President Biden on Wednesday mixed up which German leader he spoke to at a recent Group of Seven (G7) summit, the second time in a week he has mistakenly recounted meeting with a dead European leader. Biden told donors at a New York fundraiser a story about his trip to his first G7 meeting after…
Dignitaries and politicians bid farewell to the late German lawmaker Wolfgang Schäuble in a state ceremony in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, on Monday. French President Emmanuel Macron hailed Schäuble in a eulogy, saying that "Germany has lost a statesman, Europe has lost a pillar, France has lost a friend." Macron also evoked the recent death of Jacques Delors, a former president of the European Commission who died a day after Schäuble. "One after the other, Europe has lost two of its gre
Critics are deriding as a step backward a new French energy bill that favours the further development of nuclear power and avoids setting targets for solar and wind power and other renewables.But the proposed text sets no such targets for building renewable capacity, in particular wind and solar, whereas previous energy laws did.