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Rusijos Federacijos komunistų partijos (KPRF) lyderis Genadijus Ziuganovas pareiškė, kad Rusija galiausiai pralaimės, jei bus tęsiamas dabartinis politinis kursas ir karas prieš Ukrainą. Jo žodžius cituoja Rusijos žiniasklaida.

The chancellor has come under increasing pressure after resounding state election defeats, but says the results "go far beyond my own person"

Political shifts in Germany are being watched closely in Europe and beyond, Katya Adler writes.

The question is whether all of these incidents were isolated and unavoidable, or whether they point to something more systemic.

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German political heavyweight Angela Merkel avoided discussing her party’s latest election defeats on Monday, instead backing the Christian Democratic Union to return to its identity as a broad-based “people’s party.” The party and its current leader, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, are under pressure following disastrous election results that saw them lose to the far-right Alternative for Germany. Merkel, who led Germany from 2005 to 2021, did not mention the elections or Merz directly. Her only apparent reference to Sunday’s results came obliquely: “On a day like today, and after an evening like yesterday, it is perhaps worth thinking once again about what we can take from Konrad Adenauer,” she said. Merkel spoke at the opening of a Bundestag exhibition on former Chancellors Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt, before joining Bundestag President Julia Klöckner for a discussion on Adenauer, democracy and politics. Adenauer, West Germany’s first postwar chancellor and the CDU’s first leader, helped shape the party as a broad-based Christian movement. Most of the on-stage conversation focused on art, with the lack of more in-depth political discussion notable given the scale of the CDU’s recent losses. On Sept. 6, the far-right AfD won 43.8 percent in Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling its 2021 result, while Merz’s CDU fell to 17.2 percent — its worst-ever showing in the eastern state. On Sunday, the far-right AfD won around 38 percent of the vote in northeastern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, beating Merz’s CDU by a hefty margin, which suffered its worst-ever result in postwar Germany and crashed out of the state parliament. In Berlin, the CDU finished behind The Left. Merz called the latest defeats a “disaster” and pledged to overhaul the CDU’s platform, structure and public image. An ARD-DeutschlandTrend poll earlier this month found just 13 percent of voters satisfied with Merz’s work — a historically low rating. Merkel then turned to the question of how politicians can reconnect with voters. “We have to acknowledge that the question of how to maintain a connection with citizens and potential voters has changed dramatically,” she said. If politicians want to spread positive messages, she added, they must show the public “what guides my thinking, where I have doubts and what I have considered.”

NEW YORK — Finnish President Alexander Stubb has a message to European partners amid growing warnings of further Russian escalation: Keep calm and carry on. In recent days, top European officials have ever-more-loudly sounded the alarm about intensifying Russian hybrid warfare, with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warning that Moscow could send drones or missiles into the territory of NATO countries supporting Ukraine in “the next few months.” The head of the Czech security service warned that Russia could undertake “a limited incursion, false-flag provocations, a massive influence campaign” in a matter of “months, not years.” Yet Stubb has a different message. Although he acknowledges that Europe needs to prepare for “continued hybrid and sabotage attacks” by Russia, the Finnish president warns that Europe shouldn’t “overreact,” as Moscow aims to scare allies into slowing down support for Ukraine. “We have to be very careful and understand that Russia is trying to destabilize and scare Europe. And any time we overreact to a hybrid attack, they have actually won the battle in that particular way,” Stubb told POLITICO during an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. “We also have to understand that it is not in the interest of Russia nor in the capacity of Russia to go full-scale” with military escalation, Stubb added. “So they will continue to intimidate and we just have to be, as I say, cool, calm and collected in this situation.” Stubb lauded Germany’s recent decision to attribute responsibility to Russia for the attempted Leipzig drone attack: “That is exactly what you need to do. You need to point the finger and say, we know what you’re doing and these are the consequences.” In contrast, however, Stubb pointed to the “overreaction” from some intelligence services which “basically say that, well, you’re next” for a Russian invasion. “We don’t see the evidence of that,” he said, adding: “We think we have to be vigilant and awake. But, you know, we have the longest border in NATO with Russia, it’s half the border. In our intelligence we see that there is activity but no imminent military threat right now.” Stubb also expressed tentative hopefulness concerning a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York on Tuesday. “Obviously, we’re not going to be getting a peace deal here this week,” he said. “But if we were to get, for instance, an idea or a framework for a ceasefire in the Black Sea linked to grain or to energy, I think this would be a move in the right direction.” Stubb added that he was hoping for further peace talks in the coming weeks, including potentially a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy at the G20 summit in Miami in December. “Let’s see what President Trump is able to do for the G20 meeting. Is he able to get Zelenskyy and Putin around the same table?” Stubb said, adding that this was “a possibility” and would be “a jackpot,” even though currently negotiations were still “far from that.” The Finnish president also pushed back against suggestions that he could be Europe’s top negotiator in upcoming peace talks with Russia. “No, I don’t think that’s sort of in the cards,” Stubb said. “I don’t think Europe will have one representative as such,” he argued, while describing his role as trying “to help in the back office.”

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Merz seeks to shore up support after CDU loses two state elections and is ejected from Mecklenburg parliamentLatest German election humiliation puts Merz on borrowed time as CDU unrest growsGermany’s beleaguered leader, Friedrich Merz, has vowed to keep his fractious coalition government together for the good of the country’s “democratic future” after his conservative party suffered a drubbing at the polls in two state elections.Merz, who has vowed to plough ahead with an unpopular reform agenda, dismissed speculation over his position, saying it was vital that he and his coalition government remained in place. Continue reading...

CDU suffered heavy losses in two regional elections, including in home state of former leader Angela Merkel, where it polled just 4.9%Staying in Germany, tens of thousands of automotive workers at Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and other car brands are protesting on factory floors across the country today for government and management help to save their jobs. Volkswagen has announced plans to cut 100,000 jobs in the next three years and BMW and Mercedes are also slashing their workforce.The problem is a near-existential one: the rise of Chinese EV carmakers with their cheaper, and in some cases more advanced models, has thrown the German car industry into crisis. The Germans, who have been far slower to transition to electric vehicles, simply aren’t selling as many cars anymore and need to retool to keep up. The fears are reflective of wider concerns over Europe’s industrial base being eroded by Chinese competition. Union leaders – pointing to state support for Chinese car makers- are calling for government support, like energy subsidies and financial help, or putting up trade protections. Continue reading...

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FIFA ⁠President Gianni Infantino on Monday proposed an external review of how the football association makes decisions, including who has a say in major initiatives. Infantino ​faced backlash and calls for a boycott over the summer after proposing to sell a stake in the World Cup to private investors. 

Over a decade after Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh was shot dead by police, Egypt has paid compensation to the poet and activist’s family. Al-Sabbagh was killed as she laid a wreath in memory of slain demonstrators.

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