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Germany’s foreign intelligence service is to be given far more scope for taking decisive action in threatening situations under plans of the office of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, according to media reports on Thursday. The proposals would allow sabotage operations to weaken hostile forces, according to public broadcasters WDR and NDR as well as the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, citing a new draft law on the country’s Federal Intelligence Service BND.

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Voith said it plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs, representing about 10% of its workforce,

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The chemicals company has around 16,600 staff worldwide with around 10,700 in Germany. Most of the job cuts are to fall on its German operations.

Smaller production lines and those with low capacity utilization are to be relocated from the company’s Bavarian headquarters in Stein and from a second site in Geroldsgrün to Brazil and Peru, the company announced.

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The manufacturer’s main plant in Munich is to be worst affected, with 1,300 jobs lost, followed by 600 at the site in Salzgitter and 400 in Nuremberg.

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German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche said on Monday that the government has approved the takeover of specialty plastics manufacturer Covestro by UAE’s state-owned energy company ADNOC.

“In this federal government, we are no longer pursuing climate policy against industry. We are pursuing it with industry,” Merz said at a meeting of his conservative bloc’s youth wing in the south-western German town of Rust on Saturday.

Only 51.5% of long-distance trains were on time last month, Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, and state-owned railway company Deutsche Bahn later confirmed the figures to dpa.