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Christian Sandström wrote that the CEO of Verkors resigned at the same time that the French battery company was seeking an additional 500 million euros in support. He stated that Emmanuel Macron had praised the company as recently as December the year before and that the main owner and main customer, Renault, was starting to get tired. Sandström compared the development with Northvolt and referred to Affärsvärlden for quotes and more information. https://t.co/6Nw2Vx1g0j #Batteritillverkning #Energistöd #Verkor (translated)

Conflicts & Security wrote that Norwegian soldiers noticed during a recent military exercise that Chinese Hertz rental cars, including models from the brand Deepal, were storing records of soldiers and their movements as well as security codes for military gates and doors. https://t.co/qu8oNTd4Bc #Militär #Norwegen #Sicherheit (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized an article in Helsingin Sanomat and said he had made corrections to it. According to him, the nonfiction writer Ari Haasio and Mattila had suggested that Finnish identity was ambiguous, compared the mistrust faced by evacuees from Karelia to current fears directed at Muslims, and stated that everyone was a descendant of immigrants. Mäkäräinen wrote that migration was an old phenomenon, but migrations from different times could not be equated. He noted that the first people arrived in what is now Finland about 11,000 years ago and believed that this did not provide a basis for equating the current migration from Afghanistan or Somalia with the arrivals of earlier traders, craftsmen, or industrial founders. He described Finlayson as an actor that built factories in capital-poor Finland, brought technology, and created jobs. Mäkäräinen compared him to a Mohammed coming from Somalia, who he described as illiterate and dependent on Kela support. He believed these examples illustrated different types of migration and claimed that there were differences in education, employment, cultural distance, and criminality. He also claimed that those coming from Afghanistan were overrepresented in rape statistics. Regarding the evacuees from Karelia, Mäkäräinen wrote that they had come from within Finland, spoke Finnish, and shared key features of Finnish culture. He said they had faced mistrust and derogatory name-calling, but believed they differed from current arrivals from Afghanistan, for example, in terms of adaptation, work ethic, and use of social security. Mäkäräinen also denied the comparison made by Haasio and Mattila between 19th-century antisemitism and the Somali discussions of the 1990s. According to him, the groups were not similar, and Jews had mostly integrated well. He argued that current migrations should be evaluated based on their impacts on employment, crime, and social security. Finally, he wrote that the continuity of society required, in his opinion, the adaptation of newcomers. #maahanmuutto #suomalaisuus #kulttuuri (translated)

The Democratic Party asks the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio to report to Parliament on the permits granted to mafia bosses, even under 41 bis, following an investigation that revealed the possibility of temporary release from prison for inmates convicted of serious mafia-related crimes. #Mafia #Antimafia #Giustizia (translated)

Regina Laska wrote that Donald Trump announced an immediate energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and stated that both sides had agreed. According to her, Volodymyr Zelensky initially had no knowledge of this. Later, he said the report was new to him, but Ukraine was ready to cease attacks on Russian energy facilities, provided that Russia would no longer attack Ukrainian power plants. Laska wrote that there was no initial confirmation from the Kremlin, and Russian attacks continued. According to Ukrainian sources, among others, power plants in Kyiv and Kharkiv were hit. She also referred to Trump's earlier claim from September 14 that both sides had agreed to spare energy facilities; however, a sustainable ceasefire did not emerge from that. The author placed the announcement within a series of Trump's statements: on Friday, he announced a diesel deal with Putin and a US waiver for Russian diesel deliveries; on Saturday, he said Ukraine needed a new president; and on Sunday, he declared a ceasefire, to which this president allegedly agreed. Laska described this as contradictory since Zelensky had simultaneously been portrayed by Trump as a potential negotiating partner, even though he was unaware of the agreement. Furthermore, Laska wrote that seven US senators - four Republicans and three Democrats - legally challenged Trump's diesel deal with Putin. They accused the government of not involving Congress as required and demanded the withdrawal of the deal. While the US Treasury had issued a license, its sufficient legal basis was disputed. In a satirical scene, Laska imagined Trump reacting by putting down his phone, splattering a freshly painted wall while drinking, and possibly firing the painter afterward. #Trump #Ukraine #Russland (translated)

Anaelmarlon Luz reported a tense situation in Kanyaru, about 2 kilometers from Rubaya, in the Masisi territory of North Kivu. Citing information from the ground, he also reported movements of fleeing Rwandans accompanied by their herds and stated that reinforcements from the RDF/M23 coalition had been targeted by the FARDC and Wazalendo fighters. #RDC #Sécurité #Conflit (translated)

The author described the AfD as not a normal party. He accused it of classifying people with disabilities as not normal, downplaying the insignificance of National Socialism, and bowing to Moscow while giving up its own values. https://t.co/BbbhMPKFkz #AfD #Menschenrechte #Demokratie #DE #RU (translated)

Teva recorded that she found it frightening that opponents of the parliamentary inquiry, such as Golob and Bratušek, had won. She claimed that voters in the referendum on investigating corruption supported her legalization with their votes and asked whether civil society anywhere in the world supports corruption. https://t.co/6BoucZihNO #korupcija #referendum #civilnaDružba (translated)

I informed Johan Wadephul about the Russian strike on Kharkiv TEC-5 that occurred a few hours ago. Russia violated the energy truce immediately after its announcement. I once again confirmed Ukraine's readiness for a complete energy truce if Russia stops attacking our energy infrastructure, as Sibiha indicated on platform "X," he informed German Foreign Minister Johan Wadephul about this. #Ukraina #Krievija #enerģētika (translated)

The tournament was very educational for our team as a whole. Since this is only our second tournament with this lineup, we took the opportunity to test different shooting orders and found many good solutions from that. Our gameplay was clearly better than in the previous tournament and the improvement is noticeable. The weakness remains maintaining a consistent level throughout the game: there were a few games we should have won based on the score, but we couldn't maintain a good level until the end. The European Championships are not far away, but we believe that we can refine several elements before that. We will pay special attention to finding self-confidence and consistent shooting accuracy during the next two weeks. #Kurling #Eesti #EM2023 (translated)