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Auf der wichtigsten Digitalkonferenz Europas spricht der Kanzler über Krieg und Krisen. Dabei findet er klare Worte zum Vorgehen Israels im Gazastreifen, gibt Einblicke in seine bisherigen Gespräche mit Donald Trump über die Ukraine und Zölle und kündigt zudem einen härteren Ton innerhalb der EU gegenüber Ungarn und der Slowakei an. 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 und Einordnungen. Hier gibt es alle…

Norwegian prosecutors have charged the navigator of a cargo ship after he allegedly fell asleep on duty and the vessel ran aground in one of the country’s fjords last week, narrowly missing crashing into a home.The ship, the Cyprus-flagged NCL Salten, ran aground shortly before 6 am Thursday, stopping short of crashing into the house of Johan Helberg on the Trondheim Fjord’s coast.The unnamed crewman was charged with negligent navigation.No oil spills were reported and none of the 16 people aboard were injured.Johan Helberg told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that he’d slept through the whole thing and only woke up when a neighbour…

Retailleau, a hardliner on immigration, was recently elected president of France’s main conservative party and is seen as a likely contender for the 2027 presidential election. The conservative’s eagerness to take the lead on the topic drew criticism from experts and religious organizations who deemed the report “alarmist” and feared that Retailleau was seeking to draw political capital from it. On Monday, speaking after a meeting on “fighting Islamism” held on the outskirts of Paris, Retailleau insisted that the report needed to be made public to raise awareness of the issue. Shortly after, Macron, who is in Vietnam, was asked…

The next phase of artificial intelligence (AI) is robots, which will help with the global labour shortage, an Nvidia executive told Euronews Next.”We are at a very interesting point in time. The promise of robotics has existed for a long time. It’s been in our imaginations and science fiction,” Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at Nvidia, told Euronews Next at the Computex technology fair in Taiwan.  He said that despite tech companies trying to build a general-purpose robot for years, the issue has been that, despite being able to build the physical robot, programming it has always…

The Court of Auditors, however, said it believed the 2025 deficit is likely to be even greater, as that forecast is based on government projections on growth and savings from tax cuts that the report’s authors deemed optimistic. “We need to take back control. Over the past years, especially in 2023 and 2024, we have lost control of our public finances,” the court’s president, Pierre Moscovici, said in an interview Monday with radio station RTL. France’s state budget deficit has ballooned in recent years, reaching 5.8 percent of gross domestic product in 2024 — well over the 3 percent limit set by…

The demands come as Israel continues a new large-scale ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. The operation aims to expand Israeli control over the territory. The Israeli campaign was launched in response to the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led cross-border attack on southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people; another 251 were taken back to Gaza as hostages. The European Commission has urged Israel to “exercise the utmost restraint,” an EU spokesperson told a press briefing in early May. Meanwhile, Israel recently eased its nearly three-month blockade on humanitarian aid to Gaza. Senior SPD lawmaker Ralf Stegner warned in the same…

By AP with Indrabati Lahiri Published on 26/05/2025 – 12:33 GMT+2A consortium led by US investment firm RedBird Capital Partners has agreed to buy the publisher of Britain’s 170-year-old Daily Telegraph newspaper for about £500 million (€595.5m), the two sides said on Friday.RedBird said it has reached an agreement in principle to become the controlling owner of the Telegraph Media Group, ending a lengthy takeover saga for the conservative-leaning newspaper.Gerry Cardinale, founder and managing partner of RedBird, said the sale “marks the start of a new era for The Telegraph, as we look to grow the brand in the UK and…

U.S. President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin “CRAZY!” in rare criticism of the Kremlin chief, but he also blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for “making things harder” as the U.S. and Ukraine look toward a vague path to peace. Zelenskyy said Monday that pressure needs to be ramped up against Putin. “Only a sense of total impunity can allow Russia to carry out such strikes and continue increasing their scale. There is no real military logic to this, but there is significant political meaning. In doing this, Putin shows just how much he despises the world — the…

In the swish hotel conference rooms and cafés of the Brussels EU quarter, the indignation was palpable: Why had poor Henrik been singled out? Henrik Hololei, a gregarious Estonian who had reached the heights of director-general in the EU’s civil service, had been caught accepting freebies from the government of Qatar while his department was negotiating a lucrative aviation deal ― with, ever so coincidentally, Qatar. It was fine, the European Commission said when the matter came to light in 2023: All his free flights had been signed off by a senior person in the department. Trouble was, the senior…

North Korean authorities have detained four officials after the launch of a naval destroyer ended in failure last week, its state media reported, in a debacle that the country’s dictator Kim Jong-un said was caused by “criminal negligence”.Kim, who attended the event on Wednesday in the northeastern port of Chongjin, was said to be furious after the launch of the pariah state’s second naval destroyer was marred by an accident and lost its balance.Satellite imagery showed the vessel toppled over and draped in blue covers, with parts of the warship submerged.It is unusual for Pyongyang to acknowledge military-related setbacks and…