End of hostilities after eighteen months of clashes between Airbus and qatarairways. The two parties announced on Wednesday that they had settled "amicably" the dispute between them over the A350 delivered to the Gulf Company. The latter, a major Airbus customer, had gradually grounded 29 of its 53 A350s after noting damage to the surface of the fuselages.The Qatari company sued the aircraft manufacturer in the High Court of Justice in London to demand damages and demanded 200,000 dollars in...
Cum-Ex, mask affair, corruption by EU parliamentarians: An index by Transparency International shows that trust in the integrity of politics and business has been weakened."Germany hasn't made any significant progress in fighting corruption for ten years," says Margarete Bause, deputy chairwoman of Transparency International Germany. On Tuesday morning, the NGO published the Corruption Perceptions Index 2022. The result: "Scandals such as the mask affair or Cum-Ex have recently weakened trust in the integrity of politics and business," said Bause. The...
"Germany hasn't made any significant progress in fighting corruption for ten years," says Margarete Bause, deputy chairwoman of Transparency International Germany. On Tuesday morning, the NGO published the Corruption Perceptions Index 2022. The result: "Scandals such as the mask affair or Cum-Ex have recently weakened trust in the integrity of politics and business," said Bause. The study covers 180 countries and uses surveys to evaluate perceived corruption in politics and administration.Germany ranks ninth behind Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Denmark...
For several weeks, the PSG has been increasing pressure on the city of Paris with the aim of buying the Parc des Princes. the Paris Saint Germain expressed the wish several weeks ago to acquire the Parc des Princes in order to be able to carry out the work necessary for its expansion. According to information from L'Equipe, PSG has several architectural studies to increase the capacity of the Parc des Princes to 60,000 seats without extending or raising the...
The FIFA World Cup was held from November 20 to December 18, 2022, in Qatar. The writing of 20 minutes sent two journalists there for five weeks, Aymeric Le Gall and William Pereira. The mission of these special envoys: Follow the sports competition, the Blues, and tell the story of this small, very conservative Gulf country, where thousands of workers died on the construction sites of the stadiums, where luxury and extreme poverty coexist. Being a "special envoy" to Qatar...
Olivier Giroud has a sense of elegance. The striker of the France team told, in an interview with Canal +, his disappointment to see Karim Benzema leave the blue group in Qatar. The Ballon d'Or had relapsed in training before being isource site
The similarities between football matches in the stadium called al-Bayt in Qatar and the arena called Red Bull in Leipzig are admittedly rare, but they exist. For example: very, very euphoric stadium announcers. At the World Cup, a DJ put on his records live at the edge of the lawn at every game and enthusiastically moved to the beat in order to bring the spectators up to temperature with increased volume. It was sometimes only bearable with effort. In Leipzig...
Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella did not declare a trip paid for by Qatar, his lawyer admitted on Sunday, a few days after his colleague Marie Arena reported a similar "oversight" concerning a stay in the emirate, in full scandal of alleged corruption in the European Parliament.After indicting four people for alleged corruption for the benefit of Qatar, the Belgian judicial authorities requested the lifting of immunity for Marc Tarabella, close to Pier-Antonio Panzeri, a former Italian MEP at the heart...
The German debate revolves around "Leopard" tanks. But the wave of Russian airstrikes is also focusing on anti-aircraft tanks, which Qatar may be able to sell after the World Cup. The CDU defense expert sees the chancellor on the train.The weekend was terrible for Ukraine again. "Right now there is no light and hardly any network," writes Andriy Melnyk, the former ambassador to Germany Süddeutsche Zeitung. A little later he reports from Kyiv: "Massive rocket attack." Then Melnyk sends videos...
Philipp Weber had no doubts. Immediately after the work was done, he said he never feared "that things could go the other way". Because he plays in a team that is now so solid that "even phases like this can't blow us away". The national handball player meant the 25:26 goal by Ahmed Nader Saleh, who again put the German team under pressure in their World Cup opening game against Qatar in Poland and Sweden. In dire straits, as coach...
