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“I think that everything he has said publicly is he believes in free and open speech, and we need to have more platforms. Now, I don’t think X should be the only platform,” Khanna told Anne McElvoy for POLITICO’s Power Play podcast. “Not only do I stay, I use it all the time … I don’t think that the answer for progressives is to disengage.” “Now we have the distortion of the public sphere with moneyed interests and with digital spaces that aren’t equal for everyone to participate. And what we ought to be focused on is how do we create…
In a country where farmers make up 23 percent of the labor force and 18 percent of the population — by far the most of any EU state — Georgescu’s agrifood policies are crucial. His 17-page manifesto is titled “Food, Water, Energy: A return to the roots of the Romanian nation,” and serves up a sugary hit of utopian, feel-good measures for rural areas. “He has the same ideas as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” said Cristian Pîrvulescu, professor of political studies at Bucharest’s main university, referring to the former United States presidential candidate who joined Donald Trump’s successful campaign and…
Vilmantas Vitkauskas, head of Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Center, added that a preliminary investigation had indicated the crash was likely caused by a technical malfunction. Kasčiūnas said visual analysis showed the plane was not impacted externally on its descent for landing and that interviews with surviving crew members did not suggest anything unusual had been going on inside the aircraft. He warned against linking the incident with a hostile act before all the facts are known. “If attribution goes to a hostile country, then that attribution must be accurate, detailed [and] verified,” the minister said, adding that while nothing can…
Quand l’Europe se préparait à la présidentielle américaine, certains dirigeants s’inquiétaient de ne pas avoir de plan en place pour un éventuel second mandat de Donald Trump. Maintenant qu’il va devenir le prochain président des Etats-Unis, ils n’en ont toujours pas. La préparation discrète d’un plan par l’Europe en vue d’une nouvelle administration Trump tumultueuse s’est avérée être une opération risquée d’attentisme, plutôt qu’une action préventive. Avec ses deux plus fortes puissances économiques, la France et l’Allemagne, en position de faiblesse politique, et une montée du populisme de droite à l’intérieur de ses frontières orientales, il n’y a pas grand-chose…
The government was hoping that the Socialists, the most centrist faction within the left-wing alliance, would break with their partners in the name of stability and to avoid what Barnier described as “a serious storm and serious turbulence on the financial markets.” During a press conference shortly before the meeting, Barnier spokesperson Maud Bregeon singled out what she called the “enormous responsibility” that the Socialists bore. “The National Rally alone does not hold the key to the final outcome,” Bregeon said. Kanner later countered: “Mr. Barnier is under the influence of the far right, so he should talk to them first…
On Wednesday, Parliament approved the set of 26 commissioners, with 370 MEPs voting in favor, 282 voting against and 36 abstaining. Their confirmation marked the end of a monthslong transition process, which began with June’s European election and saw weeks of political infighting between the bloc’s left- and right-wing groups. Commissioners — one from each EU country — are nominated by the heads of each national government. The Commission president, in this case Ursula von der Leyen, then assigns the policy portfolios to each of the nominees. The picks are then quizzed by MEPs and voted on individually by the…
Gröger a indiqué que des “grèves d’avertissement” auraient lieu avant le 9 décembre, avant le prochain cycle de négociations avec la direction sur les réductions de coûts, et a menacé de prendre des mesures beaucoup plus radicales si les discussions tournaient mal. “Il y a la possibilité d’un mouvement social de grande ampleur, a-t-il prévenu. Nous y sommes préparés.” Ces défis surviennent à un moment où le gouvernement allemand est dans l’incapacité d’agir à la suite de l’effondrement de la coalition tripartite au pouvoir au début du mois. Il pourrait s’écouler plusieurs mois avant que la République fédérale ne se…
While Iohannis did not specifically name TikTok when calling Thursday’s meeting, the platform is under pressure to explain how it handled political content in Romania after a first round presidential vote on Sunday propelled ultranationalist, Russian-admiring independent candidate Călin Georgescu to a shock victory, in part thanks to his sudden surge on TikTok. A parliamentary election takes place this Sunday in Romania, with the presidential runoff following on Dec. 8. Georgescu has said he isn’t supported by Russia, and accused Romania’s top political parties of trying to turn people against him out of revenge after he vanquished their candidates in…
The ruble has been under steady pressure all summer, as the price of oil — Russia’s most important export, despite Western sanctions — has fallen due to weak Chinese and European demand and rapidly growing supply from the U.S., Brazil and Guyana. Brent crude prices have fallen nearly 4 percent this week alone on relief at the ceasefire agreed to by Israel and Hezbollah. That pressure intensified after the U.S. imposed a new round of sanctions on Gazprombank, which until then had been allowed to process payments for what remains of Russia’s gas export business to Europe. The new package…
What makes fusion energy so challenging, and why is there so much hype around it? Euronews Tech Talks explored these questions through the JET project. Nuclear fusion might sound like something out of a science fiction film – and in the past, it certainly has been.In the iconic science fiction movie “Back to the Future,” for instance, the main characters travel to the future using a car modified with a travel-sized nuclear fusion reactor.Fusion energy is not expected to break the space-time barrier in real life, yet this energy source has attracted lots of attention and investment from the scientific…