The EU-the last Trump-free zone? The situation in the morning

Love Reader, dear reader,

Do you have a headache? Do you feel sick? Do you feel limp? If so, I dare the remote diagnosis: they are probably altitude. No wonder at all the summits lately.

If you are dizzy, how can our poor Chancellor feel? It does not have time to breathe, the next top date is pending today: the 27 heads of state and government of the EU come together in Brussels.

The air in Belgium is nowhere near as thin as yesterday in Holland or even last week in Canada. The abrupt difference in altitude is likely to be troubled by Merz. Because if the G7 was the Mount Everest and the NATO of the K2, then the EU summit is the Harzer Chunk The top diplomacy.

It’s about that again Ukraineagain around Israel, again for upgrading, that is, again around the common line. But even if the Europeans find them despite node binders Viktor Orbán: Who interests it?

The loss of meaning of the Old World was rarely so clear. And maybe the last Trump-free zone does not offer a stage for big ones. The EU would have what it takes to the island of the Blessed. Only their chosen designers are completely free of ideas. Instead, they are desperately waiting for the Redeemer. On the strong man who hievt has been in the front row by hand from his gravitas. But it won’t come – that’s a good thing. After all, there is also an anti-Trump A lot of Trump.

No, before power men like Putin, XI or Trump take the European Union seriously, Europeans have to do it themselves. However, as long as Brussels is this ugly bureaucracy monster, which is directed by Klüngel instead of skill, the Europeans are waving off. It is difficult to get excited about something that you don’t understand.

In contrast to many things that spill over from Brussels, what is currently on the negotiating table in Berlin would have real effects on real everyday life of real people.

By Monday, a commission has to decide how high the minimum wage should be from 2026. There are plenty of arguments for and against the 15-euro mark, so the reason for arguing is therefore all the more. If the black and red partners do not agree very soon, this ends in the first tangible marriage noise.

How the chances for a “end well, everything are good” are discussed star-Politics bosses in the new “5-minute talk”:

I don’t know how long you still have to retire, dear reader. If I get one at all (onset of a regular table applause), then only in a few decades.

But, think about: What will you miss about your job? The feeling of being needed? The lousy coffee with colleagues? The importance of after work?

Angela Merkel misses the canteen. But not just because of the nice service or the “strength of the power for skilled workers”. But because of the beautiful decoration. There was fresh flowers every day. Yes, that is to be grasped! “You came in there, you had a difficult day ahead of you, and it was always really well decorated,” enthuses the 70-year-old at a award ceremony for her biography.

I didn’t read it. 736 pages, a good part of it probably pretty drogs, as I was told. I’m waiting for the film. In the leading role: Matthias Schweighöfer. Who else?

After all, the Chancellor AD made a surprising contribution to the reduction of the German understatement culture with the choice of the highly trout book title (“Freiheit”). Thanks, Merkel!

When Donald Trump insults someone as a “communist madman”, it only means that the one in the “Human does not annoy yourself” probably tends to pull the figures even.

Sayed communist Zohran Mamdani should be happy about the Presidential Diss. After all, one is almost a knighthood under Democrats.

A bit of what is actually on it. Mamdani is considered a winger among the tendency links Democrats. A 33-year-old, Muslim socialist as mayor of the largest city in the country? Is that possible? Yes that works. After all, after his surprising victory against veteran Andrew Cuomo, Mamdani has already overcome the greatest hurdle in the party’s internal primaries – New York is a stronghold of the Democrats. In addition, “Donald Trump’s greatest fright”, as he nobs himself, skilfully rides the left outer wave that started by veteran Bernie Sanders.

My colleague Mirjam Bittner took a closer look at the man for her:

It is already absurd when the best -known sight of a country is the border with the neighboring country. But that’s exactly how it is. A day trip to the 38th latitude is simply part of it in South Korea. And who am I to stand against the mainstream?

Depending on the provider and the program, they pay around 30 euros for the half -day tour from Seoul.

The promise: a look through the keyhole at the most famous dictatorship in the world. The reality: a seven -hour assembly experience including souvenir hunt.

The highlight is the moment when you control the military checkpoint after 50 minutes of Arctic-climatized bus ride and a bored 20-year-old military serviceman checks your passport. And even that seems more like goosebumps theater for tourists as a safety-political necessity.

The first stop in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) is one of several tunnels that the North Koreans have ever bumped south, but failed after a few hundred meters. After a sweaty march for many (especially American) tourists, they are steered in the first of many souvenir shops of the day. Then they knock out clothes in camouflage colors, postcards from the (almost) north, soldiers as action dolls.

Distribution as a tourist attraction. The DMZ as a trademark. It really feels wrong.

After other, similarly senseless stopover, you can then peek north through plexiglass and past “No Photo” note signs from several kilometers away. On the horizon, beyond the propaganda ceavement specially built for the gaffers from the south, you can see the foothills of Kaesŏng, one of the largest cities in the Kim Empire. Doesn’t look that different. But, as I said, you have to see.

I wish you a great day – Annyeonghi Gyeseyo!