At first, it only applied to leading CP officials, dissidents and ethnic minorities such as Tibetans or Uyghurs. Then followed CEOs of state-owned companies, and finally investment bankers and university professors. But now, the Communist Party’s ideological control mania is also targeting large sections of the average population – from teachers to ordinary students. The […]
According to a media report, the European Commission plans to completely reorganize the EU budget. This emerges from an internal presentation, as the FAZ reported on Sunday. The largest budget items, aid for farmers and support for structurally weak regions, are to be abolished. They each make up a third of the budget of around […]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has put a stop to the processing of certain personal user data by Facebook’s parent company Meta. “An online social network such as Facebook may not use all personal data for an unlimited period of time and without distinguishing according to their nature,” the judges wrote in their ruling […]
Minister Robert Habeck sees comprehensive reporting obligations as a problem for the German economy and is calling for a fundamental rethink. The way forward is not to make individual improvements, “but to fire up the chainsaw and cut the whole thing down”, Habeck said, also referring to the Supply Chain Act, at a business day […]
The trial against Marine Le Pen and other French right-wing nationalists has begun at a criminal court in Paris. The 28 defendants are accused of embezzling public funds. The central accusation is that Le Pen’s party received money for parliamentary assistants from the European Parliament, who would have actually worked partly or entirely for the […]
When Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China at exactly three o’clock in the afternoon on 1 October 1949, it was almost unimaginable that his larger-than-life portrait would still be watching over Tiananmen Square 75 years later. In fact, decades after his death, Mao continues to shape the country and the ideological direction of […]
After taking a stake in Commerzbank, Unicredit CEO Andrea Orcel is keeping all options open – but emphasizes the advantages of a cross-border merger. “Commerzbank is an investment. Nothing else.” There is currently no takeover bid, Orcel said at a Bank of America conference in London.However, a merger with the Frankfurt-based DAX group could become […]
Google has filed a complaint with the EU Commission against Microsoft for alleged anti-competitive behavior. The Alphabet subsidiary announced on Wednesday that the software group’s cloud division was exploiting the dominant market position of the Windows Server operating system to make it more difficult for customers to switch to other providers. They would have to […]
Does Europe still have a place at the top of the world in the future? Our freedom and prosperity depend on the path Europe takes now and whether science and research lead the way. The new EU Commission faces major tasks. Ever since Mario Draghi’s report on the EU’s competitiveness, it has been clear that […]
On Wednesday morning at 08:44 local time, the Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile, equipped with a dummy explosive, flew in a high arc into the Pacific. The weapons test came as a huge surprise to the world public. Spokesperson Zhang Xiaogang from the Ministry of Defense, however, spoke of pure “routine”: the test was “in accordance […]
