Editorial

The final report of the Strategy Dialogue on Agriculture is as good as completed. The chairman of the commission, German university Professor Peter Strohschneider, wants to present the paper this week, according to reports. Maybe tomorrow, maybe Thursday. The final editorial changes are currently being made.There is still no leak. Only the participants in the […]

Under normal circumstances, a state election is not worth a headline in the international media. Yesterday evening, however, the Financial Times and Le Monde even sent out breaking news. The AfD’s victory in the state elections in Thuringia, the first for a radical right-wing party since the end of the Second World War, is being […]

Ursula von der Leyen is currently working intensively on the structure of her new Commission. The Commission President intends to present the results of her deliberations on the distribution of areas of responsibility to the group chairmen in the European Parliament on Sept. 11 or 12. The exact date has not yet been set, according […]

Annalena Baerbock will have a lot of explaining to do at today’s informal meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels: All eyes are on Germany, diplomats said in the run-up to the meeting. Is German support for Ukraine wavering? Some member states are alarmed after the letter from Minister Christian Lindner with the question marks over […]

On Sunday, new state elections will be held in Saxony and Thuringia, and the results have the potential to shake up the political landscape in Germany. If the polls prove correct, the AfD could become the strongest force in both federal states with around 30 percent (in Saxony, CDU Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer is still […]

No white smoke in France. It is still not clear who will lead the next government. Emmanuel Macron will begin a new round of talks today, Tuesday. However, with an announcement on Monday evening, the French president ensured that the fronts continue to harden. In the name of “institutional stability”, he ruled out the possibility […]

EU business is gradually waking up from its summer slumber this week. As usual, the foreign ministers will kick things off, with Annalena Baerbock and her colleagues meeting for an informal Council in Brussels on Thursday. As is well known, Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep Borrell had postponed the Gymnich meeting, which was originally planned for […]

Six weeks after the parliamentary elections, France still does not have a new government. President Emmanuel Macron had announced that he would not start forming a government until after the Olympic Games. The calculation behind this is probably to take the wind out of the sails of the left-wing NFP alliance after the election victory. […]

There is just over a week to go. Then the deadline set by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for the member states to nominate their candidates will expire. Seven member states have not yet made any proposals. Italy is one of them. There is speculation that Giorgia Meloni will put forward her party colleague […]

Today, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz is traveling to the Republic of Moldova. He will meet with President Maia Sandu and Prime Minister Dorin Recean in Chișinău. The talks are expected to focus not only on bilateral relations between the two countries, security policy and the impact of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine on […]