In June 2025, California will become the symbol of an unprecedented test of power in the United States. ICE raids in Los Angeles and the use of the military against protests show how deeply divided US society is. For Trump, the progressive federal state is an enemy – and his actions a warning signal to all those who oppose the MAGA agenda. In June 2025, a conflict escalates in California that reveals the deep polarization of the US like no other. In Los Angeles, dozens of migrants are arrested in the streets during raids by the immigration authority ICE.
Pension at 63 or even at 70? In the dispute over the future of the statutory pension, financial scientist Bernd Raffelhüschen calls for a radical change of course. He describes the discussed EU proposal to allow the deduction-free pension after 45 years of insurance only for actually worked years as a “lazy compromise”. Instead, it calls for the abolition of early retirement, higher pension cuts and an increase in the retirement age to 70 years by 2030. Raffelhüschen warns of a growing burden on the younger genera...
Winfried Kretschmann did not need the spacious villa, his successor will now move it: Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Cem Özdemir justified the move by the fact that his previous apartment was difficult to guard.
At the Dorotheum in Vienna, Luca Giordano’s “Bethlehemitic Child Murder” is the most expensive lot for an Old Master at the Autumn Auction. It is more peaceful in the 19th century. century too, with a painting by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller at the top.
The Managing Director of the Darts World Association PDC thinks that the young champion from England must respond more calmly to invective cries from the audience.
Most recently, he criticized the agreement of the Berlin left, the Greens and the SPD on anti-Semitism as insufficient: Josef Schuster is seeking a fourth term as President of the Central Council of Jews.
Romania’s parliament has elected the non-party diplomat Luca Niculescu as the new Prime Minister. Previously, there was no effective government for months.
A piece of German space technology is on its way to Mars. The Japanese spacecraft MMX is launched with an H3 rocket and is expected to reach the Mars moon Phobos in 2027. On board: the Franco-German Rover Idefix. It will travel for the first time on a Martian moon, examine its surface and prepare a historical sample return. The return of the samples to Earth is planned for 2031. Source: JAXA via AP, DLR, Storyblocks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the Federal Government’s first investment summit, Chancellor Friedrich Merz is campaigning for Germany as a business location in front of around 200 CEOs and investors. Together with Nvidia, industrial AI is to be brought more strongly into production. Capital market analyst Robert Halver welcomes the move, but warns of a mere “show effect”: Germany must now “give full throttle”. At the same time, the mood on the stock markets remains tense. AI stocks are again coming under pressure, while high investments and doubts about profitability are slowing down the euphoria.
There have always been insults and insults in the Bundestag. But they were not the rule. For several years, the number of personal attacks and misogynist statements has increased significantly – especially from the ranks of the AfD. But behind many verbal escalations lies method – Parliament is increasingly being used as a stage for personal appearance on social media platforms such as
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