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This new partnership has to be about more than tariffs. It must be about technology. As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt once said: “Technology is the power in superpower.” Britain and America have the building blocks for a formidable technology alliance: The U.S. boasts the world’s largest tech firms, deepest venture markets and broadest innovation ecosystem. Meanwhile, Britain is home to Europe’s most dynamic AI cluster, a world-leading life sciences base, universities of global caliber and the City of London’s unrivaled capital markets. Prime Minister Keir Starmer did extremely well to ensure Britain was the first to strike the new…

Nächster Tiefpunkt für die SPD bei den Kommunalwahlen in Nordrhein-Westfalen – und ein Wahlergebnis, das weit über das Ruhrgebiet hinausweist. Die CDU bleibt stärkste Kraft, die AfD erzielt zweistellige Gewinne und schickt OB-Kandidaten in die Stichwahl. Gordon Repinski analysiert diese Wahl und ihre Bedeutung für die SPD.  Im 200-Sekunden-Interview wird Karl Lauterbach sehr klar: Die Bürgergeld-Debatte habe der SPD massiv geschadet. In der AfD schwelt der Streit um eine Russlandreise. Alice Weidels mögliche Blockade trägt dazu bei und ein Showdown diese Woche könnte zeigen, dass es in der Partei vor allem auch um persönliche Befindlichkeiten geht.  Und: Ein sportlicher Konsens…

Published on 15/09/2025 – 5:31 GMT+2 •Updated 5:35 Germany on Sunday defeated Turkey’s national basketball team 83-88 in the EuroBasket 2025 final, in what was a tension-soaked match. Rallying with captain Dennis Schröder, Germany scored the final six points after Turkey had led for most of the game. Shane Larkin, Şehmus Hazer, Cedi Osman, Ercan Osmani and Alperen Şengün started as Turkey’s squad at Arena Riga in Latvia against Germany’s Schröder, Obst, Bonga, Theis and Wagner. Turkish coach Ergin Ataman and his students started the game very quickly and had a 13-2 run before Germany equalised with points from Bonga…

Representatives from the CWU and ASLEF unions said they would come under pressure to disaffiliate from Labour if the government was to dilute its workers’ rights package. No. 10 has insisted dilution is not on the cards Sep 8 3 mins read

Equal treatment In a separate lawsuit filed mid-July, the Patriots accused the Parliament of bias and lack of impartiality after it ruled the party had misspent funds in a campaign in Czechia. The Parliament’s Bureau, composed of MEPs and tasked with taking decisions on administrative issues, ruled the Patriots should pay for that campaign with their own money and give back the EU funds spent on it, which came to €228,000. The decision violated “the principles of equal treatment and non-discrimination, as it deemed similar campaigns by other parties to be reimbursable,” the Patriot’s case document, seen by POLITICO, read.…

The foreign minister also alleged that Sánchez had moved to mobilize demonstrators a few days after the Spanish leader “lamented not having an atomic bomb to ‘stop Israel.’” Sa’ar was apparently referring to a speech on Sept. 8 in which Sánchez emphasized Spain’s small stature on the global stage. Madrid does not “have nuclear bombs, nor does it have aircraft carriers or large oil reserves,” the prime minister said at the time, adding that his country therefore “cannot stop the Israeli offensive.” The statement was part of Sánchez’s wider plea for the international community to work together to stop the…

The AfD won nearly 15 percent of votes in the state, coming in third place, according to the initial results. In the last municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia five years ago, the party won 5.1 percent of votes. In the city of Gelsenkirchen, a former center of heavy industry, the AfD candidate appeared set to face a center-left politician in a runoff for mayor. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) still came out clearly ahead of all other parties with 33 percent of the total vote, according to initial results. Merz’s coalition partners in the center-left Social…

“The National Rally is not up for sale to the highest Macronist bidder, as opposed to [the conservative] Les Républicains and the Socialists,” Bardella hammered home on stage. “We are not like them.”   On Saturday, Lecornu signaled his intention to seek out support within moderate groups on the left in a wide-ranging interview with local newspapers, extending several entreaties and ruling out “a political deal” with the National Rally.  In private, Le Pen and her top lieutenants have likened a potential agreement between Macron’s camp and the Socialists to a mutual kiss of death.   While the far-right leader…

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On Saturday, two Romanian F-16 fighter jets spotted a Russian drone over Romanian territory while doing a scouting exercise to monitor Russian airstrikes across the border in Ukraine. Romania’s foreign minister slammed the incursion as “unacceptable and reckless.” No damage or injuries were reported, Romania’s defense ministry said in a statement. “We stand in solidarity with Romania,” Kallas said. “I am in close contact with the Romanian government.” In the previous Russian incursion into Poland, five drones had been on a direct flight toward a NATO base before being intercepted by Dutch Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets. The incursion in…