German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke in favor of strengthening control over illegal migration and promised possible additional measures, the German edition of Welt reported on Saturday, September 23.
Many people are coming to Europe and Germany and their numbers have “increased dramatically,” Scholz said at a Social Democratic Party rally in Nuremberg, Welt reported.
In connection with the situation at the borders, Scholz called for clarification of possible irregularities in the issuance of visas in neighboring Poland. “I don’t want Poland to just wave us off and then discuss our asylum policy,” the FRG chancellor emphasized.
According to him, whoever comes to Poland should register there and go through the asylum procedure, “not get visas that were somehow handed out for money.” He suggested discussing the issue with the Polish government.
At the same time, Scholz added, depending on the current situation, “additional measures may have to be taken at the borders.”
Financing state budget deficit, bln UAH
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Chinese President Xi Jinping will seriously consider a visit to South Korea, he said before the opening of the Asian Games on Saturday, Yonhap reported, citing a senior official.
“This means that President Xi knows it is his turn to visit South Korea,” the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that Xi’s visit has been “long delayed.”
Xi Jinping last visited South Korea in 2014. President Yun Seok-yol extended an invitation to Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, in November 2022.
It is planned that the visit could take place as part of efforts to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula.
According to Yonhap, citing a South Korean senior official, Xi Jinping also said that China appreciates Seoul’s efforts to resume the long-suspended annual trilateral summit between South Korea, China and Japan and that Beijing welcomes the trilateral summit at an appropriate time.
It is noted that the trilateral summit was last held in 2019.
Structure of approved ukrainian state budget expenditures in 2023
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Industrial production in Ukraine decreased by 2.9% in the first half of 2023, while last year the decline was 31.9%, the State Statistics Service (Ukrstat) reported.
The agency clarified that since March this year, industrial production has been growing: after a 51.2% jump in March, the recovery slowed to 18.2% in April, 17.9% in May, and 13.7% in June.
At the same time, the drop to pre-war January and February 2022 by 40% and 34.4%, respectively, led to a negative result for the first half of the year.
The State Statistics Service clarifies that the data excludes the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as part of the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
In terms of sectors, the statistical agency recorded the largest decline in January-June this year – 11.4% – in the supply of electricity, gas and steam, while in the mining industry it was 9.2%.
Metal ore production dropped the most – by 28.7%, while oil and gas production fell by only 2.7%, and coal production even recorded a slight increase of 0.8%.
Overall, production in the manufacturing industry also increased by 3.1% in the first half of the year.
This figure was driven by the production of motor vehicles (29.9%), machine building (12.9%), food processing (12.1%), furniture production, repair and installation of machinery (11.6%), production of rubber and plastic products (6.5%), and woodworking (4%).
The largest declines in the manufacturing industry were demonstrated by the production of coke and petroleum products (51.4%) and metallurgy (20.9%).
In nominal terms, in January-June 2023, Ukraine sold industrial products (goods and services) worth UAH 1549.66 billion, which is 6.5% more than in January-June 2022 (UAH 1455.125 billion), including UAH 282.363 billion abroad.
According to the report, the turnover of the mining and processing industry increased by 35% in June 2023 compared to June 2022.
In the total sales of industrial products for the six months of 2023, the manufacturing industry accounted for the largest share (56.2%), electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning (31.3%), mining and quarrying (11.4%), and water supply, sewerage and waste (1.1%).
As reported, industrial production in Ukraine fell by 36.9% in 2022, while in 2021, an increase of 1.9% was recorded.
Centravis Production Ukraine, a part of Centravis Ltd. holding company, took part in the construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) by shipping 1,300 meters of seamless stainless steel pipe for the reactor’s retro-reflectors.
According to the company’s press release on Friday, ITER is considered one of the most complex projects mankind is currently working on.
The project itself was started back in the 1980s. It was discussed and prepared for a long time. Finally, the reactor began to be built in 2020 in the south of France. The project involves 35 countries. The facility is planned to be launched in 2025, and it will reach full capacity in 2035.
According to the plan, ITER will produce clean energy through fusion.
Back in the 50s of the last century, scientists suggested that mankind is able to repeat the fusion of hydrogen isotope nuclei, as in the Sun, and get a lot of energy (1 g of thermonuclear fuel can replace 11 tons of coal).
In addition, no debris is left behind after fusion and it has low radioactivity. This type of plant can be four times more efficient than modern nuclear power plants and safer. But to get such energy, special conditions need to be created. In particular, the temperature is 10 times higher than in the core of the Sun.
“Projects like ITER are created for the future of mankind and it is an honor for us to join the cohort of its executors. We are working to ensure that there are more such orders,” said Centravis CEO Yuri Atanasov, who was quoted by the press service.
Earlier “Centravis” took part in the projects on construction of a new nuclear power plant Hinkly Point C in the UK, the largest fresh water storage in the UAE and others.
Centravis was founded in 2000 and is among the top ten largest seamless stainless steel pipe manufacturers in the world. Its main production facilities are located in Nikopol (Dnepropetrovsk region), in 2023 the company opened a branch in Uzhgorod.
The company employs more than 1400 people.
The geography of the company’s supplies exceeds 50 countries of the world. Currently “Centravis” has offices in the USA, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, United Arab Emirates. “Centravis” cooperates with Benteler Automotive, Buhlmann Group, Webco – with different companies on different continents.
Centravis Ltd. holding was established on the basis of CJSC “Nikopol Stainless Pipe Plant”, service and trading companies of LLC “Production and Commercial Enterprise “YUVIS”. Its shareholders are members of the Atanasov family. Centravis Ltd. owns 100% of shares of Centravis Production Ukraine PJSC.
