The French president, Emmanuel Macron, the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, and the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, arrived this morning in Kiev, where they met with the Polish premier, Donald Tusk, for a joint visit to the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky. It is the first time that the leaders of the four countries go together in Ukraine and is the ...
Viktor Orban’s Hungary is accused of having conducted an espionage operation in Ukraine, an operation that could have endangered national security. Kiev’s security service has announced that he had dismantled a military intelligence network operating in the Oblast of Transcarpazia by arresting two agents. According to SBU, this is the first time that the Ukrainian authorities unmask a network of ...
Germany will carry on the very hard line on migrants, increasing controls at the border, rejecting anyone who is discovered to try to enter the country and denying the right of asylum. This was clearly reiterated by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who on his third day as a chancellor of Germany went to Brussels to meet the top of the European ...
The rejection of Friedrich Merz at the first vote on the chancellor investiture, a fact that has never happened before, “it was certainly not a good start”, but what is important is that “we immediately corrected the problem and shown that the majority holds”. Speaking in his office at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, in a pause of the plenary ...
The first appointment of Friedrich Merz in the aftermath of his confirmation as a German chancellor is in Paris, where he met French president Emmanuel Macron, the main European partner of Germany. Today’s face to face with the Head of the Elysée is the first step in strengthening the Franco -tesque engine, weakening of the misunderstandings between Macron and the ...
With the number of deaths in Gaza in continuous increase, an increasingly catastrophic humanitarian situation and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who speaks openly about “emptying” the strip from the Palestinians, something seems to be changing in the European position. So far dominated by a silence that has in fact represented a white card for Tel Aviv, now Europe shows the ...
Stop the imports of gas and oil from Russia within two years. This is the objective announced today by the European Commission, which aims to completely reset the purchase of gas, oil and materials connected to the production of Moscow nuclear energy by 2027, regardless of the developments of the war in Ukraine. This is because, after the Russian conflict, ...
Half a century of diplomatic relationships marked by a message, not by a handshake. Because the Chinese president Xi Jinping has blatantly declined the invitation addressed by Palazzo Berlaymont to meet the EU leaders in Brussels to honor 50 years of diplomatic relations, preferring a letter that reiterates the Beijing line: to strengthen commercial relations with the European Union, however ...
There were two returns of votes, and an urgent procedure to carry out the second on the same day, but in the end Friedrich Merz was elected by Germany. The CDU Christian-Democrats leader obtained 325 votes in favor of the Bundestag, exceeding the 316 threshold by nine votes. Rejection Surprisingly, this morning he had not been able to reach the ...
After weeks of negotiations, statements and votes within the parties of the majority, it was to be only a formal passage. Instead, it was not like that: the conservative Friedrich Merz was unable to be elected Germany’s chancellor in the first round of voting of the parliamentarians, even if on paper he could have counted on a sufficient majority of ...