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Karen West wrote that she had lost respect for Copenhagen's mayor Sisse Marie We after a concern email, which she, according to West, had sent to TV 2 Kosmopol about today’s march for Denmark. West described the march as peaceful and claimed that the violence came from the far left, not from the participants in the march. She wrote that Danish Jews and their supporters had had to endure demonstrations with what she called more or less anti-Semitic slogans for three years. West called for an apology from the mayor and wrote that she had not participated herself but had followed the event through videos that she believed showed a peaceful march without ideologies. #København #antisemitisme #FredeligDemonstration (translated)

The author wrote that there are still realistic conservative forces in the CDU and CSU, especially in Bavaria. He reported that Jan Pfadenhauer directly criticized Chancellor Merz at the Young Union and accused him of a "predatory campaign against the younger generation." At the same time, the author expressed the assessment that Merz would likely not be impressed by this. #CDU #Politik #JungeUnion (translated)

Anavaloglou Georgios mentioned that Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated in Brussels on 16/10 that the government would not distribute money for political reasons. He contrasted the policies of other countries, saying that Italy planned to tax banks with a target of 5 billion euros in revenue by 2027, the Netherlands aimed to impose an extraordinary contribution of 617 million euros, and Austria would extend an additional contribution of 300 million euros for the same year. He added that Slovakia would maintain an increased tax rate for banks in 2027 as well. Regarding refineries, Anavaloglou said that Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, and Austria had requested a windfall tax from the Commission, while Greece was not among those countries. He cited pre-tax profits of 1.998 billion euros for the two Greek refineries in the first half of 2026, compared to 210 million euros in the corresponding period last year: 891.7 million for Motor Oil and 1.106.4 million for HELLENiQ. He also referenced an interview on ERT on 17/9, where, according to him, Mitsotakis said he preferred money to be returned to citizens through fuel prices rather than collected by the state budget. Anavaloglou noted that the refineries received subsidies of 277 million euros, while the heating allowance increased by only 52 million euros compared to last year. He concluded that this was a political choice and raised the question of whether the Prime Minister sought to be popular with citizens or with those, as he wrote, who profited from the crisis and from whom he sought electoral support. #πολιτική #φορολογία #Ελλάδα (translated)

Christian Sandström wrote that BP's CEO Bernard Looney described a transition from an international oil company to an integrated energy company in 2020. According to Sandström, BP had still not succeeded in making money from biogas, wind power, and solar power, and was facing write-downs of up to 45 billion kronor. He also wrote that 40 billion had disappeared earlier in the year. Sandström referred to his book *Gröna bubblor 4* from Timbro publishing, which according to him described ten stock market failures, and wrote that there was more to examine. https://t.co/N8a1giqelg #energi #hållbarhet #klimat (translated)

It is the sum of false accusations and false testimonies against me. I declare myself innocent. The notebook of lawyer Nizar El Fakih not only records the verbatim statements that Nicolás Maduro made last Thursday when Judge Alvin Hellerstein asked him about the new accusation, conspiracy to commit torture, that the U.S. prosecution has added to his case. #TorturaVenezuela #DerechosHumanos #Maduro (translated)

NIUS reported that Gunnar Schupelius and Hart am Mann, together with Harald Martenstein, discussed in the program "Zwei Helle" whether the CDU parliamentary group is allowed to leave the room collectively during the election of the Prime Minister in Magdeburg. https://t.co/ZVafnMkYKk https://t.co/PEM9KFIFBu #Politik #CDU #Magdeburg (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson criticized the editorial page of Dagens Nyheter, stating that it often exhibited the same contempt for people that it accused its opponents of. She argued that DN portrayed itself as a mediator of decent truth and responded to people who disagreed with condescension. According to Gabrielsson, the newspaper's view of decency lacked class and equality. She also criticized the Center Party (C) for not wanting to discuss substantive issues or collaborate within the majority that had reached an agreement in the parliament. She wrote that C did not want to participate in joint preliminary meetings before the committees and that C had not answered affirmatively to the question of whether the Left Party (V) was included in the same government support. Gabrielsson called it common sense for V to want to know which parties would govern together before a government agreement was negotiated. She questioned how this could be interpreted as S coddling V. Gabrielsson wrote that DN's view of decency did not seem to encompass issues such as unemployment benefits, health insurance, working conditions, and funding for welfare. She also highlighted the working conditions in the gig economy, asking whether it was decent not to prioritize that nursing assistants could live off their pensions. She wondered if it was competent for the government to privatize the employment service, which she believed had opened the door to crime while job seekers were left without help. She asked whether a society could be built together without understanding how people were affected, for example, by the risk of being denied sickness benefits after decades of work. Gabrielsson argued that understanding was not the same as agreeing, and that it was necessary to effect change. She warned that voters might lose faith that their vote made a difference, and wrote that political opponents should try to win support for their direction rather than attempting to impose their will by condescension or circumventing compromises. #politik #samhälle #jämlikhet (translated)

