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12.12.2025 - 08:44 [ Radio Bulgarien ]

Regierung reicht Rücktritt im Parlament ein – wie fallen die Reaktionen aus?

Nach einer Serie massiver Proteste in Bulgarien, ausgelöst durch den vom Kabinett vorgelegten Haushaltsentwurf für 2026, hat Premierminister Rossen Scheljaskow den Rücktritt seiner Regierung im Büro der Volksversammlung eingereicht. Die Abstimmung darüber wird morgen, am 12. Dezember, erwartet.

Wird der Rücktritt angenommen, sieht die Verfassung die Übergabe von Sondierungsmandaten durch den Präsidenten zur Bildung eines neuen Kabinetts innerhalb der 51. Volksversammlung vor.

Scheitern diese Versuche, werden vorgezogene Parlamentswahlen anberaumt und eine Übergangsregierung eingesetzt.

11.12.2025 - 21:43 [ Radio Bulgaria ]

Government resigns without waiting for vote of no confidence

The vote was scheduled for 13.30, but the group of ITN, which is coalition partner in the government, requested a 30-minute break, without explaining why. After that, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov gave a briefing at which he announced the resignation of the government.

After Prime Minister Zhelyazkov‘s briefing in parliament, the vote of no confidence followed. Due to lack of quorum, the vote of no confidence was declared unsuccessful and the session was closed.

11.12.2025 - 21:17 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Nach Massenprotesten: Bulgariens Regierungschef reicht Rücktritt ein

Der Druck von der Straße war offenbar zu groß: Der bulgarische Ministerpräsident Scheljaskow und seine Regierung treten zurück. Seit Tagen gab es Demonstrationen im Land. Dabei kommt Bulgarien politisch seit Jahren nicht zur Ruhe.

11.12.2025 - 21:12 [ Radio Bulgarien ]

Regierung trat zurück, ohne Misstrauensvotum abzuwarten

Auf einem Briefing nach einem Treffen der Koalitionspartner und kurz vor der Abstimmung über den sechsten Misstrauensantrag gegen das Kabinett gab Ministerpräsident Rossen Scheljaskow bekannt, dass die Regierung zurücktritt.

„Wir haben keinen Zweifel, dass die Regierung bei der anstehenden Misstrauensabstimmung Unterstützung erhalten hätte.

11.12.2025 - 21:03 [ Radio Bulgarien ]

Bulgaren demonstrieren massiv gegen das bestehende Regierungsmodell

Die Regierungsparteien GERB, BSP und ITN, unterstützt von DPS–Neuanfang, betonen jedoch, sie würden keine Destabilisierung „nur wenige Meter vor der Ziellinie“ zulassen, nämlich vor der Einführung des Euro.

Bojko Borissow sagte vor Journalisten im Parlament:

„Der Beitritt zur Eurozone ist eine geostrategische Aufgabe. Ich werde nicht zulassen, dass dies wegen innenpolitischen Auseinandersetzungen gefährdet wird.“

11.12.2025 - 20:58 [ EU Today ]

Mass protests in Bulgaria threaten government, euro entry and EU defence plans

(December 8, 2025)

Mass protests over Bulgaria’s 2026 budget have plunged the country into yet another political crisis, with Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov’s minority government facing a no-confidence vote, a mass petition demanding its resignation and the prospect of an eighth early parliamentary election in five years.

The dispute comes just weeks before Bulgaria is due to adopt the euro on 1st January 2026 and risks overshadowing what was intended to be a landmark step in the country’s European integration.

02.12.2025 - 22:25 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Hadash: No Pardon for Genocide War

According to Hadash MK Ayman Odeh: “It is expected of every person to understand that this move by Netanyahu is intended for one purpose: that you talk about it… and not talk about the execution in Jenin by Ben Gvir’s platoons, not about the targeted elimination of the two children on Sunday in Gaza, not about the regime coup, not about the budget that will harm each and every one of you, not about the political violence, not about the ethnic cleansing, not about the unbearable crime and murder in Arab society, and not about the economic and social situation that’s at an unprecedented low…that you talk about the ‘pardon’ that is imagined, but that you do not talk about the abandonment, the destruction, or about the simple fact that Netanyahu is a war criminal, and should stand trial in The Hague”.

