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EQS-News: Salzgitter Aktiengesellschaft: Salzgitter AG with successful first half year 2023

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Friday, August 11, 2023

In particular, the Steel Processing and Steel Production business units, along with the Technology Business Unit, contributed to this result.

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  • In particular, the Steel Processing and Steel Production business units, along with the Technology Business Unit, contributed to this result.
  • This documents the continued very robust balance sheet and strong financial position of Salzgitter AG.
  • As Gunnar Groebler, Salzgitter AG’s Chief Executive Officer, comments:
    “Despite the deterioration in the economic environment, the Salzgitter Group delivered a gratifying half-year result.
  • I am also particularly pleased with the very first evaluation of Salzgitter AG by rating agency EcoVadis that was successfully concluded in June.

Ukraine recap: counter-offensive gathers pace while Wagner Group takes on new role

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Thursday, August 3, 2023

Reports from the front lines of the various conflict zones reveal daily just how difficult Ukraine is finding its summer counter-offensive.

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  • Reports from the front lines of the various conflict zones reveal daily just how difficult Ukraine is finding its summer counter-offensive.
  • “The number of mines on the territory that our troops have retaken is utterly mad,” he told Ukrainian television this week.
  • Read more:
    Ukraine war: after two months of slow progress the long-awaited counteroffensive is picking up speed.

The trouble with the Wagner Group

    • This is a 60-mile stretch of Polish territory on its border with Lithuania, linking Belarus with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
    • Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko mischievously quipped to Vladimir Putin that he might not be able to control the Wagner mercenaries who, he said, were itching to “go west”.
    • Natasha Lindstaedt, professor of international relations at the University of Essex with a special interest in non-state paramilitary groups, says that while Lukashenko was clearly joking, mercenary companies such as the Wagner Group are notoriously difficult to control.
    • Read more:
      Wagner Group boss and Belarus's president are still manoeuvring for power

Scramble for Africa

    • But what Putin may not be able to achieve through diplomacy in terms of influence in Africa, Russia’s Wagner Group proxies appear to be securing by propping up unstable regimes (and destabilising others) across west Africa.
    • Read more:
      Russia-Africa summit: Putin offers unconvincing giveaways in a desperate bid to make up for killing the Ukraine grain deal

Crimean Tatars’ guerrilla war

    • Another important non-state group that is playing an increasingly prominent role in the war – this time on Ukraine’s side – are the Crimean Tatars.
    • It is waging what appears to be a highly effective guerrilla campaign, disrupting logistics, sabotaging key targets and stoking discontent against – and within – the Russian army.
    • Read more:
      Crimean bridge attack is another blow to Putin's strongman image

Russians on the home front

    • Matveeva has spoken with ordinary Russians who either donate funds or run grassroots campaigns to provide everything from stretchers and medical supplies to drones and other weaponry to help fill perceived shortfalls.
    • But there’s a sense that by helping the men at the front, it could reduce the prospect that their own sons might be called up.
    • Read more:
      Ukraine war: how Russians are rallying on the home front to support 'their boys'

Nato matters

EQS-News: Kapsch TrafficCom AG: Settlement between Federal Republic of Germany and autoTicket completed.

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Kapsch TrafficCom AG: Settlement between Federal Republic of Germany and autoTicket completed.

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  • Kapsch TrafficCom AG: Settlement between Federal Republic of Germany and autoTicket completed.
  • Settlement between Federal Republic of Germany and autoTicket completed.
  • The payment of the amount of EUR 243 million to autoTicket GmbH by the Federal Republic of Germany has already been effected.
  • Kapsch TrafficCom is a globally renowned provider of transportation solutions for sustainable mobility with successful projects in more than 50 countries.

What Germany's quest to define dignity – both before and after 1945 – tells us about society

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Friday, July 21, 2023

At its conclusion, in 1945, legal scholars, politicians and the wider public agreed that life without dignity was meaningless.

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  • At its conclusion, in 1945, legal scholars, politicians and the wider public agreed that life without dignity was meaningless.
  • My doctoral research looks at the German quest, both before and after the conflict, to define dignity, in order to enshrine its protection in law.

An inviolable attribute

    • Article 1, which still has its distinctive validity today, reads:
      Human dignity shall be inviolable.
    • The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and of justice in the world.
    • Human dignity shall be inviolable.
    • The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and of justice in the world.

A universal definition

    • His idea was that all human beings have an inner worth and should be valued simply because they are human.
    • So in retrospect, Heuss’s definition of human dignity proved wise.
    • Kant’s framing of dignity may be concise, timeless, and universal, but his judgement of who is worthy of dignity – and who is not – was indeed marred by the ideologies of his own time.
    • The law, however, cannot equivocate on its status: as a legally recognised human characteristic, dignity must remain inviolable.

