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Kaum im Amt als Finanzminister, steht Lars Klingbeil vor neuen Problemen: Die Steuerschätzung, die er heute präsentiert hat, fällt deutlich niedriger aus. Klingbeil muss Wachstum kreieren und gleichzeitig die Minister bei den Ausgaben disziplinieren. Und dann ist da noch die geplante Reform der Schuldenbremse. Rixa Fürsen und Rasmus Buchsteiner ordnen die Herausforderungen für Klingbeil ein. Hans von der Burchard berichtet über die aktuellen Entwicklungen in Istanbul: Weder Wladimir Putin noch Donald Trump sind dort zu den Friedensgesprächen eingetroffen. Wie es jetzt weitergeht – und wie die Aussage von Johannes Wadephul beim NATO-Außenministertreffen in Antalya zu bewerten ist – fasst Hans…

In 2022, the British government opened a public inquiry into the activities of British special forces in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013. One anonymous account given at the inquiry said that special forces had been given “a golden pass allowing them to get away with murder.”  The United Nations describes murder in the context of an armed conflict as a war crime.  If the former Afghan soldiers had been admitted to the U.K. they could be called as witnesses to the inquiry, but cannot be forced to do so if they are not in the country. A spokesperson for the…

The EU’s highest military body is looking into strengthening the bloc’s mutual defence clause with a view of boosting interoperability and military mobility among European armed forces as the US increasingly looks to the Asia-Pacific.Austrian General Robert Brieger stressed on Thursday following a gathering of the European Union Military Committee, which he chairs, that the EU needs a “clear holistic approach” when it comes to defence and that Chiefs of Defence taking part in the meeting had issued “recommendations for the operationalisation of Article 42.7”.Article 42.7 is the EU’s mutual defence clause, in force since 2009, which provides that “if…

Quelques heures après la suspension de l’aide à l’Ukraine par Trump, la présidente de la Commission européenne a présenté un projet visant à aider les Etats membres à se réarmer et à envoyer des armes à Kiev. Mar 4 7 mins read

Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange based in the US, said criminals had improperly obtained personal data on the exchange’s customers for use in crypto-stealing scams and were demanding a $20 million (€17.6 million) payment not to publicly release the information.Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in a social media post Thursday that criminals had bribed some of the company’s customer service agents who live outside the US to hand over personal data on customers – including names, dates of birth, and partial national identification numbers.The stolen data “allows them to conduct social engineering attacks where they can call our customers impersonating…

Asked by POLITICO if he regretted the choice to work in Russia, Koolhaas shot back: “If I thought it was a mistake I wouldn’t have done it and even now in retrospect I think it would be right. We created a potential (in Garage) which is currently not used, but it was good to create that potential and maybe some day, it will be — that potential is still there.” He added that “dialogue with Russia and Russians” was a more promising route to healing division between Moscow and the West — and claimed that following an American model of attempts…

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the latest instalment in the long-running franchise is this year’s biggest Hollywood production to screen at the festival.Crowds gathered outside the Palais des Festivals as Cruise and the cast posed for photographers, briefly halting activity around the red carpet.While McQuarrie is due to appear in an onstage interview, no press conference was held for the film.Cruise, who received an honorary Palme d’Or in 2022, has remained a festival favourite.

“I want there to be a labor shortage, because that’s the way to getting productivity improvements,” Tice said. “That’s the way to get wage growth for the least well-off and that’s the way to get millions of people off benefits and back into work.” For Tice, any youth mobility deal — a key EU objective in upcoming talks — would open “a backdoor to the freedom of movement.” Britain’s Labour government has repeatedly stressed that a return to European free movement post-Brexit is a red line in any talks with Brussels. Mindful of being accused of unpicking Brexit, it has…

Estonia has warned that Russia is willing to protect its shadow fleet of ageing tankers with military force. Moscow is thought to operate dozens of these oil-transporting vessels to avoid sanctions imposed on it after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.The warning about Moscow’s willingness to offer military protection to its shadow fleet came after Estonia recently intercepted a suspicious vessel in its waters. The Estonian navy stopped the ship, named ‘The Jaguar’, because it was flying no flag and appeared not to have any insurance. Speaking at a NATO meeting in Turkey on Thursday, Estonian Foreign Minister…

Cyclones, floods and other disasters forced people from their homes 45.8 million times last year, official figures show, nearly double the annual average over the past decade. Virtually all of these internal “disaster displacements” were due to extreme weather events, which are being turbocharged by climate change.That’s according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)’s latest global report, which also found that the number of people living in internal displacement at the end of 2024 exceeded 80 million for the first time. In total, 83.4 million people were forced to move within their own country due to conflict and violence, as well…