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Armin Laschet, CDU leader, and Markus Söder, CSU leader, after CDU-CSU meeting Tuesday to discuss chancellor candidate issue.

As German Court examines EU plan to issue debt, CDU & CSU argue about chancellor candidate

Last July, in a five-day marathon meeting of the European Council, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union agreed, with some modifications, to an economic recovery plan  prepared at their request by the European Commission. The plan, to be administered by the Commission through...

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Jim Scott on Resistance

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Reinstallation of Yale's African Art Galleries Complete

Yale University Art Gallery recently announced the completion of a yearlong reinstallation of a portion of the African art galleries. Breaking from a thematic arrangement of objects, the new displays now focus in on distinct African cultural zones, highlighting masterpieces from the collection...

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (third from left) and the leaders of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovenia in Vienna on March 16.

EU counters “vaccine nationalism” with “vaccine solidarity” for hard-hit eastern states

Speaking two weeks before the March 25-26 video conference of the European Council, the heads of state or government of the 27 member states of the European Union, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz levelled a strong critique of the EU’s system for distributing Covid vaccines among the member...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addressing the press after last Thursday’s European Council meeting.

With Covid cases surging and vaccinations lagging, EU leaders approve export controls

With much of the European Union experiencing another surge in Covid infections, some member states experiencing exceptionally high rates of infection, significant shortfalls in deliveries of vaccine doses, and rates of vaccination that, although increasing, lag far behind those in the UK and U.S...

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