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US Election Trump's Victory
Trump's NATO Demand: Five Percent of GDP on Defense

Donald Trump will demand that NATO countries spend five percent of GDP on defense. His team has said this in talks with European officials, sources tell the Financial Times.

However, one of the sources says that the figure is a negotiating offer, and that Trump is content with 3.5 percent.

Currently, the military alliance has a spending target of two percent of GDP, which 23 of 32 member countries meet.

Trump also assures that he will continue to support Ukraine militarily, according to the sources.

Government crisis in Germany
Elon Musk: “Only AfD can save Germany”

Billionaire Elon Musk, one of Donald Trump’s closest confidants, expresses support for the German far-right party AfD in a post on his platform X.

“Only AfD can save Germany,” he writes in a comment on a critical clip about Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and favorite to be the new chancellor.

Several German members of parliament have reacted angrily to Musk’s post, according to AFP.

– It is threatening, irritating and unacceptable that a key figure in the future US administration is interfering in the German election campaign, says CDU member Dennis Radtke.

Russian invasion The fighting
Kursk governor: Will not pay for reconstruction

The Russian state will not pay for the reconstruction of destroyed homes in the border region of Kursk. This is stated by the acting governor Aleksandr Chinshtein, according to the Moscow Times.

In a meeting with residents, the governor says that there is no budget space to build private housing, given how many schools, hospitals, roads and businesses have been destroyed in the fighting with the Ukrainian army.

Not least, the money is needed for the ongoing war, he continues.

– We have to liberate the territory. And, sorry, but every shell costs money. Everything is taken from the budget.

Russian invasion  The world's response
Zelenskyj on Trump: "Want him on our side"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj is keen to have a good relationship with US President-elect Donald Trump.

– I would very much like to have him on our side, it is important to me, Zelenskyj told reporters after the EU summit in Brussels ended on Thursday, writes TT.

Zelenskyj says that both the US and the EU are needed to stop Russia's aggression against Ukraine. He reiterated his wishes to join NATO.

The summit resulted, among other things, in a call for EU member states to immediately increase military support for Ukraine, writes Kyiv Independent.