Editorial

It all happened so quickly. Donald Trump is in office, and Viktor Orbán now seems poised to clear the way for the extension of economic sanctions against Russia. Poland, which currently holds the EU Council Presidency, plans to add the rollover to the agenda for the EU ambassadors’ meeting on Friday, expecting a consensus to […]

Trump heralded his new term of office yesterday as a “golden age.” At least that is how it should be for the USA. For the rest of the world, it is an era of uncertainty that is dawning. In Brussels, people were eagerly waiting to see whether Trump would impose tariffs on the very first […]

There will be no shortage of symbols this Monday when Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the USA in Washington. One of them: contrary to custom, the Republican has also invited leading politicians from abroad to his inauguration. A rendezvous of right-wingers is traveling to Washington: among those expected are French […]

It will be her first public appearance after pneumonia when the Commission President travels to Berlin today for the meeting of EPP heads of state and government and opposition leaders. At the moment, the negotiators of host Friedrich Merz and Ursula von der Leyen are still working on the paper that the CDU candidate for […]

The Vice-President of the European Commission, Stéphane Séjourné, is traveling to Stuttgart today to visit suppliers and manufacturers in the beleaguered automotive industry. In the city of Mercedes, Porsche, Bosch, and Daimler Truck, Mayor Frank Nopper has been able to win over the Frenchman, who is responsible for prosperity and industrial strategy in the Commission, […]

The EU Commission had originally planned to present the Competitiveness Compass today. But the text is not quite ready yet, and the Commission President, who wanted to present it, is still recovering from her severe pneumonia. According to a draft “list des points prévus” – the Commission’s expected agenda for the coming weeks – the […]

On his first visit to Germany as Commissioner for Agriculture, Christophe Hansen is throwing himself into the hustle and bustle of the agricultural and food industry this week. Together with other officials, he is opening the Green Week in Berlin, one of the most important international trade fairs on the subject. The upcoming federal elections […]

If you were planning to travel to Brussels today, then hopefully you already know that public transport in Belgium will be paralyzed in large parts of the country due to a strike.Only around one in three IC trains will be running, according to the Belgian railroad company. Local transport in Brussels will also come to […]

How did you decide? Did you listen to Elon Musk’s conversation with Alice Weidel live to see how a US tech entrepreneur makes politics in Germany? Or did you decide against it, for example to avoid driving up the viewing figures for this event even further?Technically, you didn’t even have to be on X to […]

There is likely to be a bit of a farewell or even end-time atmosphere at the US base in Ramstein today. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will chair the Ukraine Contact Group meeting there for the last time before Donald Trump and his team take office on Jan. 20. It will probably also be […]