Soviet aggression prompted the birth of the Nato alliance – here's why that matters now

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

It remains the case, however, that an external threat is often necessary to crystalise a firm understanding of what these interests and values are.

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  • It remains the case, however, that an external threat is often necessary to crystalise a firm understanding of what these interests and values are.
  • In the absence of a threat, nations in alliance may find it all too easy to become complacent and pursue individual rather than collective goals.
  • Russia’s continuing war with Ukraine reminds us why Nato was formed in 1949 – in response to Soviet aggression.

Berlin blockade prompts alliance

    • As with the Berlin blockade and the wider Soviet expansion in the 1940s, today’s alliance must deal with Russia’s aggression on its borders.
    • Finland is already in, having become the alliance’s 31st member earlier this year.
    • UK defence secretary Ben Wallace has argued that Ukraine should be allowed to swiftly join the alliance without hitting some of the usual benchmarks.
    • Nothing decisive can happen within the alliance without the approval of the US.

Breaking Nato

    • Indeed, on the first day of the Vilnius summit Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky criticised the proposed compromise for his country’s path to Nato membership.
    • The compromise ensures that Nato does not split over its differences, something that President Biden warned has been Russia’s key objective.
    • This cannot be achieved without paving the way for new Nato member states, including Ukraine.
    • It is up to Nato members to decide whether they will follow the historical precedent that has served Europe so well.

HMS Bergbau AG: HMS Bergbau AG acquires majority shareholdings in Kazakhstan in state visit of German President Steinmeier to the Republic of Kazakhstan

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

HMS Bergbau AG had previously acquired a majority stake in a Kazakh company in 2022 that holds exploration licenses also on adjacent documented deposits for lithium, cobalt and nickel.

Key Points: 
  • HMS Bergbau AG had previously acquired a majority stake in a Kazakh company in 2022 that holds exploration licenses also on adjacent documented deposits for lithium, cobalt and nickel.
  • The new majority shareholdings significantly strengthen HMS Bergbau AG's position in Kazakhstan.
  • The investment of HMS Bergbau AG builds on a raw materials partnership between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Kazakhstan, which was officially concluded in 2012.
  • We also see the new majority shareholdings in Kazakhstan as another milestone in the transformation process of HMS Bergbau AG, which is transforming into an internationally positioned raw materials trading and marketing group," says Dennes Schwindt, CEO of HMS Bergbau AG.

DocMorris AG: DocMorris demands fully digital non-discriminatory access to e-prescriptions

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

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    “Fully digital, non-discriminatory redemption channels for e-prescriptions are a prerequisite for market access and fair competition for EU-foreign online pharmacies and their patients,” explains Walter Hess, CEO of DocMorris, the importance of the e-prescription for online pharmacies.
  • Until the nationwide mandatory use of the e-prescription from 1 January 2024, DocMorris demands the implementation of a low-threshold user-friendly redemption channel that is also open to online pharmacies.
  • In doing so, DocMorris is pursuing its vision of creating a digital health ecosystem for everyone to manage their health in one click.
  • The shares of DocMorris AG are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (securities number 4261528, ISIN CH0042615283, ticker DOCM).

EQS-News: AustriaEnergy International GmbH: secured 8.00 % Green Bond 2023/2028 tradable on the Open Market of Deutsche Börse from Monday, 3 July 2023 onwards

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Friday, June 30, 2023

This publication is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy securities.

Key Points: 
  • This publication is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy securities.
  • The securities which are the subject of this publication were offered by the issuer exclusively in the Republic of Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by way of a public offer.
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  • The EQS Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases.

EQS-News: AustriaEnergy International GmbH: start of subscription for the new secured 8.00 % Green Bond 2023/2028; webcast for all interested investors today at 10:00

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Thursday, June 15, 2023

This publication is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy securities.

Key Points: 
  • This publication is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy securities.
  • The securities which are the subject of this publication are offered by the issuer exclusively in the Republic of Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by way of a public offer.
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  • The EQS Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases.

EQS-News: secunet Security Networks AG: Annual General Meeting adopts all proposed resolutions with large majorities

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

secunet specialises in fields with particular requirements on security – such as cloud computing, IIoT, eGovernment and eHealth.

Key Points: 
  • secunet specialises in fields with particular requirements on security – such as cloud computing, IIoT, eGovernment and eHealth.
  • With security solutions from secunet, companies can maintain the highest security standards in digitalisation projects and thus expedite their digital transformation.
  • secunet’s customers include federal ministries, more than 20 DAX-listed corporations as well as other national and international organisations.
  • These statements are based on planning, estimates and forecasts that are currently available to the management of secunet Security Networks AG.