This year marks the end of an era for Helmut Scholz: on 9 June, his name was no longer on the ballot paper for the 2024 European elections for the first time. With 2.7 percent, the German Left achieved its worst result ever in the European elections. Scholz calls the result “very disappointing and bitter.” […]
The Chinese artist Gao Zhen (高兟) has been arrested in China – for sculptures he created many years ago. The charge: “Attacking the reputation and honor of heroes and martyrs.” The sculptures in question once brought Gao Zhen and his younger brother Gao Qiang (高强) international fame. They take a critical look at China’s history […]
When Yang Yu moved to rural Germany as a teenager in the mid-1980s, he was surprised by many things. But none were as surprising as the fact that his classmates from the richest homes were listening to anti-capitalist punk music.Yang had moved with his family from Beijing because his father, a German studies graduate and […]
Retail, care, logistics – 60 percent of all employees in the European labor market work in the private service sector. They generate 60 percent of the continent’s GDP. Hardly anyone knows the state of the sector as well as Oliver Roethig. Since May 2011, the German has been Regional Secretary of UNI Europa, the European […]
When it comes to who could become the next EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Luxembourg’s Christophe Hansen is one of the most frequently mentioned names in Brussels. Last week, the Luxembourg government nominated the EPP politician as EU Commissioner. Although it is still unclear which dossiers will go to which countries, Commission President Ursula von der […]
Half-timbered houses, coziness, lots of nature: The small town of Bietigheim-Bissingen, which Alexander Pollich is turning his back on, is tranquil. Things will be less cozy for him in his new home in Shanghai. The pulse of global innovation beats there, and very quickly. From here, Pollich will take on a truly mammoth task on […]
Bartjan Wegter has been in office as the EU’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator since the beginning of March. Just a few days after he took office, the Central Asian IS offshoot ISKP carried out a devastating terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Moscow, not far from the EU’s borders.This was not unexpected for […]
Brian Niccol will be given a private jet so that he can fulfill his new role as Starbucks CEO. Niccol is said to still live in California, despite the US coffee chain’s headquarters being much further north in Seattle. It would perhaps be better for Starbucks’s future if Niccol used his jet for regular trips […]
China has a new richest man: Colin Huang, the founder of Pinduoduo and Temu, has overtaken the previous leader Zhong Shanshan, the founder of Nongfu Spring, with an estimated fortune of 48.6 billion US dollars. This rise is all the more remarkable, considering that Huang only founded Pinduoduo in 2015 and is now, less than […]
Hans Henri Kluge’s first term of office as Regional Director for Europe at the World Health Organization (WHO) could hardly have been more eventful. The Belgian doctor took up his post on February 1, 2020, and the coronavirus pandemic spread rapidly just a short time later. As soon as the worst was over, Russia launched […]