„It is not good for Europe,” Macron says, „for Germany to isolate itself.”
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„The fact that Macron attacked Schulz when he arrived speaks volumes.”
Chancellor Schultz is under pressure from European partners over his trajectory in the energy crisis. Even France, its closest ally, is openly critical of the German position. It was not good for Germany to „isolate itself,” Macron said at the start of the EU summit. Lina Moselle reports from Brussels.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has criticized Germany’s path in the energy crisis. „We definitely have to maintain our unity.” At the same time he announced a new project with Spain and Portugal.
FAfter a meeting with Olaf Schulz in Brussels, French President Emmanuel Macron declared that „it would not be good for Europe” if Germany was „isolated”. Everything must be done to ensure that European unity is preserved, „and that Germany belongs to it”, Macron said.
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„I don’t think there is a problem,” Macron said, referring to Franco-German ties. „I’ve been working on it for five years,” he added. He hopes to find „ways of agreement”.
Germany is currently under criticism, among other things, for rejecting a European ceiling on gas prices demanded by the majority of EU countries. France supports such a price cap, especially for the gas used to produce electricity. Macron spoke of „mechanisms to better separate gas and electricity prices from each other.” Macron also aims to buy common gas from European Union countries. „There is also a need for more financial solidarity,” he said.
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In addition to announceFrance has reached a political agreement with Spain and Portugal on the formation of new electricity corridors for green energy sources such as hydrogen and solar energy, which can also be supplied from France to Central Europe.
The new pipeline is part of the „Green Energy Corridor” and will transport first gas and then hydrogen. „Germany is very satisfied with the solution,” she said in German government circles. It is good to strengthen interdependence in Europe.
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The planned MidCat gas pipeline project over the Pyrenees does not want to continue any longer. MidCat is neither economically viable nor environmentally responsible. The ultimate goal is to better connect the electricity networks of the Iberian Peninsula and Central Europe, especially between Barcelona and Marseille.
Later, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez specified that the new pipeline would also be used to transport gas for a transitional period.
French President Macron will receive Chancellor Schulze next Wednesday for further talks in Paris. This was announced by the French presidential office, Thursday, on the sidelines of the European Union summit in Brussels. The summit meeting afterwards should also revolve around clarifying the differences in the energy and armaments sectors, among other things.
In the Indian capital, New Delhi, monsoon rains caused the roof of an airport to collapse. One person died. Pictures show steel beams falling on cars.
After heavy monsoon rains, an accident occurs at New Delhi Airport, India. Parts of the roof structure collapsed. One person was killed. Rescue workers said eight others were injured. According to the statement, the cause of the collapse was heavy rain.
Damaged cars at New Delhi airport
Steel beams trap cars
The collapse occurred in the front yard of the departure hall. An airport spokesman said: “Emergency personnel are working to assist those affected and all departure flights have been temporarily suspended.” Access is still possible and other stations are not affected. Several cars were crushed.
Images posted online showed vehicles trapped under large steel beams in the departures area of one of the airport’s terminals. The terminal is used only for domestic flights.
The monsoon brings a lot of rain
Heavy rains that lasted for more than three hours left large parts of the city submerged. Chaos reigned at the airport as check-in counters were closed and many people turned back, NDTV news channel reported.
In South Asia, the monsoon season lasts from June to September. Heavy rainfall, which can lead to severe flooding and landslides, is normal. Fatal consequences occur again and again.
Kaja Kallas will lead European foreign policy as the EU Foreign Policy Representative. A move to Brussels may be beneficial because it has lost some of its appeal in domestic politics.
Kaja Kallas does not allow herself to be misled. She was asked several times in a radio interview with the Estonian public broadcaster EER whether this would be her last interview as Prime Minister of Estonia and whether she had already packed her bags for the new post in Brussels.
Callas said: “Let me make it clear that the first issue is who will be nominated for the position of European Union foreign policy representative, and the heads of state and government will decide that.” This is what happened now.
