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simply unacceptable in a time when national budgets are already under pressure. We cannot impose higher costs on our citizens as long as we do not provide solutions to today’s challenges. Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten also rejected the proposal. #EUBudget #IrischerRatsvorsitz #Finanzrahmen (translated)

I thank the Irish presidency for its tireless efforts in these difficult negotiations," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was quoted as saying. "However, we are still far from an agreement. The amount of the new proposal is not a basis for an agreement. The EU budget must be affordable for those who bear the main burden of funding. "I thank the Irish presidency for its tireless efforts in these difficult negotiations," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was quoted as saying. #EUBudget #IrischerRatsvorsitz #Finanzrahmen (translated)

The Irish EU budget proposal for the years 2028 to 2034, amounting to €1.622 trillion, faces broad rejection from net payer states and net recipients, and the negotiations planned in the European Council promise no agreement on the contentious financial issues. #EUBudget #IrischerRatsvorsitz #Finanzrahmen (translated)

Meinel also considers the scenario of the "parent house," which would have to be sold due to an apparently overwhelming tax burden, to be unrealistic: If it continues to be inhabited by children or surviving spouses, no inheritance taxes would apply under current law. #Erbschaftsteuer #Bundesverfassungsgericht #Unternehmenserben (translated)

"We don't want windmills. (...) Show me a country with green energy, and I will show you a bankrupt country. You know, Germany tried it. They were about two days away from extinction." President Donald Trump claimed at a campaign event that the energy transition had brought Germany to the brink of disaster. "I will impose a 250 percent tariff on your damn wine and all the crap you send us. I will impose a 250 percent tariff on your wine, your champagne, and everything you send us, Emmanuel." At the same time, he threatened him, according to his own account in a phone call, with additional tariffs of 250 percent if French pharmaceutical companies did not offer their medications in the United States at lower prices. "I call him Muhammad. Someone said his name is not Muhammad, but Abdul. (...) I am the president. I can call him whatever the hell I want. To me, he is Muhammad. And he is a radical jihadist." Furthermore, Trump made derogatory remarks about the Muslim politician Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the Senate for the Democrats. #Trump #Russland #Energiepolitik (translated)

Dre Greenlaw, linebacker of the San Francisco 49ers, caused another scandal in the NFL when he delivered a headbutt against Ernest Jones IV of the Seattle Seahawks while he was not wearing a helmet, resulting in a bleeding injury and leading to Greenlaw being ejected from the game. #NFL #DreGreenlaw #Skandal (translated)

The author wrote that the National Socialists did not have a concrete plan for Auschwitz in 1933; the Holocaust arose from exclusion, disenfranchisement, and expulsion. From this, he derived the demand to combat right-wing extremist politics before it unfolds its worst consequences. #Holocaust #Rechtsextremismus #GegenNazis #DE (translated)

ULTRAKÆRL wrote that since Ukrainian drones damaged a Russian data center, hardly any Russian bots have been active on Twitter. If the power goes out in Nigeria as well, Alice Weidel might not be able to get any likes at all according to his account. #Ukraine #Russland #Botschaft (translated)

The author from Brandenburg wrote that the evening was the most relaxed since he opened his account on X, formerly Twitter. He received no hate comments from AfD supporters. He also thanked Volodymyr Zelensky and urged him to continue shutting down the Russian data centers. Donald Trump does not like that, he added. #Entspannung #Politik #Zukunft (translated)

Peter Borbe wrote that Söder explicitly opposed collaboration with the AfD during "Miosga." In the other 15 federal states, however, the CDU has no Free Voters with whom they could comfortably form majorities. If they want to avoid the AfD, according to Borbe, only left-wing parties remain there. #Politik #CDU #AfD (translated)

Andrii Melnyk wrote that he could no longer stand that the members of the UN Security Council had not had the courage for five years to rein in Russia and thus compel Moscow to end its brutal war of annihilation against the Ukrainians. He called this a shame that would go down in history. https://t.co/d3TTMCMpXG #UkrainischeKrise #UnitedNations #Russland (translated)

"We will not hinder or stifle the growth of this incredible industry in any way." After the heads of leading AI companies explicitly called for a slower development in AI, Trump rejected that: "We will not hinder or stifle the growth of this incredible industry in any way," he wrote at the time. #BillGates #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Technologie (translated)

Trump had already suggested in mid-September that Ukraine and Russia should not attack each other's energy facilities, claiming that there was a corresponding agreement between the two countries. On Saturday, Trump also called for a change of power in Ukraine. #Ukraine #Selenskyj #Trump (translated)

Tribute2Hemiunu wrote that so-called child marriages are in reality a continued, seemingly legalized form of pedophilia. The affected girls are repeatedly raped by older men. The author described this as particularly abhorrent and asked why it is allowed. #Kinderehen #Pädophilie #Kinderschutz (translated)

The author reported on severe scenes in Gorkha, Nepal. The Budhi-Gandaki River had swelled so strongly that the Soti-Khola bridge near Arughat was washed away today. He wrote that even solid infrastructure cannot withstand such a flood and expressed his sympathy to those affected. #Nepal #Naturkatastrophe #Gorkha #NP (translated)