Decisions on real estate for the EU Parliament are due in the fall: At the Brussels office, the parliament building is to be renovated; at the Strasbourg office, the purchase of a building in the immediate vicinity of the plenary hall is on the table.
Von Markus Grabitz
Europa importiert weiterhin in großem Umfang Metalle wie Nickel, Kupfer und Aluminium aus Russland – von Unternehmen, die Putin-nahen Oligarchen gehören. EU und Bundesregierung müssen diese Importe stoppen und die Rohstoffpolitik drastisch ändern, schreibt Michael Reckordt von der NGO PowerShift.
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Samuel Chu is one of the last activists of the Hong Kong democracy movement with direct political influence. In the US Congress, his political work has even been so successful that Hong Kong authorities issued an arrest warrant against him based on the National Security Act – the first one ever issued against a US citizen. Chu's new goal: Bringing the Tiananmen artwork "Pillar Of Shame" to Berlin and committing the protest movement to long-term strategies. Fabian Peltsch spoke with Samuel Chu.
Von Fabian Peltsch
Rising infrastructure spending is supposed to help China's weak growth get back on its feet. However, unlike the situation after the financial crisis in 2008, money is not being poured into roads, railways and airports, but into new power grids, cloud computing, 5G and Big Data.
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