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Like every day, the 11 p.m. news takes a tour of the news broadcast by European television channels. It’s Eurozapping on Friday 21 October.
With 1,300 km of border with Russia, Finland is worried. Since the war in Ukraine, the country has abandoned its neutrality to join NATO. From now on, he fears tensions with his big neighbor. The Finnish Parliament gave the green light for the construction of 130 km of fencing on Friday 21 October. The construction of this iron curtain is estimated at several hundred million euros.
In Germany, it is the Chinese influence that worries. The port of Hamburg, one of the largest in Europe, is whetting the appetites of the Chinese giant Cosco, which is about to buy 35% of the shares in this complex. But voices are raised to criticize this operation, which risks undermining the independence of Germany. “We have learned the hard way about the risks of too much dependence on foreign countries, with Russian gas, and we do not want to make such a mistake again”, explains Robert Habeck, German Minister of the Economy. For now, the decision has been postponed.