The song that “moves me the most,” the German politician went on, “is ‘Ne partez pas sans moi’ by Céline Dion, which won [for Switzerland] in 1988. What a voice, what emotion.” And, from the more recent entries, “I think the energy in ‘Euphoria’ by Loreen in 2012 is unmatched!” The song won for Sweden, […]
Continue Reading“I thank the authorities for their swift response to this morning’s drone alert,” Stubb wrote on X. They “demonstrated that they were well-prepared. Readiness was swiftly enhanced. Finland is not facing any direct military threat,” he added. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo also urged calm, reassuring citizens that Finland’s armed forces “have intensified their surveillance and […]
Continue ReadingThose impacts are especially a concern for Sweden, which is a leading consumer of nicotine pouches, followed by Germany, Poland and other Nordic countries. The country has rapidly reduced smoking over the past 20 years, and its liberal policies on pouches are often cited by tobacco companies and industry-funded consumer groups as a model for […]
Continue ReadingYes, someone spent more than €25,000 on a gray scooter (a Piaggio MP3 125, to be precise) on which the former French president’s warm buttocks were pressed as he traversed the traffic in Paris. Hollande’s romantic life was a big deal back in 2015 when Closer magazine exposed his affair with the actress. A picture […]
Continue ReadingFirst, it was Switzerland’s neutrality that made it a convenient host: The Red Cross was founded here in 1863, and the first Geneva Convention signed the following year. The League of Nations arrived in 1920, and when it collapsed after World War II, the U.N. Secretariat inherited its infrastructure. Many agencies and NGOs followed, like […]
Continue ReadingDer Maschinen- und Anlagenbau ist das industrielle Rückgrat Deutschlands. Aber die Branche mit ihren rund eine Million Beschäftigten steht unter massivem Druck: 22.000 Stellen wurden im vergangenen Jahr gestrichen, externe Schocks vom Ukraine- bis zum Iran-Krieg belasten die langfristigen Planungen, und der Konkurrenzdruck aus China wächst. In dieser Folge analysiert Joana Lehner mit Tom Schmidtgen […]
Continue ReadingHis warning lands as Europe struggles with weak growth and a widening productivity gap with the U.S. Those pressures have been sharpened by U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to power, with Washington taking a more confrontational line on trade and security. Draghi, a former Italian prime minister, returned to the EU’s political spotlight after presenting […]
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump invited China’s leader Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, for a White House visit on Sept. 24. “We look forward to it,” Trump said during remarks at a banquet in Beijing. The president called the high-stakes summit Thursday a “fantastic day” and “historic,” adding that the meetings were “extremely positive and […]
Continue ReadingBEIJING — The sensitive issue of Taiwan intruded Thursday on a high-stakes meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. Chinese officials, in a statement released after the lengthy sit-down, said that Xi “stressed to President Trump that the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-U.S. relations.” By […]
Continue ReadingSiliņa then appointed Latvian army Col. Raivis Melnis as a replacement, but the Progressives’ withdrawal left Siliņa’s New Unity alliance without a parliamentary majority. Latvia, like its Baltic neighbors Estonia and Lithuania, has been on high alert since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, warning that spillovers from the war could test NATO’s eastern flank. “At […]
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