’s a danger of somebody not accepting the…