Σάββατο 19 Σεπτεμβρίου 2026
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France’s €54 Billion Plan Has Holes
France has promised enough savings to cut its 2027 deficit to 5% of GDP, but much of the €54 billion remains unexplained. The clearest measures squeeze pensioners and public workers through freezes that let inflation reduce real incomes, even as corporate taxes ease and defence spending rises. Budget bills due on 30 September will expose whether the arithmetic holds.
A RUB 10,000 firm takes four giants
Putin has handed control of Nestlé, Auchan, Lemana Pro and FM Logistic’s Russian businesses to a little-known Moscow company led by a former Interior Ministry official. Their European owners retain formal title, but L.E.V. Management now controls votes, managers and budgets—typically the prelude to a deeply discounted sale or years of unrecovered losses.
Volkswagen Keeps €1 From Every €100
Volkswagen’s revised 2026 forecast leaves it with a 1% operating margin after roughly €10 billion in special charges, including a €6 billion Porsche impairment. Its underlying margin remains near 4%, but restructuring costs may outlast the savings needed to fund €135 billion in investment and reach a 9% margin by 2030.
Swedish drone targeting outruns disclosed safeguards
BAE Systems Bofors and Scaleout moved target recognition, prioritisation and approach onto a small drone, allowing it to operate without a continuous communications link. The engineering result could reduce vulnerability to jamming, but its accuracy, abort conditions and operator intervention options remain undisclosed—and the Karlskoga demonstration was neither an independent benchmark nor a military acceptance trial.
Germany’s 17-cent pump promise isn’t law
Drivers could save up to 17 cents per litre from 1 October, but the Bundestag must first approve the temporary tax cut. The €2.5 billion measure runs through December and may not be passed on in full, while the proposed price cap remains only a mandate for talks with the oil industry.