Along with France’s Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s Mario Draghi, Scholz is making his first trip to Ukraine since the Russian invasion. Follow DW for the latest. —3 European leaders go to Kyiv, expected to meet with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy —10,000 civilians remaining in Sievierodonetsk, governor says —Germany says can deliver weapons to Ukraine ‘end of July…
By betting on its national interests and pursuing business with Russia, Germany is destroying European solidarity, writes Jerzy Haszczyński, the head of the foreign desk of Rzeczpospolita daily. Vladimir Putin has recently relented. He is not threatening anyone, he is not occupying anyone, he is not gathering thousands of soldiers on someone’s border. He also…
Ireland and Lithuania have each agreed to take 10. Luxembourg has also offered to help. (Photo: noborder network) Calls in early May for EU states to help relocate asylum seekers from Italy have largely been ignored. The European Commission had appealed for national capitals to help Italy, after some 1,400 people arrived on the Italian…
The eurozone economy performed marginally better than expected in the first quarter of the year but it wasn’t enough to prevent the single currency area from officially falling into a double-dip recession. The eurozone’s gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.6 percent in the first three months of the year, compared with the previous quarter….