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Gestern wurde Lars Klingbeil (SPD) selbst ins Kanzleramt gerufen, heute ist er der Gastgeber. Ab 10 Uhr empfängt der Finanzminister die Spitzen der Wirtschaftsverbände und Gewerkschaften zum Krisentreffen. Das Ziel: Angesichts hoher Energiepreise und eines stagnierenden Wirtschaftswachstums Handlungsfähigkeit demonstrieren. Doch während Klingbeil mit dem Spritpreis-Deckel und der Übergewinnsteuer vorprescht, warnt Kanzler Friedrich Merz (CDU) vor „Gießkannen-Lösungen“ und Marktinterventionen. Zusammen mit Nikolaus Doll von WELT analysiert Rixa Fürsen, wie die Koalition vor einem Wochenende der Dauerkrisensitzungen steht und warum echte Entlastungen am riesigen Haushaltsloch zu scheitern drohen. In Islamabad beginnen die entscheidenden Gespräche zwischen den USA und dem Iran. Ziel ist…

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. The combined airstrike by the United States and Israel on Iran on February 28 was powerful, swift, and highly successful. In one crushing blow, several leaders of the Iranian leadership were eliminated, headed by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran for 37 years. Perhaps this is not an accepted move in international relations, but Khamenei deserved the punishment he received. He was directly responsible for the murder of over 30,000 of his country’s citizens, who lost…

Reform wants to frame the local elections as a referendum on other parties, and is urging voters to reject the governing Labour nationally, and the Conservatives locally. “They want a political party that … is not afraid to stand up for British values and for common sense,” Harris says. “Essex will speak loud and clear for the rest of the country that Reform is here.” That message was echoed by Glen Smith, chair of Reform’s Witham branch, further north in Essex. “There’s no national leadership,” Smith says of Labour. “People are reaching the point where, actually, they just feel that…

As regular reader and J.R.R. Tolkein enthusiast Giorgia Meloni will tell you, Sauron started out as an angelic spirit whose obsession with order eventually turned into a desire for power and domination. On a completely unrelated note, Viktor Orbán could lose his grip on high office this weekend if he’s defeated by Péter Magyar. If that happens, the European Council will lose one of its most interesting characters. Orbán isn’t the only leader to have his own private zoo — former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has a shark tank, presumably topped by a trapdoor so rivals can be despatched with…

So far, NATO countries at the alliance’s Brussels headquarters have not been briefed on the meeting, according to two senior alliance diplomats, nor have they begun discussing the deployment of military equipment to reopen the strait. Standing ready U.S. allies have repeatedly pledged to help restart shipping along the Strait of Hormuz trade chokepoint — but only once the fighting fully stops. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday said he had “encouraged” Trump to “pursue the negotiations in earnest” on ending the war with Iran during a call with the president on Wednesday. “At the same time, I assured him…

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran — which has now entered a two-week ceasefire — has seen the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, in a move that has led to a sharp increase in oil prices. Starmer has tried to position Britain at the center of a coalition of countries helping to reopen the Strait, but broke with Trump in the early days of the war by refusing U.S. permission to use British bases for offensive strikes. Trump has hurled insults Starmer’s way ever since. In the same interview, Starmer refused to be drawn on Trump’s threat, ahead of the…

Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday that Germany had resumed talks with Iran after a fragile truce was reached between Tehran and Washington that could lead to peace negotiations. “After a long period silence, which we had serious reasons for, we are now as a government restarting talks with Tehran,” Merz told reporters, adding that this would being done “in coordination with the United States and our European partners.” There have been no high-level talks between Berlin and Tehran since summer 2025. Relations deteriorated at the beginning of the 2020s when Germany, along with the other E3 countries, France and…

BARCELONA — POLITICO is bringing the continent’s top decision-makers and business leaders together in Barcelona to discuss Europe’s future. The European Pulse Forum 2026, an initiative from POLITICO and beBartlet, will present polling in six different countries — Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain — to understand how people view the issues facing Europe today and how they say policymakers should tackle those challenges. What’s the state of the transatlantic relationship? Is the European Union up for the challenges facing Europe today? How should the EU and national governments handle rising energy prices? Should there be a European army?…

Published on 09/04/2026 – 20:10 GMT+2 Cuba’s foreign minister accused the United States of “extorting” Latin American countries on Thursday by pressuring them to cancel decades-old deals with Havana for the supply of doctors. Bruno Rodríguez said the United States was trying to “strangle” the economy of the communist island, which earns billions from its foreign medical missions, after several countries stopped deploying Cuban doctors. Washington says the programme, a major source of pride and income, n Cuba since the 1960s, amounts to forced labour. The US stance on the doctors’ programme is part of a campaign of maximum pressure…

“The key for us, why we want to join the EU, is obviously common values that we all believe in, and secondly, it’s the single market, it’s half a billion people versus half a million Montenegrins,” Spajić said. “And the third thing is it’s a peace project, maybe even the last peace project on Earth now these days, so this is the value of the European Union.” Across Europe, non-EU countries from Iceland to Moldova have increasingly expressed interest in joining the bloc for security and safety rather than simply trade and economic benefits following Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of…