Günther Fehlinger
@GunterFehlinger · Evropa
Günther Fehlinger patří mezi osobnosti, které Storyz World sleduje kvůli tématům výzkumu a odborných témat v kapitole Evropa. Země, k níž se sledování vztahuje: Rakousko.
Health policy is not a playground for conspiracy theories. America deserves a Health Secretary who follows evidence, protects public-health institutions and tells citizens the truth. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly promoted false or misleading claims about vaccines, autism, COVID and mRNA technology while using the power of HHS to reshape institutions built over decades. His record is not merely rhetoric. Around $500 million in mRNA research and preparedness was cut. Roughly 10,000 HHS job cuts were planned. Hundreds of CDC and NIH employees later had to be rehired because essential work could not be performed properly. Long-standing vaccine advisory structures were dismantled, childhood vaccination recommendations were weakened or challenged, and thousands of experienced FDA employees left amid the turmoil. At the same time, the United States is suffering its worst measles resurgence in more than three decades, with 3,134 confirmed cases reported by early September 2026. Kennedy did not personally cause every infection, but undermining public confidence in vaccination during such an outbreak is the opposite of responsible leadership. Science is not ideology. Vaccines are not a culture-war toy. Public-health agencies must not become laboratories for personal theories. When misinformation becomes government policy, ordinary people pay the price. I call for a return to evidence-based American health policy: restore scientific independence, rebuild CDC and FDA capacity, protect vaccine research, defend childhood immunisation and make facts—not ideology—the basis of public-health decisions. False claims. Weakened institutions. Preventable risk. Sources: Reuters, CDC. Günther Fehlinger-Jahn | Economist & Author | Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M #Kennedy #RFKJr #PublicHealth #Science #Vaccines #CDC #FDA #HHS #Measles #mRNA #FactsMatter #HealthPolicy #USA
OPERATION SOVIET LAZARUS — PUTIN’S REVENGE FOR 1991 🇷🇺⚠️🇺🇸 My thesis: Putin’s rise was not simply the story of one politician taking power. It was the resurrection of Russian imperial ambition after the collapse of the Soviet Union. 1996: Yeltsin survives. 1998: the ruble collapses. 1999: Kosovo humiliates Moscow, Chechnya militarises Russian politics, and Putin rises. 2000: the security state consolidates power. Then comes 9/11. I do NOT claim as established fact that Putin organised 9/11. There is no credible public evidence proving that. But I ask a serious question: what exactly did Russian intelligence know about al-Qaeda before 11 September 2001, and did Moscow tell Washington everything it knew? Ayman al-Zawahiri had previously spent months in Russian custody. Putin understood immediately that the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud on 9 September 2001 signalled something bigger. Two days later America was attacked. The question is therefore legitimate: DID THE KREMLIN KNOW MORE THAN IT TOLD AMERICA? What is beyond dispute is what followed. America turned toward Afghanistan. Then Iraq. Trillions were spent, military attention shifted, Western unity was damaged, and Washington became consumed by the War on Terror. Putin meanwhile rebuilt Russian state power, crushed political competition, strengthened the security apparatus, recovered military capacity and prepared Russia for renewed confrontation with the West. 2007 Munich. 2008 Georgia. 2014 Crimea and Donbas. 2022 the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This is what I call OPERATION SOVIET LAZARUS: not necessarily one secret master operation, but a long strategic resurrection — turning the humiliation of 1991 into revenge, Western distraction into Russian recovery, and recovered Russian power into imperial aggression. While America fought the War on Terror, Putin rebuilt Russian power. The historical investigation must continue: what did the Kremlin know, when did it know it, and what did it choose not to share? #OperationSovietLazarus #Putin #Russia #September11 #911 #AlQaeda #Afghanistan #Iraq #Ukraine #NATO #Geopolitics #Kremlin #ColdWar #SovietUnion #History #PaxEuropeana
AUSTRALIA IN THE EU. NEW ZEALAND IN THE EU. CANADA IN THE EU. UK BACK IN THE EU. 🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺 This is of course a strategic provocation—but it makes a very serious point: Brexit has made Britain look ridiculous. When even Canada, Australia and New Zealand feel politically, economically and strategically closer to Europe than post-Brexit Britain, then something has gone very wrong in London. The joke writes itself: countries on the other side of the world are moving toward Europe, while Britain, sitting just across the Channel, still pretends leaving was a great success. My answer is EU50: a bigger, stronger, safer, more democratic Europe, uniting the free world’s most compatible democracies in one wider European project. If the Anglosphere wants Europe, then Britain should stop hesitating and come home first. Canada in. Australia in. New Zealand in. Britain back. Brexit out. Europe bigger. Europe stronger. Europe safer. That is the future. #EU50 #Brexit #RejoinEU #CanadaInEU #AustraliaInEU #NewZealandInEU #BritainBack #Europe #EuropeanUnion #Anglosphere #Transatlantic #NATO #StrongerTogether #FehlingerJahn #FeelTheFehlinger @GunterFehlinger https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M
