Category: 3. Europe

Germany’s Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is heading for Paris this week at a time when French President Emmanuel Macron wants to rekindle European integration in the face of Trumpian chaos. And one small item in the policy program…

It’s a last-ditch pitch from the EU. Without support for more energy sanctions, and with some officials even discussing an eventual return to fuel from Moscow, Brussels is increasingly shopping for alternative options. There’s also U.S. President Donald Trump, who has publicly toyed with…

That initiative was inspired by ChatGPT’s rise to fame in late 2022. The instant popularity of a chatbot that could perform several tasks upon request, such as generating text, code and now also images and video, upended the bloc’s drafting of the AI Act. 

Generative AI wasn’t a…

The strategy comes as part of a broader EU-wide effort to rein in foreign investors from taking control of European companies in strategic or sensitive sectors, such as when Chinese shipping giant Cosco attempted to buy a container terminal in the Port of Hamburg two years ago.

The draft…

However, Merz’s critics — and in his long and turbulent political life, there have been many — say his U-turns were deliberate deceit, and that he had no intention of sticking to the old spending rules in the first place. For instance, the Greens, who opposed the “debt brake” rule…

“A lot of Conservatives have finally woken up to the fact that he’s as much a liability as he is an asset,” said Bale, citing Partygate’s unpopularity. “He doesn’t, at the…

After Germany’s federal domestic intelligence agency classified the AfD last week as a “proven” extremist organization — a designation that is fueling a long-simmering domestic debate on whether to ban the AfD under German law provisions intended to prevent a repeat of the Nazi past…

Germany’s parliament is set to elect conservative Friedrich Merz as its new Chancellor.

The 69-year old is promising to revitalize the country’s flagging economy and boost its voice on the world stage.

It brings an end to Germany’s recent political limbo after the last government collapsed.

But…