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First there’s ICE Man, played by an actual superhero, Dean Cain (who portrayed Superman in “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” in the 1990s). Cain revealed that he has joined US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (better known as ICE) to support Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda. Cain recently made headlines for calling the latest Superman film “woke,” after its director described the character as an immigrant. Superman was of course born on the planet Krypton and his birth name was Kal-El, so he’d be exactly the sort of person ICE would be looking to deport. Next to join the group is poor…
Since 2012, ordinary citizens have enjoyed the democratic right to call for new EU law to be created on specific issues through the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI). Since then, 121 proposals have been submitted, some of them truly original. The ECI allows any group of citizens to pitch the European Commission legislative proposals on issues where the EU has authority. While most proposals focus on serious policy concerns such as health, animal welfare, or consumer rights, a handful buck the trend and are pretty strange. Thus ECIs have ranged from requests for a complete ban on animal farming through a…
In fairness, the U.K. government did demand Apple grant it a backdoor to access user data, teeing up an almighty fight with the U.S. And its online safety laws have tried to rein in tech giants with new rules forcing them to police “harmful” content – much to the annoyance of some U.S. lawmakers. Still, Starmer managed to hold his own in the face of the impromptu attack. “We’ve had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom and it will last for a very, very long time,” the PM shot back as Trump looked on.…
Published on 08/08/2025 – 6:34 GMT+2 A federal judge in Maryland ruled that US President Donald Trump cannot withhold citizenship from people born to people in the United States illegally or temporarily, issuing the fourth court decision blocking Trump’s birthright citizenship order since a key Supreme Court ruling in June. US District Judge Deborah Boardman’s preliminary injunction was expected after she said last month that she would issue such an order if an appeals court returned the case to her. The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to her late in July. Since June, two other…
Wer regiert die Welt – und was treibt sie an? In unserem Sommer-Spezial geht es um die mächtigsten und umstrittensten Politikerinnen und Politiker unserer Zeit. Wir zeigen, wie sie denken, entscheiden – und was das für uns bedeutet. Ein Politiker pro Tag, ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der Macht. In der Machthaber-Serie: 04.08.2025 – Wladimir Putin05.08.2025 – Marine Le Pen06.08.2025 – Javier Milei07.08.2025 – Xi Jinping08.08.2025 – Giorgia Meloni11.08.2025 – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan12.08.2025 – Benjamin Netanjahu13.08.2025 – Narendra Modi14.08.2025 – Friedrich Merz15.08.2025 – Mohammed bin Salman16.08.2025 – Ursula von der LeyenDas Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es jeden Morgen ab…
The Macron-backing group’s latest move is seen as a way of negating the far right’s argument that its voters are not being heeded. The exclusion of National Rally lawmakers from parliamentary jobs only fuels the party’s narrative of being a victim of the system, a pro-Macron MP said. Any effort to bring in far-right MPs would further erode the so-called firewall or cordon sanitaire, invoked in many Western European countries and the European Parliament to keep the far right away from key institutional roles despite its growing electoral clout. According to French parliamentary convention, the allocation of leadership positions —…
By Euronews with AP Published on 07/08/2025 – 22:05 GMT+2 France’s highest court on Thursday blocked a key part of a contentious farming law that would have brought back a banned pesticide. According to the French Constitutional Court, the measure failed to protect the environment and future generations. The rest of the law – known as the “Duplomb law,” after the senator who proposed it – was allowed to stand. The bill aimed to loosen rules for farmers and fast-track projects like water storage. It was backed by the government and major farming unions and passed in early July. However, it was met…
The judges stressed that neonicotinoids — a class of insecticide that includes acetamiprid and that works by obstructing the nervous systems of insects — can be allowed in exceptional situations but only for a limited time and for well-defined crops. These conditions were not respected in the text of the law, the judges found. The law, which was dubbed “Loi Duplomb” after the conservative senator who introduced it, was a response to the massive farmer protests of 2024. It had already been approved in the parliament. The law is backed by the government and by major farming lobbies but is…
Dans le communiqué accompagnant sa décision, les magistrats se fondent sur la Charte de l’environnement, intégrée à la Constitution depuis 2005. Ils considèrent que cette réintroduction, “faute d’encadrement suffisant”, méconnaît ce texte. Le Conseil constitutionnel a validé, mais sous conditions, des dispositions elles aussi décriées facilitant l’implantation d’ouvrages de stockage de l’eau, souvent désignés sous le terme de “mégabassines”. A l’exception d’un article considéré comme un cavalier législatif, la Rue de Montpensier a validé le reste de la loi. Les Sages estiment également que les circonstances d’adoption du texte sont conformes à la Constitution. Fin mai, les promoteurs de cette…
The EU has offered to provide help to France, which is battling a wildfire that was described by French Prime Minister François Bayrou as “a disaster of unprecedented scale.” “Europe stands with France as the worst wildfires in its recent history rage in Aude. My thoughts are with the brave firefighters as they battle the blaze,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on X. “We are ready to mobilise rescEU resources to support efforts to bring the fires under control,” she added, referencing an EU program to provide disaster response resources. A wildfire in the southern region of…