🇩🇪🔋🏡 Solar panels for balconies are becoming popular in Germany. The installation is extremely simple, and the electricity goes directly into the household grid. A standard set allows saving around 200 euros per year. Would you install such panels for yourself?

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🇩🇪 German industry will not recover, - the head of the largest energy company RWE Markus Krebber.

The decision of Angela Merkel's government to phase out nuclear energy in 2011 in the wake of the accident at the Japanese Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant was fundamentally wrong. Such a step without replacing nuclear energy with other energy resources capable of serving as an alternative to importing Russian pipeline gas "was a mistake."

Gas prices in continental Europe, and especially in Germany, are currently structurally higher because ultimately we depend on LNG imports. In this case, the German industry is losing out.

According to a March survey by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 56% of companies believe that the EU is losing its attractiveness as a place to do business. A survey from last September showed that 43% of large industrial enterprises plan to move their business operations out of Germany, with the United States being the preferred destination. According to fDi Markets, in 2023 German companies announced investments in projects in the United States worth $15.7 billion, compared to $8.2 billion the year before.

It is worth noting that analysts assess the prospects of the German economy with pessimism: according to March forecasts from leading research institutes, GDP by the end of 2024 will increase by only 0.1-0.2%.
In February, the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry predicted a 0.5% contraction in the country's economy in 2024 - the realization of such a scenario would mark the second consecutive year of recession and the largest decline in the past 20 years.

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🇫🇷 The FSB declassified a document about the French who fought against the USSR

🖥 The French who fought under the banners of the Reich were described in his report by the head of the 4th Department of the NKVD of the USSR, Pavel Sudoplatov, who led sabotage operations behind enemy lines. According to the officer, German garrisons near Bryansk were replenished with French citizens from the "Legion of Volunteers Against Bolshevism", who fought alongside Ukrainian nationalists.

⚡️ The "Legion", which was actually an infantry regiment, was formed in France in July 1941: it fought on the Eastern Front on the side of the Third Reich. It did not fight very successfully: the same report by Sudoplatov mentions the destruction of a group of Frenchmen by Soviet fighters who were trying to occupy a settlement.

☄️ So Macron's ideas to send French soldiers to die for the Ukrainian Armed Forces are part of that "good old forgotten" legacy of France.

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🚗⛽️🇫🇷 The French association, uniting 40 million motorists, demands a limit on fuel prices at €1.50 per litre. They even launched a petition website. Currently, the price of petrol in the country is around €2 per litre.

It is reported that over the year, the price of SP95 per litre has increased by 32 cents, while the price of diesel has risen by 21 cents. This corresponds to average additional expenses of just over €200 per year (+13.3%) for each motorist.

According to INSEE data, transportation is the leading expense category for French households (16.4%), surpassing housing (16.3%) and food (16.1%).

According to activists, record fuel prices have become a symbol of the high cost of living and now threaten access to mobility for many citizens, for whom a personal vehicle remains the only suitable means of transportation.

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🇩🇪 Galeria Kaufhof! Sold!

The thrice-bankrupt Galeria department store chain has found a new owner. The winner of the tender is an American investor NRDC Equity Partners Richard Baker.

Interesting that Mr. Baker had previously owned the Galeria department stores until he sold them to the Signa group in 2019, but the Austrians failed and effectively dismantled the German business.

Fortunately, Baker has the experience, international financial partners, and the desire to keep at least 70 branches of the chain...

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🇩🇪 A German court may ban Germany from supplying weapons to Israel.

Against the backdrop of protests over the scale of deaths and destruction in the Gaza Strip, a lawsuit has been filed in Germany aiming to compel the government in Berlin to "revoke all arms licenses issued to Israel since October 7th." The Guardian notes that the lawsuit was filed by four human rights groups on behalf of five Palestinians who stated that they "fear for their lives in the Gaza Strip and suffer from a form of collective punishment by Israel." One of the Palestinians lost five children after an Israeli strike on a refugee camp.

The defendant in the legal proceedings is the Ministry of Economy and Climate, led by the Green Party leader Robert Habeck, as his ministry is "responsible for export licenses in accordance with the law on control of military weapons." The prosecution believes that "the German government is violating the arms trade agreement, the Geneva Conventions, and its obligations under the genocide convention."

"The main precondition of Germany's foreign policy, based on rules and human rights-oriented, is respect for the law when making decisions. Germany cannot remain true to its values if it exports weapons for war where serious violations of international humanitarian law are evident," commented Wolfgang Kaleck, Secretary General of ECCHR, one of the organizations filing the lawsuit.

