Nations that do not share European values of human empathy and solidarity cannot count on receiving money from the bloc, German Minister of Economic Affairs Sigmar Gabriel warned in an interview with the Bild newspaper.
“Europe is a community of values based on human sympathy and solidarity and those that don’t share our values can’t count on our money over time,” Gabriel said.
“If it continues like this, then Europe is in danger, more than it was from the financial crisis or the Greece crisis,” he said.
Renewing a threat issued this week by German Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maiziere, Gabriel said that while Germany was opening gymnasiums, barracks and homes to refugee families, other countries were “laying barbed wire on their borders and closing the gates.”
The comments were a thinly veiled jab at Budapest.
Hungary has built a fence along its border with Serbia and is building one on its border with Croatia to prevent refugees fleeing war in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, to make it into Europe’s frontier-free Schengen zone.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s closing of the border and introducing laws making it easier for his government to crack down on migrants has helped reduce the flow of asylum seekers traveling through Austria and into Germany.
However, images of Hungarian police using tear gas and water cannons on refugees have drawn criticism and underscored divisions over how to respond to the influx of from the war-torn Middle East.
Republican US lawmakers on Friday criticized US President Joe Biden’s administration after sanctioned Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei unveiled a laptop this week powered by an Intel artificial intelligence (AI) chip. The US placed Huawei on a trade restriction list in 2019 for contravening Iran sanctions, part of a broader effort to hobble Beijing’s technological advances. Placement on the list means the company’s suppliers have to seek a special, difficult-to-obtain license before shipping to it. One such license, issued by then-US president Donald Trump’s administration, has allowed Intel to ship central processors to Huawei for use in laptops since 2020. China hardliners
Conjoined twins Lori and George Schappell, who pursued separate careers, interests and relationships during lives that defied medical expectations, died this month in Pennsylvania, funeral home officials said. They were 62. The twins, listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest living conjoined twins, died on April 7 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, obituaries posted by Leibensperger Funeral Homes of Hamburg said. The cause of death was not detailed. “When we were born, the doctors didn’t think we’d make 30, but we proved them wrong,” Lori said in an interview when they turned 50, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The
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