I endorse Nikola Sandulović and the Republikanska Stranka because Serbia needs courage, truth, democracy and reconciliation—not another generation trapped by nationalism and permanent conflict. Prekaz must remind all of us what happens when hatred replaces politics and violence replaces dialogue. Kneeling before victims is not weakness. Recognising suffering is not betrayal. Reconciliation is the foundation of a stronger Serbia. I want a Serbia that is democratic, governed by the rule of law, free from corruption, at peace with Kosovo and all its neighbours, firmly anchored in Europe and moving towards the Euro-Atlantic community. Serbia’s future is not isolation between Moscow and Beijing. Serbia’s future is European: EU, NATO, prosperity, security and peace. Nikola Sandulović has shown that Serbian patriotism can mean reconciliation rather than revenge and European integration rather than permanent confrontation. That is why I stand with him and the Republican Party. Remember Prekaz. Choose peace. Choose Europe. Build a new Serbia. — Günther Fehlinger-Jahn, Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement | @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M #Serbia #NikolaSandulovic #RepublikanskaStranka #Kosovo #Prekaz #Reconciliation #Europe #EU #NATO #Democracy #RuleOfLaw #Peace #Balkans
Exactly. I would sharpen the Kazakhstan line this way: KAZAKHSTAN: BREAK BRICS. CHOOSE A EUROPEAN OPTION. 🇰🇿🇪🇺 President Tokayev, I am not promising Kazakhstan EU membership. But I want Kazakhstan to have a serious European perspective and a political relationship with Europe comparable to Türkiye’s status toward the EU: close economic integration, structured political dialogue, progressive alignment with European standards and the possibility of deeper integration if both sides want it. My proposal is: Leave the BRICS partnership. Build a CEFTA-style economic bridge. Seek a formal European candidate-style relationship. Deepen integration with the EU Single Market. Keep NATO membership as a sovereign future option. Kazakhstan should not have to choose permanent dependence on Moscow or Beijing. It should be able to trade east and west while anchoring its sovereignty in a wider European security and economic architecture. No automatic EU membership promise. No artificial deadlines. But Europe’s door should be open. And yes: NATO membership should remain an option for a democratic, sovereign Kazakhstan if Kazakhstan itself chooses that course and NATO allies agree. That is the model: Türkiye today — Kazakhstan tomorrow: European orientation without pretending accession is automatic. TOKAYEV: STAY OUT OF FULL BRICS MEMBERSHIP. CHOOSE SOVEREIGNTY. CHOOSE EUROPE. KEEP NATO OPEN. Günther Fehlinger-Jahn @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M
UZBEKISTAN: BREAK BRICS. CHOOSE REFORM. CHOOSE EUROPE. 🇺🇿🇪🇺 President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan has spent years opening its economy, modernising the state and trying to attract investment, technology and international business. That is exactly why I ask: why move deeper into the BRICS orbit of Putin and Xi? Uzbekistan should trade with everyone—Russia, China, India, Europe, America and the whole world—but trade does not require geopolitical dependence. Uzbekistan needs sovereignty, diversified partnerships, functioning institutions, investment, education, connectivity and opportunities for its young generation. My proposal is a clear European option: stronger EU trade and investment, much deeper Trans-Caspian connectivity, integration into European supply chains and eventually a CEFTA-style economic bridge toward the European market. I am not promising automatic EU membership. I am arguing that Uzbekistan should have a serious European perspective if it chooses reform, rule of law and economic opening. And in the long term, security cooperation with the democratic world—including NATO partnership and potentially membership if Uzbekistan itself ever chooses that path and NATO allies agree—should remain an option rather than a taboo. Central Asia must not become the backyard of Moscow or Beijing. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan can become the anchors of a sovereign, prosperous and connected Central Asia linking Europe and Asia. Trade with everyone. Align with democracies. Stay out of the BRICS trap. Build Uzbekistan’s European future. From Tashkent to a stronger Europe–Central Asia partnership. 🇺🇿🤝🇪🇺 Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M #Uzbekistan #Mirziyoyev #BreakBRICS #BRICS #Europe #EuropeanUnion #CEFTA #CentralAsia #Tashkent #TransCaspian #MiddleCorridor #Investment #Trade #Reform #Sovereignty #Democracy #RuleOfLaw #NATO #FreeWorld
