The former Deputy Speaker of the European Parliament, Delphine Colard, has been promoted to spokesperson. The Belgian has worked in the Parliament’s press service since 2010. Previously, she had also worked as a spokesperson in the Belgian Foreign Ministry. With Colard’s appointment, the press offices of all three EU institutions are now headed by female […]
Very few people in Brussels are able to show off a photo of their boss with Donald Trump on Air Force One. Bernd Biervert, the Head of Cabinet of EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič, has saved the picture from the plane on his cell phone. Visibly in a good mood, the Slovakian is standing next […]
The cabinets of the 26 EU Commissioners can now be viewed online on the EU Commission website. You can find information on who is a member of a cabinet and what function the person performs.Judith Wedel, currently press officer and office manager of Green MEP Rasmus Andresen, is leaving the European Parliament. On Monday, the […]
It was a surprising turn of events: Hong Kong’s wealthiest man, Li Ka-shing, announced at the beginning of March that his CK Hutchison Holdings would sell the ports it controlled on the Panama Canal to a BlackRock-led consortium for 19 billion US dollars.The move caused astonishment not only because it gave Donald Trump an easy […]
In December, when the world was still preparing for Donald Trump’s presidency, Foreign Affairs magazine published an outlook that sounded calm from a Chinese perspective. “China’s leadership is not afraid of Trump,” wrote Yan Xuetong, professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Tensions between the US and China will not go to zero, but the government […]
Fedir Shandor, a historian, philosopher, sociologist, professor, and volunteer soldier in Ukraine’s fight against Russia, is to become the country’s new ambassador to Hungary. According to reports in the Ukrainian media, Kyiv is filling a diplomatic post that has been vacant for more than two years with Shandor.The 49-year-old has become famous in Ukraine for […]
Since the summer of 2023, two defense ministers have been ousted one after the other in China, as well as a good dozen senior military and arms managers. None of them had such a long history with party leader Xi Jinping as Miao Hua. The 69-year-old belonged to the closest circle and was still far […]
The importance of energy supply for Tanzania is demonstrated by the fact that Energy Minister Doto Mashaka Biteko is also Deputy Prime Minister in President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s cabinet. At the African Energy Summit in Tanzania’s port city of Dar es Salaam on Monday, Biteko explained the relevance of a secure energy supply for his […]
In the middle of Berlin-Weißensee, in a side street with the beautiful name Langhansstraße, there is a magical place. You enter through a gate into a wide courtyard, at the end of which stands an old factory building with yellow bricks and red-edged windows. Climbing up to the second floor, you enter a spacious room […]