Category: 3. Europe

Published on
01/12/2025 – 6:47 GMT+1

Shipping plays a key role in our economy, with almost 50% of goods traded…

Bärbel Bas und Lars Klingbeil wirken in Partei und Regierung angeschlagen. Die Arbeitsministerin stößt beim Arbeitgebertag auf scharfe Ablehnung und findet kaum Zugang zur Wirtschaft. Der Vizekanzler sucht weiter nach einer eigenen Rolle und spürt die Distanz zur…

High energy prices, risks on CBAM enforcement and promotion of lead markets, as well as increasing carbon costs are hampering domestic and export competitiveness with non-EU producers.

The cement industry is fundamental to Europe’s construction value chain, which represents about

Under French law, non-working citizens from outside the EU who have a long-stay visa and can prove they have sufficient pension or capital revenue (more than €23,000 annually) as well as private health care insurance can, after three months, obtain a carte vitale, which gives them free…

“Inconsistencies in the figures of default values and benchmarks would dilute the incentive for cleaner production processes and allow high-emission imports to enter the EU market with insufficient carbon costs,” said one CBAM industry representative, granted anonymity to discuss the…

In March 2023, judges at the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin, naming him “allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population [children]” from Ukraine.

But Trump and his team have so far shown little interest in prosecuting…

The polished radical

Perhaps no AfD leader embodies that tension more than Ulrich Siegmund, the lead candidate for the party in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, where it is polling first at 40 percent support ahead of a regional vote next September. It’s here, in this small state of just…

Instead, we’ve seen dithering and the triumph of small thinking. It’s also rather telling that the U.S. attempt to simply impose how these assets are to be used, with 50 percent of the profits going to Washington instead of Kyiv, is finally jolting Europe into action.

Regrettably,…

Figures like Renaud Labaye, a National Rally heavyweight and close ally of Le Pen, offer some suggestion that a French president from the National Rally would follow the Meloni model.

“We need a balanced budget,” Labaye told POLITICO. “We want the lowest possible deficit because…