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While also a social democrat, Kukies is clearly associated with the right wing of the party and has not recently opposed Merz in public. Kukies may well be an acceptable candidate for the chancellor, a person close to Merz told POLITICO. His impeccable English, PhD in finance from the University of Chicago and a spell leading Goldman Sachs’s German operations would also help his candidacy. But intriguingly, at a recent public event in Berlin, Bank of France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau appeared to suggest that Röller has also been touting a German woman — rather than Nagel — for the presidency. That woman…
For years, Washington has been warning others not to trust loans from Chinese state banks fuelling its rise as a superpower. But a new report reveals an ironic twist: The United States is the biggest recipient of all — by far. And the security and technology implications have yet to be fully understood. China’s state lenders have funnelled $200 billion (€172.48bn) into US businesses for a quarter of a century, but many of the loans have been kept secret because the money was first routed through shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Delaware, and elsewhere that helped obscure their…
Published on 18/11/2025 – 8:00 GMT+1 Ocean plastics pose an “existential threat” to marine life diversity, with just small doses proving fatal. Damning new research led by experts at Ocean Conservancy has warned that thousands of red-listed threatened species are ingesting dangerous levels of plastics – despite global efforts to clean up rubbish from beaches and waterways. The study, released by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, aims to quantify exactly which types of plastics pose the greatest risks. This includes soft, flexible plastics like bags and food wrappers as well as hard plastics from fragments and whole…
Während die Junge Gruppe der Union das Reformvorhaben für die Rente weiter ablehnt, spielt CSU-Chef Markus Söder eine entscheidende Rolle. Er hält die Koalition zusammen, nutzt aber den Moment, um seine eigene Handschrift in der Sozialpolitik zu betonen. Vor allem mit der Mütterrente, die Milliarden kostet und weitere Konflikte auslöst.Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht Konrad Körner, jüngster CSU-Abgeordneter im Bundestag, über Generationengerechtigkeit, Loyalität und die Frage, wie weit Kompromisse gehen dürfen.Danach richtet sich der Blick in die USA. Dort steht die mögliche Freigabe der Epstein-Akten bevor. Franziska Nocke von POLITICO erklärt, warum sich Donald Trump plötzlich für Transparenz ausspricht, welche Dynamik das…
In February, the Palestinian Authority announced the end of the programme to provide payments to families of Palestinians killed or imprisoned by Israel. Known as the Martyrs’ Fund it guaranteed the Palestinians who are imprisoned by Israel – including those convicted for involvement in terror attacks — monthly “salaries” on a sliding scale depending on sentence length, with an additional stipend for their families, and grants available for things such as health insurance and education. The programme had been criticised by the US, the EU and Israel as a mechanism “rewarding attacks” against Israel, which universally panned it as “pay…
Published on 18/11/2025 – 7:01 GMT+1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making it nearly impossible to distinguish human responses from bots in online public opinion polls, according to new research. A Dartmouth University study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday shows that large language models (LLMs) can corrupt public opinion surveys at scale. “They can mimic human personas, evade current detection methods, and be trivially programmed to systematically bias online survey outcomes,” according to the study. The findings reveal a “critical vulnerability in our data infrastructure,” posing a “potential existential threat to unsupervised online research,”…
TotalEnergies, which has claimed it lost none of its workforce during the attack, denies the accusations. After suspending plant construction after the assault, the company moved to restart operations last month and hopes to start pumping gas by 2029. Pouyanné revealed last month that his company has incurred an extra $4.5 billion in costs since 2021, a sum he wants the Mozambican government to reimburse. The project also depends on $14.9 billion in loans, some of which are uncertain. The British state lender UK Export Finance, which pledged $1.1 billion, has yet to release the funds after it opened an…
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TotalEnergies a été formellement accusée de complicité de crimes de guerre et de torture dans une plainte déposée lundi à Paris au sujet d’un massacre sur son site gazier du Mozambique. Ce massacre avait été révélé pour la première fois par une enquête de POLITICO l’année dernière. La plainte, déposée par le Centre européen pour les droits constitutionnels et les droits humains (ECCHR), une association de défense des droits humains, affirme que TotalEnergies s’est rendue complice de ce qui est désormais appelé le “massacre des conteneurs” en ayant “directement financé et soutenu matériellement” les soldats mozambicains qui protégeaient son enceinte…
The UN Security Council has approved on Monday a US-drafted resolution supporting President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, which includes the establishment of an international stabilisation force, a transitional authority overseen by Trump, and envisions a possible path to an independent Palestinian state. 13 out of the 15 member states voted in favour of the resolution, with abstentions by Russia and China. The vote endorses Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan, which it laid out earlier in September. The plan proposes the creation of an transitional authority called the “Board of Peace,” a board led by Trump himself tasked to oversee…