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German Press: A new ‘Iron Curtain’ is emerging

According to the press, preparations are underway for the sixth package of sanctions against Russia and the imposition of an embargo on Russian oil. The risk of abortion ban in the US in the comments.

“With the draft of the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, which is ready in Brussels, for the first time the EU is attacking the main source of income for Putin. For the Russian state budget, oil exports are more important than gas. The previous packages were of great economic caliber and Russia is already suffering from them, but with this move, Europe is beginning to sever key ties with Russia. isolation of the country and so a new Iron Curtain emerges “writes in a comment on its front page the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

In the case of oil, writes FAZ, there are alternative markets and customers in Asia and other parts of the world. But “above all Western sanctions increase the pressure on Putin. At best it will make him step down, maybe oust him from power, but he can probably put pressure on himself elsewhere. Ukraine’s victory in the war, as “von der Leyen would like to see an ambitious goal, which can not be achieved by sanctions alone.”

Another open letter to Chancellor Soltz

While the war in Ukraine is raging with undiminished intensity and Germany is gradually increasing its indirect – or otherwise direct – involvement, one open letter from people of the arts and letters to Chancellor Soltz follows one another. Following a letter published in Emma magazine at the initiative of journalist, feminist and activist Alice Schwarzer calling on Soltz to reconsider the dangers of German rearmament and in particular a “global arms spiral with catastrophic consequences”, it is now time to newspaper Zeit.

The new letter, which is also co-authored by people of German arts and letters, such as Herta Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, is clearly in favor of Ukraine sending heavy weapons. Among other things, the letter reads: “It is in Germany’s interest to prevent the success of the Russian offensive war. Whoever attacks European peace, violates international law and commits enormous war crimes, must not leave the battlefield victorious.” D) Anyone who wants peace in Ukraine through negotiations that do not submit to Russian demands must strengthen Ukraine’s defense capabilities as much as possible and weaken those of Russia. “In favor of Ukraine. (…) If Putin’s armed revisionism succeeds in Ukraine, the risk of the next war on NATO soil increases.”

Dangerous setback in the US

The apparent intention of the US Supreme Court to overturn decades-old case law on women’s right to abortion is mentioned in a comment on the website tagesschau.de of the first program of German public television. Among other things, he notes:

“Are there other risks of overturning other decisions, for example on same-sex marriage? It does not seem to be the case at the moment. But who can then rely on the Court after that? And what about those judges?” How did the draft decision come about? Only a small circle of people had access to it. and abortion will be at the top of the political agenda and mobilize them.Abortion is an issue that upsets people in the US and for many there is no room for compromise (…) Joe Biden does not have the power to work on it the field conciliatory “.

Dimitra Kyranoudi

SOURCE: Deutsche Welle

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