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– Merz plant das Super-Kanzleramt: Der voraussichtlich nächste Kanzler will einen Nationalen Sicherheitsrat schaffen – und damit auch deutlich mehr außenpolitische Macht bei sich konzentrieren. Wie das aussehen kann, worüber CDU und SPD noch uneins sind und welche Köpfe für den Rat infrage kommen, bespricht Gordon Repinski mit Hans von der Burchard. – Im 200-Sekunden-Interview dazu: Dr. Christian Mölling, Senior Advisor beim European Policy Centre über den Nutzen eines Nationalen Sicherheitsrates und was dieser bewirken kann und was nicht. – Grundrisse statt Grundlinien: SPD und AfD streiten im Bundestag weiter darum, wer welchen Fraktionssaal bekommt. Jetzt könnte die Alternative dabei…

The data means large numbers of Europeans living with cancer, cardiovascular conditions and other difficult-to-treat conditions may be missing out on medicines that could help them.  Furthermore, they have far less opportunities to access much-needed care. Alzheimer’s disease — a progressive, fatal condition — is just the latest example. After more than three decades of dedicated research investment, two new breakthrough treatments were recently approved in a number of countries, including the United States, Japan and China, the first that can delay the progression of early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease. This makes it possible for patients to have more time to…

Booker took to the Senate floor on Monday evening, saying he would remain there as long as he was “physically able” in a move of defiance against President Donald Trump’s actions. New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker finally stepped off the Senate floor on Tuesday after speaking for a record-breaking 25 hours and five minutes.As he began his speech on Monday evening, he vowed to speak as long as he was “physically able,” setting a historic mark aiming to show Democrats’ resistance to President Donald Trump’s sweeping actions. He was assisted by fellow Democrats who gave him a break from…

François Bayrou French Prime Minister François Bayrou may be the first to pay for Le Pen’s downfall. The centrist Macron ally has been trying to woo both National Rally and moderate left lawmakers to keep his minority government afloat. Since Bayrou came to power in December, after the far right ousted his predecessor, the National Rally has held back from toppling the government. Ahead of the Le Pen verdict the far right was already raising the stakes. “It’s a rodeo and the prime minister is trying to stay on as long as possible, but there’s no leadership,” said a National…

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the food situation remains “very critical” since Israel closed all crossings into Gaza a month ago, cutting off all humanitarian deliveries. The World Food Programme is closing all its remaining bakeries in Gaza, citing dwindling supplies after Israel cut off all food, medicine, fuel and humanitarian aid nearly a month ago.the UN agency said that due to the lack of humanitarian aid, its supplies are running out and it doesn’t have enough wheat flour needed to make bread.The agency said it’s distributed all available food rations, and there are unfortunately no more stocks.Aid workers have…

All but one of the defendants, an accountant, were found guilty and handed fines, suspended prison sentences — all of which would be served under house arrest —and ineligibility bans of various lengths. What evidence did prosecutors have … and how did the defendants respond? Prosecutors put forward several pieces of particularly damning evidence during hundreds of hours of court proceedings. They shared a text message that one assistant sent to Le Pen asking if he could be introduced to the MEP he was supposed to be working for — months after being hired. They also revealed that one purported…

A new security pact with Brussels is a key plank of Keir Starmer’s foreign policy strategy in light of moves by Donald Trump to distance himself from European security. Brussels has proposed a €150 billion loan program for EU governments to spend on re-arming. The funds should be invested on a “buy more European” basis, according to Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president.  But without a formal defense agreement with Brussels, the U.K. will be locked out of the scheme. Let down before Asked whether he had seen comments by Brexit minister Nick Thomas-Symonds hinting that he favored a…

Opening the three-hour debate, Prime Minister Micheál Martin said Ireland couldn’t afford the squabbling in the Dáil Éireann chamber at a time when incoming U.S. tariffs on EU goods imperil Ireland’s export-driven economy. “Our country is facing enormous threats,” Martin said, referencing the tariffs expected to be announced Wednesday by U.S. President Donald Trump. “We simply do not have time to waste on cynical strategies of aggression and disruption.” Led by the main opposition Sinn Féin, several parties on the left of Irish politics called for Murphy’s head following last week’s struggle to agree new rules determining who gets to…

Jusqu’à présent, Bruxelles a respecté les règles du jeu traditionnelles en matière commerciale, en alignant ses droits de douane sur des marques américaines emblématiques, telles que Harley-Davidson, sur ceux imposés par Trump sur ses métaux industriels. En rendant coup pour coup, la Commission a cherché à reproduire les mesures prises par l’administration américaine, et non l’escalade. Aujourd’hui, alors que Washington menace de punir davantage l’UE, non seulement pour ses droits de douane existants, mais aussi pour ce qu’il considère comme des barrières non tarifaires, notamment ses réglementations sur le numérique, Bruxelles se prépare à faire monter les enchères. “Nous aborderons…

While aware of the economic impact of US tariffs on EU goods, a YouGov study finds that a vast majority of European citizens support retaliatory measures in the escalating trade dispute between Brussels and Washington. As Washington prepares to unleash a further swathe of trade measures on 2 April with reciprocal tariffs, a majority of EU citizens across Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden support imposing retaliatory measures on US imports, according to a YouGov survey published on Tuesday.More than two-thirds, 69% of citizens across these six major EU economies said they back such countermeasures, Danish respondents showing the…