Deutschland braucht endlich eine große Steuerreform: 15 % Flat Tax auf Einkommen – einfach, transparent, leistungsfreundlich. Deutschlands Problem ist nicht, dass die Menschen zu wenig arbeiten. Das Problem ist, dass Arbeit, Leistung, Unternehmertum und Aufstieg viel zu stark belastet werden. Wer mehr arbeitet, soll mehr haben – und nicht einen immer größeren Teil seines zusätzlichen Einkommens an den Staat verlieren. Osteuropa zeigt seit Jahrzehnten, dass einfachere und niedrigere Steuersysteme ein wichtiger Baustein für Wachstum und Investitionen sein können. Die Slowakei führte 2004 eine einheitliche 19-%-Steuer ein und wurde damals zu einem vielbeachteten Reformmodell Mittel- und Osteuropas. Später wurde die persönliche Einkommensteuer wieder progressiver gestaltet – aber die Reformphase zeigte, wie stark ein klares, investitionsfreundliches Steuersystem ein Land international positionieren kann. Bulgarien erhebt seit Jahren 10 % Einkommensteuer und 10 % Körperschaftsteuer. Auch in Bosnien und Herzegowina liegen Einkommen- und Unternehmenssteuern in weiten Teilen bei rund 10 %. Dazu kommen weitere Beispiele aus Mittel- und Osteuropa, die bewusst mit niedrigen Unternehmenssteuern und relativ einfachen Systemen um Investitionen, Unternehmen und qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte konkurrieren. Natürlich entsteht Wachstum nicht allein durch einen Steuersatz. Man braucht Rechtsstaat, Infrastruktur, gute Bildung, offene Märkte, Investitionen und eine leistungsfähige Verwaltung. Aber Steuern entscheiden mit darüber, wo Unternehmen investieren, wo Menschen arbeiten und ob sich zusätzliche Leistung lohnt. Deutschland macht es heute viel zu kompliziert: hohe Abgaben, ein unübersichtliches Steuerrecht, Bürokratie und immer neue Belastungen. Das frustriert Arbeitnehmer, Selbständige und Unternehmer gleichermaßen. Wenn Menschen das Gefühl bekommen, dass sich Leistung nicht mehr lohnt und der Staat gleichzeitig bei Infrastruktur, Bahn, Digitalisierung und Verwaltung nicht ausreichend funktioniert, wächst die politische Frustration. Davon profitieren am Ende die politischen Ränder – einschließlich der AfD. Darum meine Forderung an Friedrich Merz: Machen Sie Deutschland wieder zum Reformland Europas. 15 % Einkommensteuer. 15 % Körperschaftsteuer. Weniger Ausnahmen. Weniger Bürokratie. Breitere Bemessungsgrundlage. Leistung belohnen. Investitionen ermöglichen. Eine Flat Tax bedeutet nicht „keinen Sozialstaat“. Ein Grundfreibetrag kann kleine Einkommen schützen. Danach gilt ein klarer Satz: 15 Prozent. Jeder versteht ihn. Jeder kann rechnen. Jeder zusätzliche Euro Arbeit lohnt sich. Deutschland braucht wieder Mut zu Wachstum. Nicht immer neue Steuern. Nicht immer neue Regeln. Nicht immer mehr Staat. Mehr Netto. Mehr Investitionen. Mehr Unternehmen. Mehr Jobs. Mehr Wachstum. 🇩🇪 MERZ, MACHEN SIE DEUTSCHLAND ZUM FLAT-TAX-LAND! 15 % – einfach. fair. modern. Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Ökonom · Autor · Chairman Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M · @GunterFehlinger #FlatTax15 #Deutschland #Merz #Steuerreform #Wachstum #MehrNetto #Mittelstand #Investitionen #Wettbewerbsfähigkeit #SozialeMarktwirtschaft #Europa
Die kaputte Deutsche Bahn ist längst mehr als ein Verkehrsproblem. Sie ist zum täglichen Symbol dafür geworden, dass Deutschland unter seinen Möglichkeiten bleibt. Verspätungen, Ausfälle, Baustellenchaos, fehlende Verlässlichkeit und immer neue Milliardenkosten zerstören Vertrauen in den Staat und in die politische Handlungsfähigkeit. Genau dieser Frust hilft am Ende den Protestparteien – und damit auch der AfD. Die Bahn ist natürlich nicht die einzige Ursache für den Aufstieg der AfD, aber sie liefert jeden Tag neue Bilder für das Gefühl: „Deutschland funktioniert nicht mehr.“ Das muss ein Ende haben. Ich fordere Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz auf: Bringen Sie die Deutsche Bahn 2027 zu 100 % an die Börse. Keine halbe Privatisierung. Keine dauerhafte Staatsbeteiligung. Keine neuen Ausreden. Die Deutsche Bahn soll komplett so, wie sie ist, an den Kapitalmarkt. Mehr privates Kapital. Mehr Investitionen. Mehr Wettbewerb. Besserer Service. Klare Verantwortung. Und wichtige Einnahmen für den Bundeshaushalt. Margaret Thatcher hat gezeigt, dass politische Führung bedeutet, auch große und unbequeme Strukturreformen durchzusetzen. Deutschland braucht wieder diesen Mut zur Reform. Eine starke Bahn braucht nicht mehr Staat, sondern bessere Eigentümerstrukturen, professionelles Management und echten Leistungsdruck. Wenn der Staat versagt, wächst der Frust. Wenn Infrastruktur funktioniert, wächst Vertrauen. Merz muss zeigen, dass Deutschland reformfähig ist. Die Alternative darf nicht sein: kaputte Bahn und stärkere AfD. Die Alternative muss sein: Reform, Investitionen, Wettbewerb und ein Deutschland, das wieder nach oben fährt. Deutsche Bahn 100 % an die Börse 2027. Privatisieren. Modernisieren. Investieren. Günther Fehlinger-Jahn | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M | @GunterFehlinger #DeutscheBahn #Merz #Privatisierung #Deutschland #Wettbewerb #Investitionen #Infrastruktur #Bahnreform #Marktwirtschaft #AfD #Thatcher #FehlingerJahn
