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Der Ton aus Washington gegenüber den NATO-Partnern wird immer harscher. „Keine Einbahnstraße“ sei das Bündnis, sagt US-Außenminister Marco Rubio und will die Allianz in Gänze auf den Prüfstand stellen. Nicht nur Italien und Spanien gehen beim Iran-Krieg auf deutliche Distanz zu Trump, sondern auch der Kanzler – wenngleich Friedrich Merz gleichzeitig versucht, die Wogen zu glätten. Rixa Fürsen analysiert diesen Spagat und bespricht mit POLITICO White House Correspondent Dasha Burns, warum alles auf einen ungemütlichen NATO-Gipfel im Juni hinausläuft. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview ist dazu der Koordinator der Bundesregierung für die transatlantische Zusammenarbeit, Metin Hakverdi (SPD), zu Gast. Mit ihm geht es…

Going it alone At the heart of that resistance in Europe is the lack of consultation with allies before the U.S. launched the war, confusion about American war aims, and Trump’s demands mixed with his rage and insults at allies. “The fact that there is no full clarity on U.S. war aims and that there was little to no consultation before the war matter,” said a second senior European defense official. “For countries in the eastern flank, it is also a matter of ensuring their own territorial defense first,” the official added, referring to Russia as the dominant European security…

US President Donald Trump said the war in Iran would end “very soon”, giving a timeline of two to three weeks, as the White House announced that Trump will be giving an address to the nation on Wednesday night “to provide an important update on Iran.” Trump claimed the US will be done with the conflict “within maybe two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer to do the job. But we want to knock out every single thing they have.” “When we feel that they are, for a long period of time, put into the stone ages and they…

“Markets are now grappling with a scenario long discussed in theory but rarely thought of as a legitimate possibility — the effective shutdown of the world’s most critical energy chokepoint,” said Ana Maria Jaller-Makarewicz, lead energy analyst for the Europe team at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. While the 1970s crises knocked out 7 percent of global supplies, she said, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz affects 20 percent.  U.S. President Donald Trump exits Air Force One on March 29 at Joint Air Base Andrews, Maryland. | Nathan Howard/Getty Images When the war first broke out,…

But the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a nongovernmental organization working on human rights, warned that the voter tourism law “created a risk that multiple voters will reregister in single constituencies where a very close race is expected, with the intention to tilt the election outcome.”  The Warsaw-based European Platform for Democratic Elections, an alliance of a dozen independent European citizen election observation organizations, has also signaled the danger of this practice, saying it “may not only distort election results but could potentially decide ‘battleground districts.’” Extra Hungarian voters next door On the hunt for additional votes and seats ahead of the 2014…

“The more you can do to save oil, especially diesel, especially jet fuel, the better we are off,” Jørgensen said, confirming an earlier report by POLITICO that Brussels wanted Europeans to travel less. He urged member countries to follow the advice of the International Energy Agency, which he said included “work from home where possible, reduce highway speed limits by ten kilometers [an hour], encourage public transport, alternate private car access … increase car sharing and adopt efficient driving practices.” Longer term, he urged EU countries to double down on building more renewables, saying “this must be the time we…

„Je mehr man tun kann, um Öl zu sparen, vor allem Diesel, vor allem Flugzeugtreibstoff, desto besser geht es uns“, sagte Jørgensen und bestätigte damit einen früheren Bericht von POLITICO, wonach Brüssel die Europäer dazu bringen will, weniger zu reisen. Jørgensen forderte die Mitgliedsländer auf, die Ratschläge der Internationalen Energieagentur zu befolgen, wie etwa „wenn möglich von zu Hause aus zu arbeiten, die Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen auf den Autobahnen um zehn Kilometer [pro Stunde] zu reduzieren, öffentliche Verkehrsmittel zu fördern, das Nutzen von Privatfahrzeugen einzuschränken, Carsharing zu verstärken und effiziente Fahrpraktiken anzuwenden“. Langfristig forderte er die EU-Mitgliedstaaten auf, den Ausbau der erneuerbaren…

“Some were just walking on the street, some were killed in their own homes, some were tortured and raped,” Kallas said, adding the slaughter was just one example of Russia’s barbarity throughout the war and could not go “unpunished.”  She added that the EU was “pushing forward” with creating a special tribunal to prosecute Kremlin officials over the full-scale invasion, along with a “claims commission” that will allow individuals to petition for Russian war damages.  Ukraine signed an agreement with the Council of Europe to establish the tribunal in June last year, but it still needs legal and financial backing from states in Europe and beyond to get off the ground. All EU countries but Hungary put out a joint statement of support on…

Sanctions imposed on Albanese by the Trump administration, after she accused governments and corporations of complicity in genocide in Gaza, cut her and her family off from U.S. banking, travel and tech — including transactions by American intermediaries like Stripe. Israel’s government has strongly denied committing genocide. “I understand as a dual headquartered company, in Dublin and San Francisco, you must follow sanctions imposed by Trump in the U.S.,” Andrews said in an X post. But Albanese is “simply doing her job, standing for international humanitarian law and the UN Charter,” he added. Stripe did not respond to a request…

As many as 30% of teachers in France walked off the job on Tuesday to protest against job cuts planned for the start of the 2026 academic year, class closures and to demand pay rises. This day of demonstrations is part of a”week of mobilisation” launched by an inter-union coalition comprising the FSU, UNSA Éducation, CFDT Éducation formation et recherches publiques, CGT Educ’Action and Sud Éducation. In a press release, the unions called for “more resources” and denounced a “short-termist” 2026 budget that “ratifies an offensive against public schools,” which are already “bled dry.” According to the SNES-FSU, the largest…