Source link Berlin remains highly dependent on Beijing for various products and raw materials, data shows It would take decades for German businesses to end their reliance on imports from China, the chief financial officer of industrial giant Siemens told the Financial Times on Sunday. Last year Berlin drew up a strategy that policymakers called […]
Source link The Finnish government eyes spending cuts and tax hikes to fill a hole in the 2025 budget The Finnish government has no choice but to cut pensions in order to improve public finances, Finance Minister Riikka Purra has said in an interview with Helsingin Sanomat, a local newspaper. The issue of pensions is […]
Source link Washington uses hostile rhetoric and baseless allegations to cover up its own intentions to send weapons into space, Moscow claims The US has been seeking to dismantle legally-binding international security mechanisms and replace them with vague norms of the so-called ‘rules-based world order’, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday. The […]
Source link The company is not abandoning production of low-cost electric vehicles, the billionaire claims Tesla CEO Elon Musk has dismissed a report by Reuters claiming the US carmaker has canceled a project for a low-cost vehicle owing to fierce competition from Chinese electric-vehicle (EV) makers. On Friday, Reuters wrote, citing sources familiar with the […]
Source link Pyotr Poroshenko hopes to win his country’s next presidential election, according to an interview Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has said that he plans to run in the country’s next presidential election, when the conflict with Russia ends. Ukraine was supposed to hold a presidential election in March. However, elections have been postponed […]
Source link Estonia’s ruling party and its coalition partners have said their goal is to reduce Moscow’s influence in the capital, Tallinn Estonia’s ruling Reform Party has announced it will introduce a draft law forbidding citizens of third countries from taking part in municipal elections in the country. If passed, the legislation would mainly affect […]
Source link Last week’s terrorist attack in Russia has reportedly raised concerns over the event becoming a target French intelligence services have recommended scrapping plans for a grand opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics because of security concerns, the Europe1 news outlet has reported, citing sources. Under the current plan, the ceremony in the […]
Source link The imagined threat of Moscow being about to march on Western Europe is a very lucrative idea for warmongers and arms dealers NATO’s peddling of a “Russian threat” is reaching telethon levels of relentlessness – worse than a house alarm salesman in TV advertisements talking up the scary burglar. Poland’s top general, Wieslaw […]
Source link The ruling party of Georgia says that the measure will be supported by the public Mamuka Mdinaradze, who leads the Georgian Dream party in parliament, told reporters that the bill will be formally introduced this week. He accused LGBTQ advocacy group Tbilisi Pride and the UN of working behind the scenes to spread […]
Source link Steven Mnuchin told CNBC he is putting together an investor group to try to buy the short-video app Former US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said he is building an investor group to acquire TikTok, a day after the House of Representatives voted to force the social media platform’s Chinese owner ByteDance to […]
Source link Moscow has strongly protested Bern’s decision to develop a legal basis for using its frozen funds to aid Kiev Russia’s Foreign Ministry summoned Switzerland’s ambassador to Moscow, Krystyna Marty Lang, on Tuesday to protest Bern’s moves towards allowing the use of frozen Russian central bank reserves to fund Ukraine. Switzerland has more than […]
Source link Kiev wants to “seize the initiative” on the battlefield later this year, Lieutenant General Aleksandr Pavlyuk said Ukraine plans to reorganize its troops and launch a new counteroffensive this year, the commander of the country’s ground forces has said. Speaking to ICTV on Wednesday, Lieutenant General Aleksandr Pavlyuk said that the most pressing […]
Source link US President Joe Biden took his campaign message to a TV audience on Monday evening, but mistakenly dated his 2024 agenda to four years ago. Biden was the ‘surprise’ guest on NBC’s ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’, the show once hosted by David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. When Meyers asked, “what’s your 2024 […]
Source link US spies have raised alarms about “inexperienced loyalists” threatening their jobs Former US President Donald Trump is “likely” to launch sweeping reforms of the US intelligence community if he is re-elected in November, prompting concerns from the agencies that once baselessly accused him of ties to Russia. Politico interviewed 18 intelligence officials – […]
Source link The German chancellor has commented after French President Emmanuel Macron said the deployment of soldiers cannot be ruled out Western troops will not be deployed to Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has insisted, after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that this possibility cannot be ruled out. According to Scholz, it was clear from […]