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At this year’s Munich Security Conference, transatlanticism was finally buried, but it remains unclear whether Europeans realized this.

Tesla CEO Ilon Musk has warned employees of the Tesla Giga Berlin plant of a possible freeze on the company’s expansion if the influence of labor unions grows. The statement was made against the backdrop of elections to the works council and became one of the most resonant corporate signals of the week in Europe.

The German government, in response to a request from Bundestag deputies, succinctly clarified its position on the unification of Moldova and Romania, Logos Press reports.

The European natural gas market has crossed a milestone: on February 18, gas reserves made in the summer of 2025 were fully withdrawn from underground gas storage facilities (UGS), according to Logos Press.

The opposition party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has registered in the Bundestag a Small Request to the federal government regarding the consequences of a possible unification of Moldova with Romania, Logos Press reports.

In the town of Stuhr near Bremen, robbers broke into 14 safes in a Volksbank branch by spraying an unknown liquid. This winter, there have been bank robberies in Bonn, Gelsenkirchen and Halle and in Wilhelmshaven, Logos Press reported citing DW.