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US President Donald Trump said that he would be open to negotiating with other countries for “phenomenal” offerings. “If somebody said that we’re going to give you something that’s so phenomenal, as long as they’re giving us something that’s good,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday.His comments came after several White House officials insisted that the newly announced reciprocal tariffs were not negotiable, fuelling further uncertainties about the US president’s tariff plans, which sent global stock markets plunging and wiped out roughly $2 trillion (€1.8 trillion) in the S&P 500 on Thursday.The “Liberation Day” tariff announcement spooked…
France is determined to secure more advantageous fishing rights in return for a U.K.-EU defense deal, according to several officials. The Security Action For Europe (SAFE) loan plan is part of a broader package that includes exempting defense spending from EU budget limits set and channeling private funding toward the defense industry. The thorniest issue, however, is whether the U.K., Canada and the U.S. would be allowed to take part in joint purchases under the initiative. According to the Commission’s initial framework, they are out as they do not have a defense deal with the EU. EU ambassadors discussed a plan…
In dieser Sonderausgabe des POLITICO Berlin Playbook Podcasts analysiert Gordon Repinski gemeinsam mit Stern-Journalist Veit Medick den Zustand der laufenden Koalitionsverhandlungen – und seziert das Machtgefüge zwischen CDU, SPD und CSU. Sie sprechen über Denkfehler im Wahlkampf, enttäuschende Chefverhandler – und über die große Leerstelle in der politischen Erzählung beider Lager. Veit Medick gibt exklusive Einblicke in die Rolle von Lars Klingbeil, die Taktik der SPD – und erklärt, warum das Finanzministerium zur Bewährungsprobe für die Sozialdemokraten werden könnte. Auch brisant: Wer hat Chancen aufs Kanzleramt unter Merz – und welche Ost-Politikerinnen und Ministerpräsidenten könnten bald auf die Bundesbühne rücken?…
Hopes for a deal have petered out, with Kyiv accusing the Kremlin of repeatedly violating an agreement not to strike each other’s infrastructure and energy plants shortly after it was reached. Speaking to Fox News, Dmitriev argued Ukraine had struck Russian energy targets, but claimed the White House talks had a “positive outcome” and conceded the Kremlin could be open to security guarantees for Kyiv. “Some security guarantees in some form may be acceptable,” Dmitriev said, without specifying which ones. He ruled out Ukraine joining NATO as “not at all possible.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long argued that security…
Svalbard’s seals can presumably return to the important business of evading polar bears rather than navigating international trade barriers. | Patrick Hertzog/AFP via Getty Images While it was the Australian-ruled aquatic birds that took all the headlines for being hit with a 10 percent “retaliatory” tariff, spare a thought for the penguins that find themselves under European jurisdiction. Only 15 of the 778 islands that constitute the Falkland Islands, a United Kingdom overseas territory, are inhabited by humans. Overall, penguins outnumber people by around 300 to 1. That hasn’t stopped the Trump administration from slapping Falklanders with a feather-freezing 41…
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stressed on Thursday that any ceasefire or peace deal to stop the war in Ukraine must be “lasting”.”I commend of course the American efforts to break the deadlock, that is important. We have to make sure that whenever a ceasefire or a peace deal is reached that it is enduring, that it is lasting,” said Rutte on Thursday.Rutte emphasised that the outcome of this war is of detrimental importance to the rest of the world. In his speech he added that the war in Ukraine is not just a war between two neighbours, but very…
The Pentagon’s acting inspector general has a review into Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to convey plans for a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen.The review will also look at other defence officials’ use of the publicly available encrypted app, which is not able to handle classified material and is not part of the Defence Department’s secure communications network.Hegseth’s use of the app came to light when a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, was inadvertently added to a Signal text chain by national security adviser Mike Waltz.The chain included Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary…
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Mais enclencher un recours supplémentaire pourrait à nouveau l’empêcher de candidater en 2027. Ou pas. Le débat, soulevé par Le Canard enchaîné, agitait ces derniers jours élus, stratèges politiques, juristes et journalistes : un pourvoi en cassation suspendrait-il l’exécution provisoire décidée en première instance, mais non confirmée en appel ? Le palmipède estime que ce recours bloquerait l’arrêt de la cour d’appel… et qu’on en reviendrait à la décision du tribunal correctionnel, à savoir l’entrée en vigueur immédiate de l’inéligibilité. Cette interprétation juridique n’est pas partagée par tous. L’avocat de Marine Le Pen, bien logiquement, a soutenu l’inverse, mardi, sur…
Emmanuel Macron has lashed out against Donald Trump’s decision to impose reciprocal tariffs on virtually every country, calling the move “brutal” and “unfounded” and proposing a temporary halt in future European investments in America.The pause, he said, should last “until we have clarified things with the United States.””What would be the message of having major European players start investing billions of euros in the American economy at the moment when they are hitting us?” Macron said during a meeting with French industry representatives.”We need to have collective solidarity.”During his speech, Macron did not hold back against Trump’s unprecedented initiative, which…