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In Wall Street Journal interview, ECB chief backs smaller country groupings to push capital markets reform and other long-delayed economic changes. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech

The text, published on Saturday, showed little change compared to a draft declaration scooped by POLITICO on Monday. The declaration is the most tangible outcome of the fourth artificial intelligence summit, which took place in the Indian megacity of New Delhi this week. The omission of “AI safety” emphasizes how the summit shifted from a […]

Oil transit to Slovakia and Hungary has been disrupted since late January after a Russian strike hit the Druzhba pipeline, a key route carrying Russian crude to Central Europe. Ukraine’s pipeline operator said this week that the Jan. 27 attack damaged critical infrastructure and that repair works are ongoing. In a letter to the European […]

Jens Spahn, now leader of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group and once Merkel’s health minister, struck a similar tone. “A party congress is a moment of positioning, but it’s also a family celebration,” he said. “And Angela Merkel is part of the family.” Volker Kauder, Merkel’s longtime parliamentary floor leader, put it bluntly: “The party wants unity, not dispute.” And […]

The Supreme Court on Friday invalidated tariffs imposed under the U.S. International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Within hours, however, Trump signed an executive order introducing a 10 percent global tariff under a different legal authority, while keeping existing sector-specific duties in place. Across Europe, leaders reacted with cautious relief to the court ruling, while warning […]

Am 20. September wird in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gewählt und die AfD unter Leif-Erik Holm erhebt den Anspruch auf eine Alleinregierung. Gordon Repinski trifft ihn an symbolträchtigen Orten zwischen der Staatskanzlei, dem Schweriner Schloss und dem dünnen Eis des Schweriner Sees. Es geht um die strategischen Optionen im Nordosten und die Frage, ob die CDU tatsächlich nur […]

President Donald Trump announced he will enact a new 10 percent global tariff following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down many of his original tariffs on Friday. Trump said at a press conference he will maintain many existing tariffs and impose the new tariffs under a different statute. The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, […]

President Donald Trump admonished justices who struck down sweeping tariffs on Friday, accusing the six members of the Supreme Court of being “afraid of doing the right thing.” The president said at a press conference hours after the court’s ruling that he’s “ashamed” for the justices who voted against his tariffs, singling out the liberal […]

Hungary’s threat to veto the loan is a major setback for Ukraine, whose coffers will begin running low on cash from April. Kyiv will struggle to sustain its war effort without fresh funds, leaving it at a disadvantage in ongoing peace talks with Russia. The first signs of trouble began earlier in the day on Friday. […]

For Canada, the ruling reinforces its position that Trump’s tariffs are “unjustified,” said Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc. “While Canada has the best trade deal with the United States of any trading partner, we recognize that critical work lies ahead to support Canadian businesses and workers who remain affected by Section 232 tariffs on steel, […]