are acting consistently by investing here and building up production sites. dimer wants to profit from russia s dynamic auto market around one point eight million new vehicles were sold here in twenty eighteen and sales are speeding up. opel is also trying to get back on the russian road it left three years ago but now wants to return it s looking to open around twenty dealerships the investment climate has improved despite the fact that the country has been slapped with wide ranging u.s. sanctions. the u.s. sanctions are counterproductive because they create uncertainty in the market and aren t specific enough pretty much any company can be affected by them. and so on the. v.w. is investing in the russian market for the long term with sites like this factory in kaluga engines made here will go into models manufactured mostly in the czech republic and spain things are less positive it forward it s looking to scale back
efforts to join international institutions it took eight years to resolve the route in the end the fix was simple. twenty first century diplomacy at its best to heads of state making history with a selfie alexis tsipras is the first greek prime minister to visit the north macedonia and capitals copia the neighboring countries were at odds for three decades their main bone of contention the name of the country where they re now meeting. is not only an important day for us but for the entire balkan peninsula today we re creating a different kind of dialogue one the true you know it s our country s history is. the meeting between zones i ve been alexis tsipras is so important because it marks the first peaceful resolution of a conflict in the former yugoslavia something that was not accomplished in bosnia and herzegovina or kosovo. the decisive step came in june of twenty eighteen with
a lot of great situation to put the country in mr constraining ourselves in the way we we shouldn t be doing but of the options have now left the table we don t have a government until last week having said a bit of a would do you know deal or not if a deal failed now made it perfectly clear that they don t want to do you know the apartment made it clear that parliament wouldn t approve a no deal brigs it so the choice is now the prime minister s deal or what looks like a long extension and i think it s clear to me that the deal is the better bet of those to you talk about facts but it s been hard to sort of some of the fantasies that you broke city is sold to the public in twenty sixteen before the referendum hasn t really like the promise from david davis himself to have negotiated a free trade area ten times the size of the e.u. by the autumn of twenty eighteen where did fantasies like that come from lighter remember that fantasy but. we voted to leave. the should have been able to
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victims of the conflict in syria the block s foreign policy chief federica mockery any announced the move for to donors conference in brussels today it ll include support for those who have fled to neighboring countries the un is looking for six billion dollars to meet a serious aid needs and to help support countries who host refugees. with the war in syria and as its ninth year unicef says twenty eighteen was the deadliest us so far for children who are scattered many of them far from their homes to refugee camps and on to the streets of lebanon and turkey d.w. has followed the fate of some of them on their testimony at during the course of the war provides some of the most candid commentary on the country s situation. my benefit neither side s going to bring a solution the government s not resigning it s shelling us and the opposition aren t backing down either they re firing back and we re in the middle getting hurt