🇳🇱⚡🇪🇺 – The Dutch parliament voted against the country's participation in the rearmament of Europe , — EUobserver
The main reason for the refusal is the high financial risks. The plan envisages €800 billion in investments in the European defense industry, of which €150 billion is provided through joint borrowing. The Netherlands opposes this scheme, fearing that it will have to pay off the debts of weaker economies such as France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
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The main reason for the refusal is the high financial risks. The plan envisages €800 billion in investments in the European defense industry, of which €150 billion is provided through joint borrowing. The Netherlands opposes this scheme, fearing that it will have to pay off the debts of weaker economies such as France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
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⚔️🇨🇵🇬🇧 France and Britain will continue to cooperate to ensure lasting peace in Ukraine, - French Defence Minister Lecornu
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🇩🇪 Rheinmetall Group ends 2024 financial year with record results
Consolidated sales increased by 36% to €9.7 billion. Defense sales increased by 50%.
80% of the profits came from the concern's military products .
As of 31 December 2024, Rheinmetall's order backlog amounted to EUR 55 billion (end of 2023: EUR 38 billion).
Rheinmetall forecasts continued strong growth in sales and earnings in the 2025 financial year. Company President Armin Papperger announced the beginning of a new era of rearmament in Europe 🇪🇺, which opens up growth prospects for Rheinmetall in the coming years that it has never experienced before.
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Consolidated sales increased by 36% to €9.7 billion. Defense sales increased by 50%.
80% of the profits came from the concern's military products .
As of 31 December 2024, Rheinmetall's order backlog amounted to EUR 55 billion (end of 2023: EUR 38 billion).
Rheinmetall forecasts continued strong growth in sales and earnings in the 2025 financial year. Company President Armin Papperger announced the beginning of a new era of rearmament in Europe 🇪🇺, which opens up growth prospects for Rheinmetall in the coming years that it has never experienced before.
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⚔️🇵🇱 The head of the Ministry of Defense, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland Kosiniak-Kamysz said that he will undergo a military training course and called on other politicians to do the same.
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I will set an example so that others can also participate.
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NEW 🇧🇾⚔️🇷🇺 – Belarus is currently manufacturing launchers for the Oreshnik 🚀 SRBM and is expecting missiles from the Russia, Lukashenko said.
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🇺🇸🇪🇺 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has stated that NATO must increase its weapons production, emphasizing that current efforts are insufficient and that the alliance is falling behind Russia and China.
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🇺🇲⚡🇪🇺 – Trump is against the spread of nuclear weapons further into Europe, Vance said, commenting on the Polish president's call to move nuclear weapons from the US or Western Europe to Polish territory
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#BREAKING 🇺🇲⚔️🇺🇦 – US resumes supplies of GLSDB long-range bombs to Ukraine, — Reuters
🗣 These bombs will replace ATACMS and can hit targets up to 161 km away, the agency reports.
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🗣 These bombs will replace ATACMS and can hit targets up to 161 km away, the agency reports.
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🇪🇺⚔️🇺🇦 – The EU's diplomatic service has proposed that EU countries provide military aid to Ukraine in 2025, with a funding range of at least €20b and potentially up to €40b.
The proposal, an updated version of an earlier plan, suggests that each participating EU country should contribute based on its economic weight.
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The proposal, an updated version of an earlier plan, suggests that each participating EU country should contribute based on its economic weight.
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🇩🇪 Christian Democratic Party leader and Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz supports the transfer of long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine in close coordination with European partners.
♦️He stated this while answering questions during the panel discussion “Security Dividend: European Support for Ukraine” at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
✅ The CDU leader noted that there is a majority in the current Bundestag for this now and, possibly, in the future.
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♦️He stated this while answering questions during the panel discussion “Security Dividend: European Support for Ukraine” at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
“We must be ready to hand over, but only if we have an agreement among our European partners (there are already at least two who do this – the UK and France) and we must develop a common position on how we do this and how we will coordinate our efforts.” - Merz said.
✅ The CDU leader noted that there is a majority in the current Bundestag for this now and, possibly, in the future.
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#BREAKING – China successfully launched a Long March-2D rocket carrying a remote sensing satellite into space.
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NEW ⚓🇷🇺⚔️🇵🇰 Arrival of Russian Pacific Fleet ships at Karachi Port in Pakistan
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Germany: The Armed Forces are preparing for the worst — deploying liaison commands in North Rhine-Westphalia for several weeks to rehearse operations in times of crisis with possible deployment options incl. troop deployments through North Rhine-Westphalia to NATO's eastern flank - 🗞️ T-Online
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🇨🇦🇺🇦 Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke by phone with Zelensky.
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"We will ensure that Ukraine has the military support it needs to defend itself, now and in the future," the Canadian leader said.
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🇨🇳⚡🇹🇼 – China Builds Mega-Bridges to Invade Taiwan - Naval News
🗣 They publish photos of huge ship-bridges that were taken on
a beach in the northeast of 🇨🇳.
These bridge ships are designed for amphibious assault operations.
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🗣 They publish photos of huge ship-bridges that were taken on
a beach in the northeast of 🇨🇳.
These bridge ships are designed for amphibious assault operations.
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#BREAKING – The US is considering striking Iranian targets in Yemen and Iranian assets that support the Houthis, such as intelligence gathering vessels – Axios
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🇨🇭⚔️🇪🇺 The new Defense Minister of Switzerland, Martin Pfister, said that cooperation and joint exercises with NATO are absolutely necessary. His department will pursue a path of closer integration with the alliance.
Switzerland also aims to increase defence spending to 1% of GDP by 2030, up from 0.7% in 2024.
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Switzerland also aims to increase defence spending to 1% of GDP by 2030, up from 0.7% in 2024.
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⚔️🇨🇳⚡🇺🇲 – China has called itself a "near-Arctic state", which has provoked a strong reaction from genuinely near-Arctic countries, but has now scaled back its ambitions due to a possible Russia-US cooperation agreement in the region - SCMP
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