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G7 countries pledge years of support to Ukraine

G7-Staaten sagen Ukraine jahrelange Unterstützung zu

Scholz has spoken to Putin on the phone again

Scholz hat wieder mit Putin telefoniert

G7 keen to break blockade of Ukrainian grain exports

G7 will Blockade ukrainischer Getreideexporte brechen

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Bundeswehr to remain in West Africa

Bundeswehr soll in Westafrika bleiben

Baerbock in Ukraine: “Don’t let up”

Baerbock in der Ukraine: „Nicht nachlassen“

Baerbock in Kyiv

Baerbock in Kiew

Scholz and Macron urge de-escalation

Scholz und Macron dringen auf Deeskalation

"An 8 May like no other"

„Ein 8. Mai wie kein anderer“

Scholz: Support for Ukraine is “legacy” of 8 May

Scholz: Unterstützung für Ukraine „Vermächtnis“ des 8. Mai

Alliance for Food Security launched

Berlin (dpa) – By forming a Global Alliance for Food Security, the leading Western industrialised nations (G7) hope to counteract a severe supply crisis in the wake of the Ukraine war. Launched in Berlin on Thursday by the G7 development ministers, it aims to provide additional funding and ensure close coordination of food security measures. “Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has dramatically worsened the global food situation. The most severe famine since the Second World War is looming,” said Development Minister Svenja Schulze, who had initiated the project together with World Bank President David Malpass. Russia is blocking shipments of wheat from Ukraine on which many countries in Africa and Asia depend.

Ticker: Solidarity with Ukraine

Königswinter (dpa) - Germany plans to help Ukraine by providing short-term budget support of around one billion euros. This was announced by German Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) on Thursday at the meeting of G7 finance ministers on the Petersberg near Bonn. The money is to help close the war-torn country’s liquidity gap. According to information from the Finance Ministry, Ukraine has requested monthly aid of around 5 billion euros for a period of three months. Ukraine needs the money to pay the salaries of state employees, for example. The billion euros from Germany is intended as a grant, not a loan, Lindner said.

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Scholz defends arms deliveries

Berlin (dpa) - Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) defended the controversial arms deliveries to Ukraine in his government statement to the Bundestag on Thursday. “Helping a country under brutal attack to defend itself is not escalation. It is a contribution to repelling the attack and thus ending the violence as quickly as possible.”

Tracking the spread of coronavirus in Germany

According to figures from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), a further 72.051 people in Germany have contracted the virus SARS-CoV-2 in the past 24 hours. (As per: 18 May).

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Nato membership applications are “historic step”

Berlin (dpa) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed Finland’s and Sweden’s applications for Nato membership as a “historic step for the defence alliance and for Europe”. Scholz said on Tuesday that this was the response of both countries to the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the resulting “dramatic change” in the security situation in Europe.

Federal States of Germany

Since reunification in 1990, the Federal Republic of Germany has had 16 rather than just eleven Länder or federal states, the five new states being Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Districts in the former East Germany (GDR) were merged to recreate the former historic states. There were no Länder in the GDR.

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Millions for nature conservation areas

Berlin (dpa) - The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development will provide another 100 million euros in funding for the world’s most precious nature conservation areas. As the ministry announced in Berlin on Tuesday, this is Germany’s contribution to the preservation of vital ecosystems in developing countries and forms part of Germany’s commitment to the UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming (China) in the autumn.

G7 countries want to supply Ukraine with weapons for years if necessary

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