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‘We have not delivered’: Germany’s Wadephul criticizes slow EU enlargement progress (opens the original)
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BUDVA, Montenegro — German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul urged EU countries on Thursday to deliver on enlargement promises to the Western Balkans, warning that the bloc’s credibility and its influence in the region are at stake. “We are at a crossroads with the EU enlargement process,” Wadephul told reporters following a meeting in Montenegro held as part of the Berlin Process — in which EU and Western Balkan countries discuss economic integration and infrastructure in the region as well as r
Germany’s Wadephul meets Russia’s Lavrov amid tensions over ‘escalation’ (opens the original)
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NEW YORK — German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul held a surprise meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov at the U.N. on Saturday, just one day after he welcomed the U.S. invite for Russian President Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit. “Wadephul called on the Russian Federation to abandon its dangerous path of escalation toward Germany, Europe, and NATO,” a German official said after the meeting, which lasted about 30 minutes. The official was granted anonymity to discuss the meeting.
Finland’s Stubb warns Europe not to ‘overreact’ to Russian threats and sabotage (opens the original)
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NEW YORK — Finnish President Alexander Stubb has a message to European partners amid growing warnings of further Russian escalation: Keep calm and carry on. In recent days, top European officials have ever-more-loudly sounded the alarm about intensifying Russian hybrid warfare, with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warning that Moscow could send drones or missiles into the territory of NATO countries supporting Ukraine in “the next few months.” The head of the Czech security service warned that
22 countries back call to keep AI ‘under human control’ (opens the original)
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NEW YORK — Several European countries were among a group of 22 nations that adopted a declaration Monday saying that artificial intelligence “must remain under human direction, oversight and control” and suggesting to create a global supervisory regime. The declaration, adopted on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly this week, acknowledged AI’s “potential to improve lives, advance science and strengthen our economies” but warned that “the rapid development of frontier AI models
Friedrich Merz’s endgame: All the scenarios, rated (opens the original)
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BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces the threat of being ousted as soon as this weekend, just 16 months after entering office promising an ambitious reform agenda and vowing to bring back German leadership in Europe. Ahead of two key state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin this Sunday, where Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union risks painful defeats, senior party members are privately discussing whether Germany needs a so-called Kanzlertausch — a change o
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