A winter of resentment, that's what the British are calling the time right now. And by that I mean the largest wave of strikes that the country has experienced since the 1980s. The train drivers are on strike this Friday, according to the announcement, hardly any trains are running. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets on Wednesday: teachers, civil servants, university employees and many more. They all call for their wages to be adjusted for inflation, which is around...
Last Wednesday it was clear: Germany will deliver Leopard-2 main battle tanks to Ukraine. According to Defense Minister Pistorius, they could be there at the end of March or beginning of April. Although Ukrainian President Zelensky thanked Germany, he also called for even more support: long-range missiles and fighter jets. Ukraine is under a lot of pressure again, last week there were many and big attacks from Russia. A major Russian offensive is also expected in the spring.Security expert Claudia...
Lützerath has been cleared for days. The CDU mayor of the affected city of Erkelenz, Stephan Muckel, had previously refused to release it. How he assesses the situation now.For many, the town of Lützerath in North Rhine-Westphalia has been a symbol of climate protection since this week. And although the Greens in particular argue a lot about the case there, CDU politician Stephan Muckel is also anything but enthusiastic that the village is now being demolished so that the energy...
The Swedish mining company LKAB announced on Thursday that it had found a large deposit of rare earths. However, it is still unclear to what extent European industry will benefit from this."Rare earths" are various metals that have special chemical properties. This is what makes them so important for the production of technical devices such as smartphones. There are also rare earths in Germany, but the deposits are so small that mining them would not be worthwhile.It has now become...
The Russian attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022 marked what Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls a "turning point". SZ political chief Stefan Kornelius says: "The word was very well chosen."The war changed our lives forever. The year 2022 was of course marked by this war and its impact on people around the world. As a result of the war, Germany had to deal with an energy crisis and extremely high inflation, among other things. Kornelius says that the federal...
The first trip abroad by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy since the Russian attack almost ten months ago is to meet with Joe Biden in Washington. On the agenda: the delivery of the Patriot anti-aircraft systems. Its missiles can fend off aircraft, cruise missiles, drones and other missiles up to a distance of 160 kilometers.Without US aid, Ukraine would probably only exist geographically, says SZ Eastern Europe correspondent Florian Hassel, "certainly not militarily, as an independent country without Putin." The US...
The European Union has already experienced one or two cases of corruption. But seldom has their credibility been in such danger as it is now. After MEP Eva Kaili and three other people were arrested on suspicion of corruption. They are said to have been bribed by Qatar. The Belgian police seized a total of 1.5 million euros in cash in the case.Katarina Barley from the SPD was a colleague of Eva Kaili's faction. And she is, like the arrested...
Since buying Twitter, Elon Musk has faced mass layoffs, unbanning rabble-rousers, and chaos around verified accounts. Now the short message service has the accounts of several journalists Washington Post, New York Times and CNN blocked.According to the Twitter boss, they had "doxxed" because they are said to have passed on personal information about him. The journalists reported on the Twitter account of a 20-year-old American who had published freely available information on the movements of Musk's private jet there. Journalists'...
An important part of the government's relief package for this winter is the gas and electricity price brake. Because of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, energy prices have risen sharply and the state wants to support the citizens. He therefore takes over the monthly deduction for gas in December and from March the gas price brake takes effect - also retrospectively for the months of January and February. This means that the gas price is capped at 12...
Insect biomass has declined by 76 percent over the past thirty years. 41 percent of all amphibian species and almost a third of all mammal species are also threatened. Evolutionary biologists speak of the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history. The human being is to blame. The 15th United Nations World Conference on Nature is currently taking place in Canada. There is a fight about whether 30 percent of the land area and the oceans will be protected areas by...
