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Published on 05/06/2025 – 11:00 GMT+2•Updated 11:04Hungary infringed EU law by prohibiting or restricting access to LGBTQ+ content, the EU top court’s advocate general said in an advisory opinion on Thursday.Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Tamara Ćapeta also suggested that Hungary breached fundamental values of the 27-member bloc, enshrined in Article 2 of the EU’s Treaty. The opinion of the advocate general is legally non-binding. However, the judges typically consider this, and in most cases, the final verdict aligns with this statement. If the judges of the court agree with the opinion of…
👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈 Sky News’s Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics. More details of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s spending squeeze next week are trickling out – including a U-turn on the winter fuel allowance, which we now know is happening in the spending review. The political implications of the U-turn, rather than the broader spending review itself, threaten to dominate the political narrative for the next week and more. How much pressure will that pile on Sir Keir Starmer and his chancellor?
“Issues like nuclear cooperation are issues where we can work together with the U.S.,” Miliband told POLITICO last month. “We might be doing it with a different perspective — but we can work together.” Trump last weekend announced a series of executive orders aimed at firing up U.S. nuclear power, at the same time tech giants like Google and Microsoft lobby on both sides of the Atlantic for government-backed SMRs to help run their energy-scoffing data centers. One litmus test of the Treasury’s approach will be how many firms are awarded an SMR contract, amid fears officials will ultimately plump…
“Russians are scaling up not only the production of drones but also the means of radio electronic warfare,” Andriy said, adding: “At our part of the front, radio frequencies change every two weeks. So, when the state supplies us with drones, only about 20 percent of them are usable. We constantly have to spend additional funds and time to reconfigure those drones.” Russia is producing its long-range drones at its own version of Silicon Valley, a special economic zone in Alabuga, Tatarstan, where it has concentrated production lines for Iran’s Shahed drones, also known as Geran in Russia. The Kupol…
As Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets US President Donald Trump for the first time at the White House on Thursday he’ll be aware of how predecessors have tackled the transatlantic relationship.The stars don’t augur well, however. During his first stint in office, Trump regularly made disparaging remarks about Germany and developed a non-relationship with Chancellor Angela Merkel characterised by mutual personal dislike.Trump’s erratic trade policy, which has the EU and Germany specifically in its sights, as well as Trump’s retreat from traditionally solid transatlantic positions on common defence and Russia have, challenged Merz before he even moved into the…
“This item is now cheaper by €0.50! Hurry!”, “Sure to leave? You will lose €200 reward”, or “FREE SHIPPING – don’t miss out!” These are just some of the messages with which clothes retailer Shein bombards its users in an effort to nudge them into buying more, according to consumer rights group BEUC.While such aggressive sales tactics are not necessarily illegal in themselves, they could cross the line when combined with other forms of manipulation, BEUC argued in a formal complaint for unfair practices filed on Thursday with the European Commission and the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network (CPC).They are calling…
Federbett-Botschaft: Die US-Regierung spielt den Merz-Besuch herunter, die Visite sei ein Staatsbesuch wie jeder andere auch, hört unser US-Kollege Eli Stokols. Die deutsche Seite betont, dass Merz – anders als Scholz – im Gästehaus neben dem Weißen Haus übernachten darf. Immer positiv: „Wir sehen seit Wochen, dass auch die Gespräche zwischen den Mitarbeitern in einem sehr positiven und konstruktiven Ton verlaufen”, betonte Merz-Sprecher Stefan Kornelius. Vor der PK im Oval Office lunchen Merz und Trump, sprechen unter vier Augen und mit Beratern. Sie „werden sehr viel Zeit haben, Unstimmigkeiten oder Stimmigkeiten auszuräumen oder sich zu mögen”, sagte Kornelius. To be…
Der Kanzler ist in Washington und wird dort erstmals in seinem Amt auf Donald Trump treffen. Flüchtig kennen sich die beiden bereits. Was erwartet man in den USA von dem Treffen? Was davon wird in Washington überhaupt wahrgenommen? Bekommt Friedrich Merz die volle Aufmerksamkeit des US-Präsidenten? Diese und weitere Fragen bespricht Gordon Repinski mit Jonathan Martin in Washington, D.C.Mit Rixa Fürsen geht es um das heutige NATO-Verteidigungsministertreffen in Brüssel – sie erklärt, was dort über das 5-Prozent-Ziel hinaus für den Gipfel in Den Haag in wenigen Wochen vorbereitet wird. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview ist der SPD-Außenpolitiker Ralf Stegner zu Gast. Mit ihm…
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As even some of Europe’s most Atlanticist, free-market corners grow wary of their addiction to the U.S., a few countries and cities are embarking on their own political efforts to break free. National lawmakers in The Hague have been building pressure on the Dutch government to wean off its dependence on American providers — only for their efforts to be derailed by Geert Wilders’ decision to quit the government coalition. The Danish cities of Copenhagen and Aarhus decided on Tuesday to look for alternatives to allow them to drop Microsoft productivity products and cloud services, as Denmark prepares to take…