01.12.2025 - 08:32 [ Al Jazeera English / Youtube ]

Israelis protest in Tel Aviv after Netanyahu seeks pardon on fraud cases

Protesters have rallied outside the home of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, demanding he reject Prime Minister Netanyahu‘s request for a pardon on corruption charges.
The move has divided his political opponents as well as the Israeli people.

30.11.2025 - 18:42 [ CNN ]

No indictment for Netanyahu

(20. April 1997)

Netanyahu told CNN‘s Walter Rodgers he was „glad that the truth came out,“ and said the entire incident was „blown out of proportion and twisted out of shape.“

„It‘s politics,“ he said in an interview shortly after the attorney general released his report. „Of course there were people out to get us. But this is going nowhere. It‘s done. It‘s finished.“

30.11.2025 - 18:14 [ Middle East Eye ]

Netanyahu formally asks for pardon from Israeli president

„Faced with the security challenges and political opportunities currently facing the State of Israel, I am committed to doing everything in my power to heal the rifts, achieve unity among the people, and restore trust in the state‘s systems, and I expect all heads of state agencies to do the same.“

Netanyahu faces charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust, to which he has entered a plea of „not guilty“

20.11.2025 - 19:29 [ New York Times ]

U.S.-Russian Peace Plan Would Force Ukraine to Cede Land and Cut Army

(November 19, 2025)

A plan to end the war in Ukraine, negotiated between the Trump administration and Russia, would require Kyiv to surrender territory, significantly reduce the size of its army and relinquish some types of weaponry, according to officials familiar with the proposal.

The 28-point proposal, drafted without Ukrainian involvement, reflects the maximalist demands the Kremlin has made throughout the war, which Ukraine has long denounced as amounting to capitulation.

20.11.2025 - 19:23 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Der ukrainische Korruptionsskandal als Inszenierung – Selenskyj soll stürzen

Dass die Korruptionsvorwürfe jetzt erhoben werden, deutet auf ein fein abgestimmtes Timing. Der Druck auf Selenskyj soll erhöht werden.

Inzwischen tauchen Gerüchte auf, dass Selenskyj territorialen Abtretungen an Russland unter der Bedingung zugestimmt haben soll, dass ihm persönliche Immunität und Schutz zugesichert wird. Die Ankündigung der Ermittlungsbehörde NABU, noch weitere spannende Enthüllungen auf Lager zu haben, scheint seine Wirkung auf den inneren Machtzirkel Kiews zu entfalten.

Die Korruptionsgeschichte entpuppt sich immer deutlicher als Inszenierung. Bitte nicht falsch verstehen: Natürlich ist die Ukraine bis in die politischen Eliten hinein hoch korrupt. Daran besteht kein Zweifel. Nur scheint man in den USA die Entscheidung getroffen haben, Kiew genau jetzt über den seit langem ausgelegten Fallstrick stolpern zu lassen.

10.09.2025 - 15:03 [ Jerusalem Post ]

Netanyahu trial: Testimony hearing opens to public after starting behind closed doors

In Case 1000, Netanyahu is on trial for a conflict of interest relating to billionaire Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, who was his close friend and confidant while he served as communications minister from 2013 to 2015.

Allegedly, the prime minister received thousands of dollars worth of champagne and cigars from Milchan and from Australian billionaire James Packer, who was a friend to both.

Netanyahu, allegedly, pushed for legislative and regulatory changes that would have been beneficial to Milchan during that time.

17.05.2025 - 13:55 [ NBC News ]

Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.

The plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libya’s leadership, two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former U.S. official said.

In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago, those three people said.

22.04.2025 - 01:12 [ Times of Israel ]

Netanyahu aide and Qatargate suspect Jonatan Urich has no security clearance – report

Urich, the primary suspect in the affair, allegedly employed Feldstein to help in the work of being in contact with journalists to advance this messaging.

