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According to existing laws, Musk can\u2019t make a personal donation because he is not registered to vote in the UK but he could potentially contribute through the UK subsidiary of X, which still carries on business in the country, according to company records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8945770\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//01//02//elon-musk-sparks-furore-over-support-for-british-far-right-instigator-tommy-robinson/">Elon Musk sparks furore over support for British far-right instigator Tommy Robinson<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time in 2024 that UK politicians are grappling with the aftermath of Musk\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Musk accused Britain of being a tyrannical police state and stoked tension in the UK by saying civil war was \"inevitable\" during this summer\u2019s Southport <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//08//07//elon-musk-and-keir-starmer-in-online-battle-as-riots-grip-uk/">riots./u00a0/n

The UK\u2019s communications <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//10//23//clear-connection-between-social-media-posts-and-violence-during-southport-riots-uk-regulat/">regulator found shortly after that there was a \u201cclear connection\u201d between the role of social media posts and violence on the streets during the riots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk has also supported UK far-right voices on his platform, like extremist Tommy Robinson and Ashlea Simon, the co-founder of white supremacist group Britain First, according to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.ft.com//content//bdd100a8-4817-44f6-9838-bda760aaebf1/">Financial Times<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Warning in Italy<\/h2><p>Musk received a pointed <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//11//14//italys-president-criticises-elon-musk-for-interfering-in-migration-row/">warning from Italian President Sergio Mattarella to stop interfering in the country\u2019s affairs after a controversial tweet on his page asked for judges to be dismissed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A group of Rome magistrates ruled in November that seven men detained in Albania under a new Italy-Albanian migration pact must be transferred back to Italy, a move widely considered to be a blow to right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni\u2019s curbs on irregular migration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk suggested on X in the wake of the ruling that \u201cthese judges have to go\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8908136\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//20//viral-video-of-musk-and-meloni-kissing-is-ai-generated/">Viral video of Musk and Meloni kissing is AI-generated<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Musk wrote in a later post that the ruling was \u201cunacceptable,\u201d and questioned whether \u201cthe people of Italy live in a democracy or does an unelected autocracy make the decisions?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\"Italy is a great democratic country and\u2026 knows how to take care of itself,\" Mattarella is reported to have said by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////edition.cnn.com//2024//11//13//europe//italy-president-elon-musk-politics-intl-latam//index.html/">CNN./u00a0/n

Andrea Stroppa, Musk\u2019s Italian representative, said in a statement at the time that Musk respects President Mattarella and the Italian constitution but will \u201ccontinue to freely express his opinions\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>An \u2018X\u2019 ban in Brazil leads to political protests<\/h2><p>Musk has faced several legal challenges related to content moderation, but none quite as high stakes as his showdown with Alexandre de Moraes, a Brazilian supreme court justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It began when Musk fought a court order in April to remove over 100 accounts that were flagged for hate speech, misinformation or flagged as a threat to democracy, according to the Wall Street Journal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8743370\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2024//09//19//musks-x-skirts-brazil-ban-and-returns-to-some-users-with-change-to-server-access/">Musk's X skirts Brazil ban and returns to some users with change to server access<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Musk accused de Moraes of \"censorship\" and lifted restrictions that were initially imposed on the accounts.<\/p>\n<p>De Moraes ordered Musk to appoint a legal representative in the company. Failing to do that led X to be <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//08//30//judge-in-brazil-suspends-x-after-elon-musk-fails-to-name-a-legal-rep/">banned from Brazil on August 30 until fines were paid.<\/p>\n<p>The ban led to demonstrations of a few thousand supporters of former President Bolsonaro. They said the ban was proof of their political persecution, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>The ban was eventually lifted just over a month later after X paid Brazil $5 million (\u20ac4.4 million) in fines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Musk\u2019s political power in the US<\/h2><p>Musk has also been busy in his adopted country of the United States, where he poured an estimated $200 million (\u20ac191 million) into Trump\u2019s re-election campaign through America PAC, a super political action committee he created ahead of the November election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the days leading up to the November US election, Musk also offered to give random voters in swing states $1 million (\u20ac957,000) if they pledged support for the First and Second Amendments to the US Constitution on free speech and gun rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8863068\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//21//are-users-leaving-elon-musks-x-en-masse-and-where-are-they-heading/">Are users leaving Elon Musk\u2019s X en masse and where are they heading?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The day before the vote, a Pennsylvania judge ruled that the draw could <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//05//elon-musks-million-dollar-us-election-lottery-given-green-light/">continue./u00a0/u00a0/n

Shortly after Trump\u2019s win, Musk was named <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//13//trump-says-musk-ramaswamy-will-form-outside-group-to-advise-white-house-on-government-effi/">co-head of a new outside organisation called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will provide advice to the White House on cutting red tape within the government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk also pushed the US government to a potential shutdown alongside Trump by posting hundreds of misleading X posts about a bipartisan bill to fund government operations.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735669202,"updatedAt":1736260438,"publishedAt":1735981232,"firstPublishedAt":1735981232,"lastPublishedAt":1736260438,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/26\/66\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_27047e2a-8814-5bed-9227-239e3a35d862-8942666.jpg","altText":"President-elect Donald Trump listens to Elon Musk as he arrives to watch SpaceX's mega 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It is also no longer the legal firecracker,\" said Jochen Kopelke, federal chairman of the police union, GdP, adding that bullet bombs with more explosive power were being thrown into crowds. \n\nThe bombs are largely imported into Germany from neighbouring countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic and are illegal in Germany aside from professional firework displays. \n\nPoliticians this year called for stricter border controls to limit the use of illegal pyrotechnics, with CDU politician Burkard Dregger calling the use of bullet bombs the \"main cause of the injuries and property damage\" this year. \n\n\u201cThe import of banned fireworks from eastern neighbouring countries has got to be stopped with even stricter border checks,\u201d Dregger told broadcaster RBB. \n\nFive people died across Germany, the majority from homemade pyrotechnics that exploded prematurely. At least one death, of a 21-year-old man in Brandenburg, is being investigated over the use of an illegal firework. \n\nFatal accidents from fireworks as well as calls to restrict them are nothing new in Germany, where the use of fireworks is permitted for a limited number of hours on New Year's Eve stretching into the next day. \n\nThe German pyrotechnics associations have said that most deaths and injuries from fireworks can be traced back to illegal and DIY firework usage rather than pyrotechnics sold legally in shops in the run-up to the evening. \n\nThe use of personal fireworks, however, is lightly regulated and illegal fireworks are often advertised for purchase on social media in the run-up to the evening. \n\nPersonal fireworks are also used against emergency personnel in riots across Germany. In Berlin, 400 people were arrested after confrontations and attacks injured 30 police officers over the course of the night. One policeman in Berlin underwent surgery after being shot at by an illegal firecracker, according to a police spokesman. \n\nSimilar scenes were seen across Germany, with emergency responders reporting attacks involving fireworks in Hamburg, Leipzig, Kiel and Cologne.\n\n\"The annual brutalisation on New Year's Eve is almost unbearable,\" Jan Krumlovsky, state chairman of the GdP Saxony said of this year's chaos. \n\nFederal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told tabloid newspaper Bild that tougher penalties should be implemented for those who attack emergency services. \n\nShe said a draft law imposing five years in prison for those who lure police officers, paramedics or doctors into \"dangerous ambushes\" should be adopted before the country holds national elections in February. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>German officials have called for restrictions on illegal fireworks as well as harsher sentences for rioters attacking emergency workers after five people were killed, and dozens of civilians and police officers were injured across Germany on New Year's Eve. <\/p>\n<p>Officials have pointed particularly to the use of \"kugelbomben\" or bullet bombs \u2014 explosives that are legally restricted to professional firework displays \u2014 for the multiple injuries from fireworks across the country, including 17 in Berlin alone. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe severity of the injuries [this year] is unusual,\u201d a spokesperson for the UKB hospital in Berlin, where small children were brought in for serious injuries from fireworks, told local media. <\/p>\n<p>\"For young men, it's no longer enough that it's the sparkler. It is also no longer the legal firecracker,\" said Jochen Kopelke, federal chairman of the police union, GdP, adding that bullet bombs with more explosive power were being thrown into crowds. <\/p>\n<p>The bombs are largely imported into Germany from neighbouring countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic and are illegal in Germany aside from professional firework displays. <\/p>\n<p>Politicians this year called for stricter border controls to limit the use of illegal pyrotechnics, with CDU politician Burkard Dregger calling the use of bullet bombs the \"main cause of the injuries and property damage\" this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe import of banned fireworks from eastern neighbouring countries has got to be stopped with even stricter border checks,\u201d Dregger told broadcaster RBB. <\/p>\n<p>Five people died across Germany, the majority from homemade pyrotechnics that exploded prematurely. At least one death, of a 21-year-old man in Brandenburg, is being investigated over the use of an illegal firework. <\/p>\n<p>Fatal accidents from fireworks as well as calls to restrict them are nothing new in Germany, where the use of fireworks is permitted for a limited number of hours on New Year's Eve stretching into the next day. <\/p>\n<p>The German pyrotechnics associations have said that most deaths and injuries from fireworks can be traced back to illegal and DIY firework usage rather than pyrotechnics sold legally in shops in the run-up to the evening. <\/p>\n<p>The use of personal fireworks, however, is lightly regulated and illegal fireworks are often advertised for purchase on social media in the run-up to the evening. <\/p>\n<p>Personal fireworks are also used against emergency personnel in riots across Germany. In Berlin, 400 people were arrested after confrontations and attacks injured 30 police officers over the course of the night. One policeman in Berlin underwent surgery after being shot at by an illegal firecracker, according to a police spokesman. <\/p>\n<p>Similar scenes were seen across Germany, with emergency responders reporting attacks involving fireworks in Hamburg, Leipzig, Kiel and Cologne.<\/p>\n<p>\"The annual brutalisation on New Year's Eve is almost unbearable,\" Jan Krumlovsky, state chairman of the GdP Saxony said of this year's chaos. <\/p>\n<p>Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told tabloid newspaper Bild that tougher penalties should be implemented for those who attack emergency services. <\/p>\n<p>She said a draft law imposing five years in prison for those who lure police officers, paramedics or doctors into \"dangerous ambushes\" should be adopted before the country holds national elections in February. 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German solar industry","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"German solar panel industry struggles with declining demand ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"German solar panel industry struggles with declining demand ","titleListing2":"German solar panel industry struggles with declining demand ","leadin":"German solar panel demand has been hit by dampened consumer and investor sentiment, as the ongoing cost of living crisis and high interest rates have hampered installations.","summary":"German solar panel demand has been hit by dampened consumer and investor sentiment, as the ongoing cost of living crisis and high interest rates have hampered installations.","keySentence":"","url":"german-solar-panel-industry-struggles-with-declining-demand","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/01\/02\/german-solar-panel-industry-struggles-with-declining-demand","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The German residential solar panel sector is currently experiencing a significant decline, following waning customer demand, mainly because of soaring layoffs and a rising number of bankruptcies amongst solar panel installation and distribution companies.\u00a0\n\nSeveral of the sector\u2019s companies have also dealt with takeovers and had to change their existing strategies, in order to quickly adapt to these evolving circumstances.\u00a0\n\nThe decrease in demand has contributed significantly to an erosion in solar panel prices, while also leading to an oversupply of panels in Germany.\u00a0\n\nThis has led to fears about worsening investor and consumer sentiment in the solar panel sector, as well as concerns over the long-term effects on the EU\u2019s climate goals. Other major European economies such as Belgium and Netherlands are also facing waning solar power interest.\u00a0\n\nWhy is Germany\u2019s solar panel industry on shaky ground?\u00a0\n\nGermany saw a jump in solar panel demand following the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, as concerns about escalating energy prices and the EU\u2019s energy security increased.\u00a0\n\nIn the first nine months of 2024, more than 11 gigawatts of solar power was installed in Germany, according to Ember, which was a rise of 3% from the same period the previous year.\u00a0\n\nThis rise was supported by an abundance of government subsidies and grants for the German renewable energy sector, in an attempt to reduce the country\u2019s dependence on Russian energy.\u00a0\n\nHowever, since then, the residential solar panel sector has faced a correction following robust profits for several months.\u00a0\n\nThis was mainly because of the ongoing cost of living crisis, which contributed significantly to customers being more hesitant to invest in often expensive solar panel installations. Relatively high interest rates for several months also made solar panel financing packages more expensive, further hitting demand.\u00a0\n\nIn mid-2024, the German government also announced its intention to reform and pull back some of its renewable energy subsidies. This includes moving to one-time grants for renewable energy investment expenses, instead of guaranteed prices, amongst other changes. During times of sufficient storage facilities, renewable energy projects are also likely to receive less subsidies.\u00a0\n\nFalling energy prices in the last several months have also demotivated consumers from committing to the high costs of solar panel installation, especially as energy prices continue to normalise following the initial shock of the Russia-Ukraine war.\u00a0\n\nThe German solar panel market, much like its automotive sector, has also been severely impacted by intensifying competition from Chinese rivals, which are often considerably cheaper than domestic offerings.\u00a0\n\nThis has led to several small solar panel startups and companies consolidating to avoid bankruptcies, as well as strengthen their position in the market, while shying away from most new investments.\u00a0\n\nHowever, Germany has also seen an uptick of mini photovoltaic systems in 2024, as some consumers continue their journey to go greener, albeit on a much smaller scale.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The German residential solar panel sector is currently experiencing a significant decline, following waning customer demand, mainly because of soaring layoffs and a rising number of bankruptcies amongst solar panel installation and distribution companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several of the sector\u2019s companies have also dealt with takeovers and had to change their existing strategies, in order to quickly adapt to these evolving circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decrease in demand has contributed significantly to an erosion in solar panel prices, while also leading to an oversupply of panels in Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This has led to fears about worsening investor and consumer sentiment in the solar panel sector, as well as concerns over the long-term effects on the EU\u2019s climate goals. Other major European economies such as Belgium and Netherlands are also facing waning solar power interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Why is Germany\u2019s solar panel industry on shaky ground?<\/h2><p>Germany saw a jump in solar panel demand following the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, as concerns about escalating energy prices and the EU\u2019s energy security increased.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the first nine months of 2024, more than 11 gigawatts of solar power was installed in Germany, according to Ember, which was a rise of 3% from the same period the previous year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8935536,8920184\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//01//02//which-are-the-best-european-countries-to-invest-in-property-in-2025/">Which are the best European countries to invest in property in 2025?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//01//02//will-computer-chip-maker-asml-see-a-change-of-fortunes-in-2025/">Will computer chip maker ASML see a change of fortunes in 2025? <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This rise was supported by an abundance of government subsidies and grants for the German renewable energy sector, in an attempt to reduce the country\u2019s dependence on Russian energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, since then, the residential solar panel sector has faced a correction following robust profits for several months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was mainly because of the ongoing cost of living crisis, which contributed significantly to customers being more hesitant to invest in often expensive solar panel installations. Relatively high interest rates for several months also made solar panel financing packages more expensive, further hitting demand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In mid-2024, the German government also announced its intention to reform and pull back some of its renewable energy subsidies. This includes moving to one-time grants for renewable energy investment expenses, instead of guaranteed prices, amongst other changes. During times of sufficient storage facilities, renewable energy projects are also likely to receive less subsidies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Falling energy prices in the last several months have also demotivated consumers from committing to the high costs of solar panel installation, especially as energy prices continue to normalise following the initial shock of the Russia-Ukraine war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The German solar panel market, much like its automotive sector, has also been severely impacted by intensifying competition from Chinese rivals, which are often considerably cheaper than domestic offerings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This has led to several small solar panel startups and companies consolidating to avoid bankruptcies, as well as strengthen their position in the market, while shying away from most new investments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Germany has also seen an uptick of mini photovoltaic systems in 2024, as some consumers continue their journey to go greener, albeit on a much smaller scale.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735809494,"updatedAt":1735821988,"publishedAt":1735821871,"firstPublishedAt":1735821871,"lastPublishedAt":1735821871,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/48\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d90a27f5-93f8-5bed-8837-0af2b1b54aa7-8944802.jpg","altText":"A technician installing solar panels.","caption":"A technician installing solar panels.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Canva","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2872,"urlSafeValue":"lahiri","title":"Indrabati Lahiri","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":125,"slug":"germany","urlSafeValue":"germany","title":"Germany","titleRaw":"Germany"},{"id":11254,"slug":"solar-energy","urlSafeValue":"solar-energy","title":"Solar energy","titleRaw":"Solar 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German urban air mobility company files for insolvency","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"German air mobility company ditches fund-raising plans and files for insolvency ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"German urban air mobility company files for insolvency ","titleListing2":"German urban air mobility company files for insolvency ","leadin":"Volocopter, a German air transport company, has filed for insolvency following several unsuccessful attempts to raise funds in an increasingly challenging international market.","summary":"Volocopter, a German air transport company, has filed for insolvency following several unsuccessful attempts to raise funds in an increasingly challenging international market.","keySentence":"","url":"german-air-mobility-company-ditches-fund-raising-plans-and-files-for-insolvency","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/01\/01\/german-air-mobility-company-ditches-fund-raising-plans-and-files-for-insolvency","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"German urban air mobility (UAM) start-up, Volocopter GmbH, has announced that it has started the process of filing for insolvency, as it has been unable to secure the funds needed to continue normal operations.\u00a0\n\nThe company submitted its insolvency application at the Karlsruhe Local Court, in southwestern Germany.\u00a0\n\nA lawyer and partner at German management consultancy and law firm Anchor Rechtsanw\u00e4ltegesellschaft mbH, Tobias Wahl, has been appointed as Volocopter's administrator.\u00a0\n\nVolocopter was launched in 2011 and has been working on advancing urban air transport through all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, which is sustainable, safe and quiet.\u00a0\n\nThe company also has a digital platform, VoloIQ, which is cloud-based and is integral to Volocopter's operations and ecosystem. As such, VoloIQ has also been dubbed the \"digital brains\" of the company.