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In an interview with Deutsche Welle, Olaf Scholz, the Social Democrats’ candidate in the upcoming general election, said that Russia and others must “accept that there will be further European integration.”   Given that Scholz namechecked Russia, he can only mean more European integration in Eastern Europe. Given that most …

Johnson and Sunak sparked anger on Sunday after it was revealed that they would not self-isolate, despite having come into contact with Health Minister Sajid Javid, who tested positive for Covid-19 this weekend. Though the government’s own NHS Test and Trace program requires Brits who have come into contact with …

Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace “as contacts of someone who has tested positive” for Covid-19, No. 10 confirmed on Sunday. But they will not observe full self-isolation protocols in response. Instead, the top officials “will be participating in the …

Speaking to Austrian media, Kurz maintained he had not committed any wrongdoing, maintaining that he did not provide the parliament with any misleading statements. “I cannot with the best of my will imagine that in a country like Austria you will be judged for something you haven’t done,” Kurz told …

Speaking to Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz spoke out against the idea of new restrictive measures aimed against Moscow. While, according to him, “the sanctions already imposed by the EU were the right thing to do,” it is now “important to focus on dialogue. Peace on …

The CDU executive board held a six-hour virtual debate on Monday evening to discuss whether to nominate Laschet or CSU leader Markus Soeder as the alliance’s candidate to replace Angela Merkel as leader of the German government. Merkel is not seeking re-election and has distanced herself from the process of …

The CDU committee convened in Berlin on Monday to discuss who should run from the party in the September general election. Its chairman, Armin Laschet, received overwhelming support from the party top brass, local media reported. The nod of approval pours cold water on the ambition of Markus Soeder, who …

Spring has arrived with a burst of new growth for the German Greens, giving rise to the biggest potential upset in Germany’s politics since the war – the election of the nation’s first Green Chancellor.   One poll has the ruling Christian Democrats and Christian Socialist alliance just two points ahead …

Merkel “had no choice” but to pull the plug on the restrictions after facing protests from the public, her political opponents and even her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Maximilian Krah, a European Parliament member for Alternative for Germany (AfD), told RT. “Her politics on Covid has completely failed. …

“Deliveries are not happening in line with population,” Kurz told a press conference organized at short notice on Friday. He added that the situation would likely be “exacerbated in the coming months” and said the differences between member states could become “even greater.” The chancellor said that delivery data for the …