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Alex Vanopslagh wrote that he was happy to see Rasmus, a 20-year-old from Holstebro, who according to Vanopslagh had built a window-cleaning business with 17 employees, four departments, and 4,000 customers. Rasmus worked up to 70 hours a week, but Vanopslagh emphasized that he enjoyed building his own business and setting goals and determining on his own. Vanopslagh described him as hardworking and responsible and wrote that Rasmus was so invested in his employees' well-being that he paid them better than himself. He hoped that more people would start businesses and create jobs, and said that he would continue to work for less bureaucracy and lower corporate taxes in Denmark. #iværksætteri #entreprenør #arbejdspladser (translated)

Petr Lamr claimed that Andrej Babiš stole another 19 billion crowns according to him. He added to this amount seven billion that he said were already known, and hundreds of millions related to the cases Germany and Stork's Nest. He quantified the total amount uncovered so far at 16.25 billion crowns. Meanwhile, he addressed Babiš's supporters with a derogatory label. https://t.co/zRzijHtrDF #Babiš #Korupce #Politika (translated)

Zdeněk Šarapatka thanked his supporters and stated that their support helped him get back on his feet after the results of the Senate elections. According to him, the campaign in Prague 5 and 13 was not a fair competition about topics, but a contest over billboards. He claimed that one of the candidates was running a concurrent campaign for the Senate and the Prague City Hall, transferring funds between them, including money from a company building houses. According to Šarapatka, the state supervision office did not respond to the violations of the rules. The candidate, he claimed, received 14,606 votes out of a total of 45,782. Šarapatka also criticized the ODS, which, according to him, despite an agreement with his TOP 09, fielded its own candidate, thereby reducing the chances of defeating Václav Láska. He stated that their candidate hardly presented political positions during public appearances and instead relied on a romanticized story about the students' relationship with the school principal. He added that the students of the candidate's school, according to Šarapatka, got involved in the campaign, even though the principal was balancing on the edge of the education law. The candidate received 12,162 votes out of 45,782. As an earlier example of the split with ODS, Šarapatka mentioned its member Benda, who, according to him, appointed Matocha and Xaver Veselý to the Czech Television Council. He claimed that part of ODS contributed to his failure in the election despite the party agreements at that time. He also recalled that six years ago, at ODS's request, he supported its candidate in the second round of the Senate elections in Mělník, whom he claimed he had not seen publicly appear in the Senate since then. Šarapatka stated that he would not make the same mistake again. According to him, the result meant that there would be no amendment to the lustration law nor security clearances for government members and their deputies, and that there would be no qualified fight for a free Czech Radio and Czech Television. At the same time, he urged his supporters to keep going. #politika #volby #Senát (translated)

Lex Hoogduin wrote that he believed change was possible, but not in the way that the cabinet and the left envisioned. He advocated for a peaceful classical-liberal revolution with a smaller government, fewer rules, bureaucracy, and civil servants. According to him, the government should free citizens and protect their property, while reducing the tax burden and maintaining a limited safety net for people who faced real setbacks. He also argued for space for a revival of an independent civil society outside of the state, with communities in various fields. #liberalisme #overheid #belasting (translated)

French Milei supporters published a translation of a tweet from Javier Milei, in which the Argentine president accused socialism of claiming causes such as disability, retirees, or public universities to justify, in his opinion, uncontrolled and untransparent spending and bureaucratic structures. Milei claimed that audit requests were often presented as an attack against the concerned individuals, and that opening accounts revealed intermediaries, advocacy organizations, and taxpayer-funded privileges. He argued that this mechanism had been observed in Argentina and other countries, to the detriment of people who truly needed help and Argentine taxpayers. He demanded the publication of all accounts and contracts as well as accountability from each responsible party. #Liberté #Transparence #Responsabilité (translated)

BrennpunktUA wrote that Stegner was dissatisfied that the Chancellor had apparently threatened internally within the Union to throw the SPD out of the federal government and was considering a minority government. At the same time, he urged Friedrich Merz to send the SPD into opposition. #Politik #Deutschland #SPD (translated)

The author stated that he met with Ishkhan Saghatelian, his counterpart from the Dashnak party (Armenian socialist party), as well as Mourad Papazian, a member of the party's global office and co-chair of the CCAF. He wrote that they discussed the fate of Armenian hostages held in Azerbaijani prisons. https://t.co/Rqevz8iNog #Arménie #DroitsdeLhomme #ConflitAzerbaïdjan #AM #AZ (translated)

Treasure Mwanza wrote that he had exchanged at the beginning of the weekend with Reagan Shole, ambassador and president of the Economic Cooperation Office DRC–Gulf, in his office located in Kinshasa, in the Gombe municipality. https://t.co/xLOaDBHbDz #RDC #Coopération #Kinshasa (translated)

"I grew up with a strong sense of injustice all around me," she said in December 2003 in an interview with the Volkskrant in Tanzania, her then-base as president of the Rwandan tribunal. "As a child of 4, I was told that I could not go to the beach to swim. I felt my parents' fear, saw how they were treated by the whites. I noticed that at school we received old books and desks, the cast-offs from the white schools." #NaviPillay #Mensenrechten #Apartheid (translated)

Mariba criticized Dilan Yeşilgöz after she claimed that Russia had been declared an enemy of the Netherlands. According to Mariba, Yeşilgöz stated that the Netherlands was not at war, but that a carefree peace was also not in sight. Mariba wrote that the Russian consulate had asked the Dutch government to confirm or distance itself from the statements. She believed it should be made clear whether this was about official policy, a political warning, or political rhetoric. According to Mariba, designating an enemy was not a strategy and threatening language could escalate tensions. She argued that the consequences of such statements ultimately affected civilians and urged the government to explain what the policy and risks were and how it intended to ensure security. She criticized the VVD and argued that politicians should think first before declaring an entire country an enemy. #Nederland #politiek #veiligheid (translated)

Guillaume Herblot criticized the Minister of Education, Édouard Geffray, for leaving classes without a teacher for weeks while, according to him, 3,000 substitute teachers were available but not assigned to students. He stated that these teachers, already trained and paid, had only been mobilized after protests and blockades. Herblot also criticized the management of assignments and the use of software that Geffray supposedly requested a year earlier. He mentioned that the minister had referred to 114 high schools classified in red and 400 in orange, as well as reinforcements "in the coming hours and days." The author contrasted this announcement with the elimination of positions and the departure of contract workers that he had denounced, and described the officials as amateurs. #Éducation #PénurieDeProfesseurs #GestionDeCrise (translated)

Alexandre Jardin stated that the vote on the repeal of ZFEs in the National Assembly was blocked by procedural maneuvers that he attributed to the obstruction of LFI, ecologists, and Renaissance, with the deliberate cooperation of the government. According to him, the repeal would have been adopted since it was opposed by "8 out of 10 French people." He considered that this episode constituted a serious crisis of the democratic system and accused the French and European "green-authoritarian" bureaucracy of having the final word. Jardin explained that this situation led him to create RefCitoyen and called for the establishment of direct democracy. He added that democrats would take action at the end of the following week. #Démocratie #République #ZFE (translated)