A clear position against Putin
Callas is very knowledgeable about European politics. The Prime Minister of Estonia is a political figure in high demand, and not only at EU summits. It is constantly pushing Europe to help Ukraine faster and more efficiently. It also regularly calls for a clear stance against Putin in clear words.
She wasn’t impressed with the fact that he put her on the wanted list. „He wants us to be afraid,” the 47-year-old said in an interview with The Sun newspaper in February. „But that means we give him what he wants. That’s why we shouldn’t be afraid.” Daily ARD topicsShe still didn’t want to mince her words.
Putin is clearly using this as a weapon to spread fear and show that we are not a real country. He is blaming me for things that are actually internal Russian affairs. But we are an independent country.
Kallas said this shows that Putin has imperialist dreams and ideas. When her inclusion on the list was announced, many people told her it was a badge of honor. “I must have done something right if the Russians are that angry with me,” she said afterward.
That made an impression. As well as the heads of European states and governments.
Family history As an incentive
She will not be the first in her family to pursue a career in Brussels. After Estonia’s independence in 1991, her father Siem became Minister of Foreign Affairs and Finance. As Prime Minister, he negotiated Estonia’s path to joining the European Union and NATO and then became an EU Commissioner.
Perhaps this is why her daughter Kaja initially chose a different path and worked as a lawyer. In the economically liberal Reform Party, Kallas also made rapid progress in politics: as a member of the European Parliament and then as the first woman to lead her party.
Since 2021, you have been the prime minister of a country that borders Russia directly – and is home to a large ethnic Russian minority. Your vision of Moscow is always influenced by your family history.
“When Russia occupied Estonia, it deported Estonians to Siberia and brought Russians into the country. My family was also deported to Siberia. By the end of the occupation, the Russian minority was 30 percent.”
Her personal family history is also her motivation. It represents what many Estonians have experienced, Kallas says. The Russian attack on Ukraine has changed many Baltic states’ sense of security and opened old wounds. With her open words, Callas encourages her compatriots.
It lost its domestic political appeal
The road to Brussels may also have domestic political reasons. In Estonia, she has lost her appeal. The austerity measures taken by her government are very unpopular. And when it became known that her husband Arvo Halik was involved in a transport company that continued to transport goods to Russia despite the sanctions, her reputation was also damaged.
In the European elections, her Reform Party came third with just 17.9%. The new mission in Brussels comes at the right time, and perhaps too convenient for Kallas.
The Russian Navy suffered heavy losses in the Ukraine war. Now the Russian army is training in the Mediterranean. News ticker about the Ukraine war.
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Update from June 27 at 6:00 p.m.: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO does not expect “major breakthroughs” by Russia in the war against Ukraine. Stoltenberg said this in an interview with France Press agency. “They tried again this spring and summer to launch an attack, but so far they have only achieved marginal success,” the Secretary-General said in Brussels. So far, Ukraine has been able to withstand Russian pressure on the front. NATO also remains a „strong ally” of Ukraine.
Update from June 27, 5:20 p.m.: Ukrainian border guards prevent men subject to military service from fleeing abroad. as Daily news According to the border guards, 20 men were arrested on the border with Moldova. To make their escape possible, they were said to have paid €12,000 each to escape from the helpers.
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“Ukrainian meat grinder” – Russian military blogger talks about Russian losses
A Russian military blogger talks about the heavy Russian losses
Update from June 27 at 3:48 p.m.: Alexander Kots, a Russian military blogger and propagandist, reported heavy Russian casualties in the Kharkiv region. “Unfortunately, the enemy has started using American precision weapons in Belgorod, in particular the HIMARS system. This is war. The enemy is serious. He continues to develop. This cannot be avoided,” he added. Newsweek From a recently released video.
Coates also described the situation on the front as a „Ukrainian meat grinder.” Perhaps because of the heavy losses among Russian soldiers. high Focus online Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian losses were eight times higher than Ukraine’s losses.
