Author: staff
But more recent polls have shown the gap narrowing significantly as decision day gets closer. On Wednesday, a poll of 4,000 people by AtlasIntel put the two candidates level on 48 percent each. Crucially, AtlasIntel included a sample of the large Romanian diaspora population, among whom Simion is hugely popular. Then, on Thursday, Dan took the lead in a poll for the first time, with 52 percent to Simion’s 48 percent. That survey, by independent research institute IRSOP, canvassed some 950 people. Nicușor Dan, 55, has been the independent mayor of Romania’s capital, Bucharest, since 2020. | Robert Ghement/EFE via…
“Still, we are considering sending someone at the appropriate level to at least hear what these people have to say and whether they are able to decide at least anything. If they are willing to have a serious conversion, we may engage in it. Otherwise, we will have the right to conclude that this is a Russian charade, not meaningful work for peace,” the official added. After a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, Zelenskyy said he was sending a delegation, led by Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, to talk to the Russians and Americans in Istanbul.…
Vibe: Lining up to grab a tray (and again after my meal to put the tray on a conveyor belt), this POLITICO reporter felt vaguely like livestock being ushered through a feedlot. The ambiance did not improve when an ear-splitting alarm suddenly screamed through the room; potentially a regular occurrence, as most forks barely paused on their way to mouths. Who’s picking up the check? For around €9, I scored a sizeable vegetarian main and a dessert, so the prices are well within the budget of the average, barely taxed Commission worker, and even within the budget of the outrageously taxed POLITICO…
Stéphane Dedeyan, qui fait partie des six candidats auditionnés le 2 mai dernier par les administrateurs du comité des nominations de l’entreprise, est perçu comme le candidat de Bercy et des milieux économiques, selon de multiples connaisseurs du dossier. Le banquier bénéficie du soutien du sortant Philippe Wahl — un proche d’Eric Lombard — qui a officiellement fait campagne en sa faveur avant de se montrer plus discret, les uns et les autres estimant qu’il ne rendait pas vraiment service à son poulain. L’actuel PDG de La Poste était allé plaider sa candidature à l’Elysée auprès d’Alexis Kohler, quelques semaines…
LONDON — A Ukrainian man has been charged with arson after a fire at a north London property owned by U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The Metropolitan Police announced late Thursday that Roman Lavrynovych, a 21-year-old Ukrainian national, had been charged with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life. The fires relate to three separate events on May 11 and May 12: a vehicle fire, a fire at the entrance of a property, and a fire at another residential address.
Kaum im Amt als Finanzminister, steht Lars Klingbeil vor neuen Problemen: Die Steuerschätzung, die er heute präsentiert hat, fällt deutlich niedriger aus. Klingbeil muss Wachstum kreieren und gleichzeitig die Minister bei den Ausgaben disziplinieren. Und dann ist da noch die geplante Reform der Schuldenbremse. Rixa Fürsen und Rasmus Buchsteiner ordnen die Herausforderungen für Klingbeil ein. Hans von der Burchard berichtet über die aktuellen Entwicklungen in Istanbul: Weder Wladimir Putin noch Donald Trump sind dort zu den Friedensgesprächen eingetroffen. Wie es jetzt weitergeht – und wie die Aussage von Johannes Wadephul beim NATO-Außenministertreffen in Antalya zu bewerten ist – fasst Hans…
In 2022, the British government opened a public inquiry into the activities of British special forces in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013. One anonymous account given at the inquiry said that special forces had been given “a golden pass allowing them to get away with murder.” The United Nations describes murder in the context of an armed conflict as a war crime. If the former Afghan soldiers had been admitted to the U.K. they could be called as witnesses to the inquiry, but cannot be forced to do so if they are not in the country. A spokesperson for the…
The EU’s highest military body is looking into strengthening the bloc’s mutual defence clause with a view of boosting interoperability and military mobility among European armed forces as the US increasingly looks to the Asia-Pacific.Austrian General Robert Brieger stressed on Thursday following a gathering of the European Union Military Committee, which he chairs, that the EU needs a “clear holistic approach” when it comes to defence and that Chiefs of Defence taking part in the meeting had issued “recommendations for the operationalisation of Article 42.7”.Article 42.7 is the EU’s mutual defence clause, in force since 2009, which provides that “if…
Quelques heures après la suspension de l’aide à l’Ukraine par Trump, la présidente de la Commission européenne a présenté un projet visant à aider les Etats membres à se réarmer et à envoyer des armes à Kiev. Mar 4 7 mins read
Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange based in the US, said criminals had improperly obtained personal data on the exchange’s customers for use in crypto-stealing scams and were demanding a $20 million (€17.6 million) payment not to publicly release the information.Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in a social media post Thursday that criminals had bribed some of the company’s customer service agents who live outside the US to hand over personal data on customers – including names, dates of birth, and partial national identification numbers.The stolen data “allows them to conduct social engineering attacks where they can call our customers impersonating…