Rising stress over Ukraine, the showdown to be the German conservative candidate for chancellor, and a sailor-turned-politician on a mission to wash up the oceans all characteristic on this week’s episode.
POLITICO’s Matthew Karnitschnig has been following this week’s dramatic battle to turn out to be the conservative nominee to exchange German Chancellor Angela Merkel in September’s common election. No matter whether or not CDU chief Armin Laschet or CSU boss Markus Söder in the end prevails, how a lot harm has the open warfare performed to their probabilities on the polls?
We discover why alarm bells are ringing over Ukraine as soon as once more, as Russia ramps up its army presence close by. POLITICO correspondent Dan Peleschuk offers Andrew Grey a way of the temper in Kyiv, whereas the U.S. secretaries of State and Protection voiced their issues in Brussels this week. And Rym Momtaz explains why tensions over Iran’s nuclear program have skyrocketed as soon as once more.
Lastly, POLITICO’s Eline Schaart introduces us to French MEP Catherine Chabaud. Her journey to the European Parliament started with a private voyage three many years in the past, when she turned the primary girl to sail solo around the globe. Alongside the way in which, she found one thing that she’s now working as a European lawmaker to sort out: the waste threatening our oceans and the creatures that reside in them.