According to voter polls, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković’s conservative HDZ party is likely to be the strongest force in Croatia’s parliamentary elections on Wednesday. Three Croatian television stations unanimously reported that HDZ was in first place with 58 parliamentary seats out of a total of 151, followed by the left-liberal opposition alliance Rijeke Pravde (Rivers […]
In view of increasing global threats, the European Union must increase the capacities of the defense industry within the next five years. This was stated by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in her keynote speech at the European Defense and Security Summit in Brussels. The focus will be on innovation. “We will focus on […]
Following the launch of TikTok Lite in France and Spain, the Commission is demanding a risk profile for the short video platform’s new app. It has set the company a deadline of 24 hours, as the authority announced on Wednesday. There are concerns regarding the possible effects of the app on children and young people. […]
Since my recent trip to Beijing for the 25th annual China Development Forum (CDF) – the country’s most important public conference – one question has been on my mind: What’s the point?I raise this question as a CDF insider; I am the longest-attending foreign conference participant and have been to every CDF except the very […]
Almost 900,000 people voted for the satirical party “Die Partei” in the 2019 European elections. This brought satirists Martin Sonneborn and Nico Semsrott into the European Parliament. Today, the two no longer speak to each other due to differences of opinion.Nico Semsrott, the man in the hoodie, joined the Greens, who probably appreciated the newcomer […]
The Leopoldina Focus Group “Climate and Energy” advises the German government to also develop onshore sites for the underground storage of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. In the ad hoc statement “Key elements of carbon management,” published on Wednesday, the scientists recommend, among other things, promoting R&D into carbon capture in industrial processes and direct […]
According to an investigation, the planned new EU debt rules could stand in the way of investments in areas such as health, education and environmental protection. According to a report published on Monday by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the New Economics Foundation (NEF), only Denmark, Sweden and Ireland will be able to […]
The SPD’s lead candidate for the European elections, Katarina Barley, has spoken out in favor of limiting the conversion of apartments into vacation homes, for example for the online platform Airbnb. Speaking in Berlin on Monday, Barley spoke of a bad habit “that in many areas, especially in contested residential areas, a lot of living […]
According to a decision by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, Xi Jinping has removed and appointed the following ambassadors:Cao Zhongming was appointed ambassador to Singapore, replacing Sun Haiyan. Ji Ping was appointed ambassador to Madagascar, replacing Guo Xiaomei. Zhang Bin was appointed ambassador to Angola, replacing Gong Tao. Xu Xueyuan was appointed […]
At the start of his eleven-day China visit, former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang Party (KMT) called for more dialogue and cooperation between Taiwan and China. During his first stop in Shenzhen in southern China, Ma met with Song Tao, Chairman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, among others.Song passed […]
