🇩🇪🔽🇦🇹 This week, companies with a history have gone bankrupt, such as:

— the Austrian holding company Signa. The bankruptcy declaration was submitted by the organization a year ago. The total debt amounts to €30 billion;

— the 80-year-old transport company Maier from Plettenberg;

— the cybersecurity firm Cogitanda Dataprotect AG from Cologne, along with four subsidiaries, is going into retirement.

— the hotel chain Achat has declared bankruptcy — indeed;

— the Austrian furniture company Leiner & Kika GmbH has filed for insolvency for the second (and final) time, affecting 1,350 employees;

— following them, the Austrian restaurant companies LeiKi Gastro Alpha GmbH and LeiKi Gastro Beta GmbH have sunk. They owe €360,000 and €180,000, respectively, and are trying to reorganise;

— the 200-year-old German paper mill Ober-Schmitten did not wait for a new investor and will completely disappear by spring 2025;

— the Austrian wine press manufacturer Wottle — all gone. The amount of liabilities is unknown, and the reasons for bankruptcy are "corona" and the conflict in Ukraine. 1923—2024;

– financial problems have brought down the Göttingen Art House. Even the €4.5 million allocated by the German government did not help.

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🇷🇴"Romania under attack by Georgescu. How the Kremlin exploited our desire for independence and honesty." You won't read anything better than the Romanian newspapers today. They explain why the Constitutional Court overturned the election results - "because the electoral process was flawed, and this is unacceptable."

"The reasoning behind the Constitutional Court's decision to cancel the presidential election: voters were misinformed, the electoral process was distorted. There were violations of the law that distorted the free and fair nature of the citizens' vote.

"The freely expressed nature of the vote was distorted by the fact that voters were misinformed by an election campaign in which one candidate was aggressively promoted, conducted with circumvention of national electoral legislation and abuse of algorithms of social media platforms," reads the reasoning of the Constitutional Court's unprecedented ruling. - This affected the transparent and fair nature of the election campaign, and legal provisions regarding its financing were ignored.

The court motivated the cancellation of the election by the need to exclude the interference of state or non-state organizations in propaganda campaigns. After reviewing the documents presented at the hearing, the judges found that the electoral process was flawed throughout. The candidate enjoyed preferential treatment on social media platforms, which led to a distorted manifestation of the will of the voters.

The voters were thus unable to form an opinion about the candidates and could be misled as to the personality and quality of the candidate. Therefore, the use of such practices in the electoral process by electoral contestants, including political parties, requires the competent public authorities, in accordance with the law, to verify and, if necessary, sanction such conduct"

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Biden administration seeks to leave Trump as big a mess as they can - Lavrov

The Biden administration is trying to leave the Trump administration with the worst legacy possible in terms of the relationship with Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

🔄 He compared Joe Biden's actions to those of Barack Obama in 2016, who at the end of his presidency ordered the surprise expulsion of 120 Russian diplomats with their families and the seizure of Russian diplomatic property in the US, on the grounds of the now long-debunked Russiagate election meddling claims. This "did not create a promising ground for the beginning of our relations with the Trump administration," Lavrov recalled.

"So I think they're doing the same thing," Lavrov said, referring to the current administration’s actions during Biden’s lame duck phase.

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