Tägliche Diskussion - 2. Dezember 2024

Französische Regierung am Rande des Zusammenbruchs

The French government may be about collapse, after Prime Minister Michel Barnier forced through the first part of his budget without a vote in the National Assembly.Mr Barnier, the EU's former chief Brexit negotiator, had to employ Article 49.3 of the French constitution, to get his controversial plan for spending cuts and tax hikes through.In response to being sidelined by the PM, under the French system lawmakers are able to pursue "censure" - otherwise known as a vote of no confidence - against him.The 73-year-old could be out of his post within 48 hours, with the radical…  Weiterlesen left New Popular Front effectively teaming up with hard right National Rally, the party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, to oust him.The votes are expected to take place on Wednesday as the French Constitution states that a vote of no confidence can only happen 48 hours after it is officially called for.Mr Barnier, a member of the centre-right Republican party, which took a beating during the summer's Assembly elections, was appointed by Mr Macron to get the French economy out of the mire.Since Covid, the country's deficit to GDP ratio has soared. Under EU rules, the deficit cannot exceed 3 three percent of GDP. However, in 2023, France's ratio spiked to 5.5 percent, and is forecast to be 6.2 percent this year.Mr Barnier's brief was to rescue the French economy, getting the GDP to deficit ratio back below three percent. To do that, his budget included deep cuts to public spending totalling £33bn (€40bn), and steep tax rises amounting to £16bn (€20bn).

Trumps Friedensplan für die Ukraine „zum Scheitern verurteilt“

Donald Trump’s pledge to end Russia’s war in Ukraine is doomed to failure if the US president-elect does not involve broader talks on Moscow’s security concerns, an influential hardliner close to the Kremlin has warned.

Konstantin Malofeyev, a Russian tycoon who is subject to western sanctions, told the Financial Times that President Vladimir Putin was likely to reject a peace plan proposal by Trump’s recently nominated special envoy for the conflict, Keith Kellogg.

“Kellogg comes to Moscow with his plan, we take it and then tell him to screw himself, because we…  Weiterlesen don’t like any of it. That’d be the whole negotiation,” Malofeyev said in an interview at a luxury resort in Dubai. “For the talks to be constructive, we need to talk not about the future of Ukraine, but the future of Europe and the world.”

Russische und syrische Bombardierungen hinterlassen 25 Tote bei verheerendem zivilen Angriff.

At least 25 people were killed in northwestern Syria in air strikes carried out by the Syrian government and Russia, the Syrian opposition-run rescue service known as the White Helmets said early on Monday.

Russian and Syrian jets struck the rebel-held city of Idlib in northern Syria on Sunday, military sources said, as President Bashar al-Assad vowed to crush insurgents who had swept into the city of Aleppo.

The army also said it had recaptured several towns that rebels had overrun in recent days.

Residents said one attack hit a crowded residential area in the centre of Idlib, the largest city…  Weiterlesen in a rebel enclave near the Turkish border where around four million people live in makeshift tents and dwellings.

Trump droht mit einem 100%igen Zoll auf Brics-Länder, wenn sie versuchen, den Dollar zu ersetzen.

US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on a bloc of nine nations if they were to create a rival currency to the US dollar.

"The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER," Trump wrote on social media on Saturday.

Major world powers China and Russia are part of the Brics alliance, along with Brazil, India, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates.

During the US election, Trump campaigned on implementing widespread tariffs. He has escalated threats of steep levies in rec…  Weiterlesenent days.

Israelischer Angriff tötet angeblich mit Hamas verbundenen Hilfsarbeiter

Israel on Saturday said it had killed a World Central Kitchen worker it accused of taking part in the Hamas-led attack that started the war in Gaza last year, in the second Israeli strike to kill workers affiliated with the aid group.

A spokeswoman for World Central Kitchen, a U.S.-based relief group, said on Saturday that three of its contractors had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle. In a statement, the aid group said that it “had no knowledge that any individual in the vehicle had alleged ties” to the Hamas-led attack.

“To the best of our knowledge, no WCK…  Weiterlesen team members are affiliated with Hamas,” the spokeswoman, Linda Roth, said in an email.