What does the foreign press write about?

What the foreign press writes about. RBC Review:

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is trying to contain the discussion about a possible replacement of him by a younger party member, 50-year-old Prime Minister of North Rhine—Westphalia Hendrik Wust, writes the Financial Times.

The European Commission will punish Bulgaria for violating budget rules just six months after joining the eurozone, writes the Financial Times. A mechanism called the excessive deficit procedure will be applied to Sofia.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that relations with China have become better than in many years, writes the Financial Times. However, Washington will continue to put pressure on its allies in the Indo-Pacific region to maintain "strategic stability."

The explosion of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket in Florida threatens to delay the implementation of Donald Trump's plan to return American astronauts to the Moon by 2028 and build a lunar base for at least a year, Politico reports.

The editor of the first Star Wars film (1977), Oscar winner and former wife of franchise creator George Lucas, Marcia Lucas, has died at the age of 80, the Associated Press reports.

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