Further filling out the information regarding the case, a police investigator told the court that Urich “and others” relayed information to journalists under the pretense that it came from senior Israeli political or security officials, when in reality Urich and Feldstein were spreading messaging emanating from the Qatari government via Footlik’s lobbying company.

18.04.2025 - 01:40 [ Jerusalem Post ]

Netanyahu aides to be indicted for financial offenses in Qatargate scandal, sources say

Sources told Walla that the investigation will focus on cellphones that the police seized from Urich, which contain deleted text messages that link him to the classified documents affair, with an indictment filed against Feldstein and NCO Ari Rosenfeld for leaking a classified document to Feldstein. From there, it was publicized in the German daily Bild.

04.04.2025 - 18:21 [ Times of Israel ]

Police accuse judge who released Qatargate suspects to house arrest of acting on personal interests

The police say they feel as though the judge is “‘giving his regards’ to the Judicial Selection Committee in order to pave the way for him to be appointed as a district judge.”

They further accuse him of forcing police investigators to discuss “sensitive documents” in hearings and say he writes his case decisions as though he is writing “press releases.”

“He writes classified things and then deletes them from the minutes after the media has already published them,” police charge.

04.04.2025 - 18:14 [ Times of Israel ]

Urich and Feldstein to be released to house arrest after judge rejects request to extend remand; police lodge appeal

Judge Menachem Mizrahi also levels criticism at the police investigators, saying that he suspects they didn’t focus solely on Urich and Feldstein’s alleged ties to Qatar during the last few days of interrogations, but also used the opportunity to probe the two prime ministerial aides about the classified documents leak from the Prime Minister’s Office, in which Feldstein is also a central suspect.

21.03.2025 - 14:30 [ New York Times ]

Israeli Cabinet Approves Ouster of Shin Bet Chief, Who Calls the Move Illegal

The attempt to fire Mr. Bar is likely to be contested in the country’s Supreme Court.

20.03.2025 - 22:31 [ Times of Israel ]

Bar says firing him a ‘fundamentally invalid’ attempt to undermine Shin Bet as it probes Qatar’s influence on PM’s office

Dismissing the Shin Bet head during the investigation, Bar argues, is tainted with “extraneous considerations and a personal and institutional conflict of interest that could not be more serious.” It risks jeopardizing the investigation, he says, which is a danger to the country’s security.

He also pushes for a state commission of inquiry into October 7: “The urgent national need for such an investigation cannot be subordinated to the personal considerations of those involved in the matter, as it is the only way to ensure that such a multi-system failure will not occur again.”

20.03.2025 - 19:42 [ Yair Wallach / Bluesky ]

Context: his closest advisor, the person who knows everything about him, is now suspected of espionage and money laundering.

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11.03.2025 - 08:00 [ Gallup ]

Less Than Half in U.S. Now Sympathetic Toward Israelis

(Mqarch 6, 2025)

For years, a core tenet of Middle East peace proposals has been the so-called “two-state solution,” which would entail the creation of a Palestinian state. Gallup has measured Americans’ views on this since 1999. Since then, more Americans have supported than opposed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and that continues today. Currently, 55% are in favor and 31% opposed, while 14% do not have an opinion.

11.03.2025 - 07:29 [ Yahoo ]

Israeli protesters call Netanyahu ‚corrupt‘ outside his trial

(March 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM UTC)

„His corruption is connected with a straight line with the abandonment of our hostages, our families. And he thinks that this is not important. He wants war. He wants war. He wants war. All of us have kids that fought in the war in Gaza, in Gaza, in Lebanon. We don‘t want any more war. We want him out of government. He‘s corrupt. He‘s a danger for democracy. He‘s a danger to our people.“

28.10.2024 - 02:39 [ Japan Today ]

Japan‘s ruling bloc loses lower house majority

The dismal results underscored deepening distrust in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party due to a slush funds scandal, signaling a seismic shift in the support that enabled it to return to power in 2012 after a spell in opposition.

The coalition would still fall short of a majority in the powerful lower house even if Ishiba accepts back into the LDP former party lawmakers who ran as independents after being denied LDP endorsement over the scandal. The party fell short of 200 seats in the 465-member chamber.

