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President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on hundreds of billions worth of imported cars, hitting key trading partners and allies like Mexico, Canada, South Korea, Japan and Germany. The United States imported $214 billion worth of passenger cars in 2024, according to Commerce Department data.
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PARIS — Le secrétaire général de l'Elysée Alexis Kohler et le PDG de Nestlé Laurent Freixe sont convoqués les 8 et 9 avril prochains par la commission d'enquête sur les pratiques des industriels de l'eau en bouteille. Le président Laurent Burgoa (LR) et le rapporteur Alexandre Ouizille (PS) ont annoncé mercredi cette décision, prise "en...
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It's spring statement day — a bigger day than the Treasury probably ever wanted it to be — but definitely not a budget. With Chancellor Rachel Reeves on course to break her own fiscal rules, she'll lay out how she intends to find billions of pounds of extra savings. At the eleventh hour, it looks […]
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It's spring statement day — a bigger day than the Treasury probably ever wanted it to be — but definitely not a budget. With Chancellor Rachel Reeves on course to break her own fiscal rules, she'll lay out how she intends to find billions of pounds of extra savings. At the eleventh hour, it looks […]
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– Wehrpflicht vs. Wehrdienst: Wie Union und SPD in der Frage, wie mehr junge Menschen für die Bundeswehr rekrutiert werden können, nicht zusammenfinden und warum weiter Stillstand droht, bespricht Gordon Repinski mit Rixa Fürsen. – Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Pascal Reddig, Vorsitzender der Jungen Gruppe in der Unions-Bundestagsfraktion zu...
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A U.S. district judge blocked Kari Lake and the Trump administration from terminating Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's federal funding on Tuesday, granting the news organization a temporary win in its fight against the administration's efforts to close its doors. In a court filing, Judge Royce C. Lamberth granted RFE/RL's request for a temporary...
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Listen to Politics At Sam And Anne's on your podcast app Your morning politics digest with Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy. The countdown to Trump's tariff "Liberation Day” continues with the UK looking at its options ahead of announcing any trade deal. Is abolishing Britain's digital services tax still one of the […]
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– Parlamentarischer Pessimismus: Warum dem Deutschen Bundestag die Leichtigkeit fehlt – und wie sie zurückkommen kann. Gordon Repinski analysiert, warum im neuen Bundestag trotz notwendiger Ernsthaftigkeit die politische Lockerheit verloren gegangen ist. – Back to Bundestag: Lammert, Schmidt, Lang – Was aus gescheiterter Regierungsarbeit...
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The Trump administration officials who discussed potentially classified information in a Signal group chat had spent years attacking Democrats for taking brazen risks with government secrets. National security adviser Mike Waltz accidentally invited The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a text messaging group, the magazine reported on...
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Greenland did not invite an American delegation to come visit this week, the self-ruling island's government said Monday, flatly denying a claim made by President Donald Trump. Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, will land in the Danish territory on Thursday, alongside National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris...
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In seeking a historic peace accord between Russia and Ukraine, President Donald Trump has presented himself as an agnostic arbiter focused only on bringing the three-year war to an end. But his divergent approach to the parties — quick to apply pressure on a more vulnerable ally Ukraine, more patience and gentle coaxing for the aggressor […]
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A behind-the-scenes foreign policy disagreement between President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance spilled into public Monday, an extraordinary example of Vance breaking with Trump and other members of his administration and calling the timing of a recent military operation in Yemen "a mistake.” The private dispute was made public in...
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Listen to Politics At Sam And Anne's on your podcast app Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy present their guide to the day ahead in British politics. With two days to go until the spring statement, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been fighting off talk that she is taking Britain back to austerity. Over […]
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– Mehr Uneinigkeit bei den Verhandlungen als erwartet: wie jetzt "die da oben” den Zwist und Streit lösen müssen, der in den Arbeitsgruppen nicht ausgeräumt werden konnte. – Erneuter Angriff auf die Demokratie: Wie die EU mit der Türkei umgehen wird, nach der Verhaftung und Absetzung des Istanbuler Bürgermeisters und Erdoğan-Gegners...
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The pervasive fear and anger that have been rippling through federal agencies over Elon Musk's slashing approach to shrinking government deepened even further on Friday over the billionaire tech mogul's threat to root out and punish anyone who is leaking to the media. They've already taken every precaution they can for fear of retaliation: setting...
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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney called a snap election on Sunday, saying he needs a mandate from Canadians to take on U.S. President Donald Trump. "President Trump claims that Canada isn't a real country. He wants to break us so America can own us. We will not let that happen,” Carney said outside of […]
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Koalitionsverhandlungen, Grundgesetzänderung, Personalfragen – und viel Unruhe in der Berliner Politik hinter den Kulissen: In dieser Extra-Ausgabe analysieren Melanie Amann, Vize-Chefredakteurin des SPIEGEL, und Gordon Repinski die zentralen politischen Konflikte der Woche. Im Fokus: CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz – gelingt es ihm, die Union zu...
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Elon Musk's visit to the Pentagon on Friday will focus on the threat China presents to the region but won't include classified war plans, according to an official with knowledge of the plans. The meeting, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Indo-Pacific commander Adm. Sam Paparo — who will attend virtually from Hawaii — shows […]
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Regierungsbildung unter Hochdruck:Thorsten Frei, Erster Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer der Unionsfraktion, spricht über die Koalitionsverhandlungen zwischen CDU und SPD, die Kehrtwende in der Schuldenpolitik und geplante Sozialkürzungen. Welche Steuererleichterungen wird es geben, wann kommen sie? Was wird aus der Mütterrente? Wie sieht die...
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A lobbying frenzy, secret perks, and now police raids. Huawei's cozy ties in Brussels have exploded into a full-blown corruption scandal. As the European Parliament tries to rehabilitate its image post Qatargate, lawmakers are once again at the center of allegations. With offices sealed and arrests made, there are serious questions about how deep...
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