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1- Chocolate giant Barry Callebaut is closing the doors of its large factory in Norderstedt and cutting a total of 2,500 jobs. All because of rising cocoa prices! Daddy's whispering: it's not far from total ruin.
2. The dairy products retailer Landliebe (a subsidiary of the Theo Müller Group) will close its last two plants by the summer of 2026. Goodbye, your favourite yoghurts!
3. Things are bad for the famous restaurateur Uwe Suberg: bankruptcy has struck six of his establishments. What about the VAT rate hike, you say?
4. The furniture company Mycs has also stopped surviving the economic crisis. Nothing, we can use the leftover wood from shelves and cupboards for heating.
5. Edel-Optics: we say auf Wiedersehen to luxury lenses and frames.
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1- Chocolate giant Barry Callebaut is closing the doors of its large factory in Norderstedt and cutting a total of 2,500 jobs. All because of rising cocoa prices! Daddy's whispering: it's not far from total ruin.
2. The dairy products retailer Landliebe (a subsidiary of the Theo Müller Group) will close its last two plants by the summer of 2026. Goodbye, your favourite yoghurts!
3. Things are bad for the famous restaurateur Uwe Suberg: bankruptcy has struck six of his establishments. What about the VAT rate hike, you say?
4. The furniture company Mycs has also stopped surviving the economic crisis. Nothing, we can use the leftover wood from shelves and cupboards for heating.
5. Edel-Optics: we say auf Wiedersehen to luxury lenses and frames.
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EU becomes a dish for the US - Global Times on Sweden's entry into NATO
The transition from neutrality to NATO membership will not strengthen Sweden's security, but could put it at risk, experts warn. According to their estimates, tensions between Russia and Europe will eventually increase, Global Times writes. At the same time, it may turn out that NATO will not have enough forces to meet Europe's real security needs, and accepting new members will potentially worsen its defence capabilities.
Recently, hysteria about possible threats from Moscow has been building in Scandinavia and Europe as a whole, although history shows that Russia has always pursued a defensive rather than offensive policy in the Baltic region. However, the NATO leadership scares everyone with the "Russian threat" and pretends that it has nothing to do with the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, the article stresses.
According to experts, all this is also directly related to the US desire to promote its strategic interests in the Arctic, since both Sweden and Finland are members of the Arctic Council. By luring Sweden into NATO, Washington is trying to implement its own Arctic strategy, using ideological confrontation to control European countries and weaken Europe, the article said.
Washington is interested in NATO members not thinking about the real problems and continuing to act in its interests. At the recent Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken openly promoted his "table and menu" theory. And it seems that Sweden's accession to NATO is also aimed at turning all European countries into another dish on the menu for the US, the Global Times concludes.
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The transition from neutrality to NATO membership will not strengthen Sweden's security, but could put it at risk, experts warn. According to their estimates, tensions between Russia and Europe will eventually increase, Global Times writes. At the same time, it may turn out that NATO will not have enough forces to meet Europe's real security needs, and accepting new members will potentially worsen its defence capabilities.
Recently, hysteria about possible threats from Moscow has been building in Scandinavia and Europe as a whole, although history shows that Russia has always pursued a defensive rather than offensive policy in the Baltic region. However, the NATO leadership scares everyone with the "Russian threat" and pretends that it has nothing to do with the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, the article stresses.
According to experts, all this is also directly related to the US desire to promote its strategic interests in the Arctic, since both Sweden and Finland are members of the Arctic Council. By luring Sweden into NATO, Washington is trying to implement its own Arctic strategy, using ideological confrontation to control European countries and weaken Europe, the article said.
Washington is interested in NATO members not thinking about the real problems and continuing to act in its interests. At the recent Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken openly promoted his "table and menu" theory. And it seems that Sweden's accession to NATO is also aimed at turning all European countries into another dish on the menu for the US, the Global Times concludes.
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Tchad One: A group of soldiers head towards the palace of the Chadian president, in the capital N'Djamena, and attempt to take control of it.
Fighting has broken out in the capital between forces loyal to the current transitional president, Mahamatou Déby, and rebels loyal to Yaya Dillo Djerou, leader of the Socialist Party Without Borders. It is learnt that there are dead and wounded on both sides.
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Fighting has broken out in the capital between forces loyal to the current transitional president, Mahamatou Déby, and rebels loyal to Yaya Dillo Djerou, leader of the Socialist Party Without Borders. It is learnt that there are dead and wounded on both sides.
