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— Wirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche…

The last time there was full-scale river swimming in Berlin’s city centre, before access was outlawed a century ago, there were probably fewer inflatable unicorns and fluorescent pool noodles.
But this week, a “Dip-Dip-Hurrah” demonstration…

The rupture in the transatlantic relationship has left European leaders struggling to know how to think, let alone act, with any autonomy. Europe most urgently needs a mind of its own on the Middle East.
Tragically, EU governments were just…

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It isn’t the easiest time to be a green industrial start-up in Europe. The sudden collapse into bankruptcy of…

Die AfD gibt sich gern israelfreundlich – doch in der Realität zeigt sich ein zerrissenes Bild. In dieser Folge analysiert Gordon Repinski gemeinsam mit Pauline von Pezold, wie sehr die Fraktion beim Thema Israel-Iran-Krieg gespalten ist: Ost gegen West, Weidel gegen…

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry has reported a direct hit on a hospital in the south, after Iran launched another…

What makes this notable is its brazenness. Medinsky isn’t simply denying a crime; he’s attempting to rewrite accepted rules of war in real time, erasing legal distinctions between rescue and abduction. By framing Ukraine’s demand for justice as theatrical propaganda aimed at “European…

“Most of those credits came to Europe and were about to kill the ETS market,” he added. “It dampened the prices, and so along with a market stability reserve, we designed a policy to close the door to all credits coming from the CDM.”
Yet times have changed, Delbeke insisted. A new…

“Then, if the deal is ‘papered up’ in law by that stage, this bureaucratic labeling won’t be required at all.”
But a figure close to discussions about the future of the scheme — granted anonymity to speak freely — called for realistic expectations of when an SPS deal was…

A spokesperson for the European Sperm Bank, one of the bloc’s largest cryobanks providing sperm and egg donations to 80 countries, told POLITICO that donors go through extensive health checks and family history reviews. From a medical perspective, choosing a donor is generally safer than…