28.10.2024 - 02:31 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Regierungskoalition in Japan verliert laut Hochrechnungen ihre Mehrheit

Die LDP regiert Japan seit Jahrzehnten fast ununterbrochen. Einige Parteimitglieder, die in den Parteispendenskandal verwickelt sind, hatte die LDP nicht als offizielle Kandidaten für die Wahl zugelassen. Mehrere von ihnen verloren Prognosen zufolge ihre Sitze. Diejenigen, denen die Unterstützung der LDP verweigert wurde, hatten enge Beziehungen zum ermordeten Ministerpräsidenten Shinzo Abe, der auch nach seinem Rücktritt als Parteivorsitzender 2020 erheblichen Einfluss auf die LDP ausgeübt hatte.

16.10.2024 - 05:11 [ theCradle.co ]

Israeli opposition leader calls to revive ‚South Lebanon Army‘ to assist with occupation

(October 10, 2024)

Lapid advocated regime change in Lebanon, saying, “the international community will need to appoint a sort of oversight committee for Lebanon to manage its civilian life for a set period until elections can be held and a new government can take control.”

Crucial to this effort would be the establishment of a collaborator Lebanese army loyal to Israel and its Western and Gulf allies.

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Lapid claimed it would be easy to recruit Lebanese by paying soldiers in a new army $500 a month. New recruits would then be trained by French, Emirati, and US military officers.

The South Lebanon Army (SLA) was established by Israel in 1976 after the collapse of the Lebanese government due to civil war.

10.10.2024 - 03:10 [ Reuters ]

U.S. approved secret nuclear power work for Saudi Arabia

(March 27, 2019)

Many U.S. lawmakers are concerned that sharing nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia could eventually lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. (…)

Last month, Democratic House members alleged in a report that top White House aides ignored warnings they could be breaking the law as they worked with former U.S. officials in a group called IP3 International to advance a multibillion-dollar plan to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia.

30.08.2024 - 13:40 [ Politico / Fabio De Masi ]

THE WIRECARD HUNTER RETURNS:

Erschienen im Politico Newsletter:

THE WIRECARD HUNTER RETURNS: Fabio De Masi made his name as one of the key players in Germany’s Bundestag that helped hold Wirecard to account after the high-flying fintech company was revealed to be engaging in fraud on a massive scale. Now De Masi, who already served once as MEP in 2014, is back in Brussels. He’s sitting in the ECON committee and he thinks that there’s plenty more financial malfeasance to dig up.

21.04.2024 - 06:50 [ Flughafen-berlin-kosten.de ]

Flughafen Berlin (BER) Kosten

Wieviel der neue Berliner Flughafen (BER) den Steuerzahler bis zur Eröffnung gekostet hat
7.079.900.000 Euro

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≈ umgerechnet…

8.697.665 Kita-Plätze

09.04.2024 - 11:15 [ Haaretz ]

The Truth About Israel, Iran and 1980s U.S. Arms Deals

(Nov. 26, 2010)

In the aforesaid period Netanyahu served as deputy to Moshe Arens, when he was Israel‘s ambassador to Washington, D.C. (1982-83 ).

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The recently revealed documents deal with an operation dubbed „Tipped Kettle,“ involving weapons the Israel Defense Forces looted from the Palestine Liberation Organization during Operation Peace for Galilee in Lebanon, and their transfer to the Contras – opponents of the socialistic Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.

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Part II was patently illegal – a blatant effort by the White House to violate a Congressional order and to cook up a strange deal involving the sale of American weapons (originally supplied to the IDF ) to anti-American Iran, for use in its war with Iraq; the release of Western hostages being held in Lebanon by Iranian-controlled Hezbollah; and the financing of Contras‘ activities thanks to the difference between the sum paid by the Iranians and the true value of the weapons – minus a profit for those engaged in the deal.

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The CIA had direct intelligence connections with the Mossad, but in the affair of the captured weapons the American agency preferred to hide behind the Pentagon.