Defense minister annegret kramp-karrenbauer has defended the control of a turkish cargo ship by the german armed forces as part of the eu mission against arms smuggling to libya.

"The german soldiers (acted) completely correctly," the CDU leader said on tuesday at a political forum of the korber foundation in berlin. "They have done what is required of them within the framework of the european mandate "irini."Turkish defense minister hulusi akar, on the other hand, reiterated on tuesday that his country considers the action illegal.

The dispute arose over the deployment of the "irini" mission, which is supposed to stop arms shipments to the war-torn country of libya. During the operation of the german frigate "hamburg" on sunday evening, the soldiers boarded a suspicious cargo ship about 200 kilometers north of the libyan city of bengasi to inspect the cargo, according to the mission command. A few hours later, however, turkey, the state whose flag the ship was flying, vetoed the search of the container freighter. The german soldiers then had to abort the mission.

Turkey had protested against the inspection, which ankara said was "carried out without authorization and with the use of force". Several turkish dailies spoke of "piracy" on tuesday. The opposition newspaper "sozcu" even portrayed merkel as a pirate.

An EU spokesman confirmed to the german press agency that on monday evening the head of the EU delegation in ankara was summoned to the auben ministry. He was received by the deputy minister of agriculture together with heads of representations from other EU member states. The latter had then handed over a diplomatic note in which he had complained about the inspection carried out in the framework of the EU operation irini. The EU ambassador then explained the procedure of the operation once again.

In an official press statement, it was stated that there was sufficient reason to believe that the controlled ship could have violated the UN arms embargo against libya. The german soldiers had acted in a highly professional manner and had inspected the ship in accordance with internationally agreed procedures, including NATO procedures. The EU reminded turkey of UN resolution 2292 of 2016, which calls on flag states to cooperate in the inspection of suspicious vessels.

UN spokesman stephane dujarric explained that the united nations did not have their own findings on the incident. Nevertheless, it is of the utmost importance that all member states respect the arms embargo against libya.

The mission to control the arms embargo was launched by the EU because of the civil war that has been raging in libya since the fall of long-time ruler muammar al-gaddafi in 2011. The government forces are supported by turkey, their opponent, general chalifa haftar, by agypt, jordan, the united arab emirates and russia.

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"It is my special pleasure today to honor ruth wintzheimer", said markt einersheim’s mayor herbert volkamer at the year-end dinner for the community’s employees and supporters. "She was the woman of the first hour for the internet appearance of our municipality and i was glad to have her at my side for the municipality homepage", he praised.

After the turn of the millennium, ruth wintzheimer had spent half a year attending a technical academy for media design full time and had set up her own business as a web designer. She also created websites for companies and in the village, as well as for the protestant deanery and the kindergarten. In 2003, she began to work on a volunteer basis to create a community website.

16 years of volunteerism

"I had to follow a lot of people to collect material", recalled the now 67-year-old. "It took me 170 hours of full-time work to set up the site", paid ruth wintzheimer. She assured to have done the work for the community with pleasure and when a company had recently launched a completely new homepage, she saw the right time to end her voluntary work after 16 years. The mayor honored her and thanked her with flowers.

Herbert volkamer buried the many full-time and volunteer employees of the municipality that evening. About 60 people have been supporting the community year-round and doing their part to make the village community work. The largest group is the swimming pool supervision team, indispensable for the mayor are the ladies and gentlemen of the administration community as well as the employees of the building yard.

Thanks for intensive work

Some maintain or dig grass, others film or photograph for the municipality and still others provide container service. People in the elementary school, lunchtime supervision, kindergarten, the bookshop, the youth center and the terraced pool are at the service of the community. Good services do the countrywomen, the hikers and the tourism representative karin gamm. The schenk von speckfeld in person of christian lackner with his ladies-in-waiting magdalena eckstein and johanna eckstein are on the road for the community on certain occasions.

The evening at the winery gamm was, according to the mayor, to thank the many people for their efforts throughout the year. Deputy mayor gerd fuchs also praised the energy of herbert volkamer, who coordinates everything and is a committed leader of the community.

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"We need tax rates comparable to those in other countries," said bavaria’s minister-president on monday evening at the annual reception of the bundesverband mittelstandische wirtschaft in berlin. With regard to tax cuts for companies in other countries, soder said that this was a "millstone around the neck" for german companies. It’s all about competitiveness.

Soder also called for relief on energy prices. Inheritance tax also needs to be fundamentally reformed; up to now, there have been disadvantages for family businesses. Soder said that he wanted companies to remain in the family in the next generation and not to go to foreign investors.

CDU, CSU and SPD leaders to meet on wednesday. At the coalition committee, the SPD wants to talk about a higher minimum wage and billions in investments in transportation networks, schools and hospitals, for example, as SPD leader norbert walter-borjans said on monday.

Before that, however, highly indebted municipalities were to be freed from their old debts so that investment funds could also flow away. Walter-borjans had previously spoken out in favor of reducing the tax burden on small and medium incomes.

The union and business associations have long been calling for a comprehensive reform of corporate taxation with lower tax rates. But this meets with resistance from the SPD.

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