Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker the largest group in the European parliament strengthen his candidacy to succeed Juncker as President of the European Commission And he has already started. On Sunday evening as the polls closed across Europe, Weber said that “from now on those who want to have a strong European Union have to join forces.” He added that his party would not cooperate  “with any party that doesn’t believe in the future of the European Union.” Who is Manfred Weber? To answer that question, one of Impakter Italia team, Alessandro Magini, recently profiled Manfred Weber officially opening the European electoral competition the European People’s Party of Manfred Weber met in Helsinki to choose its candidate (spitzenkandidat) for the presidency of the European Commission Contending for the nomination were the German Manfred Weber and the Finnish Alexander Stubb A victory that was pre-announced since the German Weber enjoyed the support of eight heads of state including German Chancellor Merkel and Hungarian Prime Minister Orban While Stubb expressed more progressive positions declaring himself opposed to any agreement with the populist right Weber’s candidacy represented the party’s more conservative and right wing This must be read from a perspective that sees the EPP worried by the loss of consensus in favor of the populists supporting a Trumpian national sovereignty agenda which also represents a novelty in terms of political customs he would be the first president of the European Commission who has never held the position of head of state in his own country since 1985 or since the time of the French socialist Jacques Delors excluding the brief parenthesis of the Spanish Marin Manfred Weber was born in 1972 in Rottenburg an der Laaber, a small town in Bavaria, and began his political career in the Christian Social Union (CSU) youth movement; the CSU has governed the Land of Bavaria for over 50 years Since then his political career has been in constant ascent: Elected to the European Parliament in 2004 and reconfirmed in subsequent elections he has climbed the EPP hierarchy thanks his ability to make agreements and constantly mediate between the various segments  of the party of which he became deputy leader in 2009 and leader of the whole group in 2014 If on the one hand Weber is a convinced European against Brexit and a supporter of a stronger and more united Europe to face the challenges of globalization on the other hand he is a conservative Catholic  His Catholicism – typical of CSU – makes him capable of dialogue with the most extreme right politicians capable of uniting distant positions such as those of Orban and Merkel chosen to try to stem the hemorrhage of votes towards the populist nationalists and eventually seek agreements with the latter if the elections were to confirm the advance of the Eurosceptic right Featured Image: Manfred Weber – from Impakter Italia’s article Impakter informs you through the ESG news site and empowers your business CSRD compliance and ESG compliance with its Klimado SaaS ESG assessment tool marketplace that can be found on: www.klimado.com Impakter is a publication that is identified by the following International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is the following 2515-9569 (Printed) and 2515-9577 (online – Website) Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe one of the leading content providers for the European plastics industry We offer daily updated business news and reports polymer prices and other services for the international plastics industry News | Polymer Prices | Suppliers Guide | Jobs | Register | Advertising sharing a juicy piece of gossip could earn the speaker a punishment of wearing a humiliation mask A similar fate awaited men who told lascivious jokes and those who interfered in other people’s business A physical equivalent of social media shaming several centuries before Facebook and Twitter the masks were fashioned out of iron and had exaggerated features representing each specific social misconduct The “gossip” mask has long ears and glasses and an even longer tongue to show that the wearer was likely to spread the information quickly and indiscreetly A number of these shame masks or schandmaske intended to publicly humiliate the people perpetrating these acts are on display at the Medieval Crime Museum in Rothenburg From social shaming tools to more physically torturous devices the museum chronicles the brutal history of over 1,000 years of crime and punishment in Germany and other parts of Europe The painful private collection curated by a German publisher in the late-19th century was first housed and it took on the shape of a more expansive museum under the guidance of an artist couple in 1977 and displays over 50,000 objects relating to law and order as it was enforced and structured in the medieval era and thereafter.  For baking bread loaves that were too small or light bakers were locked into a cage and dunked repeatedly into water and off-key musicians were spotlighted with a shame flute fastened around their necks An entire section is dedicated to the treatment of women and to the terrible witch-hunt which took place in the Bavarian region in the 17th century. The beauty of the delicate carvings on a choke pear is swiftly overshadowed by its terrifying purpose—it was inserted into orifices of the human body and slowly turned so that each leaf expanded and the victim quickly admitted to his or her crime More torture devices cruelly designed to extract confessions from suspected criminals line the walls of this museum The more procedural aspects of the legal system in the form of documents and trade exhibits are also on display and but the overwhelming tone is gruesome and chilling.  The museum is in the south-west corner of the historic city centre not far from the main square (Marktplatz) and close to the Kobolzell Gate and Plönlein Tower entrances The nearest of the town's peripheral car parks are by the Plönlein Tower is only 15 minutes' walk away.From April to October the museum is open from 10 a.m and from November to March it's opening hours are 1 p.m to 4 p.m.The majority of exhibition pieces feature English and Chinese descriptions alongside German Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience This 16th-century pole was once used in brutal 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