Friedrich Merz took 10 defense and energy executives to Kyiv as Berlin prepared to unveil about 1bn euros in military aid and 350m euros for energy repair. How much of that money turns into orders for German or other European suppliers depends on terms that have not yet been published.
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Friedrich Merz will meet Klaas Knot and Pablo Hernandez de Cos, the two frontrunners to succeed Christine Lagarde, as three ECB posts fall vacant. People familiar said Berlin has dropped Joachim Nagel and is weighing the chief economist and markets seats instead.
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The party's plurality came in a state of barely two million people, too small for any firm to plan against on its own. The federal coalition's response is what firms can actually plan against, and two more state votes are days away.
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A joint declaration signed on 10 September puts about 1 GW of new data centres inside a EUR 40bn Emirati pledge to Germany, with no builder, location or timeline given for any of it. The signed company agreements in the same document total EUR 9.356bn.
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About €20bn and 51 deals were announced at the Paris space summit, on top of an ESA budget member states had already approved. The dates suppliers will be judged against came from Macron's address, not from a contract.
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The one-year exemption dies only for coins bought after the law starts. Berlin's own first-year forecast is 160 million euros. The clear winners are the traders currently paying up to 42 per cent.
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The far right's landslide in Saxony-Anhalt leaves the mainstream parties a majority they can only build with the Left Party, which the CDU also refuses to touch, so the firewall's margin now depends on wasted votes.
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Internal German notes reported by Politico Europe treat France's Arcadia as a fresh dependency, yet accept that Berlin will share data with it so a later German platform can sit alongside. That concession is the real decision.
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Isar's Spectrum gives Europe a launch path that does not run through French Guiana or the United States. At about one tonne of payload and one success in two attempts, it is a supplier to qualify rather than a slot to book.
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Germany now imports more from China than it exports in the very categories it used to own. Its incumbents are answering with cheaper goods made in China, while 71,000 job reductions sit on the books.
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The September roadmap Berlin and Paris ordered in July leans on a 25 to 30% yuan revaluation, which works out to roughly €13bn of deficit closure per percentage point, and which the People's Bank of China alone can grant.
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Defence ministry documents seen by POLITICO put a number and a delivery schedule behind Berlin's deep-strike ambitions. The Bundestag has approved none of it yet.
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The order to "substantially reduce" US-South Korea exercises came with no meeting scheduled and no public reply from Pyongyang. That makes it a planning input, not a headline.
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