Category: Politico News

“We ask countries that have imposed blanket travel restrictions to lift them,” Tedros said, arguing instead for exit screening at airports, ports and border crossings to prevent cases and contacts. Meanwhile, the WHO had some good news: Cases of Ebola are lower than experts had feared. Ramping up testing of suspected cases has shown that […]

De l’avis général, Edouard Philippe a réussi le premier coup de la campagne en recevant le soutien de l’ancienne ministre Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet. Vraiment ? Anthony Lattier s’interroge avec Pauline de Saint Remy de l’importance (ou non) des ralliements dans la bataille du bloc central.

President Donald Trump confirmed that he engaged in a fiery Monday phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he urged Israel to halt its strikes on Lebanon as uncertain peace talks between the U.S. and Iran plod on. “I don’t want to say angry,” he told the New York Post’s “Pod Force One” in […]

Eine aktuelle Analyse des Deutschen Instituts für Menschenrechte kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die AfD eine Gefahr für Menschen mit Behinderung darstellt. Pauline von Petzold und Frederik Schindler arbeiten die Studie durch und beleuchten grenzüberschreitende Aussagen von Björn Höcke und Maximilian Krah. Zudem sprechen sie mit dem behindertenpolitischen Sprecher der Fraktion, Jan Feser, über Vorwürfe […]

Another MEP with knowledge of the matter, granted anonymity to speak about confidential proceedings, said: “There seems to be a clear understanding between the EPP, S&D and Renew when it comes to MEPs who are politically exposed across different groups. In several cases, the evidence appears rather weak, yet the same standard is not always […]

The Baltic country’s constitution prohibits weapons of mass destruction within its borders, but President Gitanas Nausėda has floated amending the fundamental law, citing current security risks. The Financial Times reported this week that U.S. officials were in talks to deploy nuclear warheads and bombers to countries on NATO’s eastern flank. American nukes are currently stored […]

Brussels itself says EU countries spend €264 billion a year on American tech, with three U.S. giants — Microsoft, Google and Amazon — dominating the cloud services market that underlies everything from email communication, the storage and processing of public and private data and many of the tools powering government services. Some EU governments have […]

The plan, part of the Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in the Energy Sector, was released Wednesday as part of the EU tech sovereignty package. Data centers already account for 2.5 percent of EU energy use, the Commission said in the roadmap, and demand is expected to more than double over the next four […]

In a notable swap, current Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard and Minister of Finance Nicolai Wammen will switch roles. While both politicians were previously seen as Frederiksen’s potential successors, Danish political experts viewed the move as a sign the prime minister prefers Hummelgaard to someday lead the Social Democrats. Should the prime minister step down […]