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6 days ago |
politico.eu | Zia Weise |Johanna Sahlberg
BRUSSELS — The European Commission’s climate chief successfully lobbied Germany’s coalition government to endorse a controversial measure that weakens the EU’s next climate target. Wopke Hoekstra, the EU executive’s climate commissioner, held talks with Germany’s Christian Democrats and Social Democrats (SPD) as they negotiated the climate chapter of their coalition agreement, two people who participated and another two people who were briefed on the talks told POLITICO.
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1 month ago |
politico.eu | Johanna Sahlberg |Chris Lunday
BERLIN — One of Germany's leading social democrats said Thursday that a potential U.S. move to ease sanctions on Russian energy could be justified in the interests of securing peace in Ukraine. “The U.S. sanctions [on Nord Stream 2 AG] were unlawful from the start,” the Social Democrats' energy spokesperson Nina Scheer said in a statement to POLITICO. “Lifting them would be in line with international law.
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2 months ago |
politico.eu | Johanna Sahlberg |Chris Lunday
Heinisch, from the energy and climate working group in the coalition negotiations, is tasked with shaping energy policy for a CDU-led German government under chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz.
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Feb 19, 2025 |
politico.eu | Johanna Sahlberg |Chris Lunday
BERLIN ― Germany’s far-left Die Linke party ― or The Left ― was struggling with declining support for years. So when its star politician, Sahra Wagenknecht, broke away at the end of 2023 to launch a new populist force, many wrote the party off for good. But ahead of a national election this Sunday, The Left is showing surprising signs of life: In recent polls it has surged back above the 5 percent threshold needed to win seats in the Bundestag, while its membership has grown to an all-time high.
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Jan 20, 2025 |
politico.eu | Joshua Posaner |Jacopo Barigazzi |Lucia Mackenzie |Johanna Sahlberg
Much of Europe is anxious about Donald Trump’s return to the White House, but there’s little to suggest the continent’s arms manufacturers expect a crisis. Europe is seeing a dramatic boost in defense budgets, driven by both long-standing pressure from Washington and the continent’s own reaction to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. That promises a glut of military contracts for weapons-makers in Europe as well as in the U.S., South Korea and elsewhere.
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