BOLIVIA: DON’T FOLLOW PUTIN INTO BRICS. 🇧🇴 Bolivia has enormous potential: lithium, energy, agriculture, young people, a strategic location in South America and the chance to become a major investment destination. That is why I ask: why tie Bolivia’s future to BRICS and to the geopolitical agenda of Putin’s Russia? Bolivia does not need BRICS to trade with China, India or Brazil. Trade with everyone — but choose democracy, investment, rule of law and a stronger partnership with Europe and the Americas. Bolivia needs jobs, infrastructure, technology, transparent institutions and serious investment in lithium and clean energy. It does not need more political dependency on authoritarian powers. Break BRICS. Build a prosperous Bolivia. Strengthen ties with Europe. Expand trade across the Americas. Attract investment. Create opportunities for young people. Protect democracy and the rule of law. Bolivia belongs to a brighter future — not to another geopolitical bloc built around Moscow and Beijing. La Paz should look to prosperity, not Putin. 🇧🇴🤝🇪🇺🌎 Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M #Bolivia #BreakBRICS #BRICS #Democracy #Lithium #Investment #Prosperity #Europe #Americas #FreeTrade #RuleOfLaw #LaPaz #SouthAmerica #Putin #Russia #China
Trump talks peace while Putin’s war brings Russian drones into Moldovan airspace and dangerously close to President Zelenskyy’s aircraft. That is the reality Europe and America must confront. While Washington speaks about a “deal,” Moscow continues attacking Ukraine, violating the airspace of its neighbors and creating lethal risks even for Ukraine’s president. Whether this particular drone was deliberately sent to assassinate Zelenskyy has not yet been publicly proven — but the security threat was real, Moldova closed its airspace, Zelenskyy’s flight was delayed, and Norway’s prime minister confirmed that his aircraft came dangerously close to a drone. Putin does not deserve another round of wishful thinking. Peace does not come from pretending the aggressor has suddenly become a peacemaker. Peace comes when aggression becomes too costly to continue. Arm Ukraine. Strengthen Moldova. Enforce sanctions. Protect European airspace. Bring Ukraine into NATO. Trump should judge Putin by what Russia DOES, not by what Putin says on the telephone. This is not the moment for appeasement. It is the moment for deterrence, strength and Ukrainian victory. 🇺🇦🇲🇩🇪🇺🇺🇸 #Ukraine #Zelenskyy #Moldova #Putin #Trump #NATO #StandWithUkraine #EuropeanSecurity #UkraineVictory #PeaceThroughStrength — Günther Fehlinger-Jahn | @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M
BREAK BRICS. BREAK CHINA — PEACEFULLY. 🇨🇳🌏 China is not simply one uniform nation. It is a vast state containing very different peoples, regions, languages, histories and political identities. My ExChina proposal is not a call for war. It is a call for self-determination, democratic choice and a peaceful post-imperial order in Asia. Tibetans, Uyghurs in East Turkistan, Mongols in Inner Mongolia, the people of Hong Kong, Taiwan and other regions should never be forced into one political future against their will. Their rights, languages, cultures and political choices must be protected. China’s future should not be decided forever by one centralized Communist Party system in Beijing. Break BRICS. Break imperial centralism. Build freedom. That means: Referendums, not repression. Human rights, not forced assimilation. Free trade, not geopolitical intimidation. Regional prosperity, not permanent centralized domination. A peaceful transformation would require negotiated borders, minority protection, debt and asset agreements, water and energy cooperation, open trade routes and strong international security guarantees. Taiwan must remain free. Hong Kong must regain genuine political freedom. Tibet and East Turkistan must have the right to determine their own future peacefully. A freer Asia would be a safer Asia. BREAK CHINA — NOT THROUGH WAR, BUT THROUGH DEMOCRATIC SELF-DETERMINATION. BREAK BRICS. BUILD FREE NATIONS. BUILD PEACE. Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M #BreakBRICS #ExChina #China #XiJinping #Taiwan #Tibet #EastTurkistan #HongKong #InnerMongolia #SelfDetermination #HumanRights #Democracy #FreeAsia #IndoPacific #Peace #BRICS #FreeWorld
Merkels appeasement led us into war and disaster She does not regret or repent
BREAK BRICS. BREAK RUSSIA — PEACEFULLY. 🇺🇦🇪🇺🌍 Russia must stop being an empire held together by force, fear and Moscow centralism. My ExRussia proposal is clear: let the peoples and regions of the Russian Federation choose their own future through democratic referendums, negotiated borders and peaceful constitutional change. Chechnya, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Sakha, Buryatia and other republics should have the right to decide whether they want real federal autonomy, confederation or independence. This is not a call for chaos. It is a call to end imperial politics before they produce another generation of war. Break the empire, not the people. Referendums, not rifles. Successor states, not civil war. Minority rights, property rights, trade routes, energy links and nuclear security must all be guaranteed by international agreements. Putin’s Russia uses BRICS to project the image that imperial aggression can be normalized. I reject that. Break BRICS. Break imperial Russia. Build free nations, peaceful borders and a safer Europe. No more forced federation. No more imperial wars. Let Russia’s nations choose their future. ExRussia means self-determination, democracy and peace. 🇪🇺🕊️ Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M #ExRussia #BreakBRICS #Russia #Putin #SelfDetermination #Chechnya #Tatarstan #Bashkortostan #Sakha #Buryatia #Ukraine #Europe #Democracy #Peace #Referendum #FreeNations #NATO #NATOEnlargement