\u00a0\n\nVolocopter is still awaiting its aircraft type certification from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), in order to be able to launch VoloCity, which will be its urban eVTOL. VoloCity is expected to be available from next year onwards.\u00a0\n\nWahl said in a press release on Volocopter's website: \"The company needs financing to take the final steps towards market entry. We will endeavour to develop a restructuring concept by the end of February and implement it with investors.\"\n\nDirk Hoke, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Volocopter, also said in the press release: \"We are ahead of our industry peers in our technological, flight test, and certification progress. That makes us an attractive company to invest in while we organise ourselves with internal restructuring.\"\n\nHoke will be stepping down as CEO of Volocopter at the end of next February.\u00a0\n\nDampened global investor conditions continue to impact innovative tech funding\n\nAlthough the company has received considerable funding in the past, it now needs more in order to be able to finally complete its market launch. However, the current challenging German and international economic conditions have made fundingscarce and slow to obtain over the past several months.\u00a0\n\nThis is especially true for experimental tech and automotive companies, which may face higher investor wariness and scrutiny in the face of growing geopolitical uncertainties, weakened global stock markets, and high interest rates.\u00a0\n\nThe ongoing cost of living crisis still being seen in several parts of the world has also dampened investor confidence, and eroded funds available for investment in many cases.\n\nThis lacklustre investment environment is not only impacting start-ups, but also much more established companies such as Tesla, which has also faced muted investor enthusiasm for its recently announced Robotaxi, also known as the Cybercab. This is expected to a two-seater, self-driving vehicle, however, investors have called for more details regarding pricing, business model and launch timing.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>German urban air mobility (UAM) start-up, Volocopter GmbH, has announced that it has started the process of filing for insolvency, as it has been unable to secure the funds needed to continue normal operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company submitted its insolvency application at the Karlsruhe Local Court, in southwestern Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer and partner at German management consultancy and law firm Anchor Rechtsanw\u00e4ltegesellschaft mbH, Tobias Wahl, has been appointed as Volocopter's administrator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Volocopter was launched in 2011 and has been working on advancing urban air transport through all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, which is sustainable, safe and quiet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company also has a digital platform, VoloIQ, which is cloud-based and is integral to Volocopter's operations and ecosystem. As such, VoloIQ has also been dubbed the \"digital brains\" of the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Volocopter is still awaiting its aircraft type certification from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), in order to be able to launch VoloCity, which will be its urban eVTOL. VoloCity is expected to be available from next year onwards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8941440,8939386\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//30//spains-inflation-surpasses-forecasts-in-december-as-fuel-costs-surge/">Spain's inflation surpasses forecasts in December as fuel costs surge<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//31//coffee-and-cocoa-on-track-to-be-largest-commodity-gainers-of-2024/">Coffee and cocoa on track to be largest commodity gainers of 2024<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Wahl said in a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.volocopter.com//en//newsroom//volocopter-files-for-insolvency-in-germany/">press release<\/a> on Volocopter's website: \"The company needs financing to take the final steps towards market entry. We will endeavour to develop a restructuring concept by the end of February and implement it with investors.\"<\/p>\n<p>Dirk Hoke, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Volocopter, also said in the press release: \"We are ahead of our industry peers in our technological, flight test, and certification progress. That makes us an attractive company to invest in while we organise ourselves with internal restructuring.\"<\/p>\n<p>Hoke will be stepping down as CEO of Volocopter at the end of next February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Dampened global investor conditions continue to impact innovative tech funding<\/h2><p>Although the company has received considerable funding in the past, it now needs more in order to be able to finally complete its market launch. However, the current challenging German and international economic conditions have made fundingscarce and slow to obtain over the past several months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8839848\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//11//08//rolls-royce-pulls-the-plug-on-electric-flying-taxi-project/">Rolls-Royce pulls the plug on electric flying taxi project<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is especially true for experimental tech and automotive companies, which may face higher investor wariness and scrutiny in the face of growing geopolitical uncertainties, weakened global stock markets, and high interest rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing cost of living crisis still being seen in several parts of the world has also dampened investor confidence, and eroded funds available for investment in many cases.<\/p>\n<p>This lacklustre investment environment is not only impacting start-ups, but also much more established companies such as Tesla, which has also faced muted investor enthusiasm for its recently announced Robotaxi, also known as the Cybercab. This is expected to a two-seater, self-driving vehicle, however, investors have called for more details regarding pricing, business model and launch timing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735641405,"updatedAt":1735722359,"publishedAt":1735713046,"firstPublishedAt":1735713046,"lastPublishedAt":1735713103,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/16\/54\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b2248494-8a73-5d21-9f0c-b67df00e4fdb-8941654.jpg","altText":"People gather at a Volocopter aircraft before a test flight on the last day of the 2024 Olympics at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Versailles, France. ","caption":"People gather at a Volocopter aircraft before a test flight on the last day of the 2024 Olympics at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Versailles, France. 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There he wrote and collaged almost 100 anti-Nazi magazines distributed to the Jewish underground during the reign of the Third Reich.\n\nFor decades after the war, the magazines sat gathering dust in Simone\u2019s house in New York where she lives with family, including her 99-year-old mother.\n\nBut just a few years ago, Simone became worried by the rise of the far-right in the US and across Europe \u2013 and she made it her mission to promote her father\u2019s works and his efforts to combat fascism.\n\nShe worked with German designer Thilo von Debschitz to create an award-winning website and an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, one that\u2019s received international attention.\n\nThis summer, a history teacher called Gabrielle Arning at Curt\u2019s alma mater in Dortmund contacted Simone and Thilo hoping to put on an exhibition. They both jumped at the chance to help.\n\nOld mistakes again\n\nThe exhibition opened at the Dortmund Stadtgymnasium in the week commemorating Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that presaged the Holocaust. Both Simone and Thilo addressed students in a crowded auditorium at the school.\n\n\u201cI was thrilled,\u201d Simone told Euronews, \u201cI was really touched by how connected I felt.\u201d\n\nThilo echoed her sentiment, describing how Curt\u2019s story \u201clit the fire in the hearts of all these students\u2026I was actually very moved\u201d.\n\nEuronews also spoke to Klaus Wegener from the Auslandsgesellschaft Dortmund, a cultural centre who helped fund the exhibition.\n\n\u201cWe don\u2019t get many chances to show young people the reality of daily life under the Nazi regime,\u201d he said. \u201cIn this exhibition, you can see very, very well what happens when you lose democracy and freedom. All these things Curt Bloch didn't have.\u201d\n\nAll three were struck by how much students engaged with Curt\u2019s work. The exhibition not only featured large reprints of his striking collaged front covers and extracts of his poetry, but countless responses by students inspired by his works.\n\n\u201cThere was a small cabin with a black curtain where you could watch a video a student created about a poem of Curt\u2019s. You could see drawings of students about freedom,\u201d Thilo announced excitedly, before talking about a student who recited one of Curt\u2019s poems to the school off by heart. \u201cIt blew me away, I was really impressed\u201d.\n\nThilo, the grandson of Nazi officers who committed suicide upon finding out about Hitler\u2019s death, suggested his parents\u2019 generation \u201cdidn't want to look into the past as they had to build up a future\u2026so the questions have been passed on to the next generation.\u201d\n\n\u201cFor me it's not only dealing with the past of my country, but with the past of my family.\u201d\n\nA 21st century disaster\n\nIn the audience watching the opening ceremony was Ahmad, a religious studies teacher from Darayya, a town to the south of Damascus, Syria.\n\n\u201cWhen Simone started talking about her father and how he left Germany at night and how he hid for a long time in that place, I started feeling like I could relate to every single word,\u201d he remembers.\n\nAhmad was a student during the 2011 Syrian revolution and joined the protests against the Assad regime.\n\n\u201cUnfortunately, one of the people I contacted was actually a spy from the regime,\u201d Ahmad told Euronews in a frank meeting with Simone shortly before the Assad regime fell to rebels from the HTS group.\n\n\u201cI was arrested for three months and with the most horrible things that you can ever experience in your life \u2026 without having contact to the outside, to your family, without knowing why\u201d.\n\nAfter escaping to Turkey and then Egypt, Ahmad was eventually smuggled on a small boat on an eight-day crossing from northern Egypt to Italy. He eventually settled in Germany, where he finished his studies, learned fluent German, and met his wife.\n\nMore than a million refugees of mostly Middle Eastern descent were granted asylum by Angela Merkel\u2019s centre-right government in 2015. Dortmund alone welcomed over 10,000 Syrians between 2014-18. The policy was popular at the time, but critics now claim it has helped drive a significant portion of the German electorate toward the far right.\n\nThe irony of the place Curt Bloch was forced to flee becoming a refuge for so many isn\u2019t lost on Simone or Ahmad, who see the commonality in their stories.\n\n\u201cI recognise people who have had to leave their place,\u201d Simone said, \u201cbecause I was raised by people like that. It's not a nationality. It's just a sadness that pervades your life.\u201d\n\nAhmad nods. \u201cThere is a saying in Arabic that if you are a stranger, you feel related to every stranger,\u201d he said, adding how grateful he was to Germany for welcoming him.\n\nThe teacher added that he felt a visceral reaction to hearing about Curt\u2019s works. \u201cI really could cry after every single sentence. I wish I could write about that time\u2026 like I had so many ideas and so many things to write when I was in prison, but I wasn\u2019t allowed a pen or paper.\u201d\n\nFor Ahmad, sharing his story from the revolution as HTS was advancing on the capital was important as even many young Syrians outside of the country didn\u2019t understand the situation.\n\n\u201cThey don't have any idea about the country apart from knowing what happened in the past.\u201d\n\n\u2018A new puppeteer will lead you\u2019\n\nThe demographics of the school have changed dramatically since Curt Bloch graduated almost a century ago. Its student body now includes a much larger Arab and Muslim population, and that presents new political issues.\n\nGermany has been steadfast in supporting Israel and accounted for 47% of Israel's total imports of conventional arms in 2023. This is despite strong opposition within the country, which some German media says has created tensions between the country\u2019s Muslim and Jewish populations.\n\nSimone hits back at this claim, recalling a \u201cvivacious and friendly and smart\u201d Muslim student who asked her how her experiences and Curt\u2019s story affected Simone\u2019s opinion of Israel's campaign in Gaza, which has killed more than 45,000 people since the 7 October attacks.\n\nWhile Simone stated her belief that a state of Israel has a right to exist, she is a fierce critic of the Israeli government, and current international support for Israel.\n\nBemoaning \u201cThe fact that Israel is the way it is and that Germany supports it because of what they did to me,\u201d she adds, \u201cI feel implicated \u2026 so I understood why she was asking. And I felt like she had a right to ask.\u201d\n\nMore widely, Simone was overwhelmed by how much the students engaged not only with her father\u2019s work but her personally. \u201cThey were really friendly to me,\u201d she smiled. \u201cI mean, they were smiley and liked me.\u201d\n\nThe day after Thilo and Simone opened the exhibition, Donald Trump clinched victory in the US presidential election. Two days later, the centrist coalition in Germany collapsed, this as the extreme party Alternative for Germany continues to surge in the polls.\n\n\u201cSame s**t, different century,\u201d sighed Simone.\n\nBut she and Thilo are far from defeated: they are pressing to make Curt\u2019s work part of the German curriculum, and Thilo is running for mayor in the German town of Wiesbaden. In the course of the conversation with Euronews, he brought up one of Curt\u2019s poems:\n\n\u201cIf one would let you forget\n\nYour old mistakes again,\n\nThen a new puppeteer will lead you\n\nTo a new slaughter-fest.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis poem is so f***ing up to date,\u201d he exclaimed.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>\u201cWhen I was young and went to Germany, people would look at me and they could tell I didn't belong there,\u201d Simone Bloch said from her Manhattan office. \u201cIt always gave me the creeps\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of two German Holocaust survivors, Simone always had a complex relationship with her parents\u2019 country of birth, which she still calls her \u201chomeland\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While her mother Ruth was imprisoned in Auschwitz aged 17, her father Curt went into hiding in the Netherlands. There he wrote and collaged almost 100 anti-Nazi magazines distributed to the Jewish underground during the reign of the Third Reich.<\/p>\n<p>For decades after the war, the magazines sat gathering dust in Simone\u2019s house in New York where she lives with family, including her 99-year-old mother.<\/p>\n<p>But just a few years ago, Simone became worried by the rise of the far-right in the US and across Europe \u2013 and she made it her mission to promote her father\u2019s works and his efforts to combat fascism.<\/p>\n<p>She worked with German designer Thilo von Debschitz to create an award-winning website and an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, one that\u2019s received international attention.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, a history teacher called Gabrielle Arning at Curt\u2019s alma mater in Dortmund contacted Simone and Thilo hoping to put on an exhibition. They both jumped at the chance to help.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//93//94//92//808x608_cmsv2_1037dedf-8552-5ce1-9cc6-acb742898a0d-8939492.jpg/" alt=\"A display of Curt Bloch\u2019s underground anti-fascist magazines.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/384x288_cmsv2_1037dedf-8552-5ce1-9cc6-acb742898a0d-8939492.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/640x480_cmsv2_1037dedf-8552-5ce1-9cc6-acb742898a0d-8939492.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/750x563_cmsv2_1037dedf-8552-5ce1-9cc6-acb742898a0d-8939492.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/828x621_cmsv2_1037dedf-8552-5ce1-9cc6-acb742898a0d-8939492.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/1080x810_cmsv2_1037dedf-8552-5ce1-9cc6-acb742898a0d-8939492.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/1200x900_cmsv2_1037dedf-8552-5ce1-9cc6-acb742898a0d-8939492.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/1920x1440_cmsv2_1037dedf-8552-5ce1-9cc6-acb742898a0d-8939492.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A display of Curt Bloch\u2019s underground anti-fascist magazines.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Dortmund Stadtgymnasium<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Old mistakes again<\/h2><p>The exhibition opened at the Dortmund Stadtgymnasium in the week commemorating Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that presaged the Holocaust. Both Simone and Thilo addressed students in a crowded auditorium at the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was thrilled,\u201d Simone told Euronews, \u201cI was really touched by how connected I felt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thilo echoed her sentiment, describing how Curt\u2019s story \u201clit the fire in the hearts of all these students\u2026I was actually very moved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews also spoke to Klaus Wegener from the Auslandsgesellschaft Dortmund, a cultural centre who helped fund the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t get many chances to show young people the reality of daily life under the Nazi regime,\u201d he said. \u201cIn this exhibition, you can see very, very well what happens when you lose democracy and freedom. All these things Curt Bloch didn't have.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//93//94//92//808x608_cmsv2_38314d15-ec39-576d-9a69-f20ae408abf4-8939492.jpg/" alt=\"Assembling an exhibition of Curt Bloch&#39;s work.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/384x288_cmsv2_38314d15-ec39-576d-9a69-f20ae408abf4-8939492.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/640x480_cmsv2_38314d15-ec39-576d-9a69-f20ae408abf4-8939492.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/750x563_cmsv2_38314d15-ec39-576d-9a69-f20ae408abf4-8939492.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/828x621_cmsv2_38314d15-ec39-576d-9a69-f20ae408abf4-8939492.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/1080x810_cmsv2_38314d15-ec39-576d-9a69-f20ae408abf4-8939492.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/1200x900_cmsv2_38314d15-ec39-576d-9a69-f20ae408abf4-8939492.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/92\/1920x1440_cmsv2_38314d15-ec39-576d-9a69-f20ae408abf4-8939492.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Assembling an exhibition of Curt Bloch&#39;s work.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Dortmund Stadtgymnasium<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>All three were struck by how much students engaged with Curt\u2019s work. The exhibition not only featured large reprints of his striking collaged front covers and extracts of his poetry, but countless responses by students inspired by his works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a small cabin with a black curtain where you could watch a video a student created about a poem of Curt\u2019s. You could see drawings of students about freedom,\u201d Thilo announced excitedly, before talking about a student who recited one of Curt\u2019s poems to the school off by heart. \u201cIt blew me away, I was really impressed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thilo, the grandson of Nazi officers who committed suicide upon finding out about Hitler\u2019s death, suggested his parents\u2019 generation \u201cdidn't want to look into the past as they had to build up a future\u2026so the questions have been passed on to the next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me it's not only dealing with the past of my country, but with the past of my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A 21st century disaster<\/strong><\/h2><p>In the audience watching the opening ceremony was Ahmad, a religious studies teacher from Darayya, a town to the south of Damascus, Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Simone started talking about her father and how he left Germany at night and how he hid for a long time in that place, I started feeling like I could relate to every single word,\u201d he remembers.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad was a student during the 2011 Syrian revolution and joined the protests against the Assad regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, one of the people I contacted was actually a spy from the regime,\u201d Ahmad told Euronews in a frank meeting with Simone shortly before the Assad regime fell to rebels from the HTS group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was arrested for three months and with the most horrible things that you can ever experience in your life \u2026 without having contact to the outside, to your family, without knowing why\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After escaping to Turkey and then Egypt, Ahmad was eventually smuggled on a small boat on an eight-day crossing from northern Egypt to Italy. He eventually settled in Germany, where he finished his studies, learned fluent German, and met his wife.<\/p>\n<p>More than a million refugees of mostly Middle Eastern descent were granted asylum by Angela Merkel\u2019s centre-right government in 2015. Dortmund alone welcomed over 10,000 Syrians between 2014-18. The policy was popular at the time, but critics now claim it has helped drive a significant portion of the German electorate toward the far right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8889724,8525598\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//06//24//102-year-old-holocaust-survivor-margot-friedlander-becomes-vogue-germany-cover-star/">102-year-old Holocaust survivor Margot Friedl\u00e4nder becomes Vogue Germany cover star<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//04//defaced-milan-mural-of-holocaust-survivors-has-been-removed/">Defaced Milan mural of Holocaust survivors has been removed<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The irony of the place Curt Bloch was forced to flee becoming a refuge for so many isn\u2019t lost on Simone or Ahmad, who see the commonality in their stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recognise people who have had to leave their place,\u201d Simone said, \u201cbecause I was raised by people like that. It's not a nationality. It's just a sadness that pervades your life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad nods. \u201cThere is a saying in Arabic that if you are a stranger, you feel related to every stranger,\u201d he said, adding how grateful he was to Germany for welcoming him.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher added that he felt a visceral reaction to hearing about Curt\u2019s works. \u201cI really could cry after every single sentence. I wish I could write about that time\u2026 like I had so many ideas and so many things to write when I was in prison, but I wasn\u2019t allowed a pen or paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Ahmad, sharing his story from the revolution as HTS was advancing on the capital was important as even many young Syrians outside of the country didn\u2019t understand the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don't have any idea about the country apart from knowing what happened in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018A new puppeteer will lead you\u2019<\/h2><p>The demographics of the school have changed dramatically since Curt Bloch graduated almost a century ago. Its student body now includes a much larger Arab and Muslim population, and that presents new political issues.<\/p>\n<p>Germany has been steadfast in supporting Israel and accounted for <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//10//24//german-arms-exports-to-israel-increase-despite-export-ban-rumours/">47% of Israel's total imports of conventional arms<\/strong><\/a> in 2023. This is despite strong opposition within the country, which some German media says has created<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.dw.com//en//germanys-jewish-and-muslim-communities-search-for-solidarity//a-68863325/"> <strong>tensions<\/strong><\/a> between the country\u2019s Muslim and Jewish populations.