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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Tim Ross |Clea Caulcutt |Dan Bloom |Nette Nöstlinger
LONDON — Who can stop the Iran war? With Donald Trump poised to order a bombing raid on Iran’s subterranean nuclear facilities — and Israel urging him on — it seems unlikely that the answer could be three European ministers and an Estonian politician with the title of EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy.
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | James Angelos |Eli Stokols |Nette Nöstlinger
Le chancelier allemand Friedrich Merz doit se préparer à une embuscade du même genre que celles subies par les dirigeants de l’Ukraine et de l’Afrique du Sud lorsqu’il rencontrera le président américain Donald Trump dans le Bureau ovale jeudi.
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | James Angelos |Eli Stokols |Nette Nöstlinger
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz needs to be prepared for an ambush of the kind endured by the leaders of Ukraine and South Africa when he meets U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday.
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.com | James Angelos |Eli Stokols |Nette Nöstlinger
This doesn’t necessarily mean Merz should be losing sleep, as there are early signs the two wealthy businessmen (and golfers) could well hit it off. The new chancellor, an avowed transatlanticist, is pledging to push Germany in a radically new direction when it comes to matters dear to Trump’s heart, promising a massive increase in military spending and a crackdown on migration.
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Gordon Repinski |Nette Nöstlinger |Koen Verhelst
BERLIN — The EU is ready to team up with the U.S. to impose simultaneous sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin to pressure him toward peace negotiations, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview. “We have discussed how we can implement European sanctions and American sanctions at the same time if Putin does not sit down at the negotiating table,” von der Leyen told the Berlin Playbook Podcast.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com.pl | Nette Nöstlinger |Rasmus Buchsteiner
Lars Klingbeil, obecnie wicekanclerz i minister finansów Niemiec, odegrał kluczową rolę w odbudowie pozycji SPD po historycznej porażce wyborczej Jego zdolności negocjacyjne przyczyniły się do wypracowania porozumienia, które umożliwiło SPD kontrolę kluczowych ministerstw w koalicji z konserwatystami Historia życia Klingbeila, obejmująca trudne doświadczenia osobiste i karierę polityczną, wpływa na jego podejście do rządzenia i decyzji finansowych Stoi obecnie przed wyzwaniem pogodzenia...
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Nette Nöstlinger |Rasmus Buchsteiner
BERLIN — Lars Klingbeil’s leap to the highest rung of German politics began on a day of unprecedented defeat for his center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). Klingbeil, as one of the SPD’s national leaders during the reign of former Chancellor Olaf Scholz, undeniably bore much of the responsibility for the party’s worst national election result in its modern history in a February snap election.
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1 month ago | 
finance.einnews.com | Nette Nöstlinger |Rasmus Buchsteiner
Germany’s Merz vows to build Europe’s strongest army “Our friends and partners also expect this from us, and what’s more, they are actually demanding it,” said the new chancellor.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Chris Lunday |Nette Nöstlinger
BERLIN — Friedrich Merz will be German chancellor after winning a vote in the Bundestag Tuesday afternoon, following an embarrassing initial failure that plunged Berlin into political turmoil. The conservative leader, who has been weakened by the unprecedented first round setback, secured 325 votes in the dramatic second round — just above the 316 needed to win.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Nette Nöstlinger |James Angelos |Chris Lunday
BERLIN ― Friedrich Merz’s dramatic German parliament defeat in a vote to make him chancellor is yet more evidence of the fragility of his coalition. The loss is not fatal ― another vote is likely to take place within days ― but the outcome is humiliating for a politician who was already struggling to retain support two months after the country’s election, and amid brickbats hurled by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
