🇩🇪📉 CDU Falls Below 5% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

▪️ Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU won just 4.9%, failing to enter the state parliament for the first time in its history.

▪️ Merz has nevertheless reaffirmed that he will remain Chancellor and CDU leader.

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🇨🇦🇳🇴Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre:

It’s hard for me to make a judgment on how an American president will judge this, but I will take the point of departure that we are making the Arctic more secure.

We are taking the geopolitical changes in the Arctic seriously, environmental and climate change seriously, and the opportunities in critical raw materials and energy.

And Canada and Norway are serious and pragmatic nations and we demonstrate that we move forward.

I cannot fantasize about that being hostile to anybody.

🇶🇦Qatar’s Prime Minister:

We are blessed with an abundance of resources. We have been a leading energy supplier, a leading LNG supplier in the world.

What happened was a big disruption for us, and this is one of the greatest risks that we were calculating — and also our partners have been calculating. What we have ensured from the beginning is to be very transparent with our people, with our partners and with our customers.

Yes, we went through a challenge, but it doesn’t mean that this will affect our credibility or our reliability. And as soon as this issue is resolved, Qatar will fulfill its commitment.

Qatar’s Prime Minister:

What’s really concerning for us is that what has been a red line — to avoid targeting civilian facilities, schools, hospitals, bridges, power plants, energy facilities — became the new normal.

And that has been deliberately crossed, not only in that conflict but also elsewhere in the world.

And the problem is that the parties who are crossing these red lines are bragging about it.

And there is a huge responsibility on the international community to stand up to this kind of violation. Otherwise, we will end up in a different world.

🇶🇦Qatar’s Prime Minister:

Iran is our neighbor, the United States is our strategic ally, and the Gulf is our natural security coalition. And basically, what’s happening right now is not only affecting Qatar or the region, but it has its impact on global security.

Our efforts have continued until now. We are trying to convey messages between the parties, but also we need to acknowledge that this conflict is very complex.

And unfortunately, the developments and the events that we are witnessing every day are very reactive events, and they are changing the course of the negotiations. They are changing the direction.

There is no clear master strategy that we are following in order to put an end to this. And that’s basically what we are missing today.

🇶🇦Qatar’s Prime Minister:

To have the Houthis escalating now against the Kingdom — this is a very irresponsible act that’s happening at this delicate time in the region, to instigate more conflict and to create more inflammatory events.

Whether it’s coming from the Houthis or Iran at all, we should stand up to these kinds of attacks.

🇶🇦Qatar’s Prime Minister:

When we bid for the World Cup, everyone was telling us, "No one would give it to you. No one will award it to you." And when we were awarded it, everyone said that it would be a failure.

We delivered an exceptional World Cup that the world is talking about until today. Qatar’s story is about turning impossible things into reality.

In each and every crisis, Qatar has emerged stronger, and we have proven that to our people and to the world.

🇶🇦Qatar’s Prime Minister:

The U.S. will always be our strategic ally, and that’s what I keep repeating.

We believe that our alliance is solid and nothing is going to break it.

Our equipment is American equipment, and we continue doing our joint training.

We will continue having a strong relationship with the U.S. and the U.S. military. And, of course, it’s a two-way partnership. It’s never a one-way partnership.

🇶🇦Qatar’s Prime Minister on Gaza:

There is a party who is reckless and who is not standing up to its commitment, continuing to kill and preventing humanitarian aid from entering, while others are not doing much about it.

We are calling on the Israeli government to fulfill its commitment.

Q: Is Iran a troublemaker?

Qatar’s PM: It appears very clearly that they are not a peacemaker.

🇩🇪Germany's Chancellor Merz:

It is a dramatic and unprecedented result for the CDU in Germany that we were unable to clear the 5% threshold and that an entire parliamentary group has been thrown out of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state parliament.

We were just 1,000 votes short of returning to the state parliament.

🇩🇪Germany's Chancellor Merz:

The election results and the reasons for these results go far beyond my own person.

We are experiencing a profound transformation of the political party system in Germany, as we are in many other countries around the world.

In yesterday’s election here in Berlin, for example, more than 40% voted for forces that are destructive, that call our political and parliamentary system into question, and that try to inspire people with radical and simple solutions.

🇩🇪Germany's Chancellor Merz:

We will talk about the work and structure of the party, about our program and about the profile of the CDU.

To put it openly: on too many questions, we no longer have satisfactory answers, and we will change that — we have to change that.

🇩🇪Germany's Chancellor Merz:

In Germany, with Konrad Adenauer, we left nationalism behind us.

We will ensure that this remains the case in the future.

🇮🇱🇩🇪Germany's Chancellor Merz:

Especially here in Berlin, Jewish life in Germany is no longer safe.

That is the gravest burden of recent years, and it is something that must deeply concern all democratic parties in Germany.

I personally stand for doing everything possible to ensure that Jewish life in Germany, and here in the capital Berlin, is safe.

🇮🇱🇪🇺🇩🇪Germany's Chancellor Merz:

Colleagues in the European Union and many investors have been asking me for weeks: "What is actually going on in Germany?"

What worries me most of all is that, not only in Berlin but especially in Berlin, for several months we have been experiencing increasing, radical and openly expressed antisemitism.

🇺🇸🌎 Trump Administration Pledges $410 Million for Third-Country Deportations

▪️ The Trump administration has authorized or pledged at least $410 million for agreements with 31 countries, mostly in Africa and Latin America, to accept migrants deported from the U.S. who are not their citizens.

▪️ More than 25,000 migrants have been sent to third countries, as the administration says the policy helps remove people who cannot be returned home and serves as a deterrent.

🇷🇺 Russia’s Deputy Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev:

Le Pen called Russia’s takeover of Auchan assets “hostile actions.”

Thousands of sanctions against Russians in France, plus rockets for Kiev’s degenerates — was that friendly?

Apparently Le Pen’s party is now a regular European party: Russophobia and support for Nazis in Kiev.

Trump considered ordering strikes against the Houthis in Yemen over the weekend but decided not to proceed, according to two U.S. officials.

The move came after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged Trump to take action as the Houthis advanced toward the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a key Red Sea chokepoint.

Trump initially rejected the request, agreeing only to provide Saudi Arabia with intelligence and targeting support. U.S. officials said Washington would avoid military action unless the Houthis disrupted non-Saudi shipping.

After Saudi forces struggled to push back Houthi advances, Riyadh again requested U.S. strikes.

CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper prepared airstrike options that were presented to Defense Secretary Hegseth, but Trump ultimately decided against launching them.

Source: Axios

🇷🇺Kremlin:

Russia does not threaten France or any other state in Europe. President Putin has said this repeatedly.

We have no disputes with any European states that could be the reason for any serious disagreements.

Therefore, Russia does not represent any threat, and Russia threatens no one and blackmails no one.

🇷🇺🇩🇪Kremlin on Germany:

We note that, to a large extent, the decline in the competitiveness of the German economy is happening because Germany stopped buying cheap Russian gas and began buying very expensive gas from other countries.

Naturally, Germans — at least part of the German population — are looking for an alternative to the current authorities in order to improve their situation.

This is a natural process.