Ein turbulentes politisches Jahr 2025 neigt sich dem Ende zu. Von der vorgezogenen Neuwahl im Februar über die Zitterpartie bei der Kanzlerwahl von Friedrich Merz bis hin zu den ersten Auslandsreisen der neuen Regierung: In dieser Sonderfolge blickt ein Teil des POLITICO-Teams…
Category: 3. Europe
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Europe is failing Ukraine – POLITICO
The felling of the “reparations loan” proposal, which would have recycled Russian assets that are mostly frozen in a clearing bank in Belgium, deprives Ukraine of guaranteed funding for the next two years.
It was Belgium’s legal anxieties over the loan, along with French President…
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Could France’s conservatives really work with Le Pen? It’s no longer unthinkable. – POLITICO
Even small-town alliances were enough to provoke nationwide outrage. A country haunted by its history of Nazi collaboration wasn’t going to accept candidates working with Jean-Marie Le Pen, the National Front founder infamous for belittling the significance of the…
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Germany’s far-right AfD accused of gathering information for the Kremlin – POLITICO
Flood of parliamentary questions
Marc Henrichmann, a conservative lawmaker and the chairman of a special committee in Germany’s Bundestag that oversees the country’s intelligence services, said that while the government is not obliged to divulge classified or highly sensitive…
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Wildfire-hit town wins €468m in Spain’s Christmas lottery
Spain’s Christmas lottery has been welcomed as an “injection of hope” in the northwest of the country, where the jackpot handed out hundreds of millions of euros just months after wildfires had caused devastation.
Most of the first-prize-winning tickets in the lottery, known as El Gordo, had been…
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All you should want for Christmas is no more cheap presents – POLITICO
“We need a fundamental discussion on the Europeanization of customs,” Cavazzini told POLITICO.
As chair of the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO), the lawmaker from the German Greens has been pushing the Council, the EU’s…
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Russia escalates attacks on key Ukrainian region of Odesa
Russia has intensified its strikes on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, causing widespread power cuts and threatening the region’s maritime infrastructure.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said Moscow was carrying out “systematic” attacks on the region. Last week, he warned…
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No ‘confidence’ Ukraine and Russia will reach peace deal, Vance says
Vice President JD Vance gave a stark outlook on the reality of the Russia-Ukraine war, saying he doesn’t have “confidence” there will be a peaceful solution to the gruesome conflict reaching its fourth year.
“We’re going to keep on trying to negotiate. And I think that we’ve made…
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Europe and China: how olive oil and Jinhua ham embody centuries of food heritage
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In southern Spain, olive oil production remains central to rural economies, combining centuries-old know-how with modern processing and global exports….
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Santa Claus is coming to town! Father Christmas leaves Lapland headquarters for delivery duties
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Ho! Ho! Ho!
Meteorologists might predict a snow-free Christmas in southern Finland, but that’s not the case up north!
As…
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