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Job cuts, falling production, gloomy forecasts: “Germany’s deindustrialization is progressing,” warns WELT editor-in-chief Ulf Poschardt. In the podcast “Make Economy Great Again” he and economist Daniel Stelter discuss strategies against relegation. Make Economy Great Again: “We are destroying the landscape with these horrible solar fields”

The peace obligation expired during the night: now there are strikes at Volkswagen. According to IG Metall, work will soon be temporarily suspended at all locations. The company “cannot overlook” this. Peace obligation over at VW: Warning strikes threaten “in all plants”

Icelanders are heading to the polls after their three-party coalition government collapsed last month. The election comes amid rising concerns over the economy, housing, and immigration, with voters hoping for change. Guillaume Gougeon reports. Icelanders head to the polls in snap election

Within the labyrinth of family courts, a chilling paradox persists: mothers, who should be lauded for their courage in denouncing the abuse suffered by their children, often find themselves exposed to paroxysmal institutional violence. These women, often referred to as “protective mothers,” see their role as protective parents distorted and their rights restricted by institutions meant to ensure justice and safety. But how can processes designed to protect sometimes reproduce the very mechanisms of abuse they are supposed to combat—or even generate new ones? An Intolerable and Systemic Reality In France, according to the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual…

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, turning to a fierce loyalist to upend America’s premier law enforcement agency and rid the government of perceived “conspirators.” It is the latest bombshell Mr Trump has thrown at the Washington establishment and a test for how far Senate Republicans will go in confirming his nominees. “I am proud to announce that Kashyap “Kash” Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Mr Trump posted on Saturday night on Truth Social. “Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent…

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, turning to a fierce loyalist to upend America’s premier law enforcement agency and rid the government of perceived “conspirators.”It is the latest bombshell Mr Trump has thrown at the Washington establishment and a test for how far Senate Republicans will go in confirming his nominees.“I am proud to announce that Kashyap “Kash” Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Mr Trump posted on Saturday night on Truth Social. “Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career…

Emmanuel Macron in the nave of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, November 29, 2024. CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON/AFP “We did it”: On Friday, November 29, Emmanuel Macron was so moved by the success of his gamble that he couldn’t wait any longer. A week before the grand ceremony scheduled for December 7 to mark the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, to which some 100 heads of state will be invited, the French president savored, almost on his own, the results of the huge work undertaken by craftsmen, artisans, carpenters, master glassmakers, rope makers and other experts in historic monuments to restore the architectural jewel,…

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, as the US ambassador to France, in the latest of several controversial picks. Kushner “is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country & its interests,” Trump said on his Truth Social website, adding that Jared “worked closely with me in the White House.” The choice is in keeping with Trump’s pattern, so far, of selecting people, often wealthy, who are close to his family or of proven loyalty. Kushner is a multimillionaire real estate executive and…

Applause for the former senior socialist officials convicted by the ERE and acquitted by the Constitutional CourtThe president of the 41st Federal Congress of the PSOE and general secretary of the Andalusian socialists, Juan Espadas, began his speech by giving “special thanks” to some of the former senior officials of the Andalusian Junta who were convicted in the sentencing of the political piece of the ERE and that this summer were partially acquitted by the Constitutional Court, the former Andalusian presidents Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán, the former Ministers of the Treasury, Magdalena Álvarez and Carmen Martínez Aguayo, and…

On Thursday the mandate of Manuel Marchena, president of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court, who refused to direct the CGPJ, expires. Read The farewell of the judge who said ‘no’ to being a "instrument" of PP-PSOE and sentence the ‘process’: "A mistake was a catastrophe"