🇪🇺❌🇩🇪 The EU is preparing to cut all funding for the German state of Saxony-Anhalt

After the AfD's election win in Sachsen-Anhalt, Brussels is openly discussing freezing the state's EU funding — roughly €2.95 billion in the current budget period, about €500 million per year, making up ~20% of the state's investment spending.

The precedent is real.

The EU froze up to €18 billion for Hungary and billions for Poland over rule-of-law violations, and in both cases it contributed to government changes.

Green MEP Daniel Freund says the same mechanism could apply to Sachsen-Anhalt if an AfD-led government undermines EU fundamental rights or the rule of law.

The AfD called it an undemocratic attack.

Chancellor Merz said the federal government can enforce the constitution in any state if needed.

Sachsen-Anhalt is Germany's most EU-subsidy-dependent state per capita — schools, hospitals, daycare centers all run on this money.

Source: Tagesschau

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🛢 WTI Crude has surpassed $100/barrel for the first time since May 21st.

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🇾🇪⚔️🇾🇪 Detailed map of the gains Ansarallah/Houthis made last night in Yemen.

The map is already outdated as the Houthis continued pushing further south towards the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and the port of Dhubab.

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🛢 Brent crude oil prices are back under $105/barrel for the first time since May 20th and well past the 101$ peak in July during the spat in fighting between the U.S. and Iran.

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🇩🇿❌🇦🇪 Algeria has cut diplomatic ties with the UAE.

The Foreign Ministry said it came "after exhausting all means" to preserve relations, without naming a specific trigger.

The backdrop: years of escalating tensions over UAE contacts with Algerian separatist groups (particularly the Kabylie movement), UAE military expansion in Libya and the Sahel, and Abu Dhabi's backing of Morocco on Western Sahara.

Algeria had already been downgrading relations step by step — reducing its diplomatic presence in January and canceling the bilateral air-services agreement in February.

No UAE response yet.

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🇾🇪❌🇾🇪🇸🇦 — Houthi (Ansarallah) military commanders visited the newly captured area along the western coastline and vowed to liberate all of Yemen from the Saudi-backed PLC.

🇺🇸🪖⚡️ — The U.S. urged NATO allies to help “systematically dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC) during a closed-door meeting in Brussels, according to POLITICO.

U.S. envoy Matthew Whitaker called on allies to withdraw from the Rome Statute, warning, “We will be watching closely who stands with America.”

A U.S. document also urged allies to “publicly condemn” the ICC’s “overreach” and “cease” material support, concluding: “Let us end the charade of the ICC once and for all.”