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Eigentlich sollte jetzt debattiert und entschieden werden – doch im Bundestag geht es noch weiter um Posten, Räume und Ausschussvorsitze. Im Zentrum: die AfD, die Vorsitze dort beansprucht, aber an Union und SPD scheitert. Lösungen werden vorbereitet – bis zur Frage, wer die Sitzungen leitet.Rasmus Buchsteiner berichtet, wie sich die SPD-Fraktion weiter intern neu sortiert – mit Überraschungen wie einem jungen Außenpolitiker. Und: Die AfD inszeniert sich in der Raumfrage mit medialem Protest – bekommt aber wohl nicht den begehrten Otto-Wels-Saal. Außerdem: Trikot-Tag im Bundestag, Geburtstagssekt bei den Grünen und ein Kapitänswechsel beim FC Bundestag. Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast…

Last December, Syrian rebels ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad, who brutally suppressed pro-democracy protests in 2011, triggering a civil war and sweeping international sanctions. Some leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, have since called for these sanctions to be lifted to support the country’s economic recovery post-Assad.  Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said at the press conference that the EU’s move demonstrates the “international will to support Syria,” per AFP. He added that “the Syrian people today have a very important and historic opportunity to rebuild their country.” The EU previously eased sanctions on Syria in February to support “an inclusive…

The European Commission is intensifying its scrutiny of TikTok amid growing concern over “SkinnyTok” — an algorithm-driven content stream that targets minors and promotes extreme thinness and potentially harmful eating habits. SkinnyTok has become a hot spot for videos glamorizing rapid weight loss, “what I eat in a day” posts with dangerously low calorie counts, and body comparison clips, often served up automatically by TikTok’s recommendation system.  Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said at a Tuesday press briefing that an investigation is underway. “We’re very well aware of the issue of this trend on TikTok,” he said. “How we deal with…

“The reservations are considerable and the prospects of approval are highly uncertain,” the document further says. Reiche has yet to formally approve the draft, which was submitted to her last week. For Germany’s heavy industries, relief from soaring electricity prices is long overdue. But after years of failed attempts, first under former Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, then ex-Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s administration, frustration is building. Now, with production shifting abroad and competitiveness eroding, Berlin is hoping Brussels can still be swayed.

Published on 20/05/2025 – 19:09 GMT+2•Updated 21:21The European Parliament will stage an urgent debate on Hungary’s proposed new transparency law, part of a self-styled “spring clean” by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, during the plenary session in Brussels on Wednesday, the Parliament’s rapporteur for Hungary, MEP Tineke Strik (Netherlands/Greens) has told Euronews.The draft law was introduced to the Hungarian Parliament last week by the ruling party Fidesz to international outcry. Once adopted, the act would see foreign-funded media and NGO’s listed and facing fines where foreign interference is alleged.”At the opening of the agenda (of the plenary session) I will ask…

“What I noticed is that the initiative that the Netherlands took regarding review of Article 2, the article about human rights, that this initiative from the Netherlands has gained some traction and that a number of member states will support it,” Veldkamp told reporters after a meeting with other foreign ministers in Brussels. Kallas said last week that such an initiative is unlikely to succeed given uneven political support inside the EU to apply more pressure to Israel. “I know what the end result of these discussions will be because I know the positions of the member states,” she told…

The Spanish parliament is considering penalising those who disrupt its press conferences, a week after journalists staged a walkout from a press briefing which descended into chaos after a far-right activist disrupted the session.Bertrand Ndongo, a political activist and online influencer, refused to cede the floor during a press conference held by Sumar spokesperson, Verónica Barbero, last Tuesday saying “I will not remain silent” as he drowned out the voice of a reporter who was trying to ask a question. The behaviour of Ndongo, an accredited press member working for the Periodista Digital outlet, led to journalists walking out in…

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Published on 20/05/2025 – 19:41 GMT+2Ukrainians are pessimistic of an imminent peace deal after a long-awaited phone call on Monday between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin failed to make any significant breakthroughs.Residents in Kyiv were downbeat about the prospects of a peace deal before summer.”(Peace) is possible closer to the autumn, not now, (Putin) will stall for time,” one Kyiv resident told Euronews, adding that the Russian war machine needed to be worn down further before peace could be attained.Another resident of Kyiv expressed anger at the delay in the commencement of talks between Putin…

Trump’s social media posts have sounded hopeful at times that he would be able to broker a deal — one likely to favor Russia — but there was a hint of a shift after his latest exchange with his Russian counterpart. Instead of becoming infuriated with the obdurate Putin — something Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been hoping would happen — Trump seems ready to give up and even walked back his persistent boasting that he can bring the war to a resolution. While Trump last week accepted Putin’s decision not to show up in Turkey and admitted that there’d…