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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz doubled down Monday on pushing through unpopular reforms to Europe’s largest economy
after a far-right party surged to a landslide victory in a regional election, with a very good chance of forming the first far-right state government since the Nazi era.
Merz said his center-right Christian Democratic Union was “deeply shocked”
by what he called “the most serious election defeat that the CDU has had for years, for decades.”
But he indi…

German chancellor under pressure after AfD win in state polls
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under pressure after the far-right Alternative Germany (AfD) party achieved a significant victory in a regional election. AfD nearly secured a majority in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, marking a potential shift for Germany, which has avoided far-right leadership since the Nazi era. Merz, who leads the center-right Christian Democrats, had promised to weaken AfD but failed. The victory complicates Germany's political landscape amid challenges like Russia's aggressi…

Trump has recently clashed with a string of European leaders -- most lately Italy's Giorgia Meloni.
But luckily for NATO he still seems on good terms with Turkey's veteran leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"Except for the fact that it was being held in Turkey by President Erdogan, I don't think I would have gone to it," Trump said last week.
The summit venue may also appeal: Erdogan's gargantuan marble-lined presidential palace.

How NATO will try to keep Trump happy at Ankara summit
US President Donald Trump will join fellow NATO leaders for a summit in Ankara next week after lashing out over their response to his war with Iran.

“We don’t need Canada, they need us,” Trump declared.
News this week of Donald Trump’s escalating trade spat with Canada has everyone worried.
Political and economic leaders and observers labeled the move an act of “hubris” ,
blamed Trump’s “ego”,
and called the escalation “insanity”.
But many are hoping that Trump’s imposition of 50% tariffs on Canadian goods this week will not last long,
with the upcoming midterm elections as a pivotal reason the plan m…

Detroit despairs as ‘insanity’ of Trump’s Canada trade war punishes city
Unpopular new policy comes as midterms loom and control of Congress could be decided by several Michigan races

Here is the transcript of the meat of Carney’s proposal for a deeper Canada and EU partnership in text. Full text of the speech at the second link. The 2 minute video clip got a chuckle (“better manners”).
“So let me say plainly what Canada proposes.
Canada and Europe should secure our strategic autonomy through deep cooperation in the full range of strategic capabilities, including critical minerals, defence industrial capacity, AI and compute, energy security, space, and payments.
We should move toward seamless, digital trade in non-agricultural goods and a wide range of services.
We should deepen our people-to-people ties, allowing our youth to live, work and study where they want on either side of the Atlantic.
Canadian membership of Erasmus can give your students, and ours, more opportunity to learn at some of the world’s top universities, to broaden their horizons, and to build lasting ties that will sustain our alliance for the future.
Canadian membership of the next generation of Horizon would allow us to pool resources, cooperate on frontier technologies, and leverage our world-class research institutes and universities.
Yesterday, President von der Leyen announced a “new European Corporation on Critical Raw Materials” to obtain and stockpile the material needed for electric cars, chips and batteries, clean technology, and defence. Canada has deposits of over 34 critical minerals, and we are among the top producers of the 10 most essential for the world’s energy transition. Our alliance can help fill Europe’s need for reliable supply, Canada’s need for advanced processing capabilities, and our common objective to build complete value chains.
Canada can contribute LNG and hydrogen at large scale to support Europe’s energy security including by developing and leveraging new port infrastructure in the High North and on our East Coast. We, in turn, can benefit from your leadership in many clean energy technologies.
We can pool new sovereign compute capacity and build more secure broadband connections between Europe and Asia via our common geography.
Canada and Europe can join forces to develop AI safety protocols, coordinate common standards, and strengthen transparency, all while developing applications so our governments and companies can serve our citizens better.
Canada and Europe should also consider exploring an integrated market for financial services to broaden choice and reduce costs for our citizens, improve access to capital for our companies while maintaining our world-leading financial resilience.”
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