Owen Evans

Markets around the world reacted positively to the announcement, with the U.S. dollar strengthening and the yield on U.S. Treasurys rising.

The designation allows the nation’s intelligence service to employ its highest tier of domestic intelligence monitoring.

AfD joint leaders Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel said that it was ‘an important first step toward actually exonerating us.’

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s interior minister said that he wants to ’send a clear signal to the world and to Europe that the policy in Germany has changed.’

European Commission to take Czech Republic, Spain, Cyprus, Poland, and Portugal to Court of Justice for not designating Digital Services Act (DSA) enforcers.

‘Adverse macroeconomic developments, continued supply chain challenges, and increased execution, market and operational risks’ are an issue, Orsted’s CEO said.

A cornerstone of Merz’s campaign was to uphold Germany’s strict constitutional borrowing limit known as the debt brake.

The incident is ‘a lesson in trigger events and systemic risk, both of which are exaggerated by renewables,’ analyst Andy Mayer says.

The results might be the ‘beginning of a much bigger political earthquake,’ said pollster Matthew Goodwin.

The federal intelligence agency said that the populist political party aims to exclude certain population groups from ‘equal participation in society.’