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Israel enters the election campaign in a context of multiple wars and with an outgoing Prime Minister and candidate who insists first on security but does not intend to be held accountable. To discuss this topic, our guest: David Khalfa, co-director of the Middle East Observatory at the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and co-founder of the Atlantic Middle East Forum.
In France, discussions on the 2027 budget take place. The government is announcing "54 billion efforts on spending that will bring the public deficit to 5% next year," he added, after Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced this. This deficit target "is ambitious, but of course it is achievable. We will all have to make efforts," said Roland Lescure, Minister of Economy.
Manuela Schwesig has led Germany’s northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 2017. Will the center-left premier be able to stop the far-right AfD from emerging as the strongest force in Sunday’s election?
The announcement of a significant salary increase for Singapore's Prime Minister, Lawrence Wong, sparked a debate on the remuneration of political leaders around the world.
Manuela Schwesig, of the center-left SPD, has governed the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, on the Baltic Sea coast, since 2017. Ahead of this weekend's election, she is campaigning against the nationalist AfD.