INDONESIA: BREAK BRICS. JOIN THE OECD. 🇮🇩 Indonesia is too important, too democratic and too ambitious to become another prestige trophy for Putin’s BRICS. President Prabowo, Indonesia is already on the road toward OECD accession and deeper economic integration with Europe. That is the future: investment, technology, jobs, free trade, stronger institutions and a stronger ASEAN. So why tie Indonesia’s political image to BRICS alongside Russia and Iran? Indonesia can trade with China, India, Brazil and the entire Global South without giving geopolitical legitimacy to Putin. Trade globally—but choose your strategic direction. Indonesia should become the democratic economic superpower of Southeast Asia, the bridge between ASEAN, Europe, America, Japan and Korea, and a leader of an open Indo-Pacific. Break BRICS. Finish OECD accession. Deepen the EU–Indonesia free-trade partnership. Lead ASEAN. Choose Indonesia’s future. President Prabowo: BRICS is not Indonesia’s destiny. Prosperity, democracy and global leadership are. 🇮🇩🤝🇪🇺🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷 Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M #Indonesia #Prabowo #BreakBRICS #BRICS #OECD #ASEAN #Europe #EU #FreeTrade #Investment #Democracy #Jakarta #IndoPacific #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #GlobalSouth #Prosperity
SOUTH AFRICA: RAMAPHOSA, WHAT WOULD MANDELA SAY? 🇿🇦 Nelson Mandela made South Africa a global symbol of freedom, dignity, reconciliation and democratic legitimacy. That is why I find today’s BRICS alignment so difficult to understand. South Africa is a serious country, a major free-trade partner, an investment destination and one of Europe’s most important partners in Africa. Europe invests billions. European companies create jobs. Western partners support development, health, trade, technology and infrastructure. And yet Pretoria stands politically in BRICS beside Vladimir Putin and gives Russia valuable international prestige while Russia continues its war against Ukraine. President Cyril Ramaphosa, my question is simple: why? South Africa can trade with China, India, Brazil and the entire Global South without allowing BRICS to become its geopolitical identity. Trade with everyone. Cooperate with everyone. But do not give political cover to Putin. I cannot know what Nelson Mandela would say today, but I believe every South African should ask whether Mandela’s legacy of freedom and human dignity is really served by standing beside an authoritarian Russia at BRICS summits. South Africa deserves a bigger role than being used as proof that Putin is not isolated. Break BRICS. Choose democracy. Choose free trade. Choose investment. Choose a stronger partnership with Europe and the democratic world. Mandela’s South Africa should be a bridge between Africa and the free world, not a diplomatic shield for Moscow. 🇿🇦🤝🇪🇺🇺🇸 President Ramaphosa: South Africa does not need Putin. The democratic world needs South Africa. Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M #SouthAfrica #Ramaphosa #Mandela #BreakBRICS #BRICS #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #EU #FreeTrade #Investment #Democracy #CapeTown #Johannesburg #Africa #FreeWorld #Geopolitics
🇽🇰🇧🇦 KOSOVO & BOSNIA — UNITED IN EUROPE Kosovo and Bosnia belong together in the European and transatlantic family. Both societies suffered terribly from the wars, ethnic cleansing and nationalist violence of the 1990s. Their future must not be determined forever by the political forces that still live from division, fear and obstruction. Bosnia should recognize Kosovo. And Europe should accelerate the full integration of both: 🇪🇺 EU 🛡️ NATO 💶 EURO 🛂 SCHENGEN 🌍 OECD 🕊️ OSCE This is the future I want to see: Bosnians and Kosovars standing together, trading together, travelling freely together, protected together and prospering together inside the institutions of democratic Europe. And Aleksandar Vučić? If Serbia chooses obstruction, nationalist nostalgia and permanent confrontation instead of reconciliation and European cooperation, then Serbia risks standing outside in the cold while its neighbours move forward. The door to Europe should remain open to Serbia — but the direction must be clear: Recognition. Reconciliation. Democracy. Europe. Europe must stand with people who want peace and freedom, not reward those who use vetoes, pressure and nationalist conflict to keep the Balkans trapped in the past. 🇽🇰🤝🇧🇦 Kosovo + Bosnia: one European future. EU. NATO. Euro. Schengen. OECD. OSCE. And fast. — Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement @GunterFehlinger https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M https://t.co/TTmBf6L9w7
