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Meta allows calls for violence against Putin and Russian military

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

The U.S. company Meta is partially relaxing its rules for Facebook and Instagram users to allow calls for violence against the Russian government and its forces in Ukraine. The background is the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. "Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are lenient on political expression that would normally violate our rules on violent expression," Meta spokesman Andy Stone, told AFP news agency. Stone cited "death to Russian invaders" on Twitter as an example of...

Russia threatens to stop Nord Stream 1 gas supply

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

After the start of the war against Ukraine, Russia openly threatened to cut gas supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in the Baltic Sea for the first time." We have every right to make a 'mirror-fair' decision and to impose an embargo on the transit of gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which today has a maximum capacity of 100 percent," said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak in a speech broadcast on state television on Monday evening. He commented on the stopped Nord...

Federal government raises 200 billion euros for greater energy security

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

The German government wants to spend 200 billion euros in the coming years on climate change and greater independence from oil and gas imports. Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) and Climate Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) have agreed on this in the current budget discussions for 2022 and the following years, both confirmed on Sunday. Linder emphasized on ARD television the goal of becoming more independent in terms of energy supply. "I assume that by 2026 we will earmark about 200...

Visa and Mastercard temporarily suspend operations in Russia

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

Following in the footsteps of numerous other Western companies, U.S. credit giants Mastercard and Visa are also suspending business in Russia due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Given the "unprecedented nature of the current conflict and uncertain economic environment," Mastercard has decided to "suspend our network services in Russia for the time being," the company announced Saturday. Visa CEO Al Kelly said the company felt compelled to act following Russia's "unprovoked invasion of...

Gasoline price record - time for a tax cut?

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

The oil price has climbed to new heights: At times on Thursday, North Sea Brent cost 120 dollars a barrel (159 liters). This was the highest level in almost ten years. The historic all-time high of 147.50 dollars from 2008, when the world still believed that China's hunger for raw materials was growing endlessly, has not yet been reached again. Nevertheless, the price increase has exceeded almost all predictions made by experts - hardly anyone could have imagined this last year. On the oil...

Netflix stops production of Russian original series

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

The streaming service Netflix has stopped its productions in Russia in response to the attack on Ukraine ordered by Vladimir Putin. A spokeswoman for Netflix Germany told the Tagesspiegel. Currently, the production of two Netflix originals is underway in Russia, on which no further work will now be done. However, the service itself will continue to be offered. Netflix is the largest international subscription-based video-on-demand provider in Russia. The number of subscribers is in the...

VW Group stops Russia business

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

Volkswagen is suspending its Russian business because of the war against Ukraine. "Against the backdrop of the Russian attack, the group's board of management has decided to halt production of vehicles in Russia until further notice," the Wolfsburg-based company said Thursday. Exports from Europe's largest car group to the Russian Federation would also now be "halted with immediate effect." VW operates its own car production in Kaluga, southwest of Moscow, and in Nizhny Novgorod, further east....

Euro zone inflation rises to 5.8 percent

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

Inflation in the euro zone rose to 5.8 percent in February. This was announced by the European statistics office Eurostat on Wednesday following an initial estimate. In January, the rate was still at 5.1 percent.The February inflation rate is thus the highest since the introduction of the euro. Above all, energy became more expensive, but also food and services. According to the estimate, energy became 31.7 percent more expensive in February than in the same month of the previous year, after...

Germany wants to close airspace for Russian aircraft

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

In the conflict with Russia, the German government is preparing to close German airspace to Russian aircraft. Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing is in favor of this and has ordered everything to be prepared for it, his ministry announced on Saturday evening. An EU diplomat told German Press Agency: "It's very likely that the other EU countries will also close their airspace." Lufthansa said it would initially no longer fly to or over Russia. It said this was due to "the current and...

Google deals another blow to Facebook

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

Meta Platforms, the Internet company built around the social network Facebook, gave the stock market a shock two weeks ago when it said during the presentation of financial results that it was preparing for a dramatic slowdown in its revenue growth in the current quarter. Among other things, he cited increased competition as a reason, such as from the smartphone app Tiktok. In addition, he also specified for the first time the extent of the financial damage caused by stricter data rules from...

Berlin recognizes more doctors from abroad

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

Doctors from abroad are increasingly working in Berlin - in the four years from 2018 to 2021, more than 1,300 licenses to practice were issued to doctors with foreign training. This means that a third of all approvals were for men and women trained abroad, even if some of them are now working in other federal states. This is according to a response by State Health Secretary Thomas Götz (Greens) to a question from FDP parliamentary group leader Sebastian Czaja, obtained in advance by the...

Global expansion: how companies plan to enter the international market

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

In the last two years, people and enterprises worldwide have been subjected to COVID-19 restrictions, and home offices have become the new normal. However, these constraints are not deterring companies' desires to expand globally. According to a CFO survey, 45 percent of respondents already plan to develop their business into foreign markets. If you too plan to go global, you must understand that globalization is a complicated and dynamic process in which you seek integration in another...

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