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Mehr Neubauten, die schneller hochgezogen werden. Das Projekt, an dem die SPD in der Ampel gescheitert ist, wird jetzt erneut angegangen. Wieder von einer sozialdemokratischen Bauministerin. Das Bauturbo-Gesetz von Verena Hubertz ist heute im Kabinett. Sie verspricht eine “Brechstange” für die Kommunen im Wohnungsbau. Wie die wirken soll, worum vorher gestritten wurde und welches Wort die Union mitgesprochen hat, erklärt Laura Hülsemann von POLITICO PRO Industrie & Handel am Morgen. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview erklärt dann der stellvertretende SPD-Fraktionschef Esra Limbacher, wie in Deutschland wieder Mieten und Hausbau wieder bezahlbar werden soll.  Außerdem: Jonathan Martin berichtet aus Washington, D.C. vom Iran-Dilemma des…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer didn’t pipe up when Trump mistakenly announced he’d finally closed a deal “with the European Union,” when he meant to say the U.K. When the papers of said deal dropped tragicomically to the ground after Trump opened a folder to show them off, Starmer immediately scooped them up, later joking that because of strict rules on who can get close to the president, “it would not have been good for anybody else to have stepped forward.” Carney, for his part, didn’t immediately contradict Trump when he claimed Russia was thrown out of the G8 because…

KANANASKIS, Alberta — The French town of Evian-les-Bains will host the 2026 edition of the G7 summit from June 14-16. French President Emmanuel Macron made the announcement Tuesday with a social media post on the last day of the ongoing G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies. The French town, famous for the eponymous water brand, is located on the shores of Lake Geneva not far from the Swiss border and was the site of a G8 summit in 2003. France last hosted the G7 in 2019 at the seaside tourist hotspot of Biarritz.

But as ever Netanyahu will have at least two plans in mind. “The first to change the regime, not necessarily directly by war, but to start something that in the end will lead to its demise. Second, the subordinate one to stop Iran’s nuclear program and to open the way to Saudi Arabia signing on to the Abraham Accords,” Shtrauchler says. He has been patient and tenacious, getting the ducks lined up, not just with Trump but in terms of his war Cabinet and military commanders as well. “Since the October 7, he’s been going step by step,” Shtrauchler says.…

Macron’s remarks come as fears snowball over the U.S. potentially joining Israel’s military campaign in Iran, which began late last week and has crippled Iranian nuclear sites and killed top regime officials. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump was indeed considering that option. On his way back to the U.S. yesterday evening, Trump said he wanted a “real end” to the conflict and that he was “not too much in a mood to negotiate.” Macron mentioned forced regime changes carried out by the U.S. and NATO allies in Iraq and Libya as past mistakes…

Civic Coalition lost the 2019 parliamentary election, and Schetyna did not run for reelection for party leadership in 2020.  In the same phone call, Giertych also said he had suggested that the party promote Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, to which Tusk responded that it was a very good idea. Kidawa-Błońska ended up being the party’s candidate for prime minister in the 2019 election.  Furious response Giertych alleges the conversation was recorded “as part of an illegal operation” through Israel’s Pegasus spyware, which the previous government allegedly used to spy on political opponents.  “The recording of conversations between a lawyer and his clients,…

The European Commission has released its own guidelines on the protection of minors online, but many member states appear unhappy with the pace of progress at the EU level. Social interaction platforms like chat apps play a “positive role” as children over 12 develop their social identities, offering “space for social interaction with peers and for self-expression,” the Dutch guidelines said. The guidelines also recommended limiting children’s screen time, starting from half an hour per day for two-to-four-year-olds and gradually increasing to three hours per day for children over 12. Parents and educators should also practice healthy screen time habits…

Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi told MPs Packer was “taken from her hospital bed” by police to face the “indignity” of a four-and-a-half-year legal process. “This is not justice, this is cruelty, and it has got to end,” she said. Antoniazzi’s amendment was therefore aimed at women using at-home abortion pills, as criminal sanctions will still apply to medical professionals. But a letter by more than 1,000 medical professionals, arranged by the anti-abortion campaign group Right to Life, argued it would make dangerous late-term abortions “possible up to birth for any reason,” including choosing the child’s sex. Liberal Democrat MP Angus…

“This could be ports, and it could be another type of critical infrastructure that both has a defense and military perspective, but which can also be used, for example, in relation to tourism or raw materials extraction,” she added. Greenland has a strong independence movement and has been gradually gaining autonomy for decades. Still, Greenlanders prefer Denmark over the U.S., and few think the island is ready to become independent immediately. European leaders — most recently French President Emmanuel Macron, who visited the island Sunday — have repeatedly condemned Trump’s threats, saying Greenland is not up for grabs.  In May,…

Lukasz Olejnik, a visiting senior research fellow of the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, said the Iranian decision to avoid connected kit signals “deep concern” that ordinary devices can be hacked and tampered with. “It suggests Tehran fears adversaries can use connected devices to track, intercept, or even target key officials,” he said. Israel has used connected devices to kill individuals in the past. Last September, it used explosive pagers to hit Hezbollah targets, injuring nearly 3,000 people — a sophisticated and carefully orchestrated attack in which Israeli security services hit the Lebanon-based terrorist group by simultaneously…