Flux reported that Andreas Klominek was acquitted of assault after three lay judges voted against the line of presiding judge Céline Holmberg. The incident is said to have occurred on May 1, 2026, when Nick Alinia was monitoring the left's celebration in Stockholm. According to Flux, Klominek's son Ossian then knocked Alinia's phone out of his hand. Alinia and his cameraman held Ossian while waiting for the police, and Klominek then kneed Alinia in the head. Flux stated that the district court assessed the strike as proven through, among other things, body camera footage and testimony. The lay judges Anna-Sofia Quensel, Yvonne Bernhardsson, and Jan-Åke Porseryd accepted Clominek's objection regarding so-called putative self-defense, according to Flux. Holmberg had reportedly deemed the situation insufficient to support that objection. Flux wrote that Quensel, who represented the Left Party, had worked as a researcher at Expo from 2011 to 2017. Alinia stated according to Flux that he became aware of her background after the verdict and questioned whether she could assess the case impartially, among other things referring to Expo's critical articles about him and a photo in which Quensel appeared with AFA founder Mathias Wåg. Flux recounted that Alinia had described the verdict as political in an interview with Samnytt. According to the post, Holmberg had not taken a position on whether there was a conflict of interest, while the lay judge Porseryd referred conflict questions to the court's chairman. Flux emphasized that Quensel's previous employment at Expo did not in itself indicate a conflict of interest, but the question was whether the circumstances could undermine confidence in her impartiality. Ossian Klominek was simultaneously convicted of harassment, and his previous probation, according to Flux, would encompass the new crime. Alinia stated, according to the post, that the prosecutor had appealed the acquitting verdict against Andreas Klominek. #Rättvisa #Misshandel #Politik (translated)

The NHL hockey league is facing a problem where elite players, such as goalie Connor Hellebuyck, are putting pressure on clubs due to contracts with no-trade clauses, making negotiations over transfers difficult, and team management has to deal with the tension caused not only on the ice but also in the political environment. #NHL #ConnorHellebuyck #hokej (translated)

Edward Nordén emphasized that Europe's defensive capability depended on the continent's ability to sustain itself. He wrote that preparedness would be tested the day after a crisis began, when 450 million Europeans needed food and agriculture would still need to function. https://t.co/OJv5Yghvph https://t.co/QF65VMaxbd #Europa #säkerhet #jordbruk (translated)

Jan Lindberg wrote that Nyström had never been right on any issue, not even in this evening's Aktuellt, and that her colleague Sokolnicki was the same. He questioned whether anyone read DN and suggested that the readers could only be from Stockholm, who according to him considered themselves smarter than people from the countryside. Lindberg claimed that it was actually the opposite. https://t.co/jE4xxzpRqY #opinions #politics #media (translated)

"They must squeeze them harder," Maduro is said to have stated regarding alleged dissidents who refuse to confess. "I saw [the document] in its entirety, Judge [Alvin] Hellerstein. I totally reject it," Maduro said during a session of the Federal Court in Manhattan this afternoon, as reported by Reuters. #NicolásMaduro #Venezuela #DireitosHumanos (translated)

Martin Ågerup wrote that an analysis commissioned by the City of Copenhagen described how kitchen staff at several nursing homes rejected residents' requests for beef on their birthdays due to the municipality's CO₂ accounts. He used the story of the 95-year-old Niels as an example but emphasized that the person was fictional. According to Ågerup, the municipality's guidelines allowed for a maximum of 80 grams of beef, veal, and lamb per week, including deli meats for lunch. He quoted a resident's statement about a significant longing for decent meat. In April, the Conservative Party, Liberal Alliance, Social Democrats, Venstre, and Danish People’s Party proposed exempting nursing homes from the municipality's food strategy. The Socialist Folk Party, Red–Green Alliance, and the Radical Left rejected the proposal in the Health and Care Committee on August 20, Ågerup wrote. He expected the five parties to be in the minority when the new strategy would be adopted in the City Council at the beginning of 2027. Ågerup argued that politicians should not decide how much meat the elderly should eat, and wrote that nursing home residents should be able to choose their birthday food. He highlighted that, according to him, residents had paid taxes for most of their lives, paid rent for their care homes, and 4,414 kroner per month for food. He concluded with a call for less paternalism and more hamburgers, as well as an invitation to join the Taxpayers Association. https://t.co/5SLqHWljnU #plejehjem #fødselsdag #madpolitik (translated)

Adonis Georgiadis described his activities yesterday, which, as he said, began with an interview on ANT1 and a presentation, along with the World Health Organization, of the final version of the digital platform Health-iQ for health facility data. He then inaugurated the renovated Health Center of Elassona. He mentioned that it was the first Health Center established by Georgios Giannimatas in 1983 and that it had not been renovated since then. He said he decided to name the center after Giannimatas, that there were 75 employees working there, and that it was fully staffed. He added that a natural healing center was also being established. Georgiadis also stated that he inaugurated a digital angiographer at the University General Hospital of Larissa, donated by Hellenic Energy, which, according to him, cost over 1,000,000 euros. He said that the machine would allow thrombolysis to be performed in Larissa, in addition to Athens and Thessaloniki. His day, as he reported, ended in Metsovo, at a dinner hosted by the regional governor of Epirus, Mr. Karachrimanis. He thanked the people for their love and trust and asserted that no incidents occurred at any point. He added that the related video would not be broadcast in the media and that the efforts for the NHS were ongoing. #Υγεία #ΕλληνικήΚοινωνία #ΚοινωνικήΑνάπτυξη (translated)