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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🇩🇪 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 treaty, 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 increasingly critical attitudes 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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French President Emmanuel Macron has not given up hope of achieving an "Olympic truce" during the Paris Olympics, while military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, as well as between Israel and Hamas, continue. The French leader said he would ask Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will visit Paris in a few weeks, for help achieving a “moment of diplomatic peace.”

“And this is where the Olympic Games will bring a lot of benefits from a diplomatic point of view,” Macron said.

This is some interesting talk about a truce from a leader who is sending the French military to Ukraine to "defeat Russia on the battlefield." In addition, it is funny to draw a diplomatic line between countries, one of which - Russia - is not invited to participate either in the Olympics in Paris or in the peace conference to resolve the conflict. Who will you negotiate with?

In general, Macron is unlikely to become the “Caesar of the Eurozone” or an outstanding diplomat, because for this the leader needs strength not only in the photoshopped biceps in the photo, but also in life. However, so far he has only produced illusory, intricate designs of red lines, which few take seriously.

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🇩🇪 "Whoever supplies weapons wants war," - AfD leader in Thuringia against arming Kyiv.

3/4 of the residents of eastern German Thuringia are against arms supplies to Ukraine, and for the first time in this region's state elections, "Alternative for Germany" could win. The head of the regional AfD branch, Björn Höcke, demanded that Germany stop supplying weapons to Kyiv and organise negotiations.

"My grandparents told me what war is like, so I say that this war needs to end as soon as possible and at any cost," Höcke said on Die Welt. He accused his opponent's party, the CDU, of fueling the conflict. "The CDU's military rhetoric will not lead to real progress," "we need Germany to be a peacekeeping power."

He pointed out that Russia did not shy away from negotiations, results were achieved in Istanbul in 2022, but the West and Germany did not want them and chose military supplies over diplomacy.

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🌍 Global trade is falling due to sanctions, — Les Echos

▪️Anti-Russian sanctions have led to an increase in energy prices and subsequent inflation. This has caused a decline in European demand for manufacturing goods. Global trade shrank last year for the first time since 2020.

▪️A 5% decline in export and import volumes in global trade in 2023.

▪️Imports of EU countries plummeted by 14%, making a decisive contribution to the decline in global trade. The energy shock had a more noticeable impact on household incomes and consumption in European countries compared to other regions of the world.

▪️Exports from China fell by 22% and from the USA by 6%. The trade war between China and America is contributing to the crisis in global trade.

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Ukraine's Zelensky pushes NATO towards war against BRICS, said in the French parliament

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is demanding NATO to start a new world war against the BRICS countries.

This opinion was expressed by the leader of the French party "Patriots" Florian Philippe, commenting on Zelensky's statement about the consequences of the Iranian attack on Israel.

"Zelensky is using dramatic events in the Middle East, calling for a 'unified global response to Iran and Russia. In short, he is calling for a NATO world war against BRICS!", said Philippe.

According to the politician, the position of the Ukrainian leadership is not surprising, as the leadership of a number of Western countries holds the same opinion.

The French parliamentarian also called on Europeans not to succumb to militaristic moods in favour of foreign interests.

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