Spain has one-third of the import capacity for LNG in the EU. The government wants to help avert the threat of supply bottlenecks in Germany, but so far it lacks the pipelines to do so. New pipelines are supposed to change that.
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The world's longest tunnel is supposed to be the answer to the persistent water shortage in northern China. In the future, engineers plan to divert water from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River into the controversial canal system that has supplied the Chinese capital with drinking water for years.
By Christiane Kuehl
Since last week, self-driving cabs in the People's Republic are no longer a vision, but a reality on the roads. In Wuhan and Chongqing, these autonomous vehicles are officially allowed to take passengers from A to B in designated urban areas.
By Redaktion Table
Concerns about the economy have grown increasingly acute, which is why China's central bank is moderately cutting interest rates. However, experts consider the move largely symbolic, because the economy does not lack capital. Its target group was probably not so much the banks as the public.
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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.
By Markus Grabitz
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.
By Redaktion Table
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.
By Fabian Peltsch
How effective are the sanctions imposed by the EU and Western countries on the Russian Federation to force the country to leave Ukraine? Everyone involved was aware from the outset that these can never be 100% effective – but there are particularly glaring loopholes when it comes to hardware and software.
By Falk Steiner
Europe was not at the top of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's priority list when he came to the traditional summer Q A session at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin yesterday (Thursday). The chancellor focused on German issues: Winter energy crisis, burdens on citizens and a renewed promise: "You'll never walk alone."
By Redaktion Table
Chinese researchers have unveiled a helmet that can interpret brainwaves so accurately that conclusions can be drawn about the just consumed content, such as pornography. The technology potentially offers new possibilities for political surveillance.
By Frank Sieren