<\/p>\n<p>Simone hits back at this claim, recalling a \u201cvivacious and friendly and smart\u201d Muslim student who asked her how her experiences and Curt\u2019s story affected Simone\u2019s opinion of Israel's campaign in Gaza, which has killed more than 45,000 people since the 7 October attacks.<\/p>\n<p>While Simone stated her belief that a state of Israel has a right to exist, she is a fierce critic of the Israeli government, and current international support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Bemoaning \u201cThe fact that Israel is the way it is and that Germany supports it because of what they did to me,\u201d she adds, \u201cI feel implicated \u2026 so I understood why she was asking. And I felt like she had a right to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8853714,8528858\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//11//15//rising-antisemitism-in-belgium-a-call-to-action/">Rising antisemitism in Belgium: A call to action<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//06//25//increase-of-more-than-80-in-antisemitic-incidents-recorded-in-germany-report-says/">Antisemitic incidents in Germany go up by more than 80%, report says<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>More widely, Simone was overwhelmed by how much the students engaged not only with her father\u2019s work but her personally. \u201cThey were really friendly to me,\u201d she smiled. \u201cI mean, they were smiley and liked me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The day after Thilo and Simone opened the exhibition, Donald Trump clinched victory in the US presidential election. 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It is the vast majority of reasonable and decent people.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"You, the citizens, decide what happens next in Germany. The owners of social media do not decide that.\"<\/p>\n<p>Although Scholz did not mention Musk or X, the Tesla founder and close associate of Donald Trump has caused uproar in Germany by backing the AfD. 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The party's leader, Alice Weidel, held a rally in Magdeburg where she described the attack as an \"act of an Islamist full of hatred for what constitutes human cohesion ... for us Germans, for us Christians\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Musk too has weighed in on the incident, criticising German authorities on X and writing that Scholz should resign over the attack. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735634078,"updatedAt":1735651624,"publishedAt":1735645018,"firstPublishedAt":1735645018,"lastPublishedAt":1735645018,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/13\/42\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2d515884-77dd-558a-9ee4-c27ada0c4ecc-8941342.jpg","altText":"German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sits in front of the backdrop of the Reichstag illuminated by spotlights during a photo session after the recording of his New Year's address.","caption":"German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sits in front of the backdrop of the Reichstag illuminated by spotlights during a photo session 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POLITICIAN COMPARES MUSK TO PUTIN OVER ELECTION INTERFERENCE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"German government accuses Elon Musk of trying to influence upcoming election ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Germany accuses Elon Musk of trying to influence upcoming election ","titleListing2":"German government accuses Elon Musk of trying to influence upcoming election ","leadin":"The tech billionaire and close Trump ally has sent shockwaves through German politics by publicly endorsing the far-right Alternative to Germany party weeks before snap federal elections.","summary":"The tech billionaire and close Trump ally has sent shockwaves through German politics by publicly endorsing the far-right Alternative to Germany party weeks before snap federal elections.","keySentence":"","url":"leading-german-politicians-compare-elon-musk-to-vladimir-putin-over-afd-endorsement","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/30\/leading-german-politicians-compare-elon-musk-to-vladimir-putin-over-afd-endorsement","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The German government has accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of meddling in the country's election campaign after he repeatedly, and controversially, endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) weeks before Germans are set to vote. \n\n\u201cIt is indeed the case that Elon Musk is trying to influence the federal election through his statements,\" government spokesperson Christiane Hoffmann said. \n\nShe said that although Musk was \"free to express his opinion\" it was worth noting Musk was recommending voting for a party that is \"being monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution on suspicion of being right-wing extremist and that has already been recognized as being right-wing extremist in parts.\u201d\n\nMusk first caused uproar in Germany last week by publicly supporting the AfD on his social media platform, X. Despite the barrage of criticism that ensued, he doubled down on his remarks on Saturday in an op-ed for the country's Welt am Sonntag newspaper. \n\n\u201cThe portrayal of the AfD as rightwing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party\u2019s leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka!\" Musk wrote. \"Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!\u201d\n\nWhen the op-ed was announced, the outlet's opinion editor, Eva Marie Kogel, resigned in protest. \n\nThe co-leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), Lars Klingbeil, compared tech billionaire Elon Musk to Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling his decision to weigh in on German politics weeks before the country's snap elections a clear example of \"interference\".\n\nIn an interview with Funke Mediengruppe on Monday, Klingbeil likened Musk to Putin, saying that \"both want to influence our elections and are deliberately supporting the AfD, the enemies of democracy. They want Germany to be weakened and plunge into chaos.\"\n\n\"We need to be much more proactive and effectively limit the power of the large internet platforms like Musk's short message service, X. Here, a tech billionaire is trying to use his influence to influence the course of world politics.\"\n\nKlingbeil's SPD co-leader, Saskia Esken, also condemned Musk as a meddler and likened his comments to election interference from Moscow. \n\n\u201cAnyone who tries to influence our election from outside, who supports an anti-democratic, misanthropic party like the AfD, whether the influence is organised by the state from Russia or by the concentrated financial and media power of Elon Musk and his billionaire friends on the Springer board, must expect our tough resistance,\u201d she told Reuters on Sunday.\n\nFriedrich Merz, who leads the country's largest opposition party, the CDU, described Musk's as \"intrusive and presumptuous\" and called it an unprecedented example of election interference between \"friendly\" countries. \n\nMerz said Musk had overlooked several of the AfD's policies when drafting his op-ed, including its stated desire for Germany to leave the European Union, something Merz and many others argue would be extremely damaging to Germany's economy.\n\nMusk has repeatedly said the AfD is Germany's last hope, claiming other political parties have failed the country and led to its \"economic stagnation\" and the \"erosion of national identity\".\n\nBut while Weidel is indeed in a same-sex civil union, the AfD have been one of the loudest voices against LGBTQ+ rights in German parliament. In 2019, ahead of regional elections in its stronghold of Thuringia, the party filed a motion to revoke same-sex marriage.\n\nOn the same page as Musk's op-ed, Welt am Sonntag's editor in chief-designate, Jan Philipp Burgard, acknowledged the op-ed would be controversial, writing in a response that \u201cMusk\u2019s diagnosis is correct, but his therapeutic approach, that only the AfD can save Germany, is fatally flawed\u201d.\n\nThe AfD is currently polling in second place behind the CDU ahead of Germany's federal election. However, all other major parties have ruled out the possibility of forming a coalition with it.\n\nSince 2021, the domestic intelligence service has classified the AfD as a suspected extremist organisation, a designation the party has fought against in the courts. Certain sections of the AfD, including its entire youth wing, are considered particularly extreme, and several high profile members have been convicted for using banned Nazi-era slogans whilst campaigning. \n\nThis week, members of the Green Party renewed calls for the AfD to be banned after investigative outlet Correctiv revealed details of a mid-December meeting between party figures and members of banned extremist movements on the subject of \"remigration\".\n\n\"Remigration\" is a vaguely worded strategy of deporting migrants from Germany and \"non assimilated\" legal German citizens en masse. It has been touted by members of the AfD alongside other hardline anti-immigration ideas. \n\nMusk has repeatedly expressed support for the AfD's approach to immigration, as has Vice President JD Vance, who expressed a more tacit endorsement of the AfD on X, saying sarcastically \"It\u2019s so dangerous for people to control their borders\". \n\nThe official position of president-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration on the AfD is not yet known. \n\nOnline, Musk faced derision as he posted his op-ed on X mistakenly calling the outlet \"Weld\" instead of \"Welt\", attracting comments that he lacks the knowledge of Germany's domestic politics to justify his commentary on it.\n\nIt's not the first time Musk has come out in support of a radical right-wing European party. Earlier this month, he met with the leader of the UK's far-right Reform UK, Nigel Farage, raising speculation that he would be making a substantial financial donation to the party.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The German government has accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of meddling in the country's election campaign after he repeatedly, and controversially, endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) weeks before Germans are set to vote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is indeed the case that Elon Musk is trying to influence the federal election through his statements,\" government spokesperson Christiane Hoffmann said. <\/p>\n<p>She said that although Musk was \"free to express his opinion\" it was worth noting Musk was recommending voting for a party that is \"being monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution on suspicion of being right-wing extremist and that has already been recognized as being right-wing extremist in parts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk first caused uproar in Germany last week by publicly supporting the AfD on his social media platform, X. Despite the barrage of criticism that ensued, he doubled down on his remarks on Saturday in an op-ed for the country's Welt am Sonntag newspaper. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe portrayal of the AfD as rightwing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party\u2019s leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka!\" Musk wrote. \"Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the op-ed was announced, the outlet's opinion editor, Eva Marie Kogel, resigned in protest. <\/p>\n<p>The co-leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), Lars Klingbeil, compared tech billionaire Elon Musk to Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling his decision to weigh in on German politics weeks before the country's snap elections a clear example of \"interference\".<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Funke Mediengruppe on Monday, Klingbeil likened Musk to Putin, saying that \"both want to influence our elections and are deliberately supporting the AfD, the enemies of democracy. They want Germany to be weakened and plunge into chaos.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"We need to be much more proactive and effectively limit the power of the large internet platforms like Musk's short message service, X. Here, a tech billionaire is trying to use his influence to influence the course of world politics.\"<\/p>\n<p>Klingbeil's SPD co-leader, Saskia Esken, also condemned Musk as a meddler and likened his comments to election interference from Moscow. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who tries to influence our election from outside, who supports an anti-democratic, misanthropic party like the AfD, whether the influence is organised by the state from Russia or by the concentrated financial and media power of Elon Musk and his billionaire friends on the Springer board, must expect our tough resistance,\u201d she told Reuters on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Friedrich Merz, who leads the country's largest opposition party, the CDU, described Musk's as \"intrusive and presumptuous\" and called it an unprecedented example of election interference between \"friendly\" countries. <\/p>\n<p>Merz said Musk had overlooked several of the AfD's policies when drafting his op-ed, including its stated desire for Germany to leave the European Union, something Merz and many others argue would be extremely damaging to Germany's economy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8937680,8934934\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//28//elon-musk-backs-far-right-afd-party-in-an-op-ed-for-german-newspaper-die-welt/">Elon Musk backs far-right AfD party in an op-ed for German newspaper 'Die Welt'<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//27//german-president-dissolves-parliament-and-announces-february-election-date/">German president dissolves parliament and announces February election date<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Musk has repeatedly said the AfD is Germany's last hope, claiming other political parties have failed the country and led to its \"economic stagnation\" and the \"erosion of national identity\".<\/p>\n<p>But while Weidel is indeed in a same-sex civil union, the AfD have been one of the loudest voices against LGBTQ+ rights in German parliament. In 2019, ahead of regional elections in its stronghold of Thuringia, the party filed a motion to revoke same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>On the same page as Musk's op-ed, Welt am Sonntag's editor in chief-designate, Jan Philipp Burgard, acknowledged the op-ed would be controversial, writing in a response that \u201cMusk\u2019s diagnosis is correct, but his therapeutic approach, that only the AfD can save Germany, is fatally flawed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The AfD is currently polling in second place behind the CDU ahead of Germany's federal election. However, all other major parties have ruled out the possibility of forming a coalition with it.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2021, the domestic intelligence service has classified the AfD as a suspected extremist organisation, a designation the party has fought against in the courts. Certain sections of the AfD, including its entire youth wing, are considered particularly extreme, and several high profile members have been convicted for using banned Nazi-era slogans whilst campaigning. <\/p>\n<p>This week, members of the Green Party renewed calls for the AfD to be banned after investigative outlet Correctiv revealed details of a mid-December meeting between party figures and members of banned extremist movements on the subject of \"remigration\".<\/p>\n<p>\"Remigration\" is a vaguely worded strategy of deporting migrants from Germany and \"non assimilated\" legal German citizens en masse. It has been touted by members of the AfD alongside other hardline anti-immigration ideas. <\/p>\n<p>Musk has repeatedly expressed support for the AfD's approach to immigration, as has Vice President JD Vance, who expressed a more tacit endorsement of the AfD on X, saying sarcastically \"It\u2019s so dangerous for people to control their borders\". <\/p>\n<p>The official position of president-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration on the AfD is not yet known. <\/p>\n<p>Online, Musk faced derision as he posted his op-ed on X mistakenly calling the outlet \"Weld\" instead of \"Welt\", attracting comments that he lacks the knowledge of Germany's domestic politics to justify his commentary on it.<\/p>\n<p>It's not the first time Musk has come out in support of a radical right-wing European party. Earlier this month, he met with the leader of the UK's far-right Reform UK, Nigel Farage, raising speculation that he would be making a substantial financial donation to the party.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735549710,"updatedAt":1735574415,"publishedAt":1735562621,"firstPublishedAt":1735562621,"lastPublishedAt":1735574209,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/94\/72\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_780bd2ff-e3e4-5d6d-bde3-556a3187bdb6-8939472.jpg","altText":"Elon Musk listens as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the House GOP conference, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. ","caption":"Elon Musk listens as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the House GOP conference, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. 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GERMANY NUCLEAR","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"False map shows Germany surrounded by nuclear power plants","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"False map shows Germany surrounded by nuclear power plants","titleListing2":"False map shows Germany surrounded by nuclear power plants","leadin":"Some of Germany's neighbours do have operable nuclear plants, but they don't line the borders as the map suggests.","summary":"Some of Germany's neighbours do have operable nuclear plants, but they don't line the borders as the map suggests.","keySentence":"","url":"false-map-shows-germany-surrounded-by-nuclear-power-plants","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/12\/30\/false-map-shows-germany-surrounded-by-nuclear-power-plants","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"An old, misleading map has resurfaced online, showing Germany\u2019s borders lined with 30 nuclear power plants.\n\nThe plants are spread across Germany's neighbours: the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Denmark, according to the map.\n\nIt's been shared across social media platforms and captioned as showing what the German power grid will look like in the coming years.\n\nFor example, a post on TikTok suggests that this is what Germany will look like in 2025, while a Facebook post says that this will be the country's fate over the next 30 years.\n\nComments on the posts appear to be stoking the idea that Germany's neighbours will be way ahead in terms of nuclear energy production, while Berlin gets left behind.\n\nWe can't predict the future, but we can see what the current state of Europe's nuclear plants is, and it\u2019s nothing like what the map depicts.\n\nThis map from Nucleareurope, a Brussels-based trade association for the nuclear energy industry, shows that there are some plants situated in Germany\u2019s neighbours, but they're not lining the borders. In fact, many of the countries don\u2019t have any nuclear plants at all.\n\nIt\u2019s worth noting that this map only shows plants in operation.\n\nAccording to recent figures from the World Nuclear Association, France has the most operable nuclear reactors in Europe, standing at 56.\n\nRussia comes next at 36, then Ukraine with 15, the UK with nine and Spain with seven.\n\nSome of Germany's neighbours do of course have operable nuclear reactors, such as Belgium and Switzerland, but not as many as the misleading map suggests.\n\nAs for Germany itself, its last nuclear power plants were shut down in April 2023, as part of its nuclear phase-out that was approved in 2011.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>An old, misleading map has resurfaced online, showing Germany\u2019s borders lined with 30 nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n<p>The plants are spread across Germany's neighbours: the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Denmark, according to the map.<\/p>\n<p>It's been shared across social media platforms and captioned as showing what the German power grid will look like in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a post on TikTok suggests that this is what Germany will look like in 2025, while a Facebook post says that this will be the country's fate over the next 30 years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//95//78//808x454_cmsv2_97f80b30-a0cf-510e-92c1-4e594dc5fc3d-8919578.jpg/" alt=\"The map has been shared on different social media platforms\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/384x216_cmsv2_97f80b30-a0cf-510e-92c1-4e594dc5fc3d-8919578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/640x360_cmsv2_97f80b30-a0cf-510e-92c1-4e594dc5fc3d-8919578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/750x422_cmsv2_97f80b30-a0cf-510e-92c1-4e594dc5fc3d-8919578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/828x466_cmsv2_97f80b30-a0cf-510e-92c1-4e594dc5fc3d-8919578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/1080x608_cmsv2_97f80b30-a0cf-510e-92c1-4e594dc5fc3d-8919578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/1200x675_cmsv2_97f80b30-a0cf-510e-92c1-4e594dc5fc3d-8919578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/1920x1080_cmsv2_97f80b30-a0cf-510e-92c1-4e594dc5fc3d-8919578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The map has been shared on different social media platforms<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Comments on the posts appear to be stoking the idea that Germany's neighbours will be way ahead in terms of nuclear energy production, while Berlin gets left behind.<\/p>\n<p>We can't predict the future, but we can see what the current state of Europe's nuclear plants is, and it\u2019s nothing like what the map depicts.<\/p>\n<p>This map from <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nucleareurope.eu//facts-figures//nuclear_facilities///">Nucleareurope, a Brussels-based trade association for the nuclear energy industry, shows that there are some plants situated in Germany\u2019s neighbours, but they're not lining the borders. In fact, many of the countries don\u2019t have any nuclear plants at all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//95//78//808x454_cmsv2_d7a994ed-0f92-5af1-ac89-c2fadfb435e0-8919578.jpg/" alt=\"A map of nuclear plants in Europe\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/384x216_cmsv2_d7a994ed-0f92-5af1-ac89-c2fadfb435e0-8919578.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/640x360_cmsv2_d7a994ed-0f92-5af1-ac89-c2fadfb435e0-8919578.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/750x422_cmsv2_d7a994ed-0f92-5af1-ac89-c2fadfb435e0-8919578.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/828x466_cmsv2_d7a994ed-0f92-5af1-ac89-c2fadfb435e0-8919578.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/1080x608_cmsv2_d7a994ed-0f92-5af1-ac89-c2fadfb435e0-8919578.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/1200x675_cmsv2_d7a994ed-0f92-5af1-ac89-c2fadfb435e0-8919578.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/1920x1080_cmsv2_d7a994ed-0f92-5af1-ac89-c2fadfb435e0-8919578.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A map of nuclear plants in Europe<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Nucleareurope<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that this map only shows plants in operation.<\/p>\n<p>According to recent figures from the World Nuclear Association, France has the most operable nuclear reactors in Europe, standing at 56.<\/p>\n<p>Russia comes next at 36, then Ukraine with 15, the UK with nine and Spain with seven.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/20853945?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Some of Germany's neighbours do of course have operable nuclear reactors, such as Belgium and Switzerland, but not as many as the misleading map suggests.<\/p>\n<p>As for Germany itself, its last nuclear power plants were shut down in April 2023, as part of its nuclear phase-out that was approved in 2011.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734535208,"updatedAt":1735557845,"publishedAt":1735557447,"firstPublishedAt":1735557447,"lastPublishedAt":1735557447,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/95\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4b92aee0-0d4a-5d07-a465-df61a367046d-8919578.jpg","altText":"The map is old and misleading","caption":"The map is old and 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Does that sound like Hitler to you? Come on!