The accounts recently deleted from Facebook and Twitter indicate an Iranian network. The masterminds aim with their propaganda not only at the USA, but also at Europe.
By Patrick Gensing, ARD fact finder
Russian ads and fake sites, to support Donald Trump and fuel conflicts – this phenomenon has been known since the 2016 US election. So far, actors from other countries who use similar methods have remained a blind spot.
The armaments electronics group Hensoldt is now on the stock exchange. The future prospects are good, because many countries around the world want to increase armaments spending – the German government has big plans too. Nevertheless, the stock market debut was sobering.
Today’s IPO of the Bavarian defense electronics manufacturer Hensoldt brings in around 460 million euros. The company allocated 38.3 million shares at EUR 12.00 each. The share was thus already at the lower end of the price range, which reached up to EUR 16.00.
The first day of trading was disappointing. After an initial Xetra price of 12 euros, exactly the same as the issue price, it went down to 10.57 euros. The share then recovered somewhat and closed at eleven euros.
At the last minute, the coalition committee agreed on a reform of the electoral law. In addition, the top of the SPD and Union agreed to extend the short-time allowance.
The grand coalition has settled its dispute over electoral reform. The party and parliamentary group leaders agreed in lengthy negotiations on a two-stage model in the evening: A transitional solution is to apply to the federal election in 2021 to "dampen" the increase in the number of MPs, as CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said.
As early as in the coalition agreement, the Union and the SPD agreed on improvements for women on company boards. After a long struggle, there is now a compromise. The Justice Minister speaks of a "great success".
The grand coalition has basically agreed on a binding quota for women on executive boards. According to Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht, after the coalition committee set up an agreement on this issue, a member of the executive boards of listed and jointly determined companies with more than three members must be a woman in future.
A supervisory board quota of at least 30 percent and a minimum participation in executive boards were agreed for companies with a majority stake by the federal government. A minimum participation is also to be introduced for corporations under public law such as health insurance companies and pension and accident insurance institutions, as well as the Federal Employment Agency. "This is a great success for women in Germany and at the same time offers a great opportunity both for society and for the companies themselves," said Lambrecht.
VAT reduction, child bonus, help for municipalities – but no purchase bonus for combustion vehicles: the Union and SPD have agreed on a 130 billion euro package with which the corona crisis is to be overcome.
In the fight against the consequences of the corona pandemic, the federal and state governments are launching an economic stimulus package worth 130 billion euros in 20. As Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) said in Berlin after two days of deliberations with the coalition leaders, the federal government accounts for 120 billion euros.
According to its own statements, RWE is preparing for job cuts after the compromise for the coal phase-out. However, there are still no concrete figures for this "substantial downsizing".
According to RWE, the planned exit from coal will also cost jobs at the energy company. In the WDR interview, RWE board member Frank Wiegand said that the recommendations of the coal commission would have "serious effects" and that there would be a "significant downsizing".
RWE boss Rolf Martin Schmitz had previously spoken of "significant job cuts" in the Rheinische Post. Over the past few years, power plant blocks in the Rhenish mining district have already been taken off the grid to ensure safety: "This makes further shutdowns all the more difficult and will then probably have a major impact on the opencast mining system."
The Coal Commission has presented a comprehensive plan on how the phase-out from coal-based electricity and the switch to renewable energies should be designed. Here is an overview of the most important points.
The commission recommended the end of 2038 as the closing date. In addition, there is an "opening clause" on which the environmental associations rely: if the electricity market, labor market and economic situation allow it, the phase-out date can be brought forward to 2035 in agreement with the operators. This should be checked in 2032. In 2023, 20, the phase-out plan is to be scrutinized with a view to security of supply, electricity prices, jobs and climate targets.
At the end of 2017, coal-fired power plants with a net output of 42.6 gigawatts (GW) were on the market, plus a reserve. Little by little they are going offline anyway. Now it should go faster: By 2030, a maximum of 17 GW should be on the market, and it will end by 2038 at the latest. A total of 12.5 GW should go offline by 2022. Climate protectors attach particular importance to the fact that this includes 3.1 GW of lignite – lignite power plants emit a particularly large amount of greenhouse gases and are not pushed out of the market so quickly by the CO2 prices in the EU. The Commission does not specify which power plants are to be shut down. Politicians should now negotiate this with the operators.
Around six weeks after the brutal murder of the French teacher Samuel Paty, four students were accused of complicity. A schoolgirl is said to be the daughter of the man who hounded Paty on the net.
After the beheading of the teacher Samuel Paty by an alleged Islamist about six weeks ago, preliminary proceedings against four other students have been opened in France. Three of them are accused of complicity in a murder with a terrorist background, according to judicial circles. The fourth person is being investigated for defamatory denunciation. The judiciary is now investigating a total of 14 people – including minors.
According to the AFP news agency, the person who is being investigated for defamation is the daughter of the man who hounded Paty online. The student Patys is accused of "false accusations" after the teacher showed Mohammed cartoons in an hour on freedom of expression, in which she did not take part. Her father, who was in custody, then published several Internet videos in which he accused the educator of "discriminating" against Muslims. In addition, the father is said to have been in contact with the perpetrator before the murder.
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A fresh generation of individuals are choosing to activate with the brands that share their values and beliefs.
Through a lot of the last century, advertising obligated visitors to focus on what brands need to say. A small number of television, radio or newspaper channels left the general public without choice but to take the message that had been communicated. In a nutshell, attention was easy to fully capture, and consumers were powerless to the will of big business.
In the 21st century, we face a completely new reality — because of the web and the near universal usage of social media and digital devices. Nowadays, individuals are confronted with thousands of choices; turning attention into perhaps one of the most valuable commodities. That is why a number of the world’s biggest brands are struggling for connecting with people in a meaningful way, regardless of spending billions on advertising.