Fedir Shandor becomes Ukrainian ambassador to Hungary
The scientist and volunteer soldier from Ukraine, Fedir Shandor, becomes the new ambassador to Hungary. Kyiv thus fills a long-vacant post.
By Redaktion Table
The scientist and volunteer soldier from Ukraine, Fedir Shandor, becomes the new ambassador to Hungary. Kyiv thus fills a long-vacant post.
By Redaktion Table
Chris Xu, founder of the Chinese fashion company Shein, has enjoyed a meteoric rise. Now, his business model is facing pressure. A man who is so reserved that his own employees are said to have problems recognizing him.
By Jörn Petring
Stefan Solle has been head of the Gesamtmetall office in Brussels for more than ten years. He has also been head of the International Affairs department there since 2022. He has a few suggestions for the EU Commission's upcoming Omnibus Regulation.
By Alina Leimbach
As an expert in data ethics, Sandra Wachter helped shape the AI Act. Next week she will be speaking at the AI Action Summit in Paris, and from March she will have a professorship in Potsdam.
By Corinna Visser
In November, a member of the powerful Central Military Commission, Miao Hua, was dismissed. His rise and fall demonstrate the mechanisms of the communist system, which functions through personal relationships, but is also corrupted by rope teams. Did Admiral Xi Jinping become too powerful?
By Redaktion Table
The core business of the Italian arms manufacturer Leonardo should be European cooperation, says CEO Roberto Cingolani. As a former Italian energy minister, he knows the hurdles that politics and industry sometimes have to overcome to achieve this.
By Gabriel Bub
Tanzania's Energy Minister Doto Mashaka Biteko opened the African Energy Summit in Dar es Salaam on Monday. The qualified teacher is an experienced energy politician and is campaigning for more use of natural gas. In doing so, Tanzania is taking a different path from its neighbor Kenya.
By Redaktion Table
The hype surrounding the Chinese AI industry and the start-up DeepSeek shows that China's development of an independent semiconductor industry is in full swing. Chen Tianshi's chip group Cambricon is at the forefront.
By Jörn Petring
André Aranha Corrêa do Lago has been nominated by Brazil as President of the next climate conference (COP30). The career diplomat has 25 years of negotiating experience and is well-connected. At COP30, he has the enormous task of involving the USA despite Trump and finding new approaches to the problematic issue of climate financing.
By Daniela Chiaretti
The new Bulgarian Prime Minister Rossen Scheljaskov traveled to Strasbourg for a series of introductory meetings. In Sofia, the former transport minister is holding together an unstable minority government characterized by foreign policy contradictions.
By Frank Stier