\"\n\nHe goes on to explain why he supports the AfD's position on energy, economic recovery and migration, saying that the AfD's principles reflect \"the principles that made Tesla and SpaceX successful.\" \n\nIn 2021, Germany's domestic intelligence agency classified the\u00a0AfD at the national level as a suspected extremist organisation. But Musk writes that the AfD \"represents a political realism\" rather than extremism.\n\nShortly following its publication, the editor of Die Welt's opinion section, Eva Marie Kogel, announced her resignation on X. \n\nDie Welt journalist Franziska Zimmerer published a response to the piece, writing that it had caused an \"intense discussion\" in the editorial office, and that \"many colleagues argued against publication.\"\n\nMany other Welt journalists also published criticisms of the piece publicly on X, and the paper's future editor-in-chief, Jan Philipp Burgard, juxtaposed the billionaire's statements in his own op-ed.\n\nWith Germany seven weeks away from a snap election, journalists and politicians are critical of the piece's timing. \n\nZimmerer wrote that election appeals without filtering \"have no place in independent media.\"\n\nMusk's original post on X had already caused tension earlier in the week, prompting sharp reactions from German politicians.\n\nAhead of the national election on 23 February, political leaders across Germany remain united in rejecting any collaboration with the AfD, underscoring the party\u2019s controversial position in the political landscape.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>An op-ed written by Elon Musk for prominent German newspaper <em>Die Welt<\/em> has caused uproar in Germany. <\/p>\n<p>In a guest opinion piece for <em>Welt am Sonntag<\/em>, Musk justified his support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), calling it \"the last spark of hope\" for the country. <\/p>\n<p>The piece expands on a post Musk published on his platform X shortly before Christmas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1870901817367834656\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the editorial, Musk writes: \"Portraying the AfD as far-right is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party's leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Come on!\"<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to explain why he supports the AfD's position on energy, economic recovery and migration, saying that the AfD's principles reflect \"the principles that made Tesla and SpaceX successful.\" <\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Germany's domestic intelligence agency classified the\u00a0AfD at the national level as a suspected extremist organisation. But Musk writes that the AfD \"represents a political realism\" rather than extremism.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly following its publication, the editor of Die Welt's opinion section, Eva Marie Kogel, announced her resignation on X. <\/p>\n<p><em>Die Welt<\/em> journalist Franziska Zimmerer published a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.welt.de//debatte//plus254986944//Elon-Musk-in-WELT-AM-SONNTAG-Warum-ich-diesen-Beitrag-nicht-gedruckt-haette.html/">response to the piece, writing that it had caused an \"intense discussion\" in the editorial office, and that \"many colleagues argued against publication.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1872928645536465327\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Many other <em>Welt<\/em> journalists also published criticisms of the piece publicly on X, and the paper's future editor-in-chief, Jan Philipp Burgard, juxtaposed the billionaire's statements in his own <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.welt.de//debatte//kommentare//plus254982012//Warum-Elon-Musk-auf-die-AfD-setzt-und-warum-er-dabei-irrt.html?notify=success_subscription&offerId=O_RGZ5B2KK3SQYSSH7R5\%22>op-ed<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

With Germany seven weeks away from a snap election, journalists and politicians are critical of the piece's timing. <\/p>\n<p>Zimmerer wrote that election appeals without filtering \"have no place in independent media.\"<\/p>\n<p>Musk's original post on X had already caused tension earlier in the week, prompting <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//21//elon-musk-sparks-controversy-in-germany-over-afd-endorsement/">sharp reactions<\/strong><\/a> from German politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the national election on 23 February, political leaders across Germany remain united in rejecting any collaboration with the AfD, underscoring the party\u2019s controversial position in the political landscape.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735408693,"updatedAt":1735415362,"publishedAt":1735415354,"firstPublishedAt":1735415354,"lastPublishedAt":1735415354,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/76\/80\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_90d0e876-6d1d-5e42-a21e-820bb5a5e40a-8937680.jpg","altText":"Elon Musk speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York.","caption":"Elon Musk speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Evan Vucci\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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The AI Art Magazine, a biannual, 176-page publication, has just launched, and it\u2019s ready to serve as a vital record of this transformative moment in art history.\n\nAccording to a project statement, quoted by The Art Newspaper, the magazine \u201cshowcases remarkable works and accompanying essays that set the benchmark for today\u2019s AI-generated art \u2013 from surprising visual experiments to conceptually refined pieces that push the boundaries of this rapidly evolving field\u201d.\n\nIts the brainchild of Hamburg-based creative studio polardots.studio. The AI Art Magazine is the result of collaboration with key players like Christoph Gr\u00fcnberger, author of 'The Age of Data: Embracing Algorithms in Art & Design'. A physical object in an increasingly digital world, the magazine aims to freeze \"the moment of art in a tangible printed form while AI is evolving rapidly\".\n\nThe debut issue \u2013 priced at \u20ac22 \u2013 is a mix of art and critical thought, featuring works selected through an international open call.\u00a0\n\nThe first issue\u2019s cover is graced by the work of Japanese artist Emi Kusano, who shares her insights into her approach to using AI as a tool for creative exploration. Inside, readers can find a curated gallery of 50 works, handpicked by a diverse jury, including German photographer Boris Eldagsen, Mexican graphic designer Adriana Mora, and even a jury member created by AI itself.\n\nUS graphic designer David Carson tackles a provocative question: \u201cIf someone gives a command to a machine, is that person then an artist?\u201d His essay exemplifies \u201cthe depth of critical engagement we aim to foster\u201d, says Brauner. Other contributors include Tokyo-based artist Jason Scuderi, who explores the theme of humanity and AI in his essay 'Altered State: Humanity and AI in the Machine Age'.\n\nThe launch issue is just the beginning. With more than 300 submissions already considered for the second issue, Brauner hints at even more ambitious plans for the future.\u00a0\n\n\u201cScreening more than 300 submissions, all of them with extensive information on the work, the artist and the process was extremely time consuming. We will sit together in January and discuss,\u201d he says.\n\nThe magazine will be available in specialised art bookstores and galleries around the world, as well as for purchase online through its dedicated website.\n\n\u201cThe magazine reveals what happens when humans and machines get creative together. We\u2019re throwing the doors wide open [and] believe it\u2019s going to be a big party \u2013 come in and let\u2019s dance,\u201d say the team behind the project.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>In a world where artificial intelligence is rapidly redefining what it means to create, a new magazine is stepping in to document this bold new frontier. The AI Art Magazine, a biannual, 176-page publication, has just launched, and it\u2019s ready to serve as a vital record of this transformative moment in art history.<\/p>\n<p>According to a project statement, quoted by The Art Newspaper, the magazine \u201cshowcases remarkable works and accompanying essays that set the benchmark for today\u2019s <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//11//08//humanoid-robot-artist-makes-history-with-122-million-auction-sale-of-alan-turing-portrait/">AI-generated art<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 from surprising visual experiments to conceptually refined pieces that push the boundaries of this rapidly evolving field\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Its the brainchild of Hamburg-based creative studio polardots.studio. The AI Art Magazine is the result of collaboration with key players like Christoph Gr\u00fcnberger, author of 'The Age of Data: Embracing Algorithms in Art &amp; Design'. A physical object in an increasingly digital world, the magazine aims to freeze \"the moment of art in a tangible printed form while AI is evolving rapidly\".<\/p>\n<p>The debut issue \u2013 priced at \u20ac22 \u2013 is a mix of art and critical thought, featuring works selected through an international open call.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//93//52//34//1280x853_cmsv2_3e573e4a-6bb4-5878-a2bf-47ae54aedb71-8935234.jpg/" alt=\"The debut issue is a mix of art and critical thought.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/384x256_cmsv2_3e573e4a-6bb4-5878-a2bf-47ae54aedb71-8935234.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/640x427_cmsv2_3e573e4a-6bb4-5878-a2bf-47ae54aedb71-8935234.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/750x500_cmsv2_3e573e4a-6bb4-5878-a2bf-47ae54aedb71-8935234.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/828x552_cmsv2_3e573e4a-6bb4-5878-a2bf-47ae54aedb71-8935234.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/1080x720_cmsv2_3e573e4a-6bb4-5878-a2bf-47ae54aedb71-8935234.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/1200x800_cmsv2_3e573e4a-6bb4-5878-a2bf-47ae54aedb71-8935234.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/1920x1280_cmsv2_3e573e4a-6bb4-5878-a2bf-47ae54aedb71-8935234.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The debut issue is a mix of art and critical thought.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">The AI Art Magazine<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The first issue\u2019s cover is graced by the work of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//video//2024//12//02//meet-the-japanese-artist-turning-leaves-into-intricate-works-of-art/">Japanese artist<\/strong><\/a> Emi Kusano, who shares her insights into her approach to using AI as a tool for creative exploration. Inside, readers can find a curated gallery of 50 works, handpicked by a diverse jury, including German photographer Boris Eldagsen, Mexican graphic designer Adriana Mora, and even a jury member created by AI itself.<\/p>\n<p>US graphic designer David Carson tackles a provocative question: \u201cIf someone gives a command to a machine, is that person then an artist?\u201d His essay exemplifies \u201cthe depth of critical engagement we aim to foster\u201d, says Brauner. Other contributors include Tokyo-based artist Jason Scuderi, who explores the theme of humanity and AI in his essay 'Altered State: Humanity and AI in the Machine Age'.<\/p>\n<p>The launch issue is just the beginning. With more than 300 submissions already considered for the second issue, Brauner hints at even more ambitious plans for the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//93//52//34//1280x1280_cmsv2_d1fc2bc2-f3b4-5e2d-b6de-86390c0a9f48-8935234.jpg/" alt=\"AI jury member Xiaomi &quot;embodies the fusion of AI&#39;s analytical strength with creative insight&quot;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/384x384_cmsv2_d1fc2bc2-f3b4-5e2d-b6de-86390c0a9f48-8935234.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/640x640_cmsv2_d1fc2bc2-f3b4-5e2d-b6de-86390c0a9f48-8935234.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/750x750_cmsv2_d1fc2bc2-f3b4-5e2d-b6de-86390c0a9f48-8935234.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/828x828_cmsv2_d1fc2bc2-f3b4-5e2d-b6de-86390c0a9f48-8935234.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/1080x1080_cmsv2_d1fc2bc2-f3b4-5e2d-b6de-86390c0a9f48-8935234.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/1200x1200_cmsv2_d1fc2bc2-f3b4-5e2d-b6de-86390c0a9f48-8935234.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/1920x1920_cmsv2_d1fc2bc2-f3b4-5e2d-b6de-86390c0a9f48-8935234.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">AI jury member Xiaomi &quot;embodies the fusion of AI&#39;s analytical strength with creative insight&quot;<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">The AI Art Magazine<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cScreening more than 300 submissions, all of them with extensive information on the work, the artist and the process was extremely time consuming. We will sit together in January and discuss,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine will be available in specialised art bookstores and galleries around the world, as well as for purchase online through its <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.art-magazine.ai///">dedicated website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe magazine reveals what happens when humans and machines get creative together. We\u2019re throwing the doors wide open [and] believe it\u2019s going to be a big party \u2013 come in and let\u2019s dance,\u201d say the team behind the project.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735295775,"updatedAt":1735373709,"publishedAt":1735373695,"firstPublishedAt":1735373695,"lastPublishedAt":1735373708,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/52\/34\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3a1a5d16-c4ee-5888-9354-c282e5d26062-8935234.jpg","altText":"The AI Art Magazine is the brainchild of Hamburg-based creative studio polardots.studio,","caption":"The AI Art Magazine is the brainchild of Hamburg-based creative studio polardots.studio,","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"The AI Art 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ELECTIONS ANNOUNCEMENT","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"German president dissolves parliament and announces February election date","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"German president dissolves parliament and announces February election ","titleListing2":"German president dissolves parliament and announces February election date","leadin":"German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was requested to dissolve parliament by Chancellor Olaf Scholz after the leader's ruling coalition collapsed.","summary":"German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was requested to dissolve parliament by Chancellor Olaf Scholz after the leader's ruling coalition collapsed.","keySentence":"","url":"german-president-dissolves-parliament-and-announces-february-election-date","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/27\/german-president-dissolves-parliament-and-announces-february-election-date","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced on Friday he has agreed to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's request to dissolve parliament and has set 23 February as the date for the new elections.\n\nSteinmeier was widely expected to adhere to the date pre-agreed upon by Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the country's main opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). \n\nThe president's decision means that Germans will head to the polls in February, a date pulled forward significantly after the ruling coalition's government collapsed, causing Scholz to call an unsuccessful confidence vote on 16 December. \n\nThe Bundestag's vote of no confidence against Scholz last Monday was only the sixth since 1949 in the country, and it is the fourth time a German government's electoral term has ended prematurely. \n\nScholz saw his unpopular three-party coalition collapse after he fired his Finance Minister Christian Lindner from the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP). Lindner removed his ministers from the coalition, which led to its demise. \n\nThe so-called \"traffic light\" coalition between the FDP, SPD and the environmentalist Green party led Germany since 2021. Internal divisions between the different parties reached the breaking point in November over a row about the country's next year's budget. \n\nAs per Germany's constitution, the Bundestag will continue functioning until a new government is selected in February. \n\nDuring his speech, Steinmeier alluded to Germany's political uncertainty, saying, \"In difficult times like these, stability requires a government capable of taking action and reliable majorities in parliament.\"\n\n\"That is why I am convinced that new elections are the right way forward for the good of our country,\" Steinmeier said. \n\nHe also acknowledged that the German public would face an unusually short campaign period marked by economic uncertainty, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and the pressing issues of controlling immigration and climate change. \n\n\"That is why the coming weeks must be about finding the best solutions to the challenges of our time,\" the president said, adding that the election campaign should be conducted with \"respect and decency\".\n\nWhat are the key issues ahead of the February vote?\n\nAccording to the latest poll by public broadcaster ZDF, the CDU will likely take first place with 31% of the vote. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is currently in second place with 19%, followed by the SPD with 15%, and the Greens, holding out with 14%. \n\nIt is unclear which party the CDU might want to form a coalition with should the polls hold. Its leader, Friedrich Merz, has ruled out working with the AfD. \n\nThe campaign is well under way within Germany, with different parties laying out their contrasting visions for the country's future. Germany's faltering economy, controlling immigration and Russia's war in Ukraine are set to be key issues politicians will be competing with to convince voters. \n\nThe country is also reeling from an attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg last Friday, which killed five people and injured hundreds. \n\nProsecutors investigating the incident have warned the suspect, a Saudi doctor who arrived in Germany in 2006, had an atypical profile outside of those they had built up based on perpetrators of previous extremist attacks in Germany. \n\nThe man described himself as an ex-Muslim who was highly critical of Islam on social media and expressed support for the far right. He had previously been the subject of tip-offs, but, as German Justice Minister Volker Wissing told the Funke newspaper group, \"his political statements were so confused that none of the security authorities' patterns fitted him.\"\n\nAuthorities have warned that it was too early to make conclusive judgements on the attacker's motivations. However, the AfD held a rally in Magdeburg on Monday, with the party's leader, Alice Weidel, describing the attack as an \"act of an Islamist full of hatred for what constitutes human cohesion ... for us Germans, for us Christians.\u201d\n\n\u201cThere is still a lot we don't know and a lot is unexplained, including the exact motive,\" Chancellor candidate for the Green party, Robert Habeck, said in a video posted Monday. \n\n\"All the same, I fear that the distrust that was immediately propagated on the net against Muslims, foreigners and people with a history of immigration will entrench itself deeper in society.\u201d\n\nIn his speech, Steinmeier slammed the attempts to exert outside influence on the campaign, saying there was no room for \"defamation, intimidation, violence\" as Germans head to the polls. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced on Friday he has agreed to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's request to dissolve parliament and has set 23 February as the date for the new elections.<\/p>\n<p>Steinmeier was widely expected to adhere to the date pre-agreed upon by Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the country's main opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). <\/p>\n<p>The president's decision means that Germans will head to the polls in February, a date pulled forward significantly after the ruling coalition's government collapsed, causing Scholz to call an unsuccessful confidence vote on 16 December. <\/p>\n<p>The Bundestag's vote of no confidence against Scholz last Monday was only the sixth since 1949 in the country, and it is the fourth time a German government's electoral term has ended prematurely. <\/p>\n<p>Scholz saw his unpopular three-party coalition collapse after he fired his Finance Minister Christian Lindner from the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP). Lindner removed his ministers from the coalition, which led to its demise. <\/p>\n<p>The so-called \"traffic light\" coalition between the FDP, SPD and the environmentalist Green party led Germany since 2021. Internal divisions between the different parties reached the breaking point in November over a row about the country's next year's budget. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8913932,8907432\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//12//whats-next-for-the-german-government/">What's next for the German government?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//16//scholz-loses-no-confidence-vote-against-him-triggering-early-elections/">Scholz loses confidence vote against his government, triggering early elections<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As per Germany's constitution, the Bundestag will continue functioning until a new government is selected in February. <\/p>\n<p>During his speech, Steinmeier alluded to Germany's political uncertainty, saying, \"In difficult times like these, stability requires a government capable of taking action and reliable majorities in parliament.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"That is why I am convinced that new elections are the right way forward for the good of our country,\" Steinmeier said. <\/p>\n<p>He also acknowledged that the German public would face an unusually short campaign period marked by economic uncertainty, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and the pressing issues of controlling immigration and climate change. <\/p>\n<p>\"That is why the coming weeks must be about finding the best solutions to the challenges of our time,\" the president said, adding that the election campaign should be conducted with \"respect and decency\".<\/p>\n<h2>What are the key issues ahead of the February vote?<\/h2><p>According to the latest poll by public broadcaster ZDF, the CDU will likely take first place with 31% of the vote. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is currently in second place with 19%, followed by the SPD with 15%, and the Greens, holding out with 14%. <\/p>\n<p>It is unclear which party the CDU might want to form a coalition with should the polls hold. Its leader, Friedrich Merz, has ruled out working with the AfD. <\/p>\n<p>The campaign is well under way within Germany, with different parties laying out their contrasting visions for the country's future. Germany's faltering economy, controlling immigration and Russia's war in Ukraine are set to be key issues politicians will be competing with to convince voters. <\/p>\n<p>The country is also reeling from an attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg last Friday, which killed five people and injured hundreds. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors investigating the incident have warned the suspect, a Saudi doctor who arrived in Germany in 2006, had an atypical profile outside of those they had built up based on perpetrators of previous extremist attacks in Germany. <\/p>\n<p>The man described himself as an ex-Muslim who was highly critical of Islam on social media and expressed support for the far right. He had previously been the subject of tip-offs, but, as German Justice Minister Volker Wissing told the Funke newspaper group, \"his political statements were so confused that none of the security authorities' patterns fitted him.