Fact check: How reliable are election polls? | Germany | DW

“The surveys have not become more uncertain, but rather more elaborate,” says Thomas Wind, founder and managing director of Institute for Target Group Communication (IfZ). The opinion research expert has “a problem with the handling of the polls”: “Every day a new number or a new poll is published, it creates a suction,” says Wind. … Read more

Brexit and a locked cat ★★★ ☆☆

Last update.05-08-2021 | 00:30 H — Direction and script: Mina Mileva y Vesela Kazakova. Interpreters: Irina Atanasova, Angel Genov, Orlin Asenov, Gilda Waugh. Bulgaria, 2019. Duration: 92 minutes. Black comedy. Actually, the film directed by Kazakova and Mileva is called “Cat in the Wall” (“A cat on the wall”), a title that, seeing the film, … Read more

Xentrix cancels in Spain due to problems with visas and the new regulations after Brexit

British thrash metal band Xentrix has canceled its tour in Spain and Portugal ‘Infecting Iberia Tour 2021’, scheduled for this autumn, due to problems with visas and the new regulations after Brexit. The English had planned to act in A Coruña, Alenquer (Portugal), Skulls Of Metal Fest (Begíjar, Jaén) and Valencia. “Due to visa problems … Read more

Rejection to Johnson: Brussels insists on Brexit rules

Northern Ireland Protocol Brussels / London (dpa) – The dispute over the Brexit special rules for Northern Ireland is escalating. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made it clear to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday that the EU is ruling out any change to the agreed rules. “We will not renegotiate,” she … Read more

London wants to reopen the Brexit agreement

Dispute over Northern Ireland London (dpa) – A little more than six months after the full entry into force, the British government wants to renegotiate parts of the Brexit agreement. The British Brexit representative David Frost said on Wednesday in London. “Significant changes” are needed to the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol, said the cabinet member … Read more

Pascal Lamy: We need to stop vaccine apartheid

Last year, a quarter of a century has passed since the founding of the WTO. You were its co-founder and longest-serving CEO. When you look at this organization today, does it meet the goals set in 1995? Overall, yes. The WTO is fulfilling its most important goal, which is to reduce trade barriers. This may … Read more

New MPs in the British House of Commons – Why this photo moves the British to tears – Politics abroad

This photo moves Great Britain: Labor politician Kim Leadbeater (45) sits on one of the green leather benches in the British House of Commons, on the place of MEP Jo Cox (✝︎41) – her sister, who was murdered in 2016. “She is sitting there on the bench under the plaque of Jo, her sister and … Read more

Switzerland is isolated from the European Union

While Britain’s departure from the European Union has attracted a great deal of media attention, another breakup is taking place in the European area relatively inconspicuously. Switzerland has recently shown that it is not interested in further rapprochement with the community. All indications are that Brussels will now take a tougher stance on it, and … Read more