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Germany’s export-based economy would suffer if it’s caught between Trump’s tariffs and Chinese industrial subsidies: the country’s companies have high exports to both the U.S. and China.  Scholz claims the EU’s policies should enable those exports and not anger trading partners. One such example is a planned EU carbon border tax, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).  According to Scholz, the carbon tax needs to be reworked to boost the attractiveness of energy-intensive products, like steel, made in Europe. As it stands, the CBAM would only impose tariffs on incoming products, shielding European companies from cheaper products that don’t meet…

Flattery from Macron Musk hasn’t yet thrown his endorsement behind Marine Le Pen and the French far right. But President Macron — who, like Scholz in Germany, is politically fragile and facing domestic turbulence — is desperate to get him onside. He has been urging the tech entrepreneur, alongside Trump, to attend a major artificial intelligence summit in Paris next month. The duo’s appearance at the recent Notre-Dame reopening was a diplomatic coup for Macron.  “Trump doesn’t seem to hold Paris in the same contempt he holds the EU or Germany,” said a Republican foreign policy expert working with Trump’s…

Updated: 03/01/2025 – 18:32 GMT+1 A 37-year-old US Army soldier, Matthew Livelsberger, was inside the Tesla Cybertruck filled with fireworks that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, the authorities have said. … More A 37-year-old US Army soldier, Matthew Livelsberger, was inside the Tesla Cybertruck filled with fireworks that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, the authorities have said.The man is believed to have shot himself in the head just before the explosion.Seven people were lightly injured in the blast, which caused little damage to the hotel.

The self-governing Danish territory has been in the spotlight since US President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his wish to buy the island. Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for the North Atlantic island to pursue independence from its former colonial ruler Denmark in a New Year speech.The world’s biggest island — which is home to about 57,000 people — was a Danish colony until it become a self-governing territory of Denmark in 1979. Since 2009, Greenland has held the right to declare independence through a referendum.”The history and current conditions have shown that our cooperation with the Kingdom of Denmark…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has canceled several engagements in the coming days after contracting pneumonia. Her illness was confirmed by a Commission spokesperson on Friday, adding that she would not be attending the inauguration of the Polish EU presidency on Friday evening. “She is suffering from pneumonia. As a result, she has canceled some engagements for the first two weeks of January,” said European Commission spokesperson Stefan de Keersmaecker. This story is being updated.

Countries in the bloc are cracking down on emissions, dangerous driving and noise pollution. Despite the open borders of the Schengen Zone, driving around Europe can be a challenge thanks to the myriad national road rules to get your head around. If you’re planning a road trip on the continent in 2025, make sure you are up to date with the latest changes to regulations. From the introduction of 30 more low-emission zones in French cities to a crackdown on noise pollution in Switzerland, here are the new rules you need to be aware of. EU cracks down on cross-border…

“It is now time to take the next step for our country,” Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Egede said. “Like other countries in the world, we must work to remove the obstacles to cooperation — which we can describe as the shackles of the colonial era — and move on,” he added. Egede, who has led Greenland since 2021 and hails from the pro-independence Community of the People (IA) party, said Denmark’s relations with Greenland had not created “full equality,” and that the island deserves to represent itself on the world stage. “Our cooperation with other countries, and our trade relations,…

Electric vehicle company BYD has announced record sales for the last year, boosted by rising Chinese demand, as well as government trade-in deals. China’s biggest electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD revealed record sales of both hybrids and EVs worldwide in 2024, supported by soaring domestic demand, as well as the success of government trade-in programmes. The car maker also experienced a spike in consumer interest because of year-end discounts. This was despite intensifying domestic competition, as a number of smaller Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers ramped up efforts to gain a bigger share of the market. The company sold 4.27 million new energy…

“There comes a point where we don’t need more inquiries,” Wynne argued. “Had Elon Musk really paid attention to what’s been going on in this country, he might have recognized that there’ve already been inquiries.” A 2014 state-commissioned report by senior social worker Alexis Jay found that some 1,400 vulnerable children were targeted and sexually abused in the northern English town of Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. Jay blasted “collective failures” in the care system and said local authorities failed to confront Pakistani-heritage perpetrators of the abuse, in part because some staff feared being labeled racist. The findings of that…

“We invited the entire diplomatic corps, but after the situation with Mr. Romanowski, [Foreign] Minister Sikorski sent a note to the Hungarian ambassador that he was not a welcome guest at the theater,” said Polish Deputy European Affairs Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka. She added that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was not invited either. “We are waiting to see if a lower-ranking representative will appear,” she said. Romanowski, an MP with the nationalist opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, faces 11 charges in Poland for misuse of public funds when he was deputy justice minister from 2019 to 2023. A Warsaw court issued a European arrest warrant…