Germany is currently experiencing a surge in deaths related to COVID-19 and other serious respiratory illnesses, pushing the country’s children’s hospitals to the brink of collapse. Just before Christmas, the German parliament decided it was better to spend taxpayers’ money on nuclear bombers. The decision highlights the criminal policies of the ruling class. On December …
A major revamp of the bloc’s flagship carbon market and a brand new fund to protect vulnerable people from rising CO2 costs have been agreed by EU negotiators in the early hours of Sunday in a “jumbo” trilogue which started on Friday morning. “After 30 hours of negotiation time (net!), we have an agreement on …
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A wave of infections in Germany is pushing hospitals and their staff over the edge. Adding to the strain of the coronavirus pandemic, now in its third year, seasonal illnesses due to influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have added to the health care burden. Children’s hospitals, in particular, are being pushed to the wall …
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Press play to listen to this article Expressed by artificial intelligence. The EU has outsourced much of its migration policy to a fleet of private boats that search Mediterranean waters for asylum seekers in crisis. In recent weeks, these boats – run by various NGOs that are not directly controlled by any specific government – …
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“Criticize the tofu? It’s not really smart. There is nothing to insult! AthleticismThe conversation with Anton Schmaus, the leader of the German national team for five years, naturally begins with a discussion of British Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s latest attack on soy foods. Shortly before our interview, Braverman referred to his detractors as “tofu-eating wokerati.” …
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Press play to listen to this article Expressed by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — Threatened by a new package of U.S. subsidies that could hammer European industry, Germany is backtracking on its longstanding objections to programs such as France’s “Buy European Act” that would lay down provisions on buying goods locally. Berlin’s growing sympathy for the …
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Sławomir Dębski is director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs and a Polish historian. For the past five decades, Germany’s elected officials have knelt before monuments erected to commemorate the unspoken brutality of World War II, delivering speeches that underscore “their historic responsibility” and the need for reconciliation. One would expect these innumerable mea …
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Lucas Schramm is a political science researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The European Council recently confirmed that little, if anything, in the European Union moves between France and Germany without consent. The Franco-German controversies have been at the heart of the energy issue for weeks. But it is not uncommon for these two …
