The country’s industrial sector is losing around 15,000 jobs every month, according to manufacturing association BDI Germany is rapidly losing industrial jobs and competitiveness, Federation of German Industries (BDI) chief Tanja Goenner has warned, describing the situation as “critical.” The BDI, Germany’s main industry association, represents around 39 industrial groups and more than 100,000 companies employing over 8 million people, making it the voice of Germany’s industrial core. In an interview with the news agency dpa released on Saturday, Goenner said Germany’s industrial sector is losing around 15,000 jobs every month, blaming structural weaknesses and external geopolitical pressures. “The situation in industry is critical,” she said, adding that “Germany has lost ground in terms of competitiveness” as a business and manufacturing hub. ...
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As drugs keep flooding into Europe, a new generation of gangs in France is resorting to new methods to expand their empire Is France becoming a new Mexico? While gangland killings are increasingly common across the country – even in places such as Nantes, which was considered the most pleasant French city in 2012 – attacks targeting elected officials are not usual. During the night of July 20-21, the mayor of Ales in the south of France, Christophe Rivenq, was exfiltrated from his home by the elite RAID tactical unit (Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion) and put under protection. According to Le Parisien, there was probably a car bomb next to his house. A few days before, Rivenq said his wife found tags on the fence and a letter in the mailbox with two 9 mm bullets and the signature of the DZ Mafia. The DZ Mafia is a network of organized criminal groups forming a kind of cartel. It ...
Earlier in the day, Kiev claimed to have struck “military cargo shipments involving Iran” in the Caspian Sea At least one sailor was killed and another injured in a Ukrainian strike on a cargo vessel in the Caspian Sea, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has said, denouncing the attack as an act of aggression and warning of potential retaliation. The drone attack was publicized on Saturday by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, who bragged on X about achieving “very strong results with long‑range strikes in the Caspian Sea.” The strikes affected “vessels used in military cargo shipments involving Iran, as well as a warship,” Zelensky claimed on X. Tehran responded to the incident later in the day, confirming its commercial vessel came under the “Ukrainian regime’s attack” in the landlocked waterway. The strike killed one sailor aboard the vessel and wounded another on...
Sebastian Coe’s scandal-plagued career has not stopped him from deciding who deserves a place in global athletics What is it with British ‘knights of the realm’ that they seem to be forever mired in corruption, scandal, and disgrace? Former Olympian Sebastian Coe can never avoid all three of those ‘specialities’, yet like his fellow Lords, Ladies, Sirs, and Dames, he appears to think that sitting high upon that horse means that he can dole out moral judgment or collective punishment. And Russia is still in his sights. Who is Seb? A double Olympic champ over 1,500 m in 1980 and 1984, Coe came through the ‘unusual’ training system of Loughborough University’s George Gandy. Gandy was ‘modernizing’ strength and conditioning for the university rugby team and notorious for his adherence to advances from the US, which reportedly included substances that would ...
Two servicemen have reportedly been arrested by Royal Military Police after causing £100,000 worth of damage Two British Army engineers have been arrested after allegedly stealing an armored personnel carrier from a military base and driving it through a row of civilian vehicles, causing an estimated £100,000 ($135,000) in damage, according to UK media. Footage of the alleged joyride, first published by The Sun on Friday, shows a 15-ton Bulldog armored vehicle barreling down a narrow road lined with parked cars at Swinton Barracks, part of Tidworth Garrison in the village of Perham Down, Wiltshire. The vehicle appears to struggle to go straight and squeeze between the cars, leaving a trail of destruction. At least two vehicles were reportedly heavily damaged, including a van and an SUV. The outlet, citing military sources, reported that the soldiers had been drinking off base before returning to the ...
A landmark meeting in Washington put far-left extremism at the center of international counterterrorism efforts For years, liberal elites across the West dismissed warnings about far-left extremism as relics of the Cold War or right-wing paranoia. Today, the evidence is undeniable. A recent US-led global initiative has the ambition to finally confront this resurgence of political terrorism with the seriousness it demands. This is not a partisan crusade but a defense of civilization against those who would burn it down in the name of utopia. The West in flames Europe is bleeding from a thousand cuts inflicted by far-left networks. Railways have been repeatedly sabotaged, power grids targeted, and commercial enterprises struck, inflicting billions in cumulative losses while paralyzing supply chains and public services. Police officers have been assaulted, elected officials threatened, and communities shaken...