🇮🇱❌🇮🇱- On Wednesday: Lieberman, Sa'ar and Lapid will meet to form an "operations room" to dismantle Netanyahu's government and will try to include Gantz.

😯Admin comment:
Governments in Israel fall from within, and this happens through:
1- Search for dissidents (need 5 from the original coalition, specifically from Likud)

2- Splitting the government coalition to push its components to leave the government.

There are sectarian blocs in the government coalition. Each block represents a denomination. The Ashkenazi Haredim represent the extremist Ashkenazi rabbis, as well as the Eastern Haredi bloc. It is difficult to imagine a split in these two blocs, because betraying the bloc is betraying the entire doctrine/sect. It is also difficult to imagine Smotrich and Ben Gvir defecting, unless they decide to burn the boat with all its passengers, and that will not be in coordination with the opposition.

Likud is a movement, not a party. It includes religious people and secularists, Easterners, Ashkenazim, Russians, and Druze. Politically right-wing and socially liberal. Among them, Galant, considers himself closer to Gantz than he is closer to Ben Gvir, for example.
The question remains: Is there a bloc within Likud consisting of 5 Knesset members that is ready to split?

🇩🇪❌🇮🇹 Senior AfD politician, Tino Chrupalla: There will be no “melonization” with AfD.

AfD leader Tino Chrupalla sharply criticized Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the AfD Saxony state party conference – especially because of her migration and Ukraine policies.

“This melonization (…) will not happen with us,” promised Chrupalla.

The AfD will not bend itself to become more attractive to others – “for us, German interests always come first.”

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🇷🇴🔫🚀🇺🇸🇩🇪🇭🇺 Three Romanian arms factories enter into partnership with US, German and Hungarian arms manufacturers

Two memoranda of understanding were signed today between the Romanian defence industry and foreign manufacturers. One is between Uzina Mecanica Cugir and Hekler & Koch GmbH (Germany). The second is between Romaero and Aeroplex of Central Europe Aircraft Technology Center (Hungary). The next are agreements between Romarm and General Dynamics (USA) and Uzina Carfil and Periscope Aviation (USA). The memorandum between UM Cugir and Hekler & Koch GmbH aims to negotiate a joint venture, a strategic partnership, for the joint production of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) with NATO technology on the Uzina's platform, the Economy Ministry writes in a release.

The Memorandum of Understanding between Romaero, which is in insolvency, and Aeroplex of Central Europe Aircraft Technology Center provides for the provision of maintenance and repair services for Boeing 737 classic & NG and Airbus A320 family aircraft.

The memoranda were signed at the Bucharest International Defence Show and Aerospace (BSDA) 2024 event. There, Minister Radu Oprea said that on Friday Romarm, the state-owned umbrella company of the national armaments industry, will sign another memorandum of understanding, with General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (USA), which will create the conditions for the modernisation of the production of large-calibre ammunition and the development of production capacities for NATO standard ammunition in the factories of Romarm subsidiaries.

Also on Friday, a step is taken towards the production of the first Romanian drone. The Carfil factory in Brasov will sign a strategic industrial cooperation agreement with the American manufacturer of military and civil drones - Periscope Aviation.

The Romanian arms industry is on the rocks. Partnerships are seen as the solution

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said today at the opening of BSDA 2024 that Romania can no longer afford to make the mistakes of the past, when arms factories were closed and those that remained alive were threatened with bankruptcy". The Prime Minister also said that Economy Minister Radu Oprea is preparing an ambitious project on the Romanian Drone.

The government has been preparing such partnerships for some time because of the need for defence, in a context where almost all Romanian arms factories are in a very difficult financial situation due to lack of technology and poor management.

In March, the European Commission approved a €47m project to build a powder factory in Brasov county, to be built by German company Rheinmetall.

The list of companies in the portfolio of the Ministry of Economy includes almost the entire Romanian defence industry, at company level. We have Craiova Aircraft, IAR Ghimbav, IOR, Romaero, Uzina Mecanica Orăștie, Tohan Zărnești, Carfil Brașov, Uzina Mecanica Plopeni, Uzina Mecanica Cugir, Uzina Mecanica Sadu, Uzina Mecanica Mija, Uzina Mecanica Moreni, Uzina Mecanica București, Uzina Specială Dragomirești, Fabrica de Pulberi Făgăraș, Uzina Cugir, Uzina Drăgășani. All these factories, with a few exceptions such as Avioane Craiova (whose debts have been written off), IAR and Uzina Sadu are in a precarious financial situation with massive debts to ANAF.

🔗 https://www.digi24.ro/digieconomic/consumer/trei-uzine-de-armament-din-romania-semneaza-acorduri-cu-fabricanti-de-arme-din-sua-germania-si-ungaria-19111