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Germany's finance minister warns Britain it must respect its international agreements, after London tabled legislation that would ditch parts of the Brexit withdrawal deal with the EU. SOUNDBITE
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius is welcomed to Warsaw by his Polish counterpart Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. IMAGES
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner urges the European Union to "avoid a subsidy race we cannot avoid," warning that the bloc cannot simply follow United States economic policy moves. Speaking in Davos on the last day of the World Economic Forum, Lindner says the EU's "competitive disadvantage" to the US isn't subsidies, but its "private capitals market." SOUNDBITE
Russia's tanks stand poised on "Europe's Ukrainian lawn", British defence minister Grant Shapps warns, in a wide-ranging speech outlining the United Kingdom's security priorities. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world has "come full circle, moving from a post-war to pre-war world," Shapps adds, raising the alarm at an increasingly unstable security situation amidst Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, increasing attacks on Red Sea shipping by Yemen's Huthi rebels and Moscow's ongoing invasion of its pro-Western neighbour. SOUNDBITE
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hold a bilateral meeting in Granada, Spain, at the European Political Community (EPC) -- an informal group which includes all 27 European Union countries and many NATO member states, along with their European neighbours, excluding Russia. IMAGES
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck greets Chinese Premier Li Qiang, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission, Zheng Shanjie, in Berlin. The two countries are holding talks for the 11th German-Chinese Forum for Economic and Technological Cooperation. IMAGES