As we all know, clothes make the man – but they can also be a disguise. When Shenzhen media artist Fang Di works his day job, he has to wear a suit and tie. He often has to rush to an evening exhibition opening, still wearing his work clothes, and is not even recognized as […]
Suddenly, her relatives were gone – fled to Canada, far away from then-Czechoslovakia. Renata Alt was still a toddler in the late 1960s. However, the flight of her great-aunt and daughters in the wake of the Prague Spring shaped her own life path.Today, Alt, 58, is the chairwoman of the Committee on Human Rights and […]
When Cornelia Ernst tackles something, she does so with absolute conviction and full commitment. You can always hear the absolute desire to assert her positions in her words. She does not hide this characteristic, calling herself “fanatical when it comes to justice.” With this conviction, she has worked for the Left in the European Parliament […]
Romeo Franz’s time in the European Parliament began in 2018, when the Green politician replaced his party colleague Jan Philipp Albrecht, who moved to the post of Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment, Nature and Digitalization in Schleswig-Holstein. Franz stood for election in 2019 and returned to parliament. He will no longer be represented in […]
When the European Inventor Award (EPO) is presented in Malta on July 9, Cordelia Schmid can also hope to receive an award. The German scientist has been nominated in the Research category for her innovative work with computer-based image processing. She and her team are up against competitors from Malta and France for the Audience […]
Robert Gonnella had no idea that he would write Chinese football history when he came to Beijing in 1994 at the age of 26. A forwarding agent by training from Duesseldorf, he had secured a scholarship to study Chinese and logistics. But he didn’t want to be completely without football in a foreign country. Even […]
She likes the cliché of the “Iron Lady.” When asked about this, Kaja Kallas smiles very delicately and answers in perfect English: “Wasn’t British Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher a successful woman? Kallas manages to make this rhetorical reply sound self-confident rather than arrogant. And her success could prove her right. Her chances of soon becoming […]
In late 2023, Ku Chung-Hwa received a call from the head of Taiwan’s representative office in Germany, Representative Shieh Jhy-Wey. He asked if he was interested in co-chairing a newly created Taiwanese-German dialog platform. Ku didn’t think twice and agreed.The dialog platform was officially launched soon afterward, in December 2023, by the foreign missions of […]
Ahead of the Bonn meeting, Pakistani diplomat Nabeel Munir, who serves as Chairman of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), one of the two technical bodies of the UNFCCC, had one big ask: The two-week technical negotiations should have a smooth beginning. He got his wish. The session kicked off despite protests by Russia (on […]
Dragoș Tudorache will become head of the newly created AI Safety unit in the new AI Office. This is reported by Contexte. Tudorache, one of the two co-rapporteurs for the AI Act in the European Parliament, is to take over unit A.3 in the Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content and Technologies (CNECT). It is responsible […]