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Dancing with the far right doesn’t pay off – POLITICO
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Kristina Kausch is a senior fellow and resident representative, Spain, at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Vassilis Ntousas is the head of European operations at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Sunday’s general election in Spain was a turning point in Spanish politics — but in much a different way than anticipated.
The European Union’s fourth largest economy
Is Kemi Badenoch still the future? UK Tories aren’t so sure – POLITICO
LONDON — It’s been quite a year for Kemi Badenoch, propelled from little-known minister to Tory leadership hopeful, to Cabinet big-hitter and beyond.
The U.K. business and trade secretary used last July’s Conservative Party leadership contest to launch herself from relative obscurity to political stardom, and 12 months later finds herself firmly seated within the top tier of Rishi Sunak’s ministers.
For many, Badenoch is now the next great hope for British conservatism, her right-wing sensibilities, dry sense of humor
The Potemkin lobby shaping the EU’s agricultural policy – POLITICO
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s biggest farming lobby claims to represent all the bloc’s agricultural workers, but Stela Zămoiu doesn’t believe it speaks for farmers like her.
Zămoiu, 61, remembers when the land around her was full of smallholders. Today, her three hectares in eastern Romania are surrounded by large, industrial farms. When she dies, she expects her property to be swallowed up by one of her neighbors.
“The village has grown old,” she says. “After the elders die, the
2023’s most important election: Turkey – POLITICO
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For Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, next month’s election is of massive historical significance.
It falls 100 years after the foundation of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s secular republic and, if Erdoğan wins, he will be empowered to put even more of his stamp on the trajectory of a geostrategic heavyweight of 85 million people. The fear in the West is that he will see this as his moment to push
How Charles Michel lost the room – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — Her patience finally exhausted, the Danish prime minister rounded on Charles Michel.
Mette Frederiksen had expected a certain amount of disorder. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit that day to Brussels had upended the usual business of the European Council summit she was attending, along with the European Union’s 26 other national leaders.
But with evening falling, the Ukrainian president gone and the EU Quarter emptying out, the conversation in
How Boris Johnson’s departure paved the way for a grand Brexit bargain – POLITICO
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LONDON — It was clear when Boris Johnson was forced from Downing Street that British politics had changed forever.
But few could have predicted that less than six months later, all angry talk of a cross-Channel trade war would be a distant memory, with Britain and the EU striking a remarkable compromise deal over post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland.
Private conversations with more than a dozen U.K. and
How McKinsey steers the Munich Security Conference – POLITICO
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MUNICH, Germany — Many of the biggest names in business and politics will cross the red carpet of the stately Bayerischer Hof hotel this weekend for the Bavarian capital’s annual Munich Security Conference. But to identify the real power behind the A-list event, turn to page 169 of the conference’s annual bible, the “Munich Security Report.”
There, in baby blue letters at the bottom half of the page, is
Western powers pressure China’s UN food boss to grip global hunger crisis – POLITICO
ROME, Italy — The Chinese head of a crucial U.N. food agency has come under intense scrutiny by Western powers, who accuse him of failing to grip a global hunger crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Qu Dongyu, director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, has alienated the Western powers that are the agency’s main backers with his technocratic leadership style and connections to Beijing that, in their view, have damaged its credibility and capability to mitigate the
Can a pan-European health data space transform cancer care? – POLITICO
The COVID pandemic accelerated global research collaboration at an unprecedented scale2. In the race for a vaccine, scientists worked together across borders on genomic sequencing of variants3 and case reports to better understand and respond to the fast-evolving viral threat — highlighting the value of responsible data sharing4.
The European Health Data Space (EHDS), launched by the European Commission, aims to build on this momentum to transform access, use and sharing of health data within
France’s Mr. Privacy turns cybersnooper – POLITICO
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PARIS — Eric Leandri was once the darling of France’s tech sector, lauded as a defender of digital privacy and a paragon of Europe’s ability to compete against Silicon Valley.
Qwant — the search engine Leandri co-founded in 2011 — received more than €50 million in French and European public funding and