\"<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have warned that it was too early to make conclusive judgements on the attacker's motivations. However, the AfD held a rally in Magdeburg on Monday, with the party's leader, Alice Weidel, describing the attack as an \"act of an Islamist full of hatred for what constitutes human cohesion ... for us Germans, for us Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is still a lot we don't know and a lot is unexplained, including the exact motive,\" Chancellor candidate for the Green party, Robert Habeck, said in a video posted Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\"All the same, I fear that the distrust that was immediately propagated on the net against Muslims, foreigners and people with a history of immigration will entrench itself deeper in society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, Steinmeier slammed the attempts to exert outside influence on the campaign, saying there was no room for \"defamation, intimidation, violence\" as Germans head to the polls. 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WHERE PARTIES STAND ON TECH","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"From online platforms to Chinese influence: Where do German parties stand on tech?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"German parties reveal tech policies ahead of next year's snap election","titleListing2":"From platforms to Chinese influence: where do German parties stand on tech?","leadin":"Ahead of the German general election early next year, we look at what some of the biggest parties want to achieve in technology policy.","summary":"Ahead of the German general election early next year, we look at what some of the biggest parties want to achieve in technology policy.","keySentence":"","url":"from-online-platforms-to-chinese-influence-where-do-german-parties-stand-on-tech","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/12\/24\/from-online-platforms-to-chinese-influence-where-do-german-parties-stand-on-tech","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"After German social-democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in parliament last week, national elections will likely be held on 23 February. \n\nAs the political parties are set to have their party programs approved by their members next month, Euronews has already examined some of the draft texts of the main actors and poll frontrunners. \n\nHere is where the German parties stand on technology policy, including artificial intelligence, platform rules and digitalisation.\u00a0\n\nCDU: Digital Ministry\n\nThe centre-right CDU \u2014 which is leading the polls with some 33% of the votes according to national broadcaster ZDF \u2014 calls for a ministry for digitisation, which falls under the auspices of the Ministry of Transport at the moment.\n\nThe party, led by Friedrich Merz, also wants the German industry to use AI and cloud applications more broadly. \n\nHowever, the program \u2014 already announced on 17 December \u2014 says that while those \u201cfuture technologies need freedom, the state needs clear responsibilities.\" According to CDU, this requires a Federal Digital Ministry.\n\nIn addition, a digital account for dealing with authorities must make citizens' lives easier, similar to the steps taken on the EU level with the Digital Identity Wallet.\n\nSPD: Independence from US and China\n\nOutgoing Chancellor Scholz's centre-left SDP, third in the polls with some 15%, said that regulating digital platforms and artificial intelligence will \u201censure that creation and technology are on an equal footing and that there are fair remuneration rules.\u201d \n\n\u201cTo achieve greater independence from Chinese and American platforms, we will examine the extent to which alternatives like European cultural producers can be created and promoted,\u201d the draft program, set to be approved by the party in early January, said.\u00a0\n\nThis echoes Brussels' calls for greater independence from other regions in the world. Finland\u2019s Henna Virkkunen is in charge of tech sovereignty, security and democracy within the new European Commission, which took office on 1 December. \n\nIn addition, the text also said that the digitisation of the German public administration, which is a high priority for the SPD, needs to happen faster.\n\nGreens: AI to reduce workload\n\nThe Greens, currently at 14% in the polls, say that modernisation and automation, including the use of AI, can reduce the workload for administrative processes and reduce the size of the federal ministerial administration. \n\n\u201cThis is urgently needed in times of a shortage of skilled workers and vacancies,\u201d the party's program says.\u00a0\n\nThe party warns that Germany is behind in digitisation due to fragmentation of responsibilities and a lack of pooling of resources. It needs a more focused approach to expanding its digital infrastructure, developing European and international digital policy, and developing an open-source strategy.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe key to accelerating Germany's digitisation lies in overcoming the limits of the different IT systems of companies, authorities and research institutions through interoperability,\u201d the text said.\n\nBrussels warned in July that Germany is behind in reaching some of the EU's connectivity targets, particularly those related to the digitalisation of public services and high-speed broadband connections. \n\nAfD: Reverse the EU\u2019s online platform rules\n\nThe far-right AfD, currently projected to become Germany\u2019s second-biggest party with 17% of the vote, said it refuses to back the adoption of the Digital Services Act (DSA), an EU set of rules aimed at making online platforms more transparent while curbing disinformation. The party aims to reverse Germany's decision to implement the NetzDG law.\u00a0 \n\n\u201cA democracy does not need a 'Ministry of Truth' and must tolerate the opinions of its citizens \u2014 otherwise, it will become a dictatorship,\u201d its program said.\n\nAfD, led by Alice Weidel, warned against EU initiatives such as the Code of Practice on Disinformation, which are \u201cbeing put in place to label legitimate opinions as disinformation and to censor them.\u201d\u00a0\n\n\u201cWe demand the immediate cessation of all disinformation campaigns and the termination of all funding of non-state actors that influence or attempt to suppress free opinion formation. The funding of NGOs must be disclosed,\u201d the text adds.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>After German social-democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//16//scholz-loses-no-confidence-vote-against-him-triggering-early-elections/">lost <\/a>a confidence vote in parliament last week, national elections will likely be held on 23 February. <\/p>\n<p>As the political parties are set to have their party programs approved by their members next month, Euronews has already examined some of the draft texts of the main actors and poll frontrunners. <\/p>\n<p>Here is where the German parties stand on technology policy, including artificial intelligence, platform rules and digitalisation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>CDU: Digital Ministry<\/h2><p>The centre-right CDU \u2014 which is leading the polls with some 33% of the votes according to national broadcaster ZDF \u2014 calls for a ministry for digitisation, which falls under the auspices of the Ministry of Transport at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The party, led by Friedrich Merz, also wants the German industry to use AI and cloud applications more broadly. <\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.cdu.de//artikel//gemeinsames-wahlprogramm-von-cdu-und-csu/">program \u2014 already announced on 17 December \u2014 says that while those \u201cfuture technologies need freedom, the state needs clear responsibilities.\" According to CDU, this requires a Federal Digital Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a digital account for dealing with authorities must make citizens' lives easier, similar to the steps taken on the EU level with the Digital Identity Wallet.<\/p>\n<h2>SPD: Independence from US and China<\/h2><p>Outgoing Chancellor Scholz's centre-left SDP, third in the polls with some 15%, said that regulating digital platforms and artificial intelligence will \u201censure that creation and technology are on an equal footing and that there are fair remuneration rules.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo achieve greater independence from Chinese and American platforms, we will examine the extent to which alternatives like European cultural producers can be created and promoted,\u201d the draft program, set to be approved by the party in early January, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This echoes Brussels' calls for greater independence from other regions in the world. Finland\u2019s Henna Virkkunen is in charge of tech sovereignty, security and democracy within the new European Commission, which took office on 1 December. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, the text also said that the digitisation of the German public administration, which is a high priority for the SPD, needs to happen faster.<\/p>\n<h2>Greens: AI to reduce workload<\/h2><p>The Greens, currently at 14% in the polls, say that modernisation and automation, including the use of AI, can reduce the workload for administrative processes and reduce the size of the federal ministerial administration. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is urgently needed in times of a shortage of skilled workers and vacancies,\u201d the party's <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.bundestagswahl-bw.de//wahlprogramm-gruene/">program <\/a>says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The party warns that Germany is behind in digitisation due to fragmentation of responsibilities and a lack of pooling of resources. It needs a more focused approach to expanding its digital infrastructure, developing European and international digital policy, and developing an open-source strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key to accelerating Germany's digitisation lies in overcoming the limits of the different IT systems of companies, authorities and research institutions through interoperability,\u201d the text said.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu//en//factpages//germany-2024-digital-decade-country-report/">warned <\/a>in July that Germany is behind in reaching some of the EU's connectivity targets, particularly those related to the digitalisation of public services and high-speed broadband connections. <\/p>\n<h2>AfD: Reverse the EU\u2019s online platform rules<\/h2><p>The far-right AfD, currently projected to become Germany\u2019s second-biggest party with 17% of the vote, said it refuses to back the adoption of the Digital Services Act (DSA), an EU set of rules aimed at making online platforms more transparent while curbing disinformation. The party aims to reverse Germany's decision to implement the NetzDG law.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA democracy does not need a 'Ministry of Truth' and must tolerate the opinions of its citizens \u2014 otherwise, it will become a dictatorship,\u201d its <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.bundestagswahl-bw.de//wahlprogramm-afd/">program <\/a>said.<\/p>\n<p>AfD, led by Alice Weidel, warned against EU initiatives such as the Code of Practice on Disinformation, which are \u201cbeing put in place to label legitimate opinions as disinformation and to censor them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demand the immediate cessation of all disinformation campaigns and the termination of all funding of non-state actors that influence or attempt to suppress free opinion formation. The funding of NGOs must be disclosed,\u201d the text adds.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735038636,"updatedAt":1735067120,"publishedAt":1735043593,"firstPublishedAt":1735043593,"lastPublishedAt":1735043593,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/04\/06\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8f63451f-ce04-5879-adad-0626edc55ab6-8930406.jpg","altText":"Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz checks his phone in the German parliament.","caption":"Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz checks his phone in the German parliament.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Markus Schreiber\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":4359,"height":2906}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2902,"urlSafeValue":"kroet","title":"Cynthia Kroet","twitter":"@cynthiakroet"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":30264,"slug":"german-election-2025","urlSafeValue":"german-election-2025","title":"German election 2025","titleRaw":"German election 2025"},{"id":10521,"slug":"german-politics","urlSafeValue":"german-politics","title":"German politics","titleRaw":"German politics"},{"id":16858,"slug":"online-internet-platformlar-","urlSafeValue":"online-internet-platformlar-","title":"online internet platforms","titleRaw":"online internet platforms"},{"id":12661,"slug":"artificial-intelligence","urlSafeValue":"artificial-intelligence","title":"Artificial intelligence","titleRaw":"Artificial intelligence"}],"widgets":[],"related":[{"id":2708640},{"id":2703862}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/tech-news\/tech-news"},"vertical":"next","verticals":[{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"},"themes":[{"id":"tech-news","urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News","url":"\/next\/tech-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":40,"urlSafeValue":"tech-news","title":"Tech News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":125,"urlSafeValue":"germany","title":"Germany","url":"\/news\/europe\/germany"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["84111001","84112005","84211001","84212001","84241001","84242001"],"slugs":["law_gov_t_and_politics_legal_politics","law_government_and_politics","society","society_general","technology_and_computing","technology_and_computing_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/next\/2024\/12\/24\/from-online-platforms-to-chinese-influence-where-do-german-parties-stand-on-tech","lastModified":1735043593},{"id":2710766,"cid":8930198,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241224_C2SU_57355249","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Culture - Berlin culture cuts","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Berlin moves ahead with \u20ac130 million cut to culture budget amid protests","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Berlin moves ahead with \u20ac130 million culture budget cuts amid protests","titleListing2":"Berlin moves ahead with \u20ac130 million cut to culture budget amid protests","leadin":"Berlin's government has approved a \u20ac130 million cut to its cultural budget for 2025, defying weeks of protests and warnings from the arts sector about potential closures and the city\u2019s cultural standing.","summary":"Berlin's government has approved a \u20ac130 million cut to its cultural budget for 2025, defying weeks of protests and warnings from the arts sector about potential closures and the city\u2019s cultural standing.","keySentence":"","url":"berlin-moves-ahead-with-130-million-cut-to-culture-budget-amid-protests","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/12\/24\/berlin-moves-ahead-with-130-million-cut-to-culture-budget-amid-protests","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Despite vocal opposition from artists, museum leaders, and cultural organisations, the Berlin city-state government has pressed forward with a 12% reduction in funding for arts and culture, part of its broader budget plan for the coming year. \n\nThe move has sparked fears that the city could lose its status as one of Europe\u2019s foremost cultural capitals, with some institutions facing possible shutdowns.\n\n\u201cCulture and clubs bring people to Berlin. They don\u2019t come here for the food, they come here for the history and the culture,\u201d Emma Enderby, the director of the non-profit KW Institute for Contemporary Art, told The Art Newspaper, noting that the full budget has still not been communicated to organisations.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s very short notice, it also seems very short sighted,\u201d Enderby said. \u201cIn Berlin, culture costs around 2% of the overall economy, yet they\u2019re cutting us between around 10% and in some cases 50%.\u201d\n\nEnderby confirmed that the museum is already feeling the impact of the budget cuts. With funding for 2025 still uncertain until January, the museum has decided not to renew staff contracts and to scale back upcoming programs, including public engagement initiatives.\n\nPhilip Br\u00f6king, co-director of Berlin's Komische Oper opera house, previously told Euronews Culture that the upcoming budget cuts are extremely painful and, for many, difficult to implement. \n\n\"If that budget is cut, we face a double blow: fewer subsidies and less funding to cover extra costs. This makes us very sceptical about the future of our institution,\" Br\u00f6king adds.\n\nPaul Spies, the co-president of the Berlin Museums Association and former director of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, agreed \u2013 and lamented the government\u2019s failure to listen to culture experts.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s a very bad decision \u2013 pennywise and pound foolish in every sense,\u201d Spies told The Art Newspaper. \u201cAnd it\u2019s been done so bluntly and without input from the cultural department. It doesn't seem that the Senate has listened to the specialists about what is possible and what is not possible.\u201d\n\nSome have been urged to adopt a US-style philanthropic model, but as Enderby points out, German cultural institutions are organised in a fundamentally different way. \u201cWe can\u2019t form an endowment, which is how American institutions survive \u2013 this is illegal for publicly funded institutions in Germany,\u201d she said.\n\nCelebrated German director Wim Wenders was also worried by the cuts, telling Euronews Culture that removing funding from cultural institutions never pays off.\n\n\u201cThey start cutting cultural funding and that, in the long run, is the hardest price they're paying. Because I think that in the long run, they would profit from culture remaining vivid and alive,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it's the wrong decision. I think they should rather invest in culture more than doing the opposite right now.\u201d\n\nAccording to ARTnews, the budget cut marks a sharp contrast to Berlin's previous approach of boosting investment in its cultural spaces. In 2021, Germany approved a record \u20ac2.1 billion for federal culture funding, a \u20ac155 million increase from the year before.\n\nBerlin Mayor Kai Wegner, a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union, has defended the budget cuts as necessary to ensure Berlin's financial sustainability after a challenging year marked by falling revenues. He argues that Berlin still has a \u201crecord budget\u201d of \u20ac40bn and that the reductions are crucial for the city\u2019s future, blaming the previous left-wing administration\u2019s climate initiatives for putting a strain on the budget.\n\n\u201cWe need a change of mentality, including in culture,\u201d Wegner said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Despite vocal opposition from artists, museum leaders, and cultural organisations, the Berlin city-state government has pressed forward with a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//11//27//berlin-announces-huge-130-million-cuts-to-culture-budget/">12% reduction in funding<\/strong><\/a> for arts and culture, part of its broader budget plan for the coming year. <\/p>\n<p>The move has sparked fears that the city could lose its status as one of Europe\u2019s foremost cultural capitals, with some institutions facing possible shutdowns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//93//01//98//808x808_cmsv2_b81c20af-c10a-5857-8adf-385762e3c1dd-8930198.jpg/" alt=\"KW Institute for Contemporary Art\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/384x384_cmsv2_b81c20af-c10a-5857-8adf-385762e3c1dd-8930198.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/640x640_cmsv2_b81c20af-c10a-5857-8adf-385762e3c1dd-8930198.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/750x750_cmsv2_b81c20af-c10a-5857-8adf-385762e3c1dd-8930198.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/828x828_cmsv2_b81c20af-c10a-5857-8adf-385762e3c1dd-8930198.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/1080x1080_cmsv2_b81c20af-c10a-5857-8adf-385762e3c1dd-8930198.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/1200x1200_cmsv2_b81c20af-c10a-5857-8adf-385762e3c1dd-8930198.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/1920x1920_cmsv2_b81c20af-c10a-5857-8adf-385762e3c1dd-8930198.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">KW Institute for Contemporary Art<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">David von Becker \/ KW Institute for Contemporary Art \/ Facebook<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cCulture and clubs bring people to Berlin. They don\u2019t come here for the food, they come here for the history and the culture,\u201d Emma Enderby, the director of the non-profit KW Institute for Contemporary Art, told The Art Newspaper, noting that the full budget has still not been communicated to organisations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very short notice, it also seems very short sighted,\u201d Enderby said. \u201cIn <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//06//04//berlin-culture-minister-joe-chialo-on-berghain-diversity-challenges-and-artificial-intelli/">Berlin, culture costs around 2% of the overall economy, yet they\u2019re cutting us between around 10% and in some cases 50%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Enderby confirmed that the museum is already feeling the impact of the budget cuts. With funding for 2025 still uncertain until January, the museum has decided not to renew staff contracts and to scale back upcoming programs, including public engagement initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Br\u00f6king, co-director of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//20//berlins-komische-oper-to-continue-renovations-despite-cuts-to-culture-budget/">Berlin's Komische Oper<\/strong><\/a> opera house, previously told Euronews Culture that the upcoming budget cuts are extremely painful and, for many, difficult to implement. <\/p>\n<p>\"If that budget is cut, we face a double blow: fewer subsidies and less funding to cover extra costs. 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.instagram.com//p//DCzBruTNyP_//?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\%22 style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Rat f\u00fcr die K\u00fcnste Berlin (@rat.fuer.die.kuenste.berlin)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote><script async src=https://www.euronews.com/"////platform.instagram.com//en_US//embeds.js/">/n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Protests erupted in November, when the cuts were first announced<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Paul Spies, the co-president of the Berlin Museums Association and former director of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, agreed \u2013 and lamented the government\u2019s failure to listen to culture experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very bad decision \u2013 pennywise and pound foolish in every sense,\u201d Spies told The Art Newspaper. \u201cAnd it\u2019s been done so bluntly and without input from the cultural department. It doesn't seem that the Senate has listened to the specialists about what is possible and what is not possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some have been urged to adopt a US-style philanthropic model, but as Enderby points out, German cultural institutions are organised in a fundamentally different way. \u201cWe can\u2019t form an endowment, which is how American institutions survive \u2013 this is illegal for publicly funded institutions in Germany,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrated German director <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//23//wim-wenders-on-2025-europe-is-a-beautiful-idea-we-can-defend-it-against-nationalist-attack/">Wim Wenders<\/strong><\/a> was also worried by the cuts, telling Euronews Culture that removing funding from cultural institutions never pays off.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//93//01//98//808x454_cmsv2_9c2f421a-f79e-56af-95ab-beb3604baa42-8930198.jpg/" alt=\"Wim Wenders with Euronews Culture&#39;s David Mouriquand\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/384x216_cmsv2_9c2f421a-f79e-56af-95ab-beb3604baa42-8930198.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/640x360_cmsv2_9c2f421a-f79e-56af-95ab-beb3604baa42-8930198.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/750x422_cmsv2_9c2f421a-f79e-56af-95ab-beb3604baa42-8930198.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/828x466_cmsv2_9c2f421a-f79e-56af-95ab-beb3604baa42-8930198.