Tag: Foreign trade
How Erdogan wants to save 20 million tons of Ukrainian grain
Cargo ships on the Bosphorus Will Turkish ships transport Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea towards Africa and Asia? (Photo: IMAGO/ZUMA Wire) Istanbul Most recently, the warnings came from the…
Ukraine under pressure in the east – Russia needs billions of euros
Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine Kyiv Ukrainian troops are coming under increasing pressure in the east of the country. Pro-Russian separatists announced on Friday that they had captured the strategically important…
EU Commission wants to make it easier to confiscate assets
Moscow Exterior of the Central Bank of Russia building. (Photo: dpa) Berlin, Brussels Rebuilding Ukraine will cost enormous sums. If the West has its way, money from Russia should also…
We also need to become less susceptible to blackmail when it comes to food
Wheat harvest in Egypt In 2022, a food crisis is hardly avoidable. (Photo: Bloomberg) Becoming less vulnerable to blackmail is one of the lessons drawn from Russia’s war in Ukraine…
Putin has missed all strategic goals – call for new international cooperation
Olaf Scholz The Federal Chancellor now sees the world before a new phase of globalization. (Photo: AP) davos In Davos, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a clear commitment to free…
Putin has missed all strategic goals – call for new international cooperation
Olaf Scholz The Federal Chancellor now sees the world before a new phase of globalization. (Photo: AP) davos In Davos, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a clear commitment to free…
Berlin’s reactions to the Xinjiang Papers are hypocritical
Xinjiang Police Files Xinjiang has become a police state. (Photo: dpa) The latest revelations about how the Chinese state is treating the Uyghur Muslim minority in western China’s Xinjiang province…
How to rebuild Ukraine
davos Can you negotiate about the reconstruction of a country, even start it, if bombs are still falling every day? Yulia Svyrydenko, Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister of Ukraine,…
China is threatening the federal government indirectly
Foreign Minister Wang Yi A spokesman for the minister was not pleased with Habeck’s statements. (Photo: IMAGO/Xinhua) Beijing On Wednesday, China reacted angrily to the comments made by Federal Economics…
The Japanese remain loyal to the combustion engine
Asia Technonomics In the weekly column we take turns writing about innovation and economic trends in Asia. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy) Tokyo The supporters of electromobility like to rail against the…
“You could have saved us Butscha”
Destroyed bridge in Bucha The infrastructure in Ukraine has been destroyed in large parts of the country. (Photo: IMAGO/NurPhoto) While life slowly returns to the Ukrainian capital, war rages on…
Economic consequences of suppressing the Uyghurs?
Berlin New revelations from a data leak show the extent of the persecution and mass detention in Xinjiang, northwest China. The publications, which China’s leadership dismissed as “slanderous,” upset German-Chinese…
Gerhard Schröder waives nomination for Gazprom’s supervisory board
Gerhard Schröder Even before the war in Ukraine, the former chancellor was criticized for his lobbying posts. (Photo: IMAGO/SNA) Berlin According to his own statements, ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder renounced his…
Russian gas company Gazprom confirms Schröder nomination for supervisory board
Gerhard Schröder The former chancellor has not only been under criticism since the Ukraine war. (Photo: AP) Berlin Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) has sharply criticized his party…
Von der Leyen wants to use the oligarchs’ assets for Ukraine
Ursula von der Leyen in Davos The head of the EU Commission called for all international forces to be pooled in order to put Russia in its place. (Photo: Bloomberg)…
Research shows extent of mistreatment of Uyghurs
Beijing These are oppressive descriptions that an international media consortium published on Tuesday based on a large data leak. Thousands of previously secret documents show the alleged offenses for which…
FDP leader on the suppression of the Uyghurs in China
Christian Lindner Federal Minister of Finance: “There must be no velvet paws due to our economic interests.” (Photo: dpa) Berlin FDP leader Christian Lindner was appalled by the new photos…
Germany is becoming the EU’s problem child
Europe column Every week, Moritz Koch, head of the Handelsblatt office in Brussels, analyzes trends and conflicts, regulatory projects and strategic concepts from the inner workings of the EU. Because…
US wants to defend Taiwan in case of an attack by China
Tokyo It was his sharpest warning to China to date: during a visit to Japan, US President Joe Biden promised Taiwan support in the event of an attack by China.…
Habeck’s plan for revitalizing world trade
Robert Habeck at the World Economic Forum The world needs to turn away from the “unbridled globalization” of the past few years, it must “become better, fairer and more sustainable,”…