Angela Merkel ‘FURIOUS’ at Juncker leaks that could KILL Brexit talks and destroy EU
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Man with knife attacks 8 people in Munich; suspect arrested
Police guard the area at Rosenheimer Platz square in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. Police say a man with a knife has lightly wounded several people in Munich. Officers are looking for the assailant. Munich police called on people in the Rosenheimer Platz square area, located close to the German city’s downtown, to stay…
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Merkel presses allies to cut funds for Turkey’s EU bid
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the EU summit meeting in Brussels — REUTERS BRUSSELS – 19 October 2017: German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged her fellow leaders on Thursday to cut European Union funds to Turkey that are linked to Ankara’s bid to join the bloc due to concerns about the country’s growing authoritarianism. While…
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Germany’s insects are disappearing
In just 3 decades, insect populations in German nature reserves have plummeted by more than 75%, according to a new study. The reasons for the decline aren’t clear, but the pattern is consistent over a swath of western and northern Germany, from the region around Bonn and Cologne to the countryside south of Berlin. For…
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Germany predicts World War 3 if Trump pulls out of Iran nuclear deal
GETTY Sigamr Gabriel has warned he thinks war could break out if the Iran deal is withdrawn from Last week President Trump called Iran a “fanatical regime” and refused to sign off a landmark international nuclear deal. The US President accused Iran of sponsoring terrorism and proposed new sanctions. His decision to decertify the agreement…
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Could Germany soon have a Muslim holiday?
“Why shouldn’t one consider a Muslim holiday in parts of the country where many Muslims live?” The suggestion by conservative Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has sparked a fundamental debate in Germany. De Maiziere’s proposal quickly turned into a political issue within his own Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The interior minister has latched onto a…
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The Prophet of Germany’s New Right
Götz Kubitschek, a self-proclaimed “rightist intellectual,” lives in a medieval manor house in Schnellroda, a rural village in eastern Germany. From this isolated, antique outpost, Kubitschek, who is 47, wields considerable influence over far-right thinkers, activists and politicians across Germany, who make regular pilgrimages to Schnellroda for an audience with him. The manor serves as…
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Merkel gives ground on German migration cap
BERLIN ––German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to a demand by her Bavarian allies to seek an annual limit on migration, clearing an obstacle for talks on forming her next government and responding to an electoral surge by the nationalist Alternative for Germany party. Two weeks after an election in which support for her Christian Democratic…
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As Germany and Spain prove, history – with all its wounds – is not over
Hitler meets Francp in 1940, in Hendaye on the French-Spanish border. ‘Germany and Spain today find themselves confronted by ghosts of the past.’ Photograph: KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images History is back in Europe. The Catalan referendum and the German election illustrate this spectacularly. The scale of the far-right vote in what was once East Germany and Catalonia’s apparent march towards independence…
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Germany may be the biggest threat to European stability
‘History shows European financial stability may be a bridge too far, leaving investors in extreme peril when it fails’ It is not one of the market’s most attractive traits when it ends up extremely long on bravado and exceedingly short on memory. It can be a fatal flaw when things start to go wrong. Europe…