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This became apparent after the nonreciprocal concessions made to U.S. President Donald Trump on defense spending and trade, as well as Europe’s acceptance of a junior role in handling the war in Ukraine. Moreover, from Gaza to Nagorno-Karabakh, the EU’s involvement in conflicts abroad has become largely irrelevant, either due to its lack of credible international standing or unity. Domestically, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s second term has been counterintuitively marked by the undoing of the Green Deal — the flagship project of her first term — as if climate change isn’t getting worse. The Commission has also…
Europe’s car industry is “in mortal danger”, EU industry chief Stéphane Séjourné said a few months back, not mincing his words. Stuttering sales, high energy prices, growing global competition and an uncertain regulatory and trade environment have plunged the sector into a spiralling crisis. “There is a risk that the future map of the global car industry will be drawn without Europe,” Séjourné said back in April. To tackle the sector’s most pressing challenges, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will host the top car executives in Brussels on Friday. It’s the third and last crisis meeting of its kind this…
Frankreich steht vor dem politischen Kollaps: Heute Abend droht die Regierung von Premier François Bayrou zu stürzen. Nicolas Barré, Chefredakteur von POLITICO in Paris, analysiert die Hintergründe der Krise und was sie für die Stabilität des Euro und die deutsche Politik bedeutet. Die Machthaber-Folge über Marine Le Pen vom Rassemblement National findet ihr hier. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Anke Rehlinger. Die saarländische Ministerpräsidentin und deutsch-französische Kulturbeauftragte über den bevorstehenden Besuch von Emmanuel Macron in Saarbrücken am Tag der Deutschen Einheit und die Krise in der deutschen Autoindustrie.Außerdem: Die parlamentarische Sommerpause ist vorbei. Die Koalition startet in den Herbst und gibt sich Mühe,…
Some drills — near the Belarusian village of Gozha and in Kaliningrad’s Dobrovolsk — will take place just a few dozen kilometers from Poland and Lithuania. Troops will also be positioned on both sides of the Suwałki Gap, the 70-kilometer corridor between Belarus and Kaliningrad widely seen as one of Europe’s most vulnerable defense bottlenecks. Lithuania’s military intelligence expects that up to 30,000 soldiers will participate in Zapad— far less than in 2021, which saw around 200,000 soldiers take part. That is far from what Russia would need to attack a NATO member, especially as the war in Ukraine is…
France was able to stave off an economic catastrophe during the pandemic and when energy prices shot up at the outset of the full-scale war in Ukraine, in part thanks to massive public spending. Finding a consensus on reining in expenditures has proven difficult, and lawmakers are loath to tighten their belts as aggressively as Bayrou wants. His plan would bring France’s budget deficit down from a projected 5.6 percent of GDP this year to 4.6 percent in 2026. The ultimate goal is to bring that figure down to 3 percent, as required by EU rules, by 2029. Financial institutions and rating…
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Neil Hall/EPA Broadly speaking, though, the circle of people in the room for key decisions is small. As well as key elected representatives and Yusuf, Reform figures who were asked by POLITICO pointed to Farage’s Director of Communications and effectively his chief of staff Dan Jukes; long-time Farage ally and strategist Chris Bruni-Lowe; Director of Operations Aaron Lobo; and Reform Director of Communications Ed Sumner. A second Reform figure described Farage’s core team as “very tight.” A third Reform figure suggested four people plus Farage were in the room at key moments, adding: “Ultimately Nigel is the leader and he…
Contrairement au vote d’une motion de censure, pour lequel il faut une majorité absolue des députés siégeant à l’Assemblée afin de faire chuter l’équipe en place, il suffit ici qu’une majorité des députés présents votent contre le gouvernement pour le renverser. Autant dire qu’un tel vote se tient généralement devant une enceinte acquise, comme cela fut le cas, le 15 juillet 2020, pour Jean Castex (345 pour, 177 contre). Depuis, aucun de ses successeurs à Matignon (Elisabeth Borne, Gabriel Attal et Michel Barnier) ne s’était risqué à engager ainsi la responsabilité de son gouvernement, faute de majorité absolue. Le choix…
Investigators added that the brakeman of one of the carriages applied the brakes, but that this didn’t have sufficient capacity to prevent the disaster. Both carriages had travelled only six meters after leaving their stations on Wednesday, around 6 p.m., when the cable connecting them snapped, the report said. Sixteen people died in Wednesday’s crash, among them 11 foreigners: five Portuguese, two South Koreans, one Swiss, three Brits, two Canadians, one Ukrainian, one American and one French. Lisbon is holding local elections next month, with incumbent Carlos Moedas, a former European Commissioner, seeking a second term.
His party lost its majority in the lower house during snap elections in November 2024, and a LDP-led coalition also failed to secure a majority in the upper house elections this past July. The Liberal Democratic Party has been gripped by a scandal over the misuse of campaign funds since 2023. In July, Japan reached a trade deal with the U.S., which was signed into effect by U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday. Under the agreement, the U.S. imposes 15 percent tariffs on most goods, and Japan pledges to invest $550 billion into the U.S. Ishiba cited the completion of…