Are you already or still looking for an unusual Christmas gift? Then perhaps the draft report on “Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age” by the select committee is just the thing if the presentee is interested in science or fiction. It states that “AI is the control center of the new data plane surrounding us and therefore […]
Thursday was Germany Day in Brussels. Two freshly minted ministers of the new traffic light government – Annalena Baerbock and Nancy Faeser – paid their inaugural visit to the EU institutions. Foreign Minister Baerbock was in the spotlight. After all, she is the first woman to hold this office, and after all, for some time, […]
After 20 years, the European Central Bank wants to revise the design of the euro banknotes. How exactly, that is currently still open. Until now, the banknotes have contained stylized European symbolism – and not, as is often the case in Europe, the likenesses of important people.They should be designed so that Europeans can better […]
It is exciting these days to see the Union (CDU/CSU) in an exceptional situation – in the role of opposition parties. Understandably, CDU/CSU politicians are feverishly looking for topics to hit the traffic light parties, which intend to maintain professionalism and harmony, where it hurts. Now Hendrik Wüst, Armin Laschet’s successor as Minister-President in NRW, […]
Sebastian Kurz has done many things differently from his predecessors. He has repositioned his party, the ÖVP. He was only 31 when he became Austria’s chancellor. Independent observers also see him as an exceptional political talent. To his admirers – including Bild (“We need someone like that!”) – he is seen as a modern conservative.And […]
“I want my life back,” Luxembourg’s economy and health minister said about a year ago when he quit the government. Before that, the very liberal and business-friendly socialist deputy prime minister – also known for buying land for Greek yogurt producers – got himself elected to quite a few boards of directors. After that, Etienne […]
Andreas Scheuer and Markus Söder not only share party membership, both CSU politicians also have a penchant for hidden nastiness. In the case of Söder, CDU rival Armin Laschet was often the target of verbal jibes; in Scheuer’s case, it’s now the Greens: “It’s nice that the traffic light coalition is continuing my work of […]
A great many photos were made today. Scholz, Lindner, Habeck, Baerbock. Coalition. A new start. A joint photographer’s parade of the coalition group. Commonalities and particularities.Only one is hiding in plain sight. Just behind the television cameras on the left edge of the harbour hall, where the happy coalition partners are standing, someone has crawled […]
David Sassoli just about made it. Actually, the President of the European Parliament wanted to go back to normal. “Back to normal” without home office and online voting – that was Sassoli’s announcement for the plenary session beginning on Monday in Strasbourg. But the Italian had forgotten about the MEPs. Many parliamentarians not only have […]