🇧🇦💶 BOSNIA — ADOPT THE EURO IN 2027. Bosnia is European. Bosnia trades with Europe. Bosnians work, study, invest and travel across Europe. So why keep an unnecessary currency barrier? The convertible mark is already tied to the euro. Finish the job. Adopt the euro. 🇲🇪 Montenegro uses the euro. 🇽🇰 Kosovo uses the euro. 🇭🇷 Croatia uses the euro. 🇧🇦 Bosnia should be next. Imagine a Bosnia where families, tourists, companies and investors no longer need to think in KM and euro. No currency border with Croatia. No currency border with Montenegro. Less friction for trade. Less friction for tourism. More transparency. More European integration. And yes, let Bosnia place its own history on its future European currency. ALIJA IZETBEGOVIĆ ON THE BOSNIAN €2 COIN. A symbol of Bosnia’s struggle for statehood — now on the currency of Bosnia’s European future. 2027: EURO FOR BOSNIA. One currency. One continent. One market. Bosnia must stop thinking like a permanently transitional post-war state. Think like a future EU member. Think like a European economy. Think bigger. 🇧🇦🇪🇺 BOSNIA TO THE EURO. 🇧🇦🇪🇺 BOSNIA TO THE EU. 🇧🇦🛡️ BOSNIA TO NATO. 🌍 BOSNIA TO OECD. 🇪🇺 BOSNIA TO SCHENGEN. The future is not KM. The future is EUROPE. Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement @GunterFehlinger https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M https://t.co/TTmBf6L9w7
EX-DAYTON NOW. 🇧🇦🇪🇺 IT IS TIME FOR EU BOSNIA. Dayton ended the war. Europe must now build the peace. The Dayton system was designed to stop bloodshed in 1995—not to condemn generations of Bosnian citizens to permanent paralysis, ethnic vetoes, institutional blockage and political dependency. Bosnia and Herzegovina deserves a constitutional order built for the European Union: a functional democratic state, equal rights for every citizen, strong regional self-government, independent courts, economic competition and institutions capable of taking decisions. Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats and all other citizens must have their identity and rights protected—but no political elite should possess a permanent veto over the prosperity, security and European future of the whole country. Bosnia should move from post-war management to European democracy, from paralysis to responsibility, from division to cooperation, from Dayton Bosnia to EU Bosnia. I want a sovereign, federal, democratic Bosnia and Herzegovina whose regions compete for investment, infrastructure and jobs and cooperate directly with Brussels as European regions. The objective must be clear: ONE STATE. EQUAL RIGHTS. FUNCTIONAL INSTITUTIONS. ONE EUROPEAN FUTURE. Dayton achieved its historic purpose: it stopped the war. Now Bosnia needs the courage to complete the peace. A stronger Bosnia in a stronger Europe. EX-DAYTON NOW. EU BOSNIA NOW. 🇧🇦🇪🇺 — Günther Fehlinger-Jahn, Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement | @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwpaSk | https://t.co/TTmBf6LHlF #Bosnia #BiH #BosniaAndHerzegovina #EUBosnia #ExDayton #EuropeanUnion #EUEnlargement #Sarajevo #Mostar #BanjaLuka #Europe #WesternBalkans
MBS: BREAK BRICS. JOIN THE FREE WORLD. 🇸🇦🌍 Saudi Arabia has spent years presenting Vision 2030 as a project of modernization, diversification, investment, technology and reform. If that is really the direction, then Riyadh should stop drifting into a geopolitical bloc built around Russia, China and Iran and instead anchor itself much more clearly in the open, rules-based global economy. My message to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is simple: leave BRICS ambiguity behind and move toward OECD accession. Saudi Arabia does not need BRICS in order to trade with India, China, Brazil or anyone else. It can trade with the entire world while choosing stronger institutions, better governance standards, deeper investment integration and closer cooperation with the advanced market economies. If MBS wants to prove that Vision 2030 is more than branding, then choose the path of reform: stronger institutions, transparency, competition, investment, rule of law and long-term integration with Europe, America, Japan, Korea and other OECD economies. Break BRICS. Join the free world. Leave BRICS. Join OECD. Saudi Arabia should not become another geopolitical trophy for Putin. It should become one of the strongest reform economies of the 21st century. That would be the real Vision 2030. 🇸🇦🤝🇪🇺🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷 Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwpaSk #SaudiArabia #MBS #Vision2030 #BRICS #BreakBRICS #OECD #Riyadh #Reform #FreeWorld #Investment #RuleOfLaw #Europe #USA #Japan #Korea #Putin #Russia #Iran #GlobalEconomy
