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Russia’s war on Ukraine has thrown up a particular challenge for the defence industry: why use highly expensive…

Die EU treibt ihr 18. Sanktionspaket voran. Wenn sich die USA zu Grahams Sanktionen entschließen, würden diese im „Paket mit drin sein”, sagte von der Leyen zu Gordon Repinski. Das Interview erscheint heute in voller Länge im Berlin Playbook Podcast (hier). Mehr auch hier. 

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Am heutigen Abend bricht Friedrich Merz in die USA auf. Es ist sein Antrittsbesuch im Weißen Haus. Gordon Repinski analysiert, wie der Kanzler die drei wichtigsten Themen – NATO, Ukraine und Handel – adressieren muss und wo die Fallen lauern, wenn er auf Donald Trump…

But while Bulgaria strains to join the club, one entrant that everyone would welcome — Poland — seems to have no interest in joining. And after the narrow victory of right-wing nationalist Karol Nawrocki in the country’s presidential election on Sunday, the prospect of Poland’s joining…

Washington is leading a deregulation charge, with President Donald Trump ripping up the safety rules laid down by his predecessor Joe Biden and unveiling a half-trillion-dollar AI hardware plan with leading company OpenAI.

Frederiksen argued the EU needs the funds to bolster its defenses amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine.

“For me, the most important thing is to rearm Europe,” Frederiksen said. “That’s my starting point and that’s my conclusion in all discussions, because if Europe is not able to…

Mike Tapp, the Labour MP for the coastal town of Dover, said the numbers were “not acceptable,” but insisted his party’s approach is the right one.

“We’ve put a lot of effort into fixing what’s going on behind the scenes,” he said. Border security needs to be a “top…

“They’re looking at the overall numbers and they’re saying, oh, it’s a big directorate general, so it needs to be trimmed,” said one of the officials, referring to the communications department. Another official, however, cautioned the restructuring will likely not be a “major…

The counterassault was the most sophisticated Ukraine has launched so far. Dubbed “Spiderweb,” the operation saw dozens of Russian bombers parked at separate air bases, thousands of miles away from the front lines, struck at all once.

The drones hit targets spread across Russia,…