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Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next?
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining…
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Putin’s buddy Orbán pushes EU to the brink over Ukraine
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán regularly pushes the EU to the cliff…
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Germany chokes on its own austerity medicine
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — Germans gave the world schadenfreude for a reason. And southern Europe…
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Europe’s power outage: How Israel-Hamas war exposed EU’s irrelevance
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. At least Europe no longer has to endure that hackneyed Henry Kissinger…
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Huge but glum: Poland’s opposition puts a million people on the streets
[ad_1] WARSAW — Poland’s opposition held an enormous rally in Warsaw and other cities on Sunday — claiming more than a million people took…
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Germany’s far-right ‘firewall’ cracks
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — The political maneuver shaking Germany’s postwar democratic order involves a…
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Germany has spent €55K on Merkel’s hair and makeup since she left office
[ad_1] The German government has splashed out almost €55,000 on former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hair and makeup since she left office in 2021.…
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Europe’s disunity over China deepens
[ad_1] BRUSSELS — Just when you thought Europe’s China policy could not be more disunited, the two most powerful countries of the European Union are now…
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Why China wants Macron to drive a wedge between Europe and America
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Chinese leader Xi Jinping had one overriding message for his visiting French…
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German Christian Democrats rewrite Merkel’s China playbook
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — Germany’s Christian Democrats, the country’s largest opposition group, are planning…
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Theater or Zelenskyy? How Macron keeps failing to lead European response to Ukraine war
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Western Europe last week to…
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3 ways Germany’s migration crisis is different this time around
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — This year, the number of refugees arriving to Germany is almost as high…
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Unloved at home, Emmanuel Macron wants to get ‘intimate’ with the world
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. PARIS — When French President Emmanuel Macron’s party lost its absolute majority…
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License to kill: How Europe lets Iran and Russia get away with murder
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — On a balmy September evening last year, an Azeri man…
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Merkel: There was nothing I could do about Putin
[ad_1] Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that she no longer saw any possibility of influencing Russian President Vladimir Putin toward the end of…
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Germany’s Scholz in China amid trade, Ukraine, rights issues
[ad_1] BEIJING — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Beijing on Friday for a one-day visit that has drawn criticism over China’s tacit support…
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Germany’s Scholz: The way we deal with China must change
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article BERLIN — Berlin must change the way it deals with China as the country lurches back…
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The awkward lunch: Macron prepares to snub Scholz in Paris
[ad_1] BERLIN/PARIS — Relations are now so icy between Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz, the leaders of the EU’s two economic powerhouses, that they…