🇨🇵 Paris is preparing for a blockade

Farmers have announced their intention to begin a "siege of the capital" on Monday and indefinitely.

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🇩🇪 Tens of thousands of Germans are threatened with redundancy

For example, Bosch plans to cut more than 2.5 thousand jobs worldwide by 2026, automotive supplier ZF - 12-18 thousand by 2030, and tyre manufacturer Continental began to reduce its staff in 2020 - God willing, a fifth of its employees will remain in the company.

Reductions are planned by Volkswagen as part of a large-scale savings programme, and software manufacturer SAP: minus 8 thousand employees, plus investments in artificial intelligence. And Deutsche Telekom wants to replace 5,000 employees from its US branch with AI.

That's ok, but Germany has one of the highest unemployment benefits. True, though there is corresponding competition for it.

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The WEF has ordered all European governments to ban ALL Russians from owning property.

The World Economic Forum has ordered governments across Europe to completely ban all Russians from buying or owning property outside of Russia.

Finland, controlled by the WEF, has become the first EU country to implement the new WEF policy by completely banning Russian citizens from owning property in the country.

According to young global leader and Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen, the Finnish government has formed an inter-ministerial working group tasked with assessing the possibility of a complete ban on Russians acquiring real estate and preparing a final version of the law.

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🇩🇪 Germany's most famous department store chain KaDeWe has gone bankrupt.

The first shop to close will be in Berlin, followed by Hamburg and other cities. The bankruptcy was due to the chain's large debts, rising energy and rental costs, and a sharp drop in sales.

"Kaufhaus des Westens" (German for "Trading House of the West"), short for KaDeWe, was a department store in Berlin's Schöneberg district.

It was once considered the largest in continental Europe and was one of the five largest department stores in the world.

Founded in 1905 by businessman Adolf Jandorf, the building was designed by architect Johann Emil Schaudt. The trading house opened in April 1907.

43,000 square metres of retail space, seven floors, over a quarter of a million products, the delicatessen department offers around 500 varieties of bread and almost 1,800 types of cheese. KaDeWe employs approximately 2,400 people and generates sales of 800 million euros a year.

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🇩🇪🔋German solar energy equipment manufacturers continue to close down.

At the end of the year, photovoltaic systems manufacturer Solarwatt laid off 10 per cent of the 850 employees at its Dresden plant. Now the company has announced that it is ready to close the Dresden plant.

The reason given is the lack of political protectionism of the national industry. They cannot compete with manufacturers from Asia.

The company says that if protectionism is not added to the economy, manufacturers of equipment for RES will leave Europe. Meyer Burger made a similar statement when announcing the closure of its Freiberg plant.

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🇩🇪⚔️| Handelsblatt writes that 100 billion euros from the special fund for the modernisation of the Bundeswehr are not enough to rearm the German army.

According to the publication, the special fund has almost run out of money.

🟩 It should be noted that with the help of the special fund it was possible to finance purchases, which dragged on for years, such as the purchase of new fighters, armoured personnel carriers and ammunition.

However, as the industry representatives stressed, this is not enough to sustainably strengthen the German Armed Forces and create a strong defence industry.

🟩 In turn, the country's government, according to the newspaper, is aware of the problems, but has not yet found a model for long-term financing beyond a special fund. The debate on this is just beginning.

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🇻🇦🌍 Pope says Africans are a "special case" when it comes to blessing LGBT people

Pope Francis has said that Africans are a "special case" because bishops and many others on the continent are opposed to homosexuality.

However, he expressed confidence that, apart from Africans, critics of his decision to allow blessings for same-sex couples would eventually understand him.

"Those who protest vehemently belong to small ideological groups," Francis told Italian newspaper La Stampa. "A special case is Africans: for them homosexuality is something culturally 'bad', they don't tolerate it."

"But in general I believe that gradually everyone will be reassured by the spirit of the declaration 'Fiducia Supplicans' prepared by the Office for the Doctrine of the Faith: it aims to include, not to divide," the Pope said.

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🇩🇪⚽️ Do you think the German Chancellor's residence is where the economy, peace and war are decided, comrades?

No, they're kicking... balls. Recently in the office of Chancellor Olaf Scholz there was a football from the German national team - in honour of December's victory at the Junior World Cup. Olaf was also given a ball to touch.

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🇺🇸 In the American segment of Twitter (now "X"), a video about Russia's delivery technologies is being hyped up

The comments are like: "They are 100 years ahead of us!", "And they will lie to us that the Russians are forging chips out of refrigerators to put them in rockets?!".

The Ukrainian segment of X, so far, has no comment ... 🤣🤣

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Texas is going to barbed wire the entire border with Mexico

Texas authorities are going to install barbed wire fences along the entire border with Mexico.

"We are going to place wire all along the border," the state's Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said.

Earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the fences removed and allowed federal agents to cut the previously installed wire.

In response, Patrick said federal authorities would need "a lot of wire cutters" to cut all the fences, which state authorities would immediately rebuild.

The conflict has already turned into a direct confrontation between US President Joe Biden and Texas authorities, who have been backed by 25 other US states. Governors of 12 of them sent their National Guard troops to Texas.

Recall that the migration crisis erupted mainly due to Biden's unwillingness to finance the strengthening of the southern borders without the US Congress approving a new package of military aid to Kiev.

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EU agrees on confiscation of proceeds from frozen Russian assets in favour of Ukraine

Permanent Representatives of the European Union (EU) member states have agreed on a proposal by the European Commission (EC) to use the proceeds from frozen Russian assets.

"The EU ambassadors have reached agreement on the proposal to use extraordinary revenues from frozen assets to support Ukraine," the presidency reported.

Recall, in the summer, the European Commissioner for justice Didier Reinder reported that the amount of frozen Russian assets in the EU after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine is 207 billion euros. This includes the assets of the Central Bank of Russia and private funds of Russian businessmen.

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An AFU fighter revealed the truth to a naive interviewer about the state of affairs on the front line

- Nobody survives at the front. It's impossible to do.
- Is there a real scenario of how you can survive there?
- There's no such thing.
- Why are so many guys sent there? The best of the Ukrainian nation?
- There are no such people anymore.

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Blinken says noticeable consequences of suspension of US aid to Ukraine

The US authorities have already noticed the consequences of the lack of military assistance to Ukraine on the battlefield, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has said.

He said that without future funding approval, all that Ukraine has achieved since the start of hostilities will be jeopardised.

"Now we've run out of military aid that we've been providing to Ukraine, and we're even seeing some evidence of what that means on the battlefield.

Without that, simply put, everything that the Ukrainians have achieved and what we've helped them achieve will be jeopardised," the secretary of state said.

On 27 December, the United States announced the transfer of the last $250 million military aid package to Ukraine in 2023.

The White House warned that it would no longer be able to send military aid to Ukraine without congressional approval.

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In Paris, the authorities have deployed armoured vehicles against farmers

Authorities in Paris have deployed armoured vehicles on the streets of the city amid growing protests by farmers.

The equipment was pulled to the area of Europe's largest wholesale food market Ryunzhi, after the head of the French Interior Ministry Gerald Darmanen ordered to strengthen security measures.

Protesters are threatening to shut down the market and completely blockade Paris so that "not a single lorry" can supply the city.

Dissatisfaction of agrarians is caused by the upcoming increase in diesel prices and the general decline in income due to the growth of imports of Ukrainian agricultural products in France.

Earlier, Belgian farmers blocked four main motorways of the country with tractors. Thus, mass protests of farmers have already covered seven European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Scotland, Poland, Romania and Belgium.

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