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/1080x608_cmsv2_9c2f421a-f79e-56af-95ab-beb3604baa42-8930198.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/1200x675_cmsv2_9c2f421a-f79e-56af-95ab-beb3604baa42-8930198.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/1920x1080_cmsv2_9c2f421a-f79e-56af-95ab-beb3604baa42-8930198.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Wim Wenders with Euronews Culture&#39;s David Mouriquand<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews Culture<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey start cutting cultural funding and that, in the long run, is the hardest price they're paying. Because I think that in the long run, they would profit from culture remaining vivid and alive,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it's the wrong decision. I think they should rather invest in culture more than doing the opposite right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to ARTnews, the budget cut marks a sharp contrast to Berlin's previous approach of boosting investment in its cultural spaces. In 2021, Germany approved a record \u20ac2.1 billion for federal culture funding, a \u20ac155 million increase from the year before.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner, a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union, has defended the budget cuts as necessary to ensure Berlin's financial sustainability after a challenging year marked by falling revenues. He argues that Berlin still has a \u201crecord budget\u201d of \u20ac40bn and that the reductions are crucial for the city\u2019s future, blaming the previous left-wing administration\u2019s <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//16//cop29-in-baku-spotlights-culture-as-a-critical-tool-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/">climate initiatives<\/strong><\/a> for putting a strain on the budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a change of mentality, including in culture,\u201d Wegner said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735033581,"updatedAt":1735034946,"publishedAt":1735034609,"firstPublishedAt":1735034609,"lastPublishedAt":1735034609,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/01\/98\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0dbd80dd-6f9f-5490-9df8-b3d999c4e450-8930198.jpg","altText":"Berlin is regarded as one of Europe's cultural capitals","caption":"Berlin is regarded as one of Europe's cultural 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Five major economic hurdles Germany needs to overcome in 2025","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Five major economic hurdles Germany needs to overcome in 2025","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Five major economic hurdles Germany needs to overcome in 2025","titleListing2":"Five major economic hurdles Germany needs to overcome in 2025","leadin":"Germany is set to face a tough 2025 with stagnating growth, fiscal uncertainty, geopolitical risks, high energy costs, and a weakening automotive sector. Without reforms to unlock structural investments and bolster competitiveness, Europe's largest economy risks prolonged malaise.","summary":"Germany is set to face a tough 2025 with stagnating growth, fiscal uncertainty, geopolitical risks, high energy costs, and a weakening automotive sector. Without reforms to unlock structural investments and bolster competitiveness, Europe's largest economy risks prolonged malaise.","keySentence":"","url":"five-major-economic-hurdles-germany-needs-to-overcome-in-2025","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/24\/five-major-economic-hurdles-germany-needs-to-overcome-in-2025","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Germany's economy, once considered the powerhouse of Europe, is now navigating an era of stagnation and structural challenges.\u00a0\n\nWith growth projections among the weakest in the developed world, the country faces significant hurdles in 2025, ranging from economic stagnation and geopolitical tensions to the need for a strategic overhaul in key sectors.\n\nHere are the top five challenges with which the German economy will have to contend. \n\n1.\u00a0Economic stagnation and persistent underperformance\n\nThe German economy has seen virtually no growth since late 2019.\u00a0\n\nGrowth projections for 2025 remain bleak, with real GDP expected to expand by a mere 0.3%, according to Goldman Sachs. The Bundesbank projects an even more tepid 0.2% increase, while the Kiel Institute forecasts outright stagnation at 0.0%.\n\nUnderlying this stagnation is a confluence of weak exports, sluggish private consumption, and faltering investments.\u00a0\n\nDecarbonisation, digitalisation, and demographic shifts are exerting downward pressure on potential output, leaving analysts questioning whether Germany\u2019s malaise is a temporary weakness or a structural adjustment.\u00a0\n\nProfessor Timo Wollmersh\u00e4user from the ifo Institute recently noted:\u00a0\"At the moment, it is not yet clear whether the current phase of stagnation is a temporary weakness or one that is permanent and hence a painful change in the economy.\"\u00a0\n\n2.\u00a0Elections and fiscal uncertainty\n\nGermany's early federal elections, scheduled for February 2025, bring heightened economic and political uncertainty.\u00a0\n\nInvestors are watching closely to see if a new government will leverage Germany's substantial fiscal capacity to stimulate growth.\u00a0\n\nDespite Germany's substantial fiscal capacity, with one of the lowest debt-to-GDP ratios among major advanced economies, the constitutional \"debt brake\" limits public borrowing.\n\nYet, there is\u00a0scepticism\u00a0about whether the political will exists to tap into this potential.\u00a0\n\nWhile the escape clause could permit immediate stimulus, a permanent removal of the debt brake - essential to unlocking sustained long-term investments - is widely regarded as unlikely.\n\nAnalysts warn that unless a new government adopts pro-growth reforms, such as tax incentives and infrastructure spending, Germany risks falling further behind its European neighbours.\u00a0\n\nThe Bundesbank underscored this urgency, stating that \"fiscal policy is set to be restrictive this year and in the next two years\".\n\nThe Kiel Institute also highlighted that uncertainty from the elections has already dented business confidence, further delaying investment decisions.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n3.\u00a0Loss of competitiveness in the automotive industry\n\nGermany\u2019s automotive sector, a key pillar of its economy, continues to lose global competitiveness.\u00a0\n\nOnce dominant players like Volkswagen, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz have steadily lost market share to US and Chinese manufacturers.\u00a0\n\nAccording to Goldman Sachs: \"China has evolved from Germany\u2019s key export market to a main competitor\", particularly in sectors like electric vehicles where German car makers lag behind.\n\nGermany's trade relationships with China have shifted dramatically.\u00a0\n\nAs the Bundesbank noted: \"Disappointing growth in China- together with a tilt from industrial to domestic activity- has weighed on the demand for Germany's products and lowered German exports to China.\"\n\nExports of German automobiles have been further hit by high energy costs and trade policy uncertainty.\u00a0\n\nAs the Kiel Institute stated: \"The automotive sector has been gloomy for six months, reflecting structural changes and falling export competitiveness.\"\n\n4.\u00a0Geopolitical risks: trade tensions and protectionism\n\nGermany's export-driven economy remains vulnerable to rising global protectionism, particularly from the United States.\u00a0\n\nThe incoming Trump administration's trade policies are expected to have a disproportionately negative impact on Germany.\n\n\"While the size of any US tariffs is highly uncertain, our work suggests that much of the growth drag is likely to come from higher trade policy uncertainty\", warned Goldman Sachs in a recent note.\u00a0\n\nThe Kiel Institute estimates that tariffs imposed by the incoming Trump administration could reduce Germany\u2019s GDP by 0.6% in a baseline scenario and by as much as 1.2% in a downside scenario involving broader tariffs on EU goods.\u00a0\n\n\"Germany's weak potential growth is coming to light, and any unforeseen external disruptive factor can make the difference between a plus or a minus in economic output,\"\u00a0said Moritz Schularick, President of the Kiel Institute.\n\nThis uncertainty has already led to a sharp decline in business confidence. Export expectations for 2025, as measured by the ifo Institute, have fallen to their lowest levels in years.\u00a0\n\nThe trade outlook is particularly bleak for the automotive and metal industries, which have historically formed the backbone of Germany\u2019s export economy.\u00a0\n\n5.\u00a0Rising energy costs and inflationary pressures\n\nHigh energy prices remain a persistent burden for German businesses and households.\u00a0\n\nThe Bundesbank reported that industrial production in energy-intensive sectors has contracted by 10-15% due to elevated gas and electricity costs, with little scope for recovery in 2025.\u00a0\n\nGermany's decision to phase out nuclear energy has compounded this challenge, leaving the country reliant on costlier and less predictable energy sources.\n\nAdditionally, Germany\u2019s high energy costs exacerbate the challenges facing energy-intensive industries like automotive manufacturing, shrinking margins and prompting some producers to consider relocating operations abroad.\n\nInflation, although declining from its 2022 peak, remains stubbornly high compared to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) is projected to drop only marginally to 2.4% in 2025, weighed down by persistently high service costs and a slower-than-expected recovery in wage dynamics.\n\nA bleak outlook with limited upside scenarios\n\nA more optimistic scenario hinges on decisive reforms to reduce corporate tax burdens, expand infrastructure, and address Germany\u2019s labour shortages through immigration and workforce participation policies.\u00a0\n\nWithout these measures, structural stagnation could continue to weigh on the country\u2019s growth prospects well beyond 2025.\n\nAs the Bundesbank President\u2019s Joachim Nagel recently indicated:\u00a0\"An economic recovery is yet to materialise. The German economy is not only struggling with persistent economic headwinds, but also with structural problems.\"\n\nFor now, the prospects for Europe\u2019s largest economy appear constrained by a combination of cyclical and structural forces that show no signs of abating.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Germany's economy, once considered the powerhouse of Europe, is now navigating an era of stagnation and structural challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With growth projections among the weakest in the developed world, the country faces significant hurdles in 2025, ranging from economic stagnation and geopolitical tensions to the need for a strategic overhaul in key sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the top five challenges with which the German economy will have to contend. <\/p>\n<h2>1. <strong>Economic stagnation and persistent underperformance<\/strong><\/h2><p>The German economy has seen virtually no growth since late 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Growth projections for 2025 remain bleak, with real GDP expected to expand by a mere 0.3%, according to Goldman Sachs. The Bundesbank projects an even more tepid 0.2% increase, while the Kiel Institute forecasts outright stagnation at 0.0%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8920936,8916412\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//17//can-germanys-improving-financial-sentiment-overcome-business-pessimism/">Can Germany's improving financial sentiment overcome business pessimism?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//19//germanys-consumer-climate-still-very-low-dax-eyes-fifth-straight-drop/">Germany's consumer climate still 'very low', DAX eyes fifth straight drop<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Underlying this stagnation is a confluence of weak exports, sluggish private consumption, and faltering investments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Decarbonisation, digitalisation, and demographic shifts are exerting downward pressure on potential output, leaving analysts questioning whether Germany\u2019s malaise is a temporary weakness or a structural adjustment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Professor Timo Wollmersh\u00e4user from the ifo Institute recently noted:\u00a0\"At the moment, it is not yet clear whether the current phase of stagnation is a temporary weakness or one that is permanent and hence a painful change in the economy.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>2. <strong>Elections and fiscal uncertainty<\/strong><\/h2><p>Germany's early federal elections, scheduled for February 2025, bring heightened economic and political uncertainty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investors are watching closely to see if a new government will leverage Germany's substantial fiscal capacity to stimulate growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite Germany's substantial fiscal capacity, with one of the lowest debt-to-GDP ratios among major advanced economies, the constitutional \"debt brake\" limits public borrowing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8910080,8880782\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//13//germanys-bundesbank-warns-of-economic-stagnation-as-trade-war-looms/">Germany's Bundesbank warns of economic stagnation as trade war looms<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//11//29//how-germany-is-planning-to-invest-2-billion-in-its-semiconductor-sector/">How Germany is planning to invest \u20ac2 billion in its semiconductor sector<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yet, there is\u00a0scepticism\u00a0about whether the political will exists to tap into this potential.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the escape clause could permit immediate stimulus, a permanent removal of the debt brake - essential to unlocking sustained long-term investments - is widely regarded as unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts warn that unless a new government adopts pro-growth reforms, such as tax incentives and infrastructure spending, Germany risks falling further behind its European neighbours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bundesbank underscored this urgency, stating that \"fiscal policy is set to be restrictive this year and in the next two years\".<\/p>\n<p>The Kiel Institute also highlighted that uncertainty from the elections has already dented business confidence, further delaying investment decisions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>3. <strong>Loss of competitiveness in the automotive industry<\/strong><\/h2><p>Germany\u2019s automotive sector, a key pillar of its economy, continues to lose global competitiveness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once dominant players like Volkswagen, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz have steadily lost market share to US and Chinese manufacturers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Goldman Sachs: \"China has evolved from Germany\u2019s key export market to a main competitor\", particularly in sectors like electric vehicles where German car makers lag behind.<\/p>\n<p>Germany's trade relationships with China have shifted dramatically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the Bundesbank noted: \"Disappointing growth in China- together with a tilt from industrial to domestic activity- has weighed on the demand for Germany's products and lowered German exports to China.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8793628,8753188\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//16//has-the-demand-for-fossil-fuels-already-peaked-a-new-report-suggests-that-may-be-the-case/">Has the demand for fossil fuels already peaked? A new report suggests that may be the case<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//09//25//the-cheapest-and-most-expensive-countries-in-europe-to-charge-your-ev/">The cheapest and most expensive countries in Europe to charge your EV<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Exports of German automobiles have been further hit by high energy costs and trade policy uncertainty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the Kiel Institute stated: \"The automotive sector has been gloomy for six months, reflecting structural changes and falling export competitiveness.\"<\/p>\n<h2>4. <strong>Geopolitical risks: trade tensions and protectionism<\/strong><\/h2><p>Germany's export-driven economy remains vulnerable to rising global protectionism, particularly from the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incoming Trump administration's trade policies are expected to have a disproportionately negative impact on Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\"While the size of any US tariffs is highly uncertain, our work suggests that much of the growth drag is likely to come from higher trade policy uncertainty\", warned Goldman Sachs in a recent note.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8924210,8914086\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//20//trump-threatens-trade-tariffs-unless-europe-buys-a-lot-more-us-oil-and-gas/">Trump threatens trade tariffs unless Europe buys a lot more US oil and gas<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//16//european-central-bank-warns-of-how-a-shift-in-us-trade-policies-could-affect-the-eu/">European Central Bank warns of how a shift in US trade policies could affect the EU<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Kiel Institute estimates that tariffs imposed by the incoming Trump administration could reduce Germany\u2019s GDP by 0.6% in a baseline scenario and by as much as 1.2% in a downside scenario involving broader tariffs on EU goods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Germany's weak potential growth is coming to light, and any unforeseen external disruptive factor can make the difference between a plus or a minus in economic output,\"\u00a0said Moritz Schularick, President of the Kiel Institute.<\/p>\n<p>This uncertainty has already led to a sharp decline in business confidence. Export expectations for 2025, as measured by the ifo Institute, have fallen to their lowest levels in years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trade outlook is particularly bleak for the automotive and metal industries, which have historically formed the backbone of Germany\u2019s export economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>5. <strong>Rising energy costs and inflationary pressures<\/strong><\/h2><p>High energy prices remain a persistent burden for German businesses and households.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bundesbank reported that industrial production in energy-intensive sectors has contracted by 10-15% due to elevated gas and electricity costs, with little scope for recovery in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Germany's decision to phase out nuclear energy has compounded this challenge, leaving the country reliant on costlier and less predictable energy sources.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8923832,8908396\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//20//ecb-interest-rate-cuts-in-2025-how-low-could-they-go/">ECB interest rate cuts in 2025: How low could they go?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//12//12//lagarde-ecb-worried-on-growth-but-confident-inflation-is-on-track/">Lagarde: ECB worried on growth but confident inflation is on track<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Germany\u2019s high energy costs exacerbate the challenges facing energy-intensive industries like automotive manufacturing, shrinking margins and prompting some producers to consider relocating operations abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation, although declining from its 2022 peak, remains stubbornly high compared to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) is projected to drop only marginally to 2.4% in 2025, weighed down by persistently high service costs and a slower-than-expected recovery in wage dynamics.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A bleak outlook with limited upside scenarios<\/strong><\/h2><p>A more optimistic scenario hinges on decisive reforms to reduce corporate tax burdens, expand infrastructure, and address Germany\u2019s labour shortages through immigration and workforce participation policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Without these measures, structural stagnation could continue to weigh on the country\u2019s growth prospects well beyond 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As the Bundesbank President\u2019s Joachim Nagel recently indicated:\u00a0\"An economic recovery is yet to materialise. The German economy is not only struggling with persistent economic headwinds, but also with structural problems.\"<\/p>\n<p>For now, the prospects for Europe\u2019s largest economy appear constrained by a combination of cyclical and structural forces that show no signs of abating.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734956655,"updatedAt":1735018843,"publishedAt":1735018831,"firstPublishedAt":1735018831,"lastPublishedAt":1735018842,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/81\/18\/60\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d1fc6613-b8dc-589f-8a5f-c608266b7970-8811860.jpg","altText":"A BP refinery steams in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, although Germany's economy is spluttering","caption":"A BP refinery steams in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, although Germany's economy is spluttering","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Martin Meissner\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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we can defend it against nationalist attacks","leadin":"Euronews Culture speaks to celebrated German director Wim Wenders on how removing funding from cultural institutions never pays off, and how the \"beautiful idea\" of Europe needs to be defended against nationalism.","summary":"Euronews Culture speaks to celebrated German director Wim Wenders on how removing funding from cultural institutions never pays off, and how the \"beautiful idea\" of Europe needs to be defended against nationalism.","keySentence":"","url":"wim-wenders-on-2025-europe-is-a-beautiful-idea-we-can-defend-it-against-nationalist-attack","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/12\/23\/wim-wenders-on-2025-europe-is-a-beautiful-idea-we-can-defend-it-against-nationalist-attack","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"It\u2019s always a bit daunting sitting opposite a cinematic titan.\n\nUnless that particular titan is the always affable Wim Wenders.\n\nThis year\u2019s recipient of the European Film Academy\u2019s Lifetime Achievement award, the German filmmaker behind such classics as\u00a0Paris, Texas,\u00a0Wings of Desire,\u00a0Buena Vista Social Club and one of our favourite films of 2023, the quietly captivating Perfect Days, remains\u00a0as humble, insightful and friendly as ever. \u00a0\n\nStill, it\u2019s not every day you\u2019re celebrated by your peers -\u00a0the \u201cfamily\u201d you were the president of for almost a quarter of a century - and Wenders is THE major figure of New German Cinema, so it\u2019s best behaviour and minimal swooning. \u00a0\n\nEuronews Culture sat down with Wim Wenders at\u00a0this year\u2019s European Film Awards\u00a0to talk about his latest award, how budget cuts shouldn\u2019t affect culture, the films that marked his life, and his hopes for 2025.\n\nEuronews Culture: I had the pleasure of speaking to you last year in Lyon, where you won the Prix Lumi\u00e8re. And this year, you\u2019re receiving the European Film Academy\u2019s Lifetime Achievement award. What does this mean to you?\n\nWim Wenders: Last year was very special, and this year\u2019s award is special too because it's from my family. I've been involved with the European Film Academy since its beginning, for all its 36 years - and 24 of those years as their president. So I feel it's family. And normally you don't get an award from your family. They just pat you on the shoulder and say, \u2018Well done, boy\u2019 and then they go. So it's very special for me.\n\nAs president of the European Film Academy from\u00a01996 to 2020, you've been ideally placed to contribute to and witness the evolution of European cinema over the years.\u00a0 What do you make of its progress and is it evolving in the right way?