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Denmark’s navy said it was shadowing the ship, which is currently anchored in international waters between Denmark and Sweden. “From the Swedish side, we have had contact with the ship and China and stated that we want the ship to move towards Swedish waters,” Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Tuesday, while stressing that he was not leveling an accusation at the vessel. “It’s not the first time we’ve been hit by a cable break with a slightly unclear basis,” he added. “We absolutely want to know what caused this.” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius was more emphatic, saying last week…

Reformist Elena Lasconi, who will face him in the runoff on Dec. 8, is directly warning that Romanians must now rally together to stop the country falling back under the thrall of Russia, which occupied it after World War II. She urged a crowd in Bucharest not to let frustration with the current establishment “become a vulnerability exploited by Russia.” Sunday’s first round was a shock because Romania has been viewed as a reliable EU member and NATO ally — in sharp contrast to smaller countries such as Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria that have major problems over rule of law…

An analysis by the independent Bertelsmann Foundation has sounded the alarm that Europe’s biggest economy will need thousands of additional workers from abroad to thrive. The German labour market will be heavily dependent on immigrants from abroad in upcoming years, an independent report has shown. According to the study from the independent Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany’s labour force could shrink by 10% by 2040 without “substantial” immigration.According to the think tank’s analysis, around 288,000 international workers are needed in order to sustain Germany’s workforce. Without additional international workers entering the labour market, the number of workers in Germany would fall from…

“We are very clear that we stand ready and continue to support the Ukrainians with training particularly, but there has been a long-standing position that we are not committing U.K. troops to the theater of action,” Britain’s top diplomat said. “That is certainly the U.K. position, and remains the U.K. position at this time.” France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told the BBC this weekend that he could not rule out sending troops to fight in Ukraine if necessary, reiterating previous comments by French President Emmanuel Macron made earlier this year. “We do not discard any option,” he said. Macron stood…

STRASBOURG — Italy’s Bruna Szego was chosen as the chair of the EU’s new dirty-money watchdog on Monday following a three-hour hearing before the European Parliament’s economy and justice committees and an ensuing debate on the pick, three people close to the confidential talks told POLITICO. Szego secured a majority to defeat rival candidates Marcus Pleyer of Germany and Jan Reinder De Carpentier of the Netherlands, despite lacking the support of the center-right European People’s Party, the largest group in the Parliament, or of the Greens, the people told POLITICO. (The EPP and the Greens had wanted Pleyer, the former…

Lithuanian officials have said they are investigating the cause of the Vilnius crash but have so far not found any indication of sabotage. “The fact that we, together with our Lithuanian and Spanish partners, must now seriously ask ourselves whether this was an accident or, after last week, another hybrid incident shows what volatile times we are currently living in, even in the center of Europe,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said. “The German authorities are working very closely with the Lithuanian authorities to get to the bottom of this,” she added. Lithuanian Police Chief Arūnas Paulauskas said the crash…

PARIS — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo will not seek a third term in office, the former Socialist presidential candidate said in an interview with Le Monde published on Tuesday. Since becoming mayor of the French capital in 2014, Hidalgo has aggressively pushed through transformative policies to make Paris a greener city — an effort that also turned her into a divisive figure in French politics. Hidalgo said she plans to throw her support behind Senator Rémi Féraud, a relative unknown. The mayor said she plans to continue on in politics. This developing story is being updated.

Das CDU-Wahlprogramm ist auf der Zielgeraden, die Kampagne der Christdemokraten steht so gut wie. Was die Kommunikationsagentur im CDU-Präsidium vorgestellt hat, welchen besonderen Termin sich Merz für den Wahlkampfstart ausgesucht hat und warum trotz allem noch wichtige politische Antworten fehlen, hört Ihr von Gordon Repinski.  Im 200-Sekunden-Interview ist Karin Prien zu Gast. Sie ist CDU-Bildungsministerin in Schleswig-Holstein und als eine von fünf stellvertretenden Bundesvorsitzenden auch Teil des CDU-Präsidiums. Mit ihr geht es um den Wahlkampf und die Frage, ob die Christdemokraten mit ihrer Kampagne ein bisschen “Make Germany Great Again” anklingen lassen wollen.  Außerdem berichtet Rasmus Buchsteiner, warum der Bundestag…

The tech race is on, and Europe is falling behind. In seven of the eight critical technologies that will shape the future – from space tech to quantum computing – we lag other economies. Targets for big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud adoption are slipping out of reach. Our GDP growth has stagnated while others race ahead. According to Banco Santander, if we had grown at the same rate as the US since 2000 we would have added 11 million jobs and created €300 billion in tax revenue. Instead, we are 30% behind. As Mario Draghi noted, these two…

“There is a considerable logistics deficit in Europe, particularly in terms of all the means of crossing rivers” and fuel logistics, he said. More money Rearming, boosting production and improving military mobility are hugely expensive —which is why Vandier and others, including NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and EU Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius, are calling for an increase in defense spending beyond NATO’s current target of at least 2 percent of member country GDP. “You have to pay more. Those who believe that with tech, war will be cheaper and less painful are kidding themselves,” the French admiral said, adding that…