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– Wie weiter nach den Börsen-Abstürzen?Hans von der Burchard und Gordon Repinski über die Möglichkeiten der EU jetzt auf Trump zu reagieren.– Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: VDA-Präsidentin Hildegard Müller, was sie von der Politik in Berlin und Brüssel erwartet, nachdem die globale Handelsordnung vollends durcheinander gebracht worden ist.– Reaktionen auf den Panic Monday: Wie Washington auf die Börsen-Turbulenzen blickt.   Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es morgens um 5 Uhr. Gordon Repinski und das POLITICO-Team bringen euch jeden Morgen auf den neuesten Stand in Sachen Politik — kompakt, europäisch, hintergründig. Und für alle Hauptstadt-Profis:Unser Berlin Playbook-Newsletter liefert jeden Morgen die wichtigsten Themen…

“The picture of EU funding for NGOs remains hazy, as information on EU funding — including lobbying — is neither reliable nor transparent,” said Laima Andrikienė, the ECA member in charge of the report, who is also a former lawmaker with the center-right European People’s Party (EPP). The criticism will give ammunition to conservative lawmakers in the European Parliament who want to overhaul the way EU money is dolled out to NGOs, claiming it lacks transparency and is often used to lobby EU institutions — criticisms echoed in the report. Hanging over the report is the question of lobbying. Are…

By 2030, the EU should increase its computing power by 300 percent, and 100 million Europeans should have acquired AI skills, OpenAI said on Monday in recommendations called the “EU’s economic blueprint” targeted at EU policymakers. It also pitched a €1 billion fund for AI pilot projects. Show us the obstacles The EU’s executive in its plan on Wednesday wants to ask the tech industry to “identify where regulatory uncertainty creates obstacles” to developing and deploying AI. The draft text listed measures to boost the computing power and high-quality data needed to train AI models, as well as the industry’s uptake of…

“We have a deficit with the European Union of $350 billion and it’s gonna disappear fast,” Trump said. “One of the ways that that can disappear easily and quickly is they’re gonna have to buy our energy from us … they can buy it, we can knock off $350 billion in one week. They have to buy and commit to buy a like amount of energy.” Von der Leyen’s offer came after Trump last week slapped 20 percent tariffs on the EU and a minimum 10 percent levy on other trade partners. In response, financial markets across the world have lost trillions of…

Now “is the worst possible time for the United States to participate in a military strike on Iran,” conservative commentator Tucker Carlson warned in a post on X on Monday. “Nothing would be more destructive to our country. And yet we’re closer than ever, thanks to unrelenting pressure from neocons. This is suicidal. Anyone advocating for conflict with Iran is not an ally of the United States, but an enemy.” Iran previously has rejected the prospect of talks with Trump, with Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi over the weekend calling the prospect of direct nuclear negotiations “meaningless.” Iran has asked for indirect diplomacy,…

The European Commission is considering slapping tariffs of up to 25 percent on a broad range of exports from the United States in response to tariffs imposed on steel and aluminum by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to an internal Commission document seen by POLITICO. The EU executive wants to impose a 25 percent duty on a wide range of U.S. exports, including soybeans, sweet corn, rice, almonds, orange juice, cranberries, tobacco, iron, steel, aluminum, certain boats and vehicles, textiles and certain clothes, and various types of makeup. The total amount of U.S. exports hit by the EU’s tariffs is…

The final list of countermeasures prepared by the Commission to respond to Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, which entered force on March 12, will not fully match their estimated impact of €26 billion on EU exports, Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said after the talks. That’s less than originally intended after EU countries lobbied to remove items — like Kentucky bourbon — from the original hit list.  Enough is enough  Countries such as France, Germany and Spain have led calls for the bloc not to take any options off the table in dealing with the U.S. president.  “One also has to look…

2) Keep your team around you when it gets tough Look, just don’t do what I did here. After unveiling a debt-funded, tax-cutting mini-budget combined with huge government energy subsidies which hadn’t been scrutinized by the U.K.’s official public spending watchdog, the tofu-eating wokerati in the markets got the jitters (more on why it wasn’t my fault later). Like a fool, I threw my top finance minister overboard. Oh, Kwasi Kwarteng — how I loved your challenge to the market orthodoxy. So much so that I sacked you brutally after hauling you back from a trip to Washington D.C. No…

Les universitaires peuvent être aussi influents que les “tech bros” pour inciter les dirigeants politiques à investir dans l’intelligence artificielle, mais aussi à définir des garde-fous. Feb 10 14 mins read

The German stock market has been badly shaken as fears of a recession continue to mount. The German DAX opened with nearly a 10% loss on Monday morning before recovering 3% a few hours later.27 EU trade Ministers met in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss the response. EU Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said the EU is ready for a “good deal” and underlined Europe’s readiness to negotiate with the US.Deutsche Bank said in a strategy update seen by Euronews that, “the damage is undeniable, the degree of damage still unclear.” It said it is difficult to assess the…