\n\nWe were evolving nicely and then the pandemic happened, and that threw a bone into the system. It diverted a whole lot of people away from theaters and from movies to streaming, and they grew much more and faster than they ever expected. It was almost inevitable that audiences were slowly going over to streaming services... But this happened abruptly, and it was a pretty hard blow to independent and smaller kinds of\u00a0 cinemas than the big blockbusters. They survived a little better.\n\nThere are also other threats to independent cinema aside from streaming, including the recent threat by the German government to remove cultural funding from certain\u00a0institutions. Are we losing sight of the value of culture, including cinema, in society?\n\nI mean, it's always the same. People, governments, countries have to cut budgets and they always do the obvious and the worst at the same time. They start cutting cultural funding and that, in the long run, is the hardest price they're paying. Because I think that in the long run, they would profit from culture remaining vivid and alive. \n\nCutting culture first is cutting the whole impetus and the whole joy out of whatever is going to happen afterwards. A\u00a0few times I saw it happen that\u00a0in hard times people and governments invested in culture, and that always paid off. It always helped them get through the crisis - whatever it was. But cutting culture means not to prepare people for whatever crisis there is, but making them go into it grumpily. I think it's the wrong decision. I think they should rather invest in culture more than doing the opposite right now.\u00a0\n\nTo talk about something a little bit more joyous, one of the things that has moved me enormously throughout your career is your use of music in film. Last year at the Lumi\u00e8re Festival, there was a stunning vinyl that was released, which compiled many of the songs that have featured in your films \u2013 everyone from Nick Cave to Eels and Radiohead. It\u2019s an impressive selection of artists over the years... \u00a0 \u00a0\n\nI try as much as I can to listen to a lot of music made right now, and there are some great people. A lot of women are making amazing music. I think women right now have the edge. But I do listen to some of my old heroes, and some of them have really pulled me through every one of my own crises. I think I want to mention Lou Reed right here, because he's been gone for a number of years and I miss him very much. But his music is still very much alive and still with an acute sense of the now and here, even if he's gone.\n\nYou mentioning Lou Reed reminds me of Perfect Days with the use of his songs, but also\u00a0that incredibly moving ending with your use of\u00a0Nina Simone\u2019s \u2018Feeling Good\u2019. Not a single word is spoken, but everything is said in that last scene.\n\nYes, because Nina says the words and what the song is all about. I made sure that my actor, K\u014dji Yakusho, knew every word of this song... And you see it on his face that he understands what she's singing about. What she's singing about is the real credo of his life. The moment counts and the little things matter, and it\u2019s the awareness of being alive.\n\nThe film is about appreciating those seemingly samll things in life, as well as the Japanese concept of komorebi \u2013 which if I\u2019m not mistaken translates as\u00a0'sunlight leaking through the trees'.\u00a0 It\u2019s a concept that\u00a0the world needs a lot more of right now... \u00a0\n\nIt's true, those people who took to the film realized that the small things are what make\u00a0this man very happy. They tried it out and it resulted in much more happiness in their own lives. I know lots of people who now leave the house in the morning and look up at the sky first with a smile - and they say it has a tremendous effect. And seeing komorebi at play, this beautiful little spectacle that you see on a wall or on the floor - the sun and the leaves and the wind produce it. It's for free! (Laughs) And not many people see it, but learning to see it makes your life much richer.\n\nSpeaking of making life richer, do you recall the film that sparked your joy for cinema?\n\nWhat would that have been? One of them was 2001: A Space Odyssey. Let me think... One of the greatest pleasures of my life was to see Vertigo for the first time, and that has remained a \u2018hero film\u2019 for me. But then I should mention the films of my master, Yasujiro Ozu. I got to see him pretty late in life because he wasn't available, neither in America nor in Europe, because the Japanese didn't export his films because they thought it was \"too Japanese\". But once I saw them, I was blown away. That was like\u00a0the lost paradise of filmmaking - I love each and every one of his films. It's like one big\u00a0 work, all of his 50 films.\n\nThroughout your career, you've crossed borders with your films - whether it's Cuba with Buena Vista Social Club, the US with Paris, Texas\u00a0or Japan with Perfect Days, to mention a small handful. Are there any places that you want to go\u00a0to and film, locations you have yet to travel to?\n\nYes. My whole life I\u2019ve wanted to go to India, and next year I'm finally going to do it for a whole month. That's one of the places I've always saved, and now I can go there\u00a0for four weeks next year! But I'm also a little hesitant because again, I'm going to be homesick, and I'm already homesick for too many places! (Laughs)\n\nWhat are your ambitions and hopes for 2025? Apart from your trip to India, of course...\n\nWell, I don't have personal hopes. I mean, this planet is suffering tremendously and we suffer from all of it going in the wrong direction. In terms of the climate, it is going badly\u00a0 in the same old direction \u2013 which is the wrong direction. In terms of politics, old ideas come up that already didn't work when they were applied before.\u00a0I thought nationalism was on the way out, but it's coming back in a big way.\u00a0If every nation is now going to say, \u2018Me first!\u2019 it's not going to go anywhere. The idea of Europe is a much more beautiful idea. I think we can keep the idea of Europe going\u00a0and defend it against all these nationalist attacks.\n\nMr. Wenders thank you so much for your time.\n\nCheck out extracts from our interview with Wim Wenders in the video at the top of this article. Perfect Days was released in most European territories last year and made our list for 2023's Best Movies - thereby explaining why it can't be found in our 2024 Best Movies list. Stay tuned to Euronews Culture for our People of the Year 2024 roundup.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>It\u2019s always a bit daunting sitting opposite a cinematic titan.<\/p>\n<p>Unless that particular titan is the always affable Wim Wenders.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s recipient of the European Film Academy\u2019s Lifetime Achievement award, the German filmmaker behind such classics as\u00a0<em>Paris, Texas<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Wings of Desire<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Buena Vista Social Club<\/em> and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//12//22//lovers-bottoms-and-french-cooking-here-are-the-best-movies-of-2023/">one of our favourite films of 2023<\/strong><\/a>, the quietly captivating <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//12//01//euronews-cultures-film-of-the-week-perfect-days-wim-wenders-greatest-film-in-decades/">Perfect Days<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, remains\u00a0as humble, insightful and friendly as ever. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s not every day you\u2019re celebrated by your peers -\u00a0the \u201cfamily\u201d you were the president of for almost a quarter of a century - and Wenders is THE major figure of New German Cinema, so it\u2019s best behaviour and minimal swooning. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Euronews Culture sat down with Wim Wenders at\u00a0<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//07//european-film-awards-2024-emilia-perez-by-jacques-audiard-wins-big/">this year\u2019s European Film Awards<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to talk about his latest award, how budget cuts shouldn\u2019t affect culture, the films that marked his life, and his hopes for 2025.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//61//28//808x454_cmsv2_afdd45b5-997b-5624-9a07-907078393666-8916128.jpg/" alt=\"Director Wim Wenders with Euronews Culture&#39;s David Mouriquand\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/384x216_cmsv2_afdd45b5-997b-5624-9a07-907078393666-8916128.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/640x360_cmsv2_afdd45b5-997b-5624-9a07-907078393666-8916128.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/750x422_cmsv2_afdd45b5-997b-5624-9a07-907078393666-8916128.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/828x466_cmsv2_afdd45b5-997b-5624-9a07-907078393666-8916128.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1080x608_cmsv2_afdd45b5-997b-5624-9a07-907078393666-8916128.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1200x675_cmsv2_afdd45b5-997b-5624-9a07-907078393666-8916128.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1920x1080_cmsv2_afdd45b5-997b-5624-9a07-907078393666-8916128.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Director Wim Wenders with Euronews Culture&#39;s David Mouriquand<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews Culture<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">It was almost inevitable that audiences were slowly going over to streaming services. But this happened abruptly, and it was a pretty hard blow to independent and smaller kinds of\u00a0 cinemas than the big blockbusters.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Wim Wenders\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Euronews Culture: I had the pleasure of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//10//20//wim-wenders-on-cinema-the-failed-european-dream-and-his-new-film-perfect-days/">speaking to you last year in Lyon<\/a>, where you won the Prix Lumi\u00e8re. And this year, you\u2019re receiving the European Film Academy\u2019s Lifetime Achievement award. What does this mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wim Wenders:<\/strong> Last year was very special, and this year\u2019s award is special too because it's from my family. I've been involved with the European Film Academy since its beginning, for all its 36 years - and 24 of those years as their president. So I feel it's family. And normally you don't get an award from your family. They just pat you on the shoulder and say, \u2018Well done, boy\u2019 and then they go. So it's very special for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As president of the European Film Academy from\u00a01996 to 2020, you've been ideally placed to contribute to and witness the evolution of European cinema over the years.\u00a0 What do you make of its progress and is it evolving in the right way?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We were evolving nicely and then the pandemic happened, and that threw a bone into the system. It diverted a whole lot of people away from theaters and from movies to streaming, and they grew much more and faster than they ever expected. It was almost inevitable that audiences were slowly going over to streaming services... But this happened abruptly, and it was a pretty hard blow to independent and smaller kinds of\u00a0 cinemas than the big blockbusters. They survived a little better.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//61//28//808x454_cmsv2_9f5a9aa4-79c9-5074-91e0-478bab4a0fce-8916128.jpg/" alt=\"Wim Wenders\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/384x216_cmsv2_9f5a9aa4-79c9-5074-91e0-478bab4a0fce-8916128.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/640x360_cmsv2_9f5a9aa4-79c9-5074-91e0-478bab4a0fce-8916128.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/750x422_cmsv2_9f5a9aa4-79c9-5074-91e0-478bab4a0fce-8916128.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/828x466_cmsv2_9f5a9aa4-79c9-5074-91e0-478bab4a0fce-8916128.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1080x608_cmsv2_9f5a9aa4-79c9-5074-91e0-478bab4a0fce-8916128.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1200x675_cmsv2_9f5a9aa4-79c9-5074-91e0-478bab4a0fce-8916128.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1920x1080_cmsv2_9f5a9aa4-79c9-5074-91e0-478bab4a0fce-8916128.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Wim Wenders<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews Culture<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">A\u00a0few times I saw it happen that\u00a0in hard times people and governments invested in culture, and that always paid off. It always helped them get through the crisis - whatever it was. But cutting culture means not to prepare people for whatever crisis there is, but making them go into it grumpily. <\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Wim Wenders\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>There are also other threats to independent cinema aside from streaming, including the recent threat by the German government to remove cultural funding from certain\u00a0institutions. Are we losing sight of the value of culture, including cinema, in society?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I mean, it's always the same. People, governments, countries have to cut budgets and they always do the obvious and the worst at the same time. They start cutting cultural funding and that, in the long run, is the hardest price they're paying. Because I think that in the long run, they would profit from culture remaining vivid and alive. <\/p>\n<p>Cutting culture first is cutting the whole impetus and the whole joy out of whatever is going to happen afterwards. A\u00a0few times I saw it happen that\u00a0in hard times people and governments invested in culture, and that always paid off. It always helped them get through the crisis - whatever it was. But cutting culture means not to prepare people for whatever crisis there is, but making them go into it grumpily. I think it's the wrong decision. I think they should rather invest in culture more than doing the opposite right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//61//28//808x454_cmsv2_3715e8e6-8e39-5e93-b040-17e1a96f711d-8916128.jpg/" alt=\"Wim Wenders with Euronews Culture&#39;s David Mouriquand\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/384x216_cmsv2_3715e8e6-8e39-5e93-b040-17e1a96f711d-8916128.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/640x360_cmsv2_3715e8e6-8e39-5e93-b040-17e1a96f711d-8916128.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/750x422_cmsv2_3715e8e6-8e39-5e93-b040-17e1a96f711d-8916128.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/828x466_cmsv2_3715e8e6-8e39-5e93-b040-17e1a96f711d-8916128.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1080x608_cmsv2_3715e8e6-8e39-5e93-b040-17e1a96f711d-8916128.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1200x675_cmsv2_3715e8e6-8e39-5e93-b040-17e1a96f711d-8916128.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1920x1080_cmsv2_3715e8e6-8e39-5e93-b040-17e1a96f711d-8916128.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Wim Wenders with Euronews Culture&#39;s David Mouriquand<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews Culture<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">I know lots of people who now leave the house in the morning and look up at the sky first with a smile - and they say it has a tremendous effect. (...) It&#39;s for free! And not many people see it, but learning to see it makes your life much richer. <br><\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Wim Wenders\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>To talk about something a little bit more joyous, one of the things that has moved me enormously throughout your career is your use of music in film. Last year at the Lumi\u00e8re Festival, there was a stunning vinyl that was released, which compiled many of the songs that have featured in your films \u2013 everyone from Nick Cave to Eels and Radiohead. It\u2019s an impressive selection of artists over the years...<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I try as much as I can to listen to a lot of music made right now, and there are some great people. A lot of women are making amazing music. I think women right now have the edge. But I do listen to some of my old heroes, and some of them have really pulled me through every one of my own crises. I think I want to mention Lou Reed right here, because he's been gone for a number of years and I miss him very much. But his music is still very much alive and still with an acute sense of the now and here, even if he's gone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You mentioning Lou Reed reminds me of <em>Perfect Days<\/em> with the use of his songs, but also\u00a0that incredibly moving ending with your use of\u00a0Nina Simone\u2019s \u2018Feeling Good\u2019. Not a single word is spoken, but everything is said in that last scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, because Nina says the words and what the song is all about. I made sure that my actor, K\u014dji Yakusho, knew every word of this song... And you see it on his face that he understands what she's singing about. What she's singing about is the real credo of his life. The moment counts and the little things matter, and it\u2019s the awareness of being alive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The film is about appreciating those seemingly samll things in life, as well as the Japanese concept of <em>komorebi<\/em> \u2013 which if I\u2019m not mistaken translates as\u00a0'sunlight leaking through the trees'.\u00a0 It\u2019s a concept that\u00a0the world needs a lot more of right now...<\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It's true, those people who took to the film realized that the small things are what make\u00a0this man very happy. They tried it out and it resulted in much more happiness in their own lives. I know lots of people who now leave the house in the morning and look up at the sky first with a smile - and they say it has a tremendous effect. And seeing komorebi at play, this beautiful little spectacle that you see on a wall or on the floor - the sun and the leaves and the wind produce it. It's for free! (Laughs) And not many people see it, but learning to see it makes your life much richer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//61//28//808x454_cmsv2_017dee5d-cd13-57f8-9476-c85a8b740bb4-8916128.jpg/" alt=\"Wim Wenders\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/384x216_cmsv2_017dee5d-cd13-57f8-9476-c85a8b740bb4-8916128.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/640x360_cmsv2_017dee5d-cd13-57f8-9476-c85a8b740bb4-8916128.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/750x422_cmsv2_017dee5d-cd13-57f8-9476-c85a8b740bb4-8916128.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/828x466_cmsv2_017dee5d-cd13-57f8-9476-c85a8b740bb4-8916128.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1080x608_cmsv2_017dee5d-cd13-57f8-9476-c85a8b740bb4-8916128.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1200x675_cmsv2_017dee5d-cd13-57f8-9476-c85a8b740bb4-8916128.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/61\/28\/1920x1080_cmsv2_017dee5d-cd13-57f8-9476-c85a8b740bb4-8916128.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Wim Wenders<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews Culture<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">One of the greatest pleasures of my life was to see Vertigo for the first time, and that has remained a \u2018hero film\u2019 for me. <\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Wim Wenders\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaking of making life richer, do you recall the film that sparked your joy for cinema?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What would that have been? One of them was <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>. Let me think... One of the greatest pleasures of my life was to see <em>Vertigo<\/em> for the first time, and that has remained a \u2018hero film\u2019 for me. But then I should mention the films of my master, Yasujiro Ozu. I got to see him pretty late in life because he wasn't available, neither in America nor in Europe, because the Japanese didn't export his films because they thought it was \"too Japanese\". But once I saw them, I was blown away. That was like\u00a0the lost paradise of filmmaking - I love each and every one of his films. It's like one big\u00a0 work, all of his 50 films.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Throughout your career, you've crossed borders with your films - whether it's Cuba with <em>Buena Vista Social Club<\/em>, the US with <em>Paris, Texas<\/em>\u00a0or Japan with <em>Perfect Days<\/em>, to mention a small handful. Are there any places that you want to go\u00a0to and film, locations you have yet to travel to?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes. My whole life I\u2019ve wanted to go to India, and next year I'm finally going to do it for a whole month. That's one of the places I've always saved, and now I can go there\u00a0for four weeks next year! But I'm also a little hesitant because again, I'm going to be homesick, and I'm already homesick for too many places! 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Secretary-General Mark Rutte has said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should stop his \"unfair\" criticism of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz over Berlin's refusal to supply long-range Taurus cruise missiles to Kyiv.\n\nGermany has been one of Ukraine's biggest allies since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022 \u2014 it is second only to the US in terms of financial and military support given to Kyiv \u2014 but its reluctance to provide Taurus missiles has been a bone of contention for Zelenskyy.\n\n\"I have often told Zelenskyy that he should stop criticising Olaf Scholz because I think it is unfair,\" Rutte told the German news agency dpa in an interview published on Monday.\n\nWhile France, the UK and the US have in recent months sent Kyiv longer-range weapons capable of striking deep inside Russian territory, Scholz has turned down Zelenskyy's requests for the Taurus cruise missile for fear of \"a great risk of escalation\" with Russia.\n\nRutte said that unlike Scholz, he 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\u2014 but its reluctance to provide Taurus missiles has been a bone of contention for Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>\"I have often told Zelenskyy that he should stop criticising Olaf Scholz because I think it is unfair,\" Rutte told the German news agency dpa in an interview published on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>While France, the UK and the US have in recent months sent Kyiv longer-range weapons capable of striking deep inside Russian territory, Scholz has turned down Zelenskyy's requests for the Taurus cruise missile for fear of \"a great risk of escalation\" with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Rutte said that unlike Scholz, he would supply Ukraine with the missiles and not impose any limits on their use. <\/p>\n<p>\"In general, we know that such capabilities are very important for Ukraine,\" Rutte said in the interview, adding that it was not up to him to decide what exactly allies should deliver.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy publicly <a 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Kyiv if elected.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview with the DPA, Rutte also said he was set for fresh pressure from US President-elect Donald Trump about the levels of defence spending by allies in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\"He'll want us to do more,\" Rutte said.<\/p>\n<p>NATO has said that European members are on track this year to collectively spend 2% of their GDP on defence for the first time, although not all those nations have met the target, and Trump reportedly wants to raise that figure to 5% once he takes office next month.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734961842,"updatedAt":1734968051,"publishedAt":1734965522,"firstPublishedAt":1734965522,"lastPublishedAt":1734965522,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/88\/74\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_af21cf0b-6847-54a8-bb5f-c77d751cf182-8928874.jpg","altText":"FILE: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, left, speaks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels, 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The study chairperson is urging European leaders to start tackling serious issues sooner rather than later.","keySentence":"","url":"europeans-prioritise-work-life-balance-whilst-asia-focuses-on-career-study","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/12\/23\/europeans-prioritise-work-life-balance-whilst-asia-focuses-on-career-study","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"People in the Global South are more satisfied with work-life balance than countries in the EU, according to a recent study.