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AfD wants to largely remove Krah from election campaign

AfD top candidate Maximilian Krah is to skip the European election campaign kick-off in Donaueschingen, but is otherwise allowed to stay. It had previously become known that the police had arrested an employee from Krah's Brussels office on suspicion of espionage.

By Franziska Klemenz

Commission investigates Chinese medical products procurement market

The EU Commission has launched a 9- to 14-month investigation into the public procurement market for medical products in China. This first-time deployment of the International Procurement Instrument (IPI) could lead to the disadvantage of Chinese medical products in the European procurement market.

By Marc Winkelmann

Thomas Heilmann, MdB, CDU/CSU Bundestagsfraktion, Deutschland, Berlin, Bundespressekonferenz, Thema: BVerfG Entscheidung zur 2./3. Lesung des GEG *** Thomas Heilmann, Member of the Bundestag, CDU CSU parliamentary group, Germany, Berlin, Federal Press Conference, Topic BVerfG decision on the 2 3 reading of the GEG

Bild: Imago / Metodi Popow

Urgent appeal against German Climate Change Act filed

Last summer, Thomas Heilmann temporarily halted the German Building Energy Act; now, he wants to do the same with the amendment to the Climate Action Act. Because the government's timetable is "unreasonable," he has filed an urgent appeal with the Federal Constitutional Court.

By Malte Kreutzfeldt

BSW seeks its own group in the EU Parliament

Due to programmatic overlaps with left and right-wing parties, Sahra Wagenknecht's party is finding it difficult to fit into the European party landscape. Leading candidate Fabio de Masi wants new alliances.

By Vera Weidenbach