[NVF]

Os bitubos não iam ser doados à Ucrânia? Umas shotguns servem ou, se quisermos enveredar por uma vertente mais bélica, então MG3 e M1919. 

[Lusitano89]

"Med5" quer mecanismo de solidariedade

[Lusitano89]

Presidente cipriota critica a brandura da UE em relação à Turquia

[LM]

Quem tiver tempo e paciência aconselho a leitura:

EU Ambassadors Annual Conference 2022: Opening speech by High Representative Josep Borrell

Let me try to summarise what is happening to us. Maybe I am wrong, but I want to discuss with you about it. I think that we Europeans are facing a situation in which we suffer the consequences of a process that has been lasting for years in which we have decoupled the sources of our prosperity from the sources of our security. This is a sentence to provide the headline, and I am taking that from Oliver Schmitt, who has been developing this thesis – I think - quite well. 

Our prosperity has been based on cheap energy coming from Russia. Russian gas – cheap and supposedly affordable, secure, and stable. It has been proved not [to be] the case. And the access to the big China market, for exports and imports, for technological transfers, for investments, for having cheap goods. I think that the Chinese workers with their low salaries have done much better and much more to contain inflation than all the Central Banks together. 

So, our prosperity was based on China and Russia – energy and market. Clearly, today, we have to find new ways for energy from inside the European Union, as much as we can, because we should not change one dependency for another. The best energy is the one that you produce at home. That will produce a strong restructuring of our economy – that is for sure. People are not aware of that but the fact that Russia and China are no longer the ones that [they] were for our economic development will require a strong restructuring of our economy. 

The access to China is becoming more and more difficult. The adjustment will be tough, and this will create political problems. 

On the other hand, we delegated our security to the United States. While the cooperation with the Biden Administration is excellent, and the transatlantic relationship has never been as good as it is today – [including] our cooperation with the United States and my friend Tony [Anthony] Blinken [US Secretary of State]: we are in a fantastic relationship and cooperating a lot; who knows what will happen two years from now, or even in November? What would have happened if, instead of [Joe] Biden, it would have been [Donald] Trump or someone like him in the White House? What would have been the answer of the United States to the war in Ukraine? What would have been our answer in a different situation?

These are some questions that we have to ask ourselves. And the answer for me is clear: we need to shoulder more responsibilities ourselves. We have to take a bigger part of our responsibility in securing security.

You - the United States - take care of our security. You - China and Russia – provided the basis of our prosperity. This is a world that is no longer there.

We did not foresee how effectively Ukraine would resist. First, we did not believe that the war was coming. I have to recognise that here, in Brussels, the Americans were telling us “They will attack, they will attack”, and we were quite reluctant to believe it.  And I remember very well when [US Secretary of State] Tony Blinken phoned me and told me “well, it is going to happen this weekend”. And certainly, two days later, at five o’clock in the morning, they started bombing Kyiv. We did not believe that this was going to happen, and we did not foresee that Ukraine was ready to resist as fiercely and as successfully as they are doing.

Muito interessante e "cru" - raramente assim em discursos publicos. Espero que quem manda por cá o leia e entenda. 

[Lusitano89]

Áustria procura aliados neutros

[Lusitano89]

[Viajante]

Não é por acaso que o mercado de pellets está ao rubro, os alemães esgotam os stocks de Portugal e Espanha e é por esse motivo que os preços disparam!
O governo alemão subsidiou a troca do aquecimento a gás, pelo de pellets (subsídio para a compra de caldeiras de pellets, que aproveita os mesmos radiadores).
É por esse motivo que o preço dos pellets disparou este ano!!!!

https://www.deco.proteste.pt/comunidades/energias-renovaveis/aquecer-o-ar-e-climatizar/conversation/10260/preco-dos-pellets-a-disparar
https://sicnoticias.pt/economia/2022-10-06-Preco-de-pellets-mais-do-que-duplica-95d450cc

[Duarte]

A Finlândia e a Suécia serão com certeza alvo das atenções dos ruços ao quererem aderir à NATO..

Os russos têm os tentáculos em muita coisa e muitos avençados, espiões, apologistas e claques de imbecis voluntários por todo o lado.. até aqui no FD 

https://www.news.com.au/world/finnish-police-raid-billionaires-secret-island-fortress-as-fears-of-moscow-espionage-grows/news-story/36d35bbf96d71c2ebdc56f44a5aa2e6f

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/136558/intelligence/finnish-intelligence-russia-cyberespionage.html

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/chinese-and-russian-spies-showing-interest-in-finland-security-officials-warn-1.949494

https://news.sky.com/story/finland-to-ban-russian-tourists-over-fears-of-endangering-international-relations-12707640

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2022-05-16/ty-article-magazine/.premium/fear-won-in-swedens-battle-between-neutrality-and-the-russian-threat/00000180-e9f4-d189-af82-f9fd10820000

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220305-on-sweden-s-gotland-ukraine-war-revives-fears-of-russia

https://supo.fi/en/frontpage

kirjaamo@supo.fi

kuolema vakoojille

[Lusitano89]

União Europeia pondera pagar a conta de internet da Ucrânia a Elon Musk

[ricardonunes]

União Europeia pondera pagar a conta de internet da Ucrânia a Elon Musk

 

[Lusitano89]

União Europeia impõe sanções ao Irão

[P44]

https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1583778688046628864


BREAKING:

Germany will significantly cut down the expansion of the army due to “high inflation and the expensive dollar”

Several projects will be cancelled or downsized, including:

Puma IFVs
Self-propelled howitzers
Corvettes
Frigates
Eurofighters
potentially F-35s (downsized)

[dc]

It's still 100 bn € of additional investment for Bundeswehr, but inflation and the strong $ have limited the amount of weapons that can be bought with it.

A razão é capaz de ser isto.

Se for, fica é a questão para nós, sobre como ficarão as nossas FA, sabendo que está tudo mais caro, e sem haver aumento significativo do orçamento.

[Subsea7]

https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1583778688046628864


BREAKING:

Germany will significantly cut down the expansion of the army due to “high inflation and the expensive dollar”

Several projects will be cancelled or downsized, including:

Puma IFVs
Self-propelled howitzers
Corvettes
Frigates
Eurofighters
potentially F-35s (downsized)

Por cá pensam assim " se a Alemanha está a cortar, nós nem vamos investir" "!

[P44]

It's still 100 bn € of additional investment for Bundeswehr, but inflation and the strong $ have limited the amount of weapons that can be bought with it.

A razão é capaz de ser isto.

Se for, fica é a questão para nós, sobre como ficarão as nossas FA, sabendo que está tudo mais caro, e sem haver aumento significativo do orçamento.

O costa tem aqui a desculpa perfeita
"É a inflação"