Frankfurter Allgemeine: Mixed results for prepaid debit cards for asylum-seekers. The prepaid debit card for asylum-seekers and people with “tolerated” status – agreed by Germany’s federal and state governments in autumn 2023 – has now been rolled out in many municipalities, but in very different forms, the FAZ reports. The card was meant to cut […]
Welt: Meloni explains Meloni. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni defends her right-wing stance in Die Welt, describing it as a conscious rejection of leftist utopias and a supposedly moralizing Left that wants to dictate how others should live. Her Christian, national, and family identity, she says, forms the foundation of her convictions. The Right, she […]
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: New attempt for European payment alternative. Europe wants to become more independent of US providers such as PayPal, Visa and Mastercard with its own payment service, writes the FAZ. The service, called Wero and launched in 2024, is currently active in France, Belgium and Germany and is now also planning to enable […]
Guardian: NATO rearmament to cause massive rise in emissions. A new study warns that NATO’s planned rearmament could increase global CO2 emissions by up to 200 million tons per year – equivalent to the annual emissions of Pakistan. Military activities are particularly harmful to the climate, and there is a lack of transparency, reports The […]
Radio Prague International: Former Czech PM Babiš back in court. The Czech Supreme Court in Prague has reopened the “Stork’s Nest” case against former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. Babiš, a billionaire, is accused of fraudulently removing the project’s management company from his Agrofert conglomerate in 2007 to illegally obtain an EU subsidy of 50 million […]