2029 will be the decisive election year at the latest.

Then we will have brought about the second turning point in this country and will then govern Germany. That is our mission.

The CDU at the federal level will soon fall below 20 percent.

I think something is going to happen with the extremely unpopular Friedrich Merz.

I think the CDU will consider replacing the chancellor as well.

The German people are simply fed up with politics that run counter to Germany's interests.

I expect early federal elections, and I expect the current chancellor to be replaced before Christmas.

The records show that Jilin Chemical Fiber Group shipped up to 46 tons of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor to Alabuga-Volokno, a subsidiary of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom. Alabuga-Volokno supplies high-grade carbon fiber used in Russian Geran attack drones produced at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan.

The shipment was declared under a customs code associated with civilian synthetic fibers rather than the code normally used for the dual-use PAN material. Former U.S. sanctions officials said the apparent mislabeling could indicate an effort to conceal the sensitive nature of the shipment.

The Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre says it has identified at least eight tenders involving shipments of PAN precursors from Jilin to Alabuga-Volokno since 2022.

The documents have been reviewed by the U.S., UK, and Ukrainian governments, with the U.S. House Select Committee on China determining them to be legitimate. The evidence could provide grounds for sanctions against Jilin, which is not currently under Western sanctions.