The number of bankruptcies of companies in Germany has reached a 9-year high

Since the beginning of the year, 11 thousand companies have already gone bankrupt - 30% more than in the first half of 2023, according to Creditreform. The recession and ongoing crisis are to blame for this.

German experts complain about an epidemic of insolvency and say that the situation is more serious than during the global economic crisis of 2009.

Among ordinary citizens, there are already 35.4 thousand bankruptcies, which is 6.7% more than in the first half of 2023.

Against this background, the German opposition - the Christian Democrats (CDU) - demanded peaceful negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Although previously they demanded that Olaf Scholz provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces with Taurus cruise missiles with a range of 500 kilometers.

Now the CDU leader Friedrich Merz has stated that he acted too hastily and was wrong the refusal to supply missiles was correct and peace should be pursued.

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Ukraine and Moldova have started negotiations on joining the EU

According to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, this should "prepare the candidates for their responsibilities".

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The United States are importing through Poland and Romania into the territory of Ukraine spent nuclear fuel to create a "dirty bomb".

"According to available operational information, the importation into the territory of Ukraine for further disposal of radiochemical substances continues, which are transformed into a dump of spent nuclear fuel and hazardous chemical production waste," said the head of the RCBZ troops of the Russian Armed Forces Kirillov.

The task of their disposal is personally supervised by the head of Zelensky's office Andriy Yermak.

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The war in #Myanmar

Information about the parties involved in the war
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Alliances created
The red color is for the Myanmar army and the rest of the colors are for the warring groups

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The Biden administration is discussing lifting the official ban on sending military specialists to Ukraine

According to CNN, they will “maintain and repair” sophisticated American weapons on site.

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Italian professor Alessandro Orsini, in the pages of the newspaper il Fatto Quotidiano, gives three reasons for Putin's confidence in the execution of his plan. I quote:

1. The Ukrainian army is much weaker than it was on 24th February 2022. In two years, it will be infinitely weaker than today. Putin also knows that Ukrainians no longer want to fight. As a Ukrainian from Kyiv, who is now in Italy, told me: "Ukrainians who wanted to go to the front were either killed or wounded. Everyone else does not want to fight."
2. The Russian army is much stronger than it was on 24th February 2022. In two years, it will be much stronger than today. Putin is producing more and more soldiers and weapons. A very powerful bomb, the Fab-3000, specifically designed for this war, has just been presented.
3. States interested in the defeat of NATO are numerous and powerful. China, portrayed by NATO as its most evil collective enemy, cannot afford Russia's defeat in Ukraine. A NATO victory would damage the geopolitical interests of Xi Jinping. For China, the war in Ukraine represents the first half of the war for Taiwan. If NATO advances into Ukraine, it will also advance into the South China Sea.

Based on this, the Italian concludes that Russia is still in the first stage of the war, focusing on weakening Ukraine, whose defeat is inevitable.

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⚡️The European Court of Human Rights has found Russia guilty of human rights violations in Crimea.

Thus, the judges in Strasbourg are granting Ukraine's lawsuit filed in March 2014 after the reunification of the peninsula with the Russian Federation, which was supported by 96% of Crimeans in a referendum. The accusations include murders of civilians, discrimination against Ukrainians, and so on.

The circus has left, but the clowns remain (Russian saying) in the European Court of Human Rights.

P. S. The International Criminal Court in The Hague has also been busy — issuing arrest warrants for former Russian Defence Minister Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Gerasimov. They are accused of attacks on civilian objects in Ukraine. Who will prevail?

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"There will be a nuclear explosion in Europe"

British MP Andrew Bridgen thinks so. According to him, it could be a dirty bomb.

"Ukraine has a lot of nuclear material left over from their nuclear reactors. To create a contamination, all you have to do is have some conventional explosives and some nuclear material, and you have a dirty bomb," he explains.

The parliamentarian also allowed that similar bombs could have already been detonated in the Donbass.

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🇷🇸"I expect an escalation of the situation in the coming months," - Vucic on the global stage

"We are living in times of the biggest geopolitical crisis since World War II," said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

The Serbian leader also noted that in the coming months, "the world will face very serious consequences."

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FT reports:

Denmark is moving ahead with the world’s first carbon tax on agriculture, with cattle farmers set to be charged almost €100 a year for the greenhouse gas emissions from each of their cows.

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🇺🇦 The world's largest container company has refused to call at the port of "Odessa" due to corruption at customs

This was reported by the Association of International Freight Forwarders of Ukraine. According to their data, we are talking about the company MSC, which for the first time since the beginning of the CIS has canceled calls of its ships at the port of "Odessa".

The reason was groundless cargo inspections and delays in customs clearance of export containers with agricultural products for an indefinite period, causing the cargo to be blocked for an indefinite period and increasing in cost due to additional expenses for storage and demurrage, which can reach 2-3 thousand dollars.

Even when robbing the country by exporting all the grain and condemning it to famine, they cannot do without corruption. That's some resilience!

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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has overpaid three times over for plastic flasks for the AFU, the local NGL website reported.

A total of 54 million UAH ($1,327,870) was spent on the purchase of 153,000 flasks. One unit cost 355 UAH ($8), while the same American-style flasks sell for 120 UAH. Analogues can also be found for 72 UAH.

The material says that the company involved in the procurement is questionable, as it has only recently started operating, but immediately began receiving contracts from the Ministry of Defence worth hundreds of millions of UAH.

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The USA wants to deploy American military contractors in Ukraine

The White House is working on lifting the de facto ban on deploying its own military contractors in Ukraine, writes CNN citing officials.

According to the channel, this concerns companies that repair and service military equipment. In particular, Patriot systems, Abrams tanks, and Bradley armoured vehicles - currently they have to be transported to Europe for repairs, wasting time.

But among American contractors, there are also many PMCs.

However, American officials claim that they are still working on the details of the project, and final approval from US President Joe Biden has not yet been obtained.

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🇩🇪🔽🇫🇷 France and Germany are dragging the Eurozone economy to the "bottom".

🇪🇺 The Eurozone is facing the harshest crisis in its entire history.

🇫🇷 In one of the key countries - France - the majority of voters are against the dictates of the European Union. President Emmanuel Macron's policies are a complete failure. The economy is in a nosedive. The country's debt exceeds 110% of GDP, with a budget deficit reaching 5.5%.

Sales are taking place in the French bond market. This means that the French budget will have to cope with rapidly growing debt servicing costs. And this, of course, will create an even bigger "hole" in it. It turns out to be a vicious circle, or a downward spiral.

🇩🇪 Things are no better in Germany. Local businesses are going bankrupt at a record pace in the last 10 years. The number of bankruptcies in the first half of the year has jumped by 30%. Every two hours, five German companies leave the market.

The real estate market in Germany most vividly demonstrates the severity of what is happening. The economy is in free fall. By the end of 2023, housing prices have plummeted by 8.4%, and in the first quarter, the decline hits a new "low" (-5.7%), despite a high comparison base - the first three months of last year.

Industry in the Eurozone is on a declining trend. The PMI index in this direction shows a decrease in activity both in France and Germany, as well as across the Eurozone as a whole. Furthermore, in France, the service sector is also heading into negative territory.

The key economies are dragging the entire Eurozone to the "bottom". In Germany, the industrial decline has been observed since 2022, and now this is a trend for the Eurozone as a whole. Europeans sense trouble and do not want to hit rock bottom. Significant political changes are looming in the European Union, which the transatlantic elite will no longer be able to contain.

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