President meets propagandist – the situation in the morning

Good morning, dear readers,

Vladimir Putin Do not travel to Istanbul and the Ukraine summit also seems to have lost its charm for Donald Trump. A few days ago, the US President had announced a large extent to avoid the exchange of blows between Selenskyj and Putin. Now he sends his Foreign Minister Marco Rubio. The Kreml ruler can also be represented. What does that mean for the negotiations?

Wolodymyr Selenskyj is on the way to Turkey – but his plane goes to Ankara, not to Istanbul. It is uncertain whether he will continue to reject Putin’s cancellation. From the Russian side, Wladimir Medinski travels instead of the president: the 54-year-old was once a Russian Minister of Culture. Today he is known as a formative ideologist of the Putin system, counterfeit history and political propaganda experts. One can assume that the man moves the story about the Ukraine war into another light-or at least tries.

Selenskyj was still confident. The negotiations could only end with a win for Ukraine. What that means is controversial. “Ukraine knows that it has to be handed over to areas,” says “Bild” reporter Paul Ronzheimer in the “5-minute talk”. The country must hope that the front processes will stay the way they are. You will see whether it is enough for more.

Incidentally, Medinski was also involved in the 2022 peace negotiations. The conversations ended with unsuccessful at the time – also in Turkey.

Approval for the Federal Government: The report of the expert council for climate issues today will show whether Germany is on course in climate protection. For this purpose, five independent scientists checked the emission calculations of the Federal Environment Agency and checked whether legal limit values ​​are observed.

Experience has shown that the report is a certificate of poverty for the federal government. In 2024, the experts came to the conclusion that Germany will tear its climate goals for 2030. Until then, the country should reduce its CO2 emissions by 65 percent, compare in 1990. The traffic sector in particular puts a stroking in the thread. If the expert council now comes to a similar result, the Federal Government must follow up.

The misconduct can only be accused of part of the government, namely the SPD. After all, it was her self -proclaimed climate chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has screwed it up in the past three years.

The only question is whether Friedrich Merz will do better. The climate is not particularly high on its political agenda, the Chancellor showed that yesterday with his first government declaration. He did not say a word about ecological crises. Also not about how to continue the energy transition and make the economy more climate -friendly. There was already criticism from the Greens.

In Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Spain, investigations against NATO are currently underway. Some are said to have passed on confidential information to armaments companies. The suspects work at the NSPA. For NATO, the agency handles the purchase of weapon systems and ammunition. The business is about billions of bills.

The Belgian public prosecutor accuses employees of membership in a criminal association, active and passive corruption as well as money laundering. Read the whole story here:

Finally, a little review of last night: The star-Prize awarded. Journalistic contributions are awarded every year at the event. Maybe you have read one or the other research?

I wish you a nice Thursday

Christine Leitner
(News editor)