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Beim EU-Gipfel in Kopenhagen zieht Friedrich Merz neue Linien: weniger Brüssel, mehr Nationalstaat, Bürokratieabbau statt Verschuldung und eine klare Ansage, dass Europa notfalls auch ohne die USA verteidigungsfähig sein muss. Seine fünf Europa-Prinzipien markieren eine Wegmarke in seiner Kanzlerschaft . Im 200-Sekunden-Interview erklärt der neue Heeresinspekteur Christian Freuding, wie die Bundeswehr zusätzliche Soldaten gewinnen will, warum 2029 als Bedrohungsjahr ernst genommen wird und weshalb Freiwilligkeit beim Wehrdienst ein erster Schritt ist .Innenpolitisch steckt Nina Warken im Kassen-Dilemma: Die Beiträge steigen weiter, der Schätzerkreis droht neue Löcher aufzureißen und dazu kommt Widerstand gegen Leistungskürzungen. Jürgen Klöckner ordnet ein, wie knapp die…
“Our operations were disrupted three weeks ago when drones overflew Poland and the Polish airports were closed for four hours,” said the airline CEO, referring to an incident attributed to Russia. “Last week, it was the Danish airports that were closed for about two hours,” he added, referring to the incursions at Copenhagen and Aalborg airports, for which local authorities have not yet identified a perpetrator. “It’s disruptive, and we’re calling for action.” Despite the new urgency to protect European airports, O’Leary believes that a drone wall is not the solution. Despite the new urgency to protect European airports, O’Leary…
Britain’s auto industry also only exports a small amount of Heavy Goods Vehicles to the U.S., but “we’re not quite clear on how they’re defining a heavy truck,” they said. “Businesses need as much certainty as possible on tariffs,” said William Bain, head of trade policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, citing research by the industry body showing 60 percent of U.K. goods exporters are concerned about their customers paying higher prices. Bain and the BCC plan to “urge” the U.K. government “to continue dialogue on tariff reduction with the U.S. administration in the interests of both U.K. businesses…
The next G7 meeting among finance ministers is scheduled for Oct. 15 in Washington, where policymakers will head for the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting. The U.K. said last month that it’s considering using billions of pounds worth of sanctioned Russian cash to finance new loans to Kyiv. Canada is also “very aligned” with the EU’s initiative, its finance minister told POLITICO on Sept. 20. Most of Russia’s frozen assets, however, reside in the EU, leaving Europe carrying most of the legal and reputational risk. The European Central Bank is concerned about any seizure and on Tuesday again called on…
“Climate change is real. But Labour’s laws tied us in red tape, loaded us with costs, and did nothing to cut global emissions,” Badenoch said. The Tory leader has long been critical of climate targets. Earlier this year, she announced plans to ditch the U.K.’s legally-binding 2050 net zero target, as first reported by POLITICO, branding it “impossible.” The announcement comes amid a fracturing of political consensus on tackling climate change in the U.K., with Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK leading national polls and pledging to scrap net zero policies in their entirety. The Climate Change Act set out a…
What’s more, it is not clear that any of those plans will be ready to be signed off when the 27 leaders next meet in Brussels at the end of October. Questions still hang over each of the policies and there was insufficient time to work through them, said the three diplomats and officials. European Council President António Costa, who chaired the meeting, said that the session had been urgently needed “to prepare decisions for the security of our continent” and that leaders needed be ready to agree them in just three weeks. Officials immediately played down the chances of…
The two crew members, the captain and his deputy, were arrested on charges of refusing to obey a summons and failing to justify the ship’s nationality, according to the prosecutor’s office. Discussions between EU leaders in Copenhagen Oct. 1 were dominated by Russia drone incursions against EU countries and a proposal by the European Commission to create a “drone wall” on its eastern frontier in response to the sightings. Speaking after the arrests, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she couldn’t comment on “specific investigations” but noted that countries were “facing lots of problems with the shadow fleet in the…
While von der Leyen has made many proposals to boost EU defense, this remains a core part of national governments’ individual powers. The bloc’s biggest countries don’t want the Commission to take away their authority. Smaller countries are more sanguine, particularly those in the East, because they feel more vulnerable to the Russian threat. Costa wanted to show that he, too, could play a leadership part, two diplomats said. Up until now he’s played mainly a supporting role, leaving von der Leyen to bask in the spotlight. As a center-left chief presiding over a group of leaders, most of whom…
EU leaders gathered in Copenhagen on Wednesday gave “broad support” to proposals to ramp up the development of drone and anti-drone technology and to use immobilised Russian assets to loan money to Ukraine. “Leaders broadly supported initial priority flagship projects that will strengthen Europe’s security, including the European drone wall and the Eastern Flank Watch,” European Council President Antonio Costa told reporters at the end of the informal gathering in the Danish capital. Ahead of the meeting, which came after a series of airspace violations in Poland, Estonia, Romania, and Denmark, the European Commission had released a so-called Scoping Paper…
Three men were arrested in Berlin on Wednesday on suspicion of procuring firearms for the Hamas militant group to carry out attacks against Israeli or Jewish targets in Germany, federal prosecutors said. The suspects — identified under local privacy laws as German nationals Abed Al G. and Ahmad I., and Lebanese-born Wael F. M. — are accused of acting as “foreign operators” for Hamas, according to the prosecutors. They face charges of membership in a foreign terrorist organization and preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state. Hamas is banned in Germany and is classified as a terrorist organization.