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NATO: How Mark Rutte is rallying allies behind the five-percent goal

The alliance’s new five-percent defense spending goal is now largely undisputed – only the timeline and the exact accounting of eligible expenditures remain open. NATO defense ministers will meet Thursday to smooth out the final obstacles ahead of the summit in The Hague in three weeks.

By Stephan Israel

Great power conflicts are the pandemic of our time

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was awarded the Politikaward as “Politician of the Year” on Monday evening in Berlin. The following is a slightly abridged version of the laudatory speech given by Belgian legal scholar and think tanker Marc De Vos.

By Julia Mertens

GPAI Code of Conduct: Lobbycontrol and CEO appeal to ombudswoman.

The NGO Lobbycontrol and its partner organization Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) have raised concerns about conflicts of interest in the creation of the Code of Conduct for General-Purpose AI – and claim the European Commission has failed to respond. The organization is now turning to the European Ombudswoman.

By Corinna Visser