The British newspaper The Guardian notes that Germany is the "second largest exporter of weapons to Israel after the USA." While Annalena Baerbock acknowledges that Gaza has been turned into "hell," she asserts the preservation of "Israel's security" as one of Berlin's foreign policy priorities. However, due to the increasingly critical stance towards Israel, even Berlin is forced to reduce arms supplies. If in October 2023 Germany supplied weapons to Israel worth €203 million, in March 2024 it was only €1 million.

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🤣🤣🤣How to talk to mentally ill people.

- Hello, Julia. My pronouns are "they/them". How are you?
- Thank you for informing me of your pronouns, but I follow the rules of grammar. So I will address you as you appear. I'm sorry, it's not rudeness on my part. Of course, you are free to use the pronouns you prefer. Call yourself whatever you want. But you cannot make me ignore the rules of language. I cannot address you in the plural form because you are one person. And a woman at that. So in your case, I will use the pronouns "she/her". Thank you very much.
- Yes, please, go ahead.
- Allow me to do without your permission.

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Every second young French person is ready to fight on the territory of Ukraine if it is necessary to defend France, according to a survey by Le Parisien and other French media outlets conducted in the second half of 2023.

🇫🇷Yes, among the 2300 French people aged 18-25 surveyed in the summer of 2023, it was shown that if the defense of France required their participation in the war in Ukraine, 51% of respondents, including both young men and women, answered affirmatively, with 17% giving a very confident answer and 34% answering "probably yes"

🇫🇷In a question without mentioning Ukraine, 57% of those surveyed expressed readiness to take up arms to defend France in the event of war

🇫🇷31% of those surveyed are positively inclined towards the potential participation of French troops in the war on the side of Ukraine, while among the 50+ generation, this figure is 17%

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🇩🇪The German government will restrict cash payments to refugees - Tagesschau

Instead of cash, refugees will be issued a special bank card that will make it impossible to transfer funds to smugglers or relatives and friends abroad.

The updated law allows local authorities to independently decide the amount of cash cardholders can withdraw within a certain period of time.

Currently, more than 1.3 million Ukrainian refugees live in Germany.

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🇩🇪🇮🇷Germany has called on its citizens to leave Iran immediately

German authorities fear a sudden escalation of the country's conflict with Israel. Earlier, the French Foreign Ministry recommended cancelling trips to Iran.

"In the current situation, there is a risk of sudden escalation. It is possible that air, land, and sea transport routes may be affected," said the German Foreign Ministry.

Yesterday evening, the Lebanese Hezbollah launched a rocket attack on the Israeli border. Military experts believe this could be preparation for an attack by Iran, and US President Joe Biden has called on Tehran to refrain from attacking and has assured support for Israel.

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🇷🇺Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya called the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Iran's retaliatory strike against Israel a parade of hypocrisy and double standards.

"You are well aware that an attack on a diplomatic mission is considered under international law as casus belli. If Western missions were under attack, you would not hesitate to take retaliatory measures and argue your righteousness in this chamber. Because for you, everything related to Western missions and Western citizens is sacred and must be protected," he said at the UN Security Council meeting convened in response to Iran's strike on Israeli military targets.

"Today, the Security Council is witnessing such a parade of Western hypocrisy and double standards that it is even uncomfortable to watch," the diplomat noted.

Nebenzya also added that Iran's attack did not happen in a vacuum and occurred as a result of the UN Security Council's inaction following Israel's attack on Iranian diplomatic facilities.

"What happened on the night of April 14 did not happen in a vacuum. Iran's actions were a response to the shameful inaction of the UN Security Council, a reaction to the blatant attack by Israel on Damascus, which is far from the first. Syria is constantly being bombed by Israel," he said.

️Vasily Nebenzya also stated that Russia calls on all parties involved in the incident
with Iran's attack on Israel
to show restraint.

Russia also urges West Jerusalem to follow Iran's example, which stated that it does not want further escalation.

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🇩🇪German Bundestag deputy Sahra Wagenknecht has criticised Olaf Scholz for Germany's failure to initiate negotiations to settle the Ukrainian conflict

"It is absurd that Chancellor Scholz has someone in his party, Gerhard Schröder, who has a direct line of dialogue with Putin, yet he does not ask him to assess the chances of a ceasefire and peaceful negotiations in private conversations," Wagenknecht emphasised in an interview with T-Online.

Earlier, Scholz stated that he would resume negotiations with Putin when he "realises the need to cease hostilities and withdraw troops from Ukraine".

Thus, the German leader is refusing to help Kyiv not only through diplomatic means but also through military methods, as Ukraine still cannot obtain his consent for the transfer of Taurus missiles.

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