Dear readers, the Russian war of aggression against the Ukraine is also intensifying the heat transition in our own four walls.

Germany should not only be able to get by with fewer and fewer fossil fuels in a few years, but also suddenly do without natural gas and oil from Russia.

According to the new relief package, the traffic light coalition only wants to allow new heating systems from 2024 that are operated with 65 percent renewable energies.

"To this end, we will start a major heat pump offensive in industry, trade and private households," promise the SPD, Greens and FDP.

The consequence of this is that the heat pump is very much in vogue.

From when the environmentally friendly alternative will pay off and where the challenges are to be found - Jan Hauser from our business editorial team has tips for replacing the heating system.

So much in advance: The heat pump draws the heating energy from the water, the earth, the outside air or exhaust air and is therefore considered environmentally friendly.

However, since it also consumes electricity, it can be expensive to operate in poorly insulated buildings.

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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Money is needed everywhere, and the Bundeswehr should also get more of it in order to catch up technologically.

Because other countries are sometimes much more advanced:

Our business correspondent Andreas Mihm took a closer look at how Turkey became a leading manufacturer of modern weapons technology out of necessity:

This can currently be seen in Ukraine.

In 2019, Erdogan's Turkish government delivered the first tranche of 20 modern combat drones to the country, which are now being used successfully against Russian tanks and guns.

The development of its own drone industry fits in with Turkey's security policy concept of making itself as independent as possible in the field of armaments.

"It was the arms embargo that the USA imposed in response to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 that prompted Turkey to set up its own armaments industry," says Gunter Seufert, head of the Center for Applied Turkish Studies at the Berlin Science and Politics Foundation .

Since 2015, the Turkish defense industry has contributed significantly to the country's exports,

"Feminist foreign policy" is seen by some as the pinnacle of Western decadence.

How necessary it is, however, can be seen wherever Russian soldiers withdraw – and the Ukrainians tell what they have done to them, Livia Gerster writes in a much-noticed comment

: “Do you want an anti-feminist foreign policy à la Putin, in which Violence breaks the law?

Do you admire politicians who put women in their place, like Turkish President Ursula von der Leyen?

Do you crave Trump's tantrums?” These questions have sparked debate.

Greetings from the editorial team, thank you for your interest in F+, your complete access to FAZ.NET,

Yours, Carsten Knop

Publisher


Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung