News: Peace Agreement: Armenia and Azerbaijan agree. Two-day G-7 consultations started in Canada. Debt plans: Intensive debates in the German Bundestag. ECHR condemns Ukraine for 2014 riots. Trump wants 200% tariffs on wine and champagne from the EU. Turkey continues attacks on PKK positions. Bureaucracy Reduction: British Prime Minister Starmer dissolves NHS. Study: Europe could probably replace US aid. Vapes and E-cigarettes becoming a problem in schools. Van der Bellen meets opposition leaders. Procurement Review Commission focuses on “Sky Shield”. National Fund: Rosenkranz may lose chairmanship with reform. End for Agrana sugar factory: Calls for social plan. Nathalie Benko triggers money laundering suspicion. Frying fat instead of diesel: Clouded balance. Private foreign currency loans largely repaid. Need for savings a topic in the ORF Foundation Council. ECJ strengthens trans rights in gender entry changes. Status and stream of ski jumping in Oslo. Jumper Prevc flies to overall World Cup victory. Handballers challenge Germany in EM qualifiers. Styria: 43-year-old dies after falling down stairs. Youth gang allegedly raped woman for months. Car lands on tracks after accident and is hit by train. English had to pay for salvage in Vorarlberg themselves. Ship collision in North Sea: No pollution visible. Near supervolcano: Strong earthquake near Naples. Vienna’s cycle path network to grow by 24 kilometers this year. Wiental Canal: 135 meter long drill arrived. Number of measles cases in Europe doubled. Cause of severe CoV reaction in children found. Space probe “Hera” gains momentum at Mars. Composer Sofia Gubaidulina died. “Help!”: When the Beatles tumbled down Salzburg slopes. Sylvester Stallone publishes his memoirs. Australia: Outrage over wombat-kidnapping influencer.
Prompt: Feeling of global tension softened by peace agreement, sense of anticipation for political debates, concern over increasing addiction and health risks, fear and confusion due to continuous attacks and accidents, hope for gender rights improvement, excitement for sports competitions, worry over increasing environmental changes, fascination and awe for space exploration, a touch of nostalgia and reverence for departed artists, mixture of shock and amusement at societal oddities
Inspiration: Otto Dix
