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– Streit vor dem Start: Warum das Gezerre um Mindestlohn, Mütterrente und Steuern die Ambitionslosigkeit des Koalitionsvertrags aufdeckt, kommentiert Gordon Repinski.– Halbierung von Beauftragten: Wie aus über 40 gut 20 Bundesbeauftragte werden sollen, aber niemand einen Plan hat, geschweige denn den Willen zur Einigung.– Im 200-Sekunden-Interview dazu: Der Polizei-Beauftragte Uli Götsch über eine mögliche Streichung seines Amtes und seine bisherige Bilanz.– Geerdeter Kanzler: Weshalb Friedrich Merz die Frage, ob er weiter selbst ein Flugzeug steuern darf, am liebsten gar nicht stellen würde.  Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es morgens um 5 Uhr. Gordon Repinski und das POLITICO-Team bringen euch…

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“How can EPSO be such a failure every single time?” wrote another. This test was for candidates hoping to get a job as a translator working in one of eight different EU languages. 9,663 people took part One candidate who received the email Thursday said she had spent an hour every day for several weeks revising for the tests, which include language knowledge, verbal and numerical reasoning. This test was for candidates hoping to get a job as a translator working in one of eight different EU languages, for which 9,663 people took part. | Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty…

Ukraine is mourning the victims of Russia’s ballistic missile attack on Sumy, which killed at least 35 people, including children, and wounded 119.Two ballistic missiles hit the city at around 10:15am, according to Ukrainian officials, striking an area housing a number of religious buildings where many residents were gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday.”This is the centre of the city, the central part, and yesterday was a big religious holiday. There are religious buildings on both sides of the street where the shelling took place. People were going to worship, so there were a lot of injured and wounded people,” explained…

An EU diplomat from a small eastern country told POLITICO that even if countries at the border with Russia upped their defense spending by 20 percent, it wouldn’t be enough to secure Europe due to the smaller size of their respective economies. “We need everyone [to increase defense spending],” said the diplomat, who was granted anonymity to speak freely. Dombrovskis agreed that countries bordering Russia and Belarus were facing major risks and likely needed further support. He said he backed the exploration of a new intergovernmental fund, originally floated by the Bruegel think tank last week, that would allow both…

According to two of the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic, May 7 was chosen as the date for the visit to Paris because on May 8, Merz and Macron will be focused on national commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. French officials are hoping for a reset with Germany under Merz. The personal relationship between Macron and outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz was notoriously poor, and ties were further strained by disagreements over energy, Ukraine and trade. According to a top Macron ally, the two leaders are already “working hard” and could…

PARIS/BRUXELLES — La France fait pression pour retarder l’entrée en vigueur de deux réglementations européennes majeures pour les entreprises. Ces textes leur imposent notamment de fournir des … Jan 23 3 mins read

The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas warned European leaders on Monday against participating in Moscow’s military celebrations on May 9, inviting them to show solidarity with Ukraine instead. According to Russian media, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government has extended invitations to the leaders of China, India and Brazil — as well as to EU country Slovakia and to Serbia, which aspires to join the 27-member bloc. “What was also discussed very clearly, and said by different member states, is that any participation in the 9th May parades or celebrations in Moscow will not be taken lightly on the European side,…

Greek authorities say they have found 39 survivors and the bodies of two women on the small, remote island of Farmakonisi after a suspected migrant boat sank.The coastguard said the migrants and bodies were found Monday morning but the vessel they had used to make the journey from Turkey was not located.Officials said there were no reports of any missing people, nor any immediate information on the migrants’ nationalities or how their boat had sunk.Earlier this month, at least 16 people died when two dinghies sank, one in Turkish and one in Greek waters, as dozens of migrants attempted to make…

“Russia wages total war against Ukraine,” said Mykola Bielieskov, a military analyst and research fellow at the Ukrainian National Institute for Strategic Studies. “The goal of such total war is to force civilians to create pressure on the Ukrainian authorities to negotiate settlement on Russia’s terms. So far, Russians failed, but they believe there’s a tipping point beyond which civilians will begin to direct their hatred not at the Russian Federation, but at our government,” he added. It’s a tactic that countries have used against each other since the advent to air warfare in the 20th century, but there are…