\n\nThe study, carried out by Amrop, a leading global leadership and executive search consultancy, conducted The Meaning of Work study with 8,000 participants across Germany, France, Poland, the UK, the USA, China, India, and Brazil. \n\nThe term Global South, which is used by Amrop in the study, loosely refers to developing economies such as the last three nations surveyed as part of the research.\n\nThe study saw German, French, and Polish participants report satisfaction below 50 per cent, whilst India reported a 73.3 per cent satisfaction and the USA 59.9 per cent, despite lower social and labour regulatory standards.\n\nGlobal Chair of Amrop, Annika Farin, told Euronews Next that what surprised her the most from the study is Europe's \"non-willingness to step up and have the wish to go into a responsible role, be it in business or be it in politics\".\n\nShe said she sees it as a wake-up call for European leaders.\n\n\"We should take that seriously and do something about it jointly,\" Farin added.\n\nWith the development of AI and shifting demographics, such as the Baby Boomer generation retiring and Gen Z entering the workforce, societies are going to have to embrace changes all around.\n\n\"I think we cannot underestimate what's coming. If we look at the demographics, we see what's coming. We'll have to have more people that we bring into our countries,\" Farin said, urging more innovation regarding migration. \n\n\"What I liked in the study and was surprised to see, in a positive sense, was that it seems that a country like Germany remains attractive for other geographies and nearby countries,\" she said.\n\nGermany most attractive choice in Europe for working conditions\n\nAccording to the study, the USA (33 per cent) is the top global choice when it comes to attractive working conditions, thanks to its strong job market, high salaries, and diverse industries. Germany follows with 22 per cent, ahead of Canada and the UK, each with 21 per cent of global worker preferences.\n\n\"We should see that as an opportunity. Because that can also go away,\" Farin said.\n\nThe study also shows that countries and age groups are united in their motivation to work for a good salary and in interesting jobs. \n\nPensions are regarded as a hot topic amongst European countries, and have sparked major protests across France and fuelled political debate in Germany.\n\n\"One of the topics we really have to talk about, and I know that's not always popular, is that people might have to work longer in some countries, in certain countries at least, particularly in European markets\".\n\nFarin suggests creating initiatives, such as lower taxation for pensioners that work for longer, and using entrepreneurial role models in the media and society to bridge the gap between older and younger people. \n\nThe study also shows that countries in the Global South show a stronger interest in leadership roles.\n\nSome 76 per cent of Indian respondents and 66 per cent of Brazilians aim for leadership or entrepreneurial roles. Comparatively, only 36 per cent in Germany and 37 per cent in France share this ambition.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>People in the Global South are more satisfied with work-life balance than countries in the EU, according to a recent study.<\/p>\n<p>The study, carried out by Amrop, a leading global leadership and executive search consultancy, conducted The Meaning of Work study with 8,000 participants across Germany, France, Poland, the UK, the USA, China, India, and Brazil. <\/p>\n<p>The term Global South, which is used by Amrop in the study, loosely refers to developing economies such as the last three nations surveyed as part of the research.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8811972\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//12//21//these-are-the-best-companies-to-work-for-in-europe-in-2024-and-what-sets-them-apart-from-t/">These were rated the 10 best companies to work for in Europe in 2024<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The study saw German, French, and Polish participants report satisfaction below 50 per cent, whilst India reported a 73.3 per cent satisfaction and the USA 59.9 per cent, despite lower social and labour regulatory standards.<\/p>\n<p>Global Chair of Amrop, Annika Farin, told Euronews Next that what surprised her the most from the study is Europe's \"non-willingness to step up and have the wish to go into a responsible role, be it in business or be it in politics\".<\/p>\n<p>She said she sees it as a wake-up call for European leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\"We should take that seriously and do something about it jointly,\" Farin added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-top: 75.0000%; padding-bottom: 0; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px 0 rgba(63,69,81,0.16); margin-top: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 8px; will-change: transform;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; border: none; padding: 0;margin: 0;\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.canva.com//design//DAGZ0Visvm4//Ydh2Ikkc54EpYwq4ltplEg//view?embed\%22 allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"fullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>With the development of AI and shifting demographics, such as the Baby Boomer generation retiring and Gen Z entering the workforce, societies are going to have to embrace changes all around.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think we cannot underestimate what's coming. If we look at the demographics, we see what's coming. We'll have to have more people that we bring into our countries,\" Farin said, urging more innovation regarding migration. <\/p>\n<p>\"What I liked in the study and was surprised to see, in a positive sense, was that it seems that a country like Germany remains attractive for other geographies and nearby countries,\" she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8791770\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//12//08//companies-are-firing-gen-z-workers-soon-after-hiring-them-whats-behind-their-job-market-st/">Companies are firing Gen Z employees soon after hiring them. What's behind their job struggles?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Germany most attractive choice in Europe for working conditions<\/h2><p>According to the study, the USA (33 per cent) is the top global choice when it comes to attractive working conditions, thanks to its strong job market, high salaries, and diverse industries. Germany follows with 22 per cent, ahead of Canada and the UK, each with 21 per cent of global worker preferences.<\/p>\n<p>\"We should see that as an opportunity. Because that can also go away,\" Farin said.<\/p>\n<p>The study also shows that countries and age groups are united in their motivation to work for a good salary and in interesting jobs. <\/p>\n<p>Pensions are regarded as a hot topic amongst European countries, and have sparked <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2019//11//15//yellow-vests-a-year-on-is-the-future-bright-for-france-s-fluorescently-dressed-protesters/">major protests<\/strong><\/a> across France and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//10//23//does-germany-need-to-reform-its-pension-system/">fuelled political debate<\/strong><\/a> in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\"One of the topics we really have to talk about, and I know that's not always popular, is that people might have to work longer in some countries, in certain countries at least, particularly in European markets\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8354802\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//08//17//which-countries-are-home-to-the-most-educated-people-in-europe/">Which countries are home to the most educated people in Europe?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Farin suggests creating initiatives, such as lower taxation for pensioners that work for longer, and using entrepreneurial role models in the media and society to bridge the gap between older and younger people. <\/p>\n<p>The study also shows that countries in the Global South show a stronger interest in leadership roles.<\/p>\n<p>Some 76 per cent of Indian respondents and 66 per cent of Brazilians aim for leadership or entrepreneurial roles. Comparatively, only 36 per cent in Germany and 37 per cent in France share this ambition.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734703528,"updatedAt":1734961042,"publishedAt":1734936731,"firstPublishedAt":1734936731,"lastPublishedAt":1734961042,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/44\/24\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2b4b9a2b-41c0-5041-a7d3-70c6e74c27f1-8924424.jpg","altText":"Commuters on the way to work in Berlin","caption":"Commuters on the way to work in Berlin","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Donogh McCabe","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2904,"urlSafeValue":"stroud","title":"Liv Stroud","twitter":"@livstroud"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":1734,"slug":"berlin","urlSafeValue":"berlin","title":"Berlin","titleRaw":"Berlin"},{"id":125,"slug":"germany","urlSafeValue":"germany","title":"Germany","titleRaw":"Germany"},{"id":105,"slug":"european-union","urlSafeValue":"european-union","title":"European Union","titleRaw":"European Union"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"html","count":1},{"slug":"related","count":3}],"related":[{"id":2707458},{"id":2709062},{"id":2701964}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"dailymotionId":"x9b8ebg"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/NW\/SU\/24\/12\/23\/en\/241223_NWSU_57329634_57344980_182680_070404_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":182680,"filesizeBytes":23229453,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/NW\/SU\/24\/12\/23\/en\/241223_NWSU_57329634_57344980_182680_070404_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":182680,"filesizeBytes":35166733,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"work","urlSafeValue":"work","title":"Work","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/work\/work"},"vertical":"next","verticals":[{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":9,"slug":"next","urlSafeValue":"next","title":"Next"},"themes":[{"id":"work","urlSafeValue":"work","title":"Work","url":"\/next\/work"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":42,"urlSafeValue":"work","title":"Work"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":125,"urlSafeValue":"germany","title":"Germany","url":"\/news\/europe\/germany"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["80023001","84031001","84032001","84041001","84042001","84111001","84112002","84211001","84212001"],"slugs":["aggregated_all_moderate_content","business","business_general","careers","careers_general","law_gov_t_and_politics_commentary","law_government_and_politics","society","society_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/next\/2024\/12\/23\/europeans-prioritise-work-life-balance-whilst-asia-focuses-on-career-study","lastModified":1734961042},{"id":2709358,"cid":8926592,"versionId":3,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241222_E3SU_57340079","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"MAGDEBURG SUSPECT CHARGED","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Saudi doctor charged with murder in Germany's Christmas market attack","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Saudi doctor charged with murder in Germany's Christmas market attack","titleListing2":"Saudi doctor charged with murder in Germany's Christmas market attack","leadin":"A Saudi doctor in Germany, critical of Islam and supporting the far-right AfD, is under investigation. Authorities received tipoffs last year. He remains in custody.","summary":"A Saudi doctor in Germany, critical of Islam and supporting the far-right AfD, is under investigation. Authorities received tipoffs last year. He remains in custody.","keySentence":"","url":"man-charged-with-murder-in-germanys-christmas-market-attack","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/22\/man-charged-with-murder-in-germanys-christmas-market-attack","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A Saudi national was charged with murder and attempted murder on Sunday over the Christmas market attack in Magdeburg, German media have reported.\n\nAuthorities have identified the man as a doctor who arrived in Germany in 2006 and was granted permanent residency. \n\nPolice haven\u2019t publicly named the suspect, per Germany's privacy laws. 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However, he was not known to have committed acts of violence,\u201d said M\u00fcnch.\n\nHe said that the warnings, however, proved to be very unspecific.\n\nThe Federal Office for Migration and Refugees also said Sunday on X that it received a tipoff about the suspect in the late summer of last year.\n\n\u201cThis was taken seriously, like every other (among) numerous tips,\u201d the office said. However, it was also noted that it is not an investigative authority and that it referred the information to the responsible authorities. It gave no other details. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A Saudi national was charged with murder and attempted murder on Sunday over the Christmas market attack in Magdeburg, German media have reported.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have identified the man as a doctor who arrived in Germany in 2006 and was granted permanent residency. <\/p>\n<p>Police haven\u2019t publicly named the suspect, per Germany's privacy laws. However, domestic news outlets have identified him as Taleb A and reported that he was a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>German authorities said they received tipoffs last year about the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say he does not fit the usual profile of perpetrators of extremist attacks. He described himself as an ex-Muslim who was highly critical of Islam and, in many posts on social media, expressed support for the far-right anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.<\/p>\n<p>He remains in custody as authorities investigate him.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Holger M\u00fcnch, said in an interview on the German broadcaster ZDF on Saturday that his office received a tipoff from Saudi Arabia in November 2023, which led authorities to launch \u201cappropriate investigative measures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man also published a huge number of posts on the internet. He also had contact with various authorities, made insults and even threats. However, he was not known to have committed acts of violence,\u201d said M\u00fcnch.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the warnings, however, proved to be very unspecific.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees also said Sunday on X that it received a tipoff about the suspect in the late summer of last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was taken seriously, like every other (among) numerous tips,\u201d the office said. However, it was also noted that it is not an investigative authority and that it referred the information to the responsible authorities. 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market which left five people dead and hundreds injured.\n\nPolice estimate around 1,000 protesters gathered in the city\u2019s central square, calling for stronger controls on migration after German authorities identified the attacker as a doctor from Saudi Arabia.\n\nProtesters carried so-called \u2018homeland\u2019 flags and banners saying \u2018remigration\u2019, while chants such as \"those who do not love Germany should leave Germany\" and \"we do not want asylum seekers' homes,\" could also be heard.\n\nAccording to local media, there were some minor scuffles with police.\n\nThe horror triggered by yet another act of mass violence make it likely that migration will remain a key issue as German heads toward an early election on Feb. 23.\n\nThe far-right Alternative for Germany party had already been polling strongly amid a societal backlash against the large numbers of refugees and migrants who have arrived in Germany over the past decade.\n\nRight-wing figures from across Europe have criticised German authorities for having allowed high levels of migration in the past and for what they see as security failures now.\n\nHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is known for a strong anti-migration position going back years, used the attack in Germany to lash out at the European Union\u2019s migration policies.\n\nAt an annual press conference in Budapest on Saturday, Orban insisted that \u201cthere is no doubt that there is a link between the changed world in Western Europe, the migration that flows there, especially illegal migration and terrorist acts.\u201d\n\nOrban vowed to \u201cfight back\u201d against the EU migration policies \u201cbecause Brussels wants Magdeburg to happen to Hungary, too.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Far-right protesters have held a rally in Magdeburg, following Friday evening\u2019s attack on a Christmas market which left five people dead and hundreds injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police estimate around 1,000 protesters gathered in the city\u2019s central square, calling for stronger controls on migration after German authorities identified the attacker as a doctor from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters carried so-called \u2018homeland\u2019 flags and banners saying \u2018remigration\u2019, while chants such as \"those who do not love Germany should leave Germany\" and \"we do not want asylum seekers' homes,\" could also be heard.<\/p>\n<p>According to local media, there were some minor scuffles with police.<\/p>\n<p>The horror triggered by yet another act of mass violence make it likely that migration will remain a key issue as German heads toward an early election on Feb. 23.<\/p>\n<p>The far-right Alternative for Germany party had already been polling strongly amid a societal backlash against the large numbers of refugees and migrants who have arrived in Germany over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>Right-wing figures from across Europe have criticised German authorities for having allowed high levels of migration in the past and for what they see as security failures now.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is known for a strong anti-migration position going back years, used the attack in Germany to lash out at the European Union\u2019s migration policies.<\/p>\n<p>At an annual press conference in Budapest on Saturday, Orban insisted that \u201cthere is no doubt that there is a link between the changed world in Western Europe, the migration that flows there, especially illegal migration and terrorist acts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orban vowed to \u201cfight back\u201d against the EU migration policies \u201cbecause Brussels wants Magdeburg to happen to Hungary, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734859451,"updatedAt":1734864123,"publishedAt":1734863710,"firstPublishedAt":1734863710,"lastPublishedAt":1734863710,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/63\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_55fff165-082c-5c5b-a561-af71ef970c9a-8926348.jpg","altText":"A man is 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What is actually happening in this country? We put up with it week after week, we put up with attacks, we put up with murders of our own people. This has to be cleared up now, and these phrases from politicians that things can't go on like this, which I've heard again today, are actually upsetting,\" Chrupalla told the press at the site.\n\nExperts are now raising concerns that far-right groups could exploit the tragedy to fuel their anti-immigration rhetoric after police identified the assailant as a doctor from Saudi Arabia.\n\n\"Magdeburg is in eastern Germany where the support for the AfD is quite high. So, in elections usually, they have in the region more than one-third of the votes. So about 30% of the votes in the city, not as much as in the rural areas around,\" says Matthias Quent, Professor of Sociology at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences.\n\n\"The region in general, eastern Germany, is a hotspot of far-right mobilisations. And we are facing election campaigns until the federal elections in February. And so this is not just a critical time because of Christmas and the trust that gets destroyed by such an attack but, also, regarding questions of disinformation and polarisation and the spread of hate that will and could happen over these kinds of attacks now,\" he added.\n\nLeading right-wing figures in Europe have also weighed in, criticising the German authorities for failing to take stronger preventative action.\n\nHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n drew a direct link between immigration and Friday\u2019s deadly attack in Germany, telling a news conference on Saturday, \"These phenomena have only existed in Europe since the start of the migration crisis. So there is no doubt that there is a link between the changed world in Western Europe, the migration that flows there, especially illegal migration and terrorist acts.\" \n\nHowever, Quent explains that this particular case becomes more complex as further details emerge on the background of the attacker.\n\nInvestigators have found that the perpetrator had tried to build connections to far-right organisations in Germany and the UK, including Germany's far-right AfD party as well as Tommy Robinson, the founder of the far-right English Defence League.\n\n\"So it's a very complicated case we are facing here. And it's not an Islamist attack. It's quite sure, a kind of anti-Islam. More like far-right attacks than any other, if you want to search a kind of context on the political radar,\" Quent says.\n\nIdentified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A., a psychiatry and psychotherapy specialist, authorities said he had been living in Germany for two decades. \n\nTaleb\u2019s alleged X account is filled with tweets and retweets focusing on anti-Islam themes and criticism of the religion while sharing congratulatory notes to Muslims who left the faith. \n\nHe also described himself as a former Muslim.\n\nHe was critical of German authorities, saying they had failed to do enough to combat the \u201cIslamism of Europe.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>German far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is calling for a major rally following the attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg which left several people dead and hundreds injured.<\/p>\n<p>At a memorial site for the victims, AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla called on Interior Minister Nancy Faeser to take stronger action to ensure the safety of the German public.<\/p>\n<p>\"I am now demanding answers from the interior minister: What is actually going on here in this country? What is actually happening in this country? We put up with it week after week, we put up with attacks, we put up with murders of our own people. This has to be cleared up now, and these phrases from politicians that things can't go on like this, which I've heard again today, are actually upsetting,\" Chrupalla told the press at the site.<\/p>\n<p>Experts are now raising concerns that far-right groups could exploit the tragedy to fuel their anti-immigration rhetoric after police identified the assailant as a doctor from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>\"Magdeburg is in eastern Germany where the support for the AfD is quite high. So, in elections usually, they have in the region more than one-third of the votes. So about 30% of the votes in the city, not as much as in the rural areas around,\" says Matthias Quent, Professor of Sociology at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\"The region in general, eastern Germany, is a hotspot of far-right mobilisations. And we are facing election campaigns until the federal elections in February. And so this is not just a critical time because of Christmas and the trust that gets destroyed by such an attack but, also, regarding questions of disinformation and polarisation and the spread of hate that will and could happen over these kinds of attacks now,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>Leading right-wing figures in Europe have also weighed in, criticising the German authorities for failing to take stronger preventative action.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n drew a direct link between immigration and Friday\u2019s deadly attack in Germany, telling a news conference on Saturday, \"These phenomena have only existed in Europe since the start of the migration crisis. 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