Category: Politico News

Yvette Cooper  The U.K.’s current foreign secretary was keen to remind MPs she wasn’t running the Foreign Office when the seeds of the Mandelson saga were sown. Asked about the Doyle revelation in the House of Commons Tuesday, Cooper said: “Obviously, I was the home secretary at the time that I understand that took place, […]

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized two foreign ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, according to a semi-official state news agency, a major escalation coming just hours after President Donald Trump announced he was extending a ceasefire between Washington and Tehran. The state-linked Tasnim News Agency said that the captured vessels were “operating without […]

Die AfD sucht nach einer außenpolitischen Linie und lässt sich dabei von jemandem beraten, den die Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung nicht mehr einlädt. Alexander Rahr, bis 2022 bezahlter Gazprom-Berater in Brüssel und heute Leiter der Eurasischen Gesellschaft in Berlin, stand auf der Gästeliste einer Sonderklausur des AfD-Arbeitskreises Außen für dieses Wochenende. Was der Fall Rahr über die echte […]

MacGregor said she agreed to the meeting in an effort to “educate” the party leadership and deter them from an exit from the European energy market. According to MacGregor, the National Rally’s proposals ahead of a 2024 snap parliamentary election were a wake-up call for Engie and other energy firms. “We suddenly thought: ‘Oh my […]

Eurostat data shows Italy’s deficit was 3.1 percent last year, 0.1 percentage points above the EU’s threshold, leaving the government in a so-called excessive deficit procedure (EDP) — a red flag that Brussels plants on offending countries until they rein in their spending sufficiently. Italy is set to overtake Greece as the most indebted country […]

BRUSSELS — A descendant of the founder of Italian oil giant Eni wants to sue Giorgia Meloni’s government for using his family name in a major funding program investing across the African continent, the Italian press reported on Wednesday. According to the Italian daily La Stampa, Pietro Mattei issued a cease and desist letter to […]

Dans un entretien à POLITICO, le PDG de la première chaîne française, Rodolphe Belmer, appelle à réguler plus fortement YouTube, tout en desserrant la pression sur les acteurs audiovisuels traditionnels. Il balaye aussi la proposition de Mistral de rémunérer les créateurs via une licence globale. Apr 2 8 mins read

Insgesamt wird im AccelerateEU-Plan eine beschleunigte Abkehr von fossilen Brennstoffen und eine Hinwendung zu sauberem Strom betont. „Koordinierung ist der Schlüssel“, schrieb die Kommission am Mittwoch in einer Pressemitteilung und erklärte, dass die erste Priorität darin bestehe, die Befüllung von Gasspeichern, die Freigabe von Ölvorräten und „nationale Notfallmaßnahmen“ zu koordinieren, um die Versorgung mit Flugzeugtreibstoff […]

PARIS — Les députées MoDem Geneviève Darrieussecq et Josy Poueyto souhaitent que l’exploitation pétrolière continue après 2040 en France et veulent que de nouveaux permis de recherche puissent être autorisés “lorsque les intérêts fondamentaux de la Nation, la défense nationale ou la sécurité des approvisionnements stratégiques le justifient”. Une formule un peu large, mais “on […]

Overall, it emphasized an accelerated switch away from fossil fuels and toward clean electricity. “Coordination is key,” the Commission wrote in a press release Wednesday, saying the first priority would be to coordinate on gas storage filling, oil stock releases and “national emergency measures” to ensure supply of jet fuel and diesel. “Our AccelerateEU strategy […]