Updated from June 27 at 1:15 p.m: Moscow is accused of being part of a recruitment campaign Central Asian immigrants To urge him to join its armed forces to increase the strength of its forces to attack in Ukraine. Millions of migrant workers live in Russia, most of them coming from Central Asia. Many of them work in low-paid jobs and live in poor conditions in order to send their salaries to their families back home.
“No soldiers in Ukraine”: controversy escalates over ground forces in France
Updated from June 27 at 12:04 p.m: French President Emmanuel Macron does not rule out sending Western ground troops to Ukraine per se – and Marine Le Pen has now addressed this on the campaign trail: shortly before France elections The right-wing populist questioned the president’s powers as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Marine Le Pen said in an interview with the newspaper published yesterday that the president’s constitutional role as “Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces” is an “honorary title.” If telegram.
She assumes that her National Rally (RN) party will achieve an absolute majority and that party leader Jordan Bardella will then become prime minister. He added: “Jordan Bardella will not compete with the president, but there are red lines.” “The president will not be able to send soldiers to Ukraine,” Le Pen said.
After losses in the Ukraine war: Russia „kidnaps” migrants and sends them to the front
Updated June 27 at 11:01 AM: Russia needs soldiers for its war of aggression against Ukraine. To this end, Moscow is also recruiting migrants who have been forcibly given Russian passports. According to its own statements, the Russian authorities have already sent 10,000 naturalized men to the front – out of more than 30,000 „kidnapped” migrants who „did not want to be registered for military service.”
The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said this loudly dpa Now in his appearance at the Lawyers Forum in Petersburg. Bastrykin was a colleague of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and considered one of his close associates.
The General Staff announces Russia’s current losses in the Ukraine war
Updated from June 27 at 10:39 AM: The Ukrainian General Staff announced the current figures for Russia’s losses. According to this, about 1,260 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting during one day. The information could not be independently verified. Overview:
Soldiers: 539,320 (+1260 the previous day)
tank: 8042 (+3)
Armored vehicles: 15,459 (+9)
Artillery systems: 14,363 (+42)
Multiple rocket launchers: 1108
Air defense systems: 868 (+5)
Drones: 11,459 (+24)
cruise missiles: 2324
Tank trucks and other vehicles: 19,468 (+61) Source: Ukrainian General Staff dated June 27, 2024 on Facebook.
Zelensky in Brussels expects to reach an agreement with the European Union during the Ukraine war
The first report: Kiev/Brussels – Ukraine, which has been attacked by Russia, wants to pass the period until it joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) through security agreements. There are already many. And now a major new agreement will be added: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to hold political talks in Brussels on Thursday (June 27).
Like many EU officials dpa He said that an agreement on security cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union should also be signed.
Minister of Putin He complained „Russophobia” In the Ukraine war
Meanwhile, Putin’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov, complained of „anti-Russian” attitudes, the news agency reported. Reuters I mentioned. In an interview with Izvestia He therefore threatened that the government in Moscow might „worse” diplomatic relations with some Western countries in the Ukraine war if this did not change.
Ryabkov also stressed Kremlin President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his country is currently reevaluating Russia’s nuclear doctrine. Putin often cites the Russian nuclear doctrine. This provides for the “strictly defensive” use of nuclear weapons in the event of an attack on Russia with weapons of mass destruction or in the event of aggression with conventional weapons that “threatens the existence of the state.” In February, Putin said so The danger of nuclear war be realistic”.
Ukraine war exercise: Putin’s tests Guided missile cruiser
how Reuters This continues to attract attention, the official Russian news agency reported TASS Meanwhile, a Russian maneuver Navy: The guided missile cruiser „Varyag” is supposed to carry out simulated battles with massive attacks with drones and submarines in the Mediterranean Sea amid the Ukrainian war. It was not initially possible to independently verify the information.
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Areas where Russian forces have been able to advance in the Ukraine War and where Ukraine has been able to repel Russian attacks can be seen from the front line. Our current maps of the front line in the Ukraine War provide insight into the latest developments in Russia’s war against Ukraine. (Editing with agencies)
