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Published on 06/01/2026 – 7:00 GMT+1 The current UK government, in power since 2024, has crafted its political mission around a guiding goal: Growth. After inheriting an economy constrained by sluggish productivity and high debt, politicians are still battling to increase national output — essential to retain competitiveness on the global stage. The coming year represents a period of change, where politicians must manage growing economic risks, according to a new report from the Resolution Foundation. The UK is in “a slow but consequential transition”, said authors at the think tank. “Fewer people of working age; a more fragile politics;…

Im Kanzleramt kommt es zu einem überraschenden Einschnitt. Friedrich Merz trennt sich von seinem langjährigen Büroleiter Jacob Schrot. Der Schritt wirft Fragen auf, weil er nicht nur etwas über die Personalie selbst sagt, sondern auch über die Lage des Kanzlers. Nach einem Jahr als außenpolitisch präsenter Regierungschef steht Merz unter wachsendem Druck, innenpolitisch und wirtschaftlich zu liefern.Rixa Fürsen und Rasmus Buchsteiner ordnen ein, warum der Abschied auch mit einem fehlenden Wirtschaftsprofil zu tun hat und welche Erwartungen nun mit dem neuen Büroleiter Philipp Birkenmaier verbunden sind.Im 200-Sekunden-Interview erklärt Vanessa Zobel (CDU) aus dem Wirtschaftsausschuss des Bundestags und Mitglied im Parlamentskreis…

The more optimistic quarters of the Russian camp argue that Trump’s actions in Caracas show international law has been jettisoned, allowing Moscow to justify its own behavior. Others suggest, despite evidence to the contrary in the Middle East, that Trump is adhering to the 19th century Monroe Doctrine and will be content to focus on dominance of the Americas, leaving Russia to its old European and Central Asian spheres of influence. In truth, however, Putin has followed the might-is-right model for years. What’s embarrassing is that he hasn’t proving as successful at it as Trump. Indeed, the dominant emotion among…

From carbonara to tiramisù, many beloved Italian classics are relatively recent creations, not much older than the culinary “blasphemies” from across the pond, like chicken parmesan or Hawaiian pizza. Even more surprising is the extent of U.S. influence on contemporary Italian food itself. Pizza, for instance, only earned its red stripes when American pizza-makers began adding tomato sauce to the dough, in turn influencing pizzaioli back in Italy. And yet, some Italian politicians, like Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida, have called for investigations into brands promoting supposedly misleadingly “Italian sounding” products, such as carbonara sauces using “inauthentic” ingredients like pancetta.…

Published on 06/01/2026 – 0:35 GMT+1 The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and its propelling advancements in robotics and autonomous driving are two of the key themes of the CES 2026 technology conference in Las Vegas this week. On Monday, chip giant Nvidia unveiled its autonomous driving plans, while Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time, marking it as no longer a prototype. Here are some of the key advancements unveiled by the companies. Hyundai said Atlas reduces repetitive human physical tasks such as carrying objects, which reduces human physical burden by performing higher-risk…

“In the greed for energy, the earth is being depleted, sucked dry, burned, ravaged, burned down, raped, destroyed,” the group, which is listed by Berlin’s intelligence services as a left-wing extremist organization, said in the letter. “The aim of the action is to cause significant damage to the gas industry and the greed for energy,” its authors wrote. The group has used similar means to communicate in the past, and Berlin police believed the letter to be genuine. With temperatures below freezing in the German capital, schools and kindergartens in the southern districts affected by the power outage remained closed…

“Based on their response we will undertake a swift assessment to determine whether there are potential compliance issues that warrant investigation,” the spokesperson said. X’s safety team said in a statement published over the weekend that the platform “take[s] action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary. “Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.”

Under the EU’s voting rules, a so-called qualified majority — of 15 out of the bloc’s 27 member countries representing 65 percent of its population — would be needed to back the deal that has been in the works for a quarter century. Italy, with its large population, effectively holds the casting vote. If the Commission can offer reassurances on some money for farmers under the EU’s next seven-year budget, which runs from 2028 to 2034, that would help soften the impact of a proposed one-fifth reduction in the Common Agricultural Policy, under which the bloc distributes subsidies to farmers. The new…

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen appeared to take Trump’s threats at face value, warning that such an attack would spell the end of NATO. “The American president should be taken seriously when he says he wants Greenland,” she said on Monday. “If the U.S. chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops … including the security that has been established since the end of the second world war.”  Pressed repeatedly on what specific steps the EU could take to ward off Trump, the Commission demurred, saying only that it will “not stop defending” the principles of national sovereignty…

The head of Ukraine’s security service SBU Vasyl Maliuk resigned on Monday amid a major reshuffle of the government and the president’s office. Known as a mastermind of some of the most successful Ukrainian security operations, Maliuk will remain at the SBU and will focus on “asymmetric operations against Russia,” according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy said he tasked Maliuk with making these operations “the strongest in the world”. “The necessary resources and political support are in place,” Zelenskyy stated amid a series of dismissals and appointments, reshuffling the deck in Kyiv. Maliuk was behind the country’s unprecedented Operation…