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Der Takt für die Steuerreform: Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz, das Spitzentreffen am Wochenende und der Koalitionsausschuss. Diese Termine entscheiden, ob die Koalition handlungsfähig bleibt. Die SPD will spürbare Entlastungen für kleine und mittlere Einkommen, die Union pocht auf Subventionsabbau. Mit Rasmus Buchsteiner geht’s um die Stimmung zwischen den Spitzen und den Reformentwurf von Lars Klingbeil, der bis kommende Woche auf keinen Fall öffentlich werden soll. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht Rasmus mit Dirk Wiese, dem Parlamentarischen Geschäftsführer der SPD-Fraktion. Vor dem wichtigen Koalitionsausschuss am kommenden Mittwoch will dieser den Glauben an eine Einigung noch nicht aufgeben. Das neue Infrastruktur-Gesetz von Verkehrsminister Patrick Schnieder (CDU) solle…
The World Weather Attribution consortium, which includes scientists from Imperial College London and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, used peer-reviewed methods to compare this week’s heat wave to other hot European summers in 1976 and 2003. “Over the full extent of this heat wave, we found that in the last 50 years … the chance of a heat wave like this has changed immensely,” said lead author Theodore Keeping, an extreme weather researcher at Imperial College London. “This event would not have been possible in June without climate change,” he added. “The three-day [average] nighttime temperatures would not…
Digital payments are becoming an increasingly common part of everyday life in Uzbekistan, helping bring more consumers into the formal financial system and increasing demand for services beyond basic transactions. According to a financial inclusion survey conducted by the Central Bank of Uzbekistan with support from the Asian Development Bank, 71.17% of respondents reported making or receiving at least one digital payment in 2025, compared with 39% in 2021. The increase follows several years of policies aimed at expanding financial inclusion, encouraging electronic payments and introducing digital tools such as remote identification systems for banking customers. Interviews conducted by Euronews…
The next Commission president could therefore be former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson, as he knows the place, is well-connected and… What? Too soon? Okay then, how about bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger? He’s got a lot of qualities that would make him well-suited to the role: experience in politics, speaking more than one EU language, thinking U.S. President Donald Trump is a fool, and if you disagree with him, he could beat you to a pulp. Hard power, not soft power! There are two strong candidates for health commissioner. The first one may be down to recency bias, but it’s…
After four and a half years of war, Ukraine’s physical destruction is easy to see. But the psychological damage caused by occupation, displacement and loss is much harder to measure — although just as urgent to repair. David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and a former British foreign secretary, joins Sarah Wheaton after returning from southern Ukraine. He explains why mental health support must become a central part of the country’s recovery, and why the deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure — from Ukraine to Gaza, Sudan and Congo — points to a growing “new…
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His new book, “Braver New World: The Countries Daring to Do Things Others Won’t,” was published in April. He is a regular POLITICO columnist. Ahead of this September’s regional elections, Germany is in existential panic. As the country’s mainstream parties flounder, and the ruling coalition stumbles from one non-reform to another, the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) is preparing for power. What once seemed seconded only to the realm of theory is now in danger of becoming reality: the establishment of the country’s first AfD-led state government after the election…
BRUSSELS — EU countries voted on Thursday to keep on ice the bloc’s retaliatory tariffs against the United States in the long-running Airbus-Boeing dispute, two EU diplomats told POLITICO. The move, first reported by POLITICO, comes as Brussels seeks to avoid reigniting a transatlantic trade war at a time when tensions between the EU and the U.S. have been easing. Just this week the European Union gave its final green light to the trade deal it struck with President Donald Trump last year. Thursday’s vote prolongs the suspension of the EU’s retaliatory tariffs — affecting $4 billion in imports of…
Meloni pushed back on Thursday, saying Rutte was incorrectly implying that flights from Italy were used in direct attacks on Iran in his eagerness to convince Washington that NATO was playing a significant role. “In his — let’s call it enthusiastic — account, the secretary-general has lumped together things that are actually quite different from one another, confusing the types of authorized flights,” Meloni told reporters during a Franco-Italian summit in southern France. “We did not participate in the conflict with Iran. By the way, if we had participated in the Iran conflict, there would be no explanation for this…
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can immediately strip humanitarian protections from roughly 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians living legally in the country, paving the way for their deportation. Thursday’s 6-3 decision in Mullin v. Doe overturned lower court orders that had blocked the removal of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a programme created by Congress in 1990 to shield migrants from deportation when their home countries are too dangerous to return to. The ruling effectively hands immigration authorities unchecked power to end the programme, with the conservative majority finding that courts have no basis to…
Il aura fallu attendre quatre ans après l’arrivée au pouvoir de Giorgia Meloni pour que la France et l’Italie organisent un sommet bilatéral. La rencontre d’Antibes de ce jeudi, et les signatures de contrats qui vont avec, marquent une normalisation des relations entre Emmanuel Macron, le libéral proeuropéen, et Meloni, la figure de proue de l’extrême droite sur le continent. Jusqu’à quel point ? Anthony Lattier en discute avec Giorgio Leali, envoyé spécial de POLITICO à Antibes, dans le podcast Playbook Paris. **Un message de Groupement Mousquetaires : Depuis plus de cinquante ans, des entrepreneurs indépendants s’engagent au cœur des…