Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition fell apart. The German media reports that the coalition leaders failed to bridge the differences regarding budgetary, financial and economic policy
"Scholz fired Lindner," reports the German "Spiegel" as breaking news. This means the end of the so-called "traffic light coalition", red, yellow and green, Social Democrats, Liberals and Greens.
The head of the Liberal Party and the Minister of Finance, Christian Lindner, requested the calling of special elections in early 2025, which the other members of the coalition did not agree to, the "Bild" tabloid wrote earlier.
And the deputy editor-in-chief of the conservative "Welt" Robin Alexander wrote on the X network that Scholz fired Lindner.
The leaders of the coalition partners met on Wednesday evening to try to resolve their differences, but they were unable to do so. They failed to bridge disagreements over budgetary, financial and economic policy.
In the past few days, Scholz, Lindner and the Green Economy Minister Robert Habeck have met several times in order to find a compromise to preserve the coalition. To no avail.
Lindner insisted on an "economic turning point", which was unacceptable to the others. When it was clear that an agreement would not be reached, he asked for early elections to be called. He got fired instead.
"Now they are talking about the threat from Russia and the beginning of preparations for war with Russia, which, in my opinion, is a kind of political schizophrenia," said Russian President Vladimir Putin
For the first time in almost two years, the opposition in Venezuela took to the streets across the country to demand elections by July 2027. The government organized its own march in the same square on the same day
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The richest man in the world responded with a threat to the news that Democrats are preparing investigations against him if they win the congressional elections. Musk said that whoever initiates a conflict with him should know that "they will find out who is actually pulling the strings."
A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading Facebook users about their privacy. State Prosecutor Raul Torres said that the verdict is a signal to the entire Silicon Valley.
There is, literally, no difference between the one who claims it is day in the middle of the night, or the one who claims to be a giraffe, from the claims we read on billboards: that Vučić is working to unify Serbs and that Serbia is doing better and better day by day.
The pre-election arrests due to the alleged "overthrow of the state" testify to the regime's panic. The bad news for them is - they can't arrest the whole people who decided to defend themselves from progressive beatings and election theft
The ring that tightens around Ćaciland Student list is getting narrower. Because there are more and more spoiled people who see the false prophet for what he is: a street obscener who is fighting Serbia
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