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EU deal: What the agreement with Switzerland means for research

At the start of 2025, Swiss researchers will once again have full access to the EU's research framework program, Horizon Europe. It remains unclear whether they will also be allowed to participate in FP10 from 2028. The agreement would first have to pass a referendum.

By Tim Gabel

Defense White Paper: Where Andrius Kubilius encounters red lines

Andrius Kubilius is to present a White Paper on the future of European defense in the first 100 days. However, the EU Commissioner for Defense is battling against high expectations and the red lines of some member states. Which is why even the timing is a problem for Berlin.

By Stephan Israel

Chancellor Kickl? The consequences for the EU and the EPP

FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl is now negotiating a joint government with the ÖVP. His appointment as chancellor would shift the balance of power in the EU further to the right. For the Christian Democrats, the question of how to distance themselves from the right has taken on a new urgency.

By Till Hoppe

Cognitive warfare: The blind spot of defensive democracy

German politicians are setting the wrong priorities in the fight against fake news, says Natascha Zowislo-Grünewald from the Bundeswehr University in Munich. Instead of an "endless search" for bots or trolls, we need communicative resilience.

By Experts Table.Briefings

Lagodinsky runs for direct mandate for German Bundestag

Sergey Lagodinsky, Vice-Chairman of the Green Group in the European Parliament, may be about to move to the German Bundestag. The Pankow district association will vote on his candidacy on Wednesday. His rival is Stefan Gelbhaar, who is facing allegations of sexual assault.

By Markus Grabitz

Meloni, the Trump whisperer

It only lasted around five hours. But the unannounced visit by Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to Mar-a-Lago on Saturday evening shows the position that the right-wing foreign minister has already taken.

By Almut Siefert