PUTIN PAYS KIM IN HARD DOLLARS — FOR THE BLOOD OF NORTH KOREANS. This is the brutal business model behind the Putin–Kim alliance: Moscow gets soldiers for its war, Pyongyang gets hard currency, weapons, technology and political support. The dictatorship earns. The soldiers bleed. Kim takes the cash. North Koreans pay with their lives. Thousands of young men are sent far from home into a foreign war that has nothing to do with defending North Korea. They are expendable manpower for Putin’s imperial war against Ukraine. This is not friendship. This is not solidarity. It is a transaction between two dictatorships: money, weapons and regime survival on one side — human lives on the other. Putin needs manpower. Kim needs cash. And ordinary North Koreans carry the cost in blood. Europe must understand what this means: Russia is internationalising its war and buying military manpower from one of the most repressive regimes on Earth. Ukraine is not only defending itself against Russia. It is confronting an expanding authoritarian war coalition. Support Ukraine. Sanction the networks financing this war. Expose the Putin–Kim transaction. Stop treating dictatorships as normal partners while they trade human lives for cash. Kim takes the cash. North Koreans pay with blood. 🇺🇦🇪🇺 #Ukraine #NorthKorea #Russia #Putin #KimJongUn #StandWithUkraine #RussiaUkraineWar #NATO #Europe #Freedom #HumanRights #StopPutin #SupportUkraine #PaxEuropeana — Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn | Economist, Author & Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement | @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M
🇦🇹⚖️ MEIN VERSPRECHEN ALS BUNDESPRÄSIDENT: EIN STARKER, VOLLKOMMEN UNABHÄNGIGER GENERALSTAATSANWALT Österreich braucht eine Strafverfolgung, die niemandem politisch gehört. Nicht dem Kanzler. Nicht dem Justizminister. Nicht einer Partei. Und auch nicht dem Bundespräsidenten. Als Bundespräsident werde ich dafür eintreten, dass der Generalstaatsanwalt direkt vom Bundespräsidenten ernannt wird – nach einem transparenten Auswahlverfahren und ausschließlich nach Qualifikation, Erfahrung und Integrität. Mit seiner Ernennung beginnt seine Unabhängigkeit. Der Bundespräsident ernennt ihn. Aber niemand gibt ihm politische Weisungen. Der Generalstaatsanwalt muss stark genug sein, auch gegen Minister, Regierungsmitglieder, Parteifunktionäre und andere mächtige Personen unabhängig ermitteln zu lassen, wenn Gesetz und Beweislage es verlangen. ⚖️ unabhängige Staatsanwaltschaft ⚖️ keine Ministerweisungen ⚖️ feste Amtszeit ⚖️ höchste fachliche Qualifikation ⚖️ transparente parlamentarische Kontrolle ⚖️ gleiche Justiz für Regierung, Opposition und Bürger Seine Loyalität darf ausschließlich Verfassung, Gesetz und Recht gelten. Ein Bundespräsident muss über der Tagespolitik stehen, die Verfassungsordnung schützen und starke unabhängige Institutionen ermöglichen. Genau deshalb gehört die Ernennung des Generalstaatsanwalts in die Verantwortung des Staatsoberhauptes – nicht in die parteipolitische Befehlskette einer Regierung. Ein starker Präsident schützt die Verfassung. Ein unabhängiger Generalstaatsanwalt schützt den Rechtsstaat. Niemand steht über dem Gesetz. Günther Fehlinger-Jahn | Ökonom, Autor | Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M | @GunterFehlinger #Österreich #Bundespräsident #Generalstaatsanwalt #Justiz #Rechtsstaat #Gewaltenteilung #Demokratie #Verfassung #RuleOfLaw #Austria
Beate Meinl-Reisinger enttäuscht mich immer mehr. Österreich braucht 2026 keine Rückkehr zur alten Kreisky-Schule der Außenpolitik. Natürlich darf und muss auch eine befreundete Regierung Israels kritisiert werden. Aber etwas anderes ist es, Israel zum bequemen Objekt europäischer Symbolpolitik zu machen, während Hamas, Hisbollah, das iranische Regime und deren Unterstützer unsere eigentlichen strategischen Gegner sind. Genau hier sehe ich bei Meinl-Reisinger eine gefährliche politische Verschiebung: immer mehr moralische Belehrungen Richtung Israel, immer mehr öffentlichkeitswirksame Distanzierung – und immer weniger Klarheit darüber, wer in dieser Region Demokratie verteidigt und wer Terror, Islamismus und Krieg exportiert. Für mich stellt sich deshalb die Frage: Meinl-Reisinger = Kreisky 2.0? Bruno Kreisky machte Österreichs Neutralität und eine besondere Nahostpolitik zu einem Markenzeichen. Das war seine Zeit. Aber Österreich von heute gehört politisch fest in den Westen: europäisch, transatlantisch und solidarisch mit dem demokratischen Israel. Ich will keine Renaissance einer österreichischen Außenpolitik, die ihre internationale Bedeutung dadurch sucht, Israel öffentlich zu belehren. Österreich trägt eine besondere historische Verantwortung gegenüber dem jüdischen Volk und dem Staat Israel. Diese Verantwortung bedeutet nicht, jede Entscheidung einer israelischen Regierung gutzuheißen. Sie bedeutet aber, Israel nicht zum Sündenbock europäischer Innenpolitik zu machen. 🇦🇹🇮🇱🇪🇺🇺🇸 Meine Linie ist klar: Sicherheit für Israel. Freiheit für die Geiseln. Entwaffnung der Hamas. Eindämmung des iranischen Regimes. Eine starke transatlantische Allianz. Und ein Österreich, das endlich seine Neutralitätsromantik hinter sich lässt. Keine Kreisky-Nostalgie. Keine Israel-Polemik für billigen Applaus. Eine klare westliche Außenpolitik für Österreich. — Günther Fehlinger-Jahn | Ökonom & Autor | Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement | @GunterFehlinger | https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M #Austria #Israel #MeinlReisinger #Kreisky #ForeignPolicy #MiddleEast #Europe #NATO #Transatlantic #StandWithIsrael
