Category: 3. Europe

Rick Steves

Friedrich Merz hat seine erneuerte Strategie gegen die AfD vorgelegt. Die untermauert er mit starken Worten, sie hat aber schwache Perspektiven. Im Podcast blickt Gordon Repinski auf das Szenario einer ostdeutschen Landtagswahl 2026, in der die CDU zwischen Linken und AfD steht…

But setting different ages might prove difficult to implement, for example, if teens are traveling between countries.

3. What’s the right age?

There’s a hot debate on what the right minimum age should be, with 15 or 16 being the main contenders.

Denmark, France and Greece are in…

Young farmers struggle to find available and affordable land to start working. One hectare of arable land in the EU costs almost €12,000. That price rises to over €90,000 on average in Meedendorp’s native Netherlands, up from €56,000 a decade ago. 

“When you start, the banks ask…

In preparation for the meeting, EU ambassadors informally agreed draft European Council conclusions seen by POLITICO that call on the Commission to put forward a proposal that is “underpinned by appropriate European solidarity and risk-sharing.”

This text is “the political go-ahead” for…

But senior Danish officials also believe Trump’s territorial ambitions are, indeed, real, even if they aren’t based on practical objectives. They’re all about the untidiness of the map.

Trump regards the huge, empty foreign landmass to his northeast as an affront to American…

Slovakia’s leader Robert Fico had been holding up the sanctions to protest efforts to shut off the flow of Russian gas, which his country still relies on for energy. Diplomats involved in the negotiations said a deal is now close to secure Fico’s support.

Land grab fears 

The more…

“I feel ashamed that a European prosecutor would come and say that our constitution protects ministers from accountability. This constitutional provision is abused by politicians even in cases of felonies, such as Tempi,” Karystianou said.

The victims’ association has organized…

“I’m lucky that I listened to my parents and also see a little bit when I was playing professional football. I don’t want to be that difficult guy at 35, 36. I saw really bad things in football, people fighting in the streets, fighting on the pitch, because if we don’t win, we don’t…

For years, the European Union has approached North Korean affairs through a narrow lens: imposing sanctions, condemning Pyongyang’s human rights record, and providing humanitarian assistance. While the bloc has consistently denounced North…