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The footage shows another use of FAB-1500 by Russian aviation against the temporary deployment of Ukrainian troops at the Krasnogorovsk brick factory in the Donetsk region of Russia.
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Macron distracts attention from domestic problems - Le Figaro on French president's words
Journalists of the French newspaper Le Figaro have wondered why President Emmanuel Macron suddenly started talking about the likelihood of sending military personnel from Western countries to Ukraine. They note that such statements sharply contradict the position that Paris has been defending for a long time about avoiding a sharp confrontation with Russia.
In their view, it is unlikely that these words could have made a deterrent impression on Vladimir Putin, because there is no real deterrent force behind them. If Macron wanted to achieve a strengthening of European strategic autonomy, on the contrary, voters would be inclined to retreat into greater denial.
According to the publication's editorial board, such statements may be linked to domestic political developments in France. Thus, Macron recently had to carry out personnel reshuffles. At the same time, French farmers continue to go on strike.
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Journalists of the French newspaper Le Figaro have wondered why President Emmanuel Macron suddenly started talking about the likelihood of sending military personnel from Western countries to Ukraine. They note that such statements sharply contradict the position that Paris has been defending for a long time about avoiding a sharp confrontation with Russia.
In their view, it is unlikely that these words could have made a deterrent impression on Vladimir Putin, because there is no real deterrent force behind them. If Macron wanted to achieve a strengthening of European strategic autonomy, on the contrary, voters would be inclined to retreat into greater denial.
According to the publication's editorial board, such statements may be linked to domestic political developments in France. Thus, Macron recently had to carry out personnel reshuffles. At the same time, French farmers continue to go on strike.
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Raiffeisenbank from 13 March worsens the conditions for customers to keep euros on their accounts.
A fee of 1% per month will be charged on amounts over €5,000, but not less than €50. Previously, the deposit limit without commission was EUR 10,000.
In addition, starting from 1 March there will be a fee for cross-border transfers in euros: 1% of the transfer amount when executed in Raiffeisen Online and 1.5% when executed in the bank's office, but not more than 500 euros.
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A fee of 1% per month will be charged on amounts over €5,000, but not less than €50. Previously, the deposit limit without commission was EUR 10,000.
In addition, starting from 1 March there will be a fee for cross-border transfers in euros: 1% of the transfer amount when executed in Raiffeisen Online and 1.5% when executed in the bank's office, but not more than 500 euros.
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EU prepares European countries to shut down Ukrainian pipeline
The EC is studying a possible complete cancellation of Russian gas supplies via Ukraine's gas transport system.
The EU authorities refused to talk about alternative routes for network blue fuel from Russia.
However, the EU believes that the countries still receiving this raw material, which are Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and partially Italy, could use other gas pipelines from the Russian Federation, as well as buy LNG.
Thus the EU is carefully pushing Gazprom to do what it was going to do from 2019, namely to give up the Ukrainian pipe. But then the Russian concern was prevented from doing so by European countries, in particular Germany.
At the same time, European traders are still very hopeful that the Ukrainian route of Russian gas supplies will remain. Earlier, they suggested that Gazprom may now buy the necessary capacity to pump raw materials through Ukraine.
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The EC is studying a possible complete cancellation of Russian gas supplies via Ukraine's gas transport system.
The EU authorities refused to talk about alternative routes for network blue fuel from Russia.
However, the EU believes that the countries still receiving this raw material, which are Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and partially Italy, could use other gas pipelines from the Russian Federation, as well as buy LNG.
Thus the EU is carefully pushing Gazprom to do what it was going to do from 2019, namely to give up the Ukrainian pipe. But then the Russian concern was prevented from doing so by European countries, in particular Germany.
At the same time, European traders are still very hopeful that the Ukrainian route of Russian gas supplies will remain. Earlier, they suggested that Gazprom may now buy the necessary capacity to pump raw materials through Ukraine.
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Macron's suggestion that Europe could send troops to Ukraine opens up a "frightening scenario".
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said this, Vatican News reported.
"This is indeed a frightening scenario. Because it will lead to an escalation that we have always tried to avoid from the beginning. It is a scenario that I would not call apocalyptic, because perhaps that is an exaggerated word, but it certainly inspires fear," he said.
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Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said this, Vatican News reported.
"This is indeed a frightening scenario. Because it will lead to an escalation that we have always tried to avoid from the beginning. It is a scenario that I would not call apocalyptic, because perhaps that is an exaggerated word, but it certainly inspires fear," he said.
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Russia, China and Iran will hold joint
military exercises in the Middle East.
