support of Ukraine Air Force fighter jets should not exist for Ukraine - why the government still has to deal with deliveries Polish MiG-29 fighter jets. Poland has 22 copies from old NVA stocks and a few more. Will they be delivered to Ukraine? The debate is on. © Radoslaw Jozwiak / AFP The discussion about fighter jet deliveries to Ukraine is in full swing. Even if Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to push the issue aside, it could soon be...
Last week, the NGO Sea Shepherd revealed that it had discovered five corpses of mutilated and disembowelled dolphins on the coast of the Bassin d'Arcachon, in Gironde. This phenomenon returns regularly to the beaches of the Atlantic coast and according to the League for the Protection of Birds, since December, more than 300 corpses of small cetaceans, the vast majority of common dolphins protected by law, have been discovered on the French coasts.Faced with this scourge, fifteen deputies from all...
Get Peru out of the “quagmire”. This is the mission that the interim president, Dina Boluarte, has set herself, with two levers of action at her disposal. Friday, police and army were called to clear the dozens of roadblocks erected across the country which is beginning to experience serious shortages. At the same time, the President asked Parliament to approve a new advance in the general elections, indicating that her government supports the initiative of the opposition to advance the...
Status: 01/24/2023 3:03 p.m Garbage workers have a real backbreaking job - but they are paid comparatively poorly. They could particularly benefit from the collective bargaining in the public sector that started today. At 6:45 sharp, Karin Seibel starts the engine of her garbage truck at the waste management depot in Stuttgart-Vaihingen. The service of the 56-year-old began at 6.15 a.m. She has been working as a garbage truck driver for the city of Stuttgart for 25 years because she...
Status: 01/24/2023 2:19 p.m Swiss watches are known and valued around the world and are now also proving to be crisis-proof: Despite the general slump in consumption due to inflation and the Ukraine war, there was a sales record last year. With exports worth 24.8 billion francs, the Swiss watch industry set a sales record last year. This was announced by the Association of the Swiss Watch Industry (FH). The sales correspond to an increase of 11.4 percent compared to...
“The time had come for me to take my part in contraception. A little over a month ago, Jérôme, 51, underwent a vasectomy in the Toulouse University Hospital during an operation without general anesthesia and which will have lasted less than 15 minutes. “And I have since had a completely normal and fulfilling sex life”, assures this Tarnais, already the father of a child. A choice that he assumes and that he took after having discussed it with his companion...
Wolfgang Stefinger (CSU) would lose his Bundestag mandate with the capping proposal of the traffic light coalition. He sees this as a threat to democracy. source site
As of: 01/18/2023 4:20 p.m The International Energy Agency expects record global demand for oil this year. After the lifting of the strict corona restrictions in China, the hunger for energy in the country is particularly high. Demand for oil will reach a new record high this year. This is the assumption of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its first monthly oil report for this year. Accordingly, global demand could increase by 1.9 million barrels to a total of...
As of: 01/18/2023 2:58 p.m After the ECB carried out a climate stress test in 2022, the US Federal Reserve has now asked the largest American banks to analyze the climate risks. The results should come at the end of the year. The US Federal Reserve (Fed) has asked the six largest US banks to compile data on how the consequences of climate change and the transition to a lower carbon economy could affect their businesses. The scenario analysis should...
Ingo Speich is a middle-aged man. A man whose job it is to ensure that soon fewer people of his own kind have the say in the management floors of German companies. His employer, Deka Investment, invests its customers' money in company shares. Speich, who heads the "Sustainability & Corporate Governance" department, expects these companies to stop relying on white men in the second half of their lives quite as often in top positions. "If a company does not have...
