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Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has maintained its second place in polls ahead of June's European Parliament elections, despite a wave of recent scandals that has threatened to damage the party's hopes. An online survey carried out by the INSA polling institute for the Bild am Sonntag newspaper had the AfD at 17%, unchanged from April. Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance was top at 30%, with the governing Social Democratic Party (SDP) at 14% and its coalition partners The Greens and the Free Democratic Party at 13% and 4% respectively. The AfD has been rocked by controver...
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German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir has called for the swift expansion of mandatory EU-wide origin labelling for food after the European elections. Unfortunately, the European commissioner responsible for the process has yet to press ahead despite promising to do so, he told dpa. "Given the European elections are being held in two weeks, this is no longer to be expected, so I have no illusions," he stated. The plans should not simply be quietly forgotten, Özdemir said, calling on the current European Commission to properly hand over the issue so that progress can finally be made. Özdemir s...
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German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir has called for the swift expansion of mandatory EU-wide origin labelling for food after the European elections. Unfortunately, the European commissioner responsible for the process has yet to press ahead despite promising to do so, he told dpa. "Given the European elections are being held in two weeks, this is no longer to be expected, so I have no illusions," he stated. The plans should not simply be quietly forgotten, Özdemir said, calling on the current European Commission to properly hand over the issue so that progress can finally be made. Özdemir s...
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has again responded to critics denouncing her willingness to cooperate with right-wing groups in the European Parliament. "It's about winning over the political forces that are so important for a majority in the centre," the EU leader told the German radio station Deutschlandfunk in an interview. She said she would work with democratic parties and politicians, no matter their political group in the parliament. "The criteria for me is that the MPs we want to work with are in favour of Europe, in favour of Ukraine against Russia, and in favour o...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has indirectly warned European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen not to try to secure another term in office after the European elections with the help of right-wing extremists. "It is clear to me that when the next [European] Commission is formed, it must not be based on a majority in parliament that also requires the support of right-wing extremists," Scholz said at a joint press conference with Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro in Berlin on Thursday. In this respect, he was "very saddened by the ambiguity of some of the political statements" rec...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has indirectly warned European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen not to try to secure another term in office after the European elections with the help of right-wing extremists. "It is clear to me that when the next [European] Commission is formed, it must not be based on a majority in parliament that also requires the support of right-wing extremists," Scholz said at a joint press conference with Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro in Berlin on Thursday. In this respect, he was "very saddened by the ambiguity of some of the political statements" rec...
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Germany on Friday gave a cautious reaction to a Polish-Greek proposal for a new European air defence shield. The initiative had been noted, said government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann, while referring to an existing German project to strengthen Europe's defence from aerial attack. Twenty-one countries are involved in the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) devised after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and intended to close gaps in NATO's defence shield for Europe. For example, there are plans to jointly place orders for air-defence technology with the defence industry. Ho...
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Germany on Friday gave a cautious reaction to a Polish-Greek proposal for a new European air defence shield. The initiative had been noted, said government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann, while referring to an existing German project to strengthen Europe's defence from aerial attack. Twenty-one countries are involved in the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) devised after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and intended to close gaps in NATO's defence shield for Europe. For example, there are plans to jointly place orders for air-defence technology with the defence industry. Ho...
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The leader of Germany's central bank, Joachim Nagel, expects a turnaround in interest rates at the European Central Bank meeting in June - but possibly only a single step for the time being. Nagel, the president of the German Bundesbank, emphasized on Friday that a first interest rate cut cannot be used as the basis for a "kind of autopilot," where the next interest rate cut must follow immediately. "I wouldn't want to assume that right now," he said, adding that nothing should be rushed and that growth should not be jeopardized. Nagel made his remarks at the meeting of finance ministers and c...
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Ministers for the European Union's member states on Friday gave their final approval to a much fought-over law requiring companies to protect human rights in their supply chains. The Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence - also known as the European Supply Chain Act - is intended to hold large companies accountable if they profit from child or forced labour outside the EU. No member states voted against the law, but 10 abstained, including Germany. Getting the law over the line took considerable diplomatic effort. It was particularly controversial within Germany's coalition gover...
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