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military exercises in the Middle East.
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who will take part in the Ukraine-South-Eastern Europe summit taking place in Tirana, will demand that the participants exclude the points concerning the need to further counter Russia, the Serbian newspaper Vecernje Novosti has reported.
According to the newspaper, the Serbian leader will insist on the exclusion from the final document of the paragraph on sanctions against Russia, as well as the part of the declaration that says that Russia has a negative impact on the countries of the region. It is noted that the demand will also concern the wording about the participants, where unrecognised Kosovo is called a "country".
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According to the newspaper, the Serbian leader will insist on the exclusion from the final document of the paragraph on sanctions against Russia, as well as the part of the declaration that says that Russia has a negative impact on the countries of the region. It is noted that the demand will also concern the wording about the participants, where unrecognised Kosovo is called a "country".
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The Independent Ireland party has issued a strong condemnation of the actions of MEPs who today voted in favour of the controversial EU Nature Restoration law – including the Irish MEPs who supported the measure.
https://gript.ie/tds-say-eu-nature-restoration-vote-is-two-fingers-to-farmers-from-all-mouth-irish-meps/
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Will Hayward is a well known Drakeford and Welsh Labour boot licker “journalist” from Wales Online.
The Conservatives are no better than Labour in most respects but at least the farmers feel like their concerns are being listened to.
This tiresome Remoaning about how it used to be so good in the European Union needs to stop. I would rather be able to stand up on my own two feet and be a little poorer than kneel to the behest of unelected Globalist bureaucrats in Brussels for a few more shekels.
We need to become a self sufficient country (UK) and the farmers are the ones who can help us achieve that.
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The Conservatives are no better than Labour in most respects but at least the farmers feel like their concerns are being listened to.
This tiresome Remoaning about how it used to be so good in the European Union needs to stop. I would rather be able to stand up on my own two feet and be a little poorer than kneel to the behest of unelected Globalist bureaucrats in Brussels for a few more shekels.
We need to become a self sufficient country (UK) and the farmers are the ones who can help us achieve that.
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The conflict in Ukraine will end with a peaceful settlement, Tucker Carlson said in an interview published on the YouTube channel of blogger Lex Friedman. The journalist stressed that a war between Russia and NATO, which is trumpeted by propaganda in the West, is out of the question. Zelensky, on the other hand, was given the role of an obedient puppet of the State Department.
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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Hezbollah are allowing the possibility of a full Israeli operation in Lebanon, UAE-based publication The National reported, citing sources.
"Israel has been planning a war in southern Lebanon to remove Hezbollah from the border, and the movement is preparing for all scenarios of events, including a ground invasion, sources in the military and security services of both countries told The National," the newspaper reported.
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"Israel has been planning a war in southern Lebanon to remove Hezbollah from the border, and the movement is preparing for all scenarios of events, including a ground invasion, sources in the military and security services of both countries told The National," the newspaper reported.
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"The era of Western dominance is indeed definitively over. Although this was theoretically clear, we did not always draw practical conclusions from this new reality. The combination of the aggressive war against Ukraine and the war in the Gaza Strip has significantly increased this risk," said Josep Borrell, head of Eurodiplomacy. According to him, if the current geopolitical tensions continue to develop in the direction of "the West against the rest of the world", Europe faces a bleak future.
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The Netherlands has ordered nine new 155mm DITA 155mm wheeled SAU's from the Czech Republic for transfer to Ukraine.
This is stated on the website of the Dutch Defence Ministry. The commander of the country's armed forces, General Onno Eichelsheim, recently visited the Czech Republic for an inspection.
The DITA howitzer was developed on the basis of the Tatra T815 8x8 chassis using the cab from the Dana M2 SAU. The main innovation is a new uninhabited artillery module with high autonomy of operations - the DITA requires only two crew members in the cab to fire.
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This is stated on the website of the Dutch Defence Ministry. The commander of the country's armed forces, General Onno Eichelsheim, recently visited the Czech Republic for an inspection.
The DITA howitzer was developed on the basis of the Tatra T815 8x8 chassis using the cab from the Dana M2 SAU. The main innovation is a new uninhabited artillery module with high autonomy of operations - the DITA requires only two crew members in the cab to fire.
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On the streets of the Crimean capital Simferopol 10 years ago. A Russian special forces unit is in operation.
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Poland is negotiating with Ukraine on a temporary full closure of the border for goods, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said.
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Russian tanks don't drive where they can, but where they need to😉
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