THE COST OF WAR FOR THE USA 🇺🇸 War is expensive. Deterrence is expensive. Freedom is expensive. But history shows how dramatically the scale changes. 🇺🇸 WWI: about $0.47 TRILLION 🇺🇸 WWII: about $5.7 TRILLION ☢️ Cold War: $14+ TRILLION —including Korea, Vietnam and the nuclear arms race 🇮🇶 Iraq Wars since 1991: about $1.9 TRILLION 🇧🇦🇽🇰 Balkan Wars: about $15 BILLION 🇺🇦 Ukraine response 2022–2026: $195 BILLION in U.S. congressional appropriations 🇮🇷 Iran War: $100+ BILLION in added U.S. consumer energy costs so far The lesson is not that America should avoid defending freedom. The lesson is that PREVENTING major wars, building strong alliances and stopping aggressors early is vastly cheaper than allowing dictatorships to grow until they require another WWII-scale response. Ukraine is not WWII. $195 billion is enormous money—but compared with the price America paid to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, or to contain the Soviet Union for four decades, it remains a fraction of the historic burden. The cheapest war is the war strong alliances successfully deter. NATO works. Deterrence works. Helping Ukraine defeat Russian aggression is an investment in preventing a much larger war. Approximate historical comparison in current U.S. dollars. Categories are not perfectly identical: Ukraine reflects broader U.S. congressional appropriations for the Ukraine response and Operation Atlantic Resolve; Iran reflects added U.S. consumer energy costs. #USA #NATO #Ukraine #UkraineWar #Russia #Iran #ColdWar #WWII #WWI #Iraq #Balkans #Kosovo #Bosnia #Defense #Security #Deterrence #ForeignPolicy #Geopolitics #PeaceThroughStrength
🇦🇹 HOFBURG 2028 – ZWEI REFORMANSÄTZE, ZWEI WEGE FÜR ÖSTERREICH @Wagner_Michael_ Michael Alois Wagner baut derzeit gemeinsam mit dem Umfeld von Frank Stronach eine neue wirtschaftspolitische Bewegung auf. Eine Bundespräsidentenkandidatur 2028 wurde zuvor öffentlich kommuniziert, ist derzeit aber nicht mehr offiziell Teil der aktuellen Außendarstellung. Sollte Wagner 2028 antreten, wäre die inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung spannend. Wagners/Stronachs wirtschaftliche Charta: Ausgeglichene Budgets. Verwaltung jährlich um rund 5 % verkleinern. Einfacheres Steuersystem. Massive Entlastung kleiner Unternehmen. Gewinnbeteiligung für Arbeitnehmer. Wirtschaftliche Eigenverantwortung. Viele dieser Reformgedanken verdienen eine ernsthafte Diskussion. Aber Österreich braucht für die Hofburg mehr als Wirtschaftspolitik. 🇦🇹 Mein Fehlinger-Plan für Österreich: ✅ Flat Tax 15 % ✅ Staat verkleinern – Leistung wieder belohnen ✅ ÖBAG und ORF privatisieren ✅ Österreich raus aus der Neutralitätsfalle und rein in die NATO ✅ starke Landesverteidigung und moderne Luftwaffe ✅ Pro EU. Pro Euro. Pro Erweiterung. ✅ Ukraine und Westbalkan in die EU ✅ mehr bauen, weniger verbieten ✅ Atomkraft, Technologie und günstige Energie ✅ ein selbstbewusstes Österreich in einem starken Europa Ich möchte nicht zurück zu alten politischen Rezepten. Ich will Österreich radikal modernisieren. 🇦🇹 Der österreichische Milei: Reform statt Stillstand. Weniger Staat. Mehr Freiheit. Flat Tax 15 %. Die Hofburg 2028 sollte eine echte Richtungswahl werden. Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement plant eine Kandidatur zur Bundespräsidentenwahl 2028 Pro NATO · Pro EU · Pro Flat Tax 15 % #Hofburg2028 #FehlingerJahn #Österreich #Austria #FlatTax15 #ReformJetzt #WenigerStaat #MehrFreiheit #NATO #EU #Europa #Bundespräsident2028 #Wirtschaft #Privatisierung #Stronach #MichaelAloisWagner #FeelTheFehlinger
Seit 1990 hat Deutschland eine historische finanzielle Kraftanstrengung für den Aufbau Ost geleistet. Meine Schätzung auf Basis von Bundestag, bpb, ifo und Regierungsberichten: 💶 rund €2,1 BILLIONEN NETTO-Transfers aus dem westdeutschen Steuer- und Sozialsystem seit der Wiedervereinigung 🇪🇺 zusätzlich ungefähr €75–80 MILLIARDEN an EU-Regionalförderung für Ostdeutschland Zum Vergleich: • Bruttotransfers bis 2013: rund €3,4 Billionen • Nettotransfers bis 2013: rund €1,6 Billionen • Nettotransfers bis 2016: rund €1,72 Billionen Die Zahlen unterscheiden sich je nach Methode: Brutto zählt alle öffentlichen Ausgaben. Netto zieht die in Ostdeutschland selbst gezahlten Steuern und Sozialbeiträge wieder ab. Das Fazit bleibt trotzdem gewaltig: MEHR ALS €2 BILLIONEN NETTO. Diese Solidarität war richtig. Deutschland sollte stolz darauf sein. Aber nach 36 Jahren deutscher Einheit muss man auch offen diskutieren dürfen, was diese Transfers erreicht haben, wo Unterschiede zwischen Ost und West geblieben sind und warum politische Frustration in manchen Regionen weiterhin so stark ist. Wer über Ostdeutschland spricht, sollte deshalb nicht nur moralisieren. Man muss auch über Wirtschaft, Einkommen, Eigentum, Infrastruktur, Chancen und politische Erfahrungen reden. Einigkeit bedeutet nicht, Unterschiede zu verschweigen. Einigkeit bedeutet, ehrlich miteinander zu reden. Günther Fehlinger-Jahn Economist | Author Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement @GunterFehlinger https://t.co/4HINhwoD2M #Deutschland #Ostdeutschland #Westdeutschland #DeutscheEinheit #Wiedervereinigung #AufbauOst #Solidarität #EU #Europa #Wirtschaft #Steuern #Transfers #Politik #Germany #GermanUnity