Germany’s Cologne cathedral is pictured from the banks of the Rhine River Nov. 25, 2020. (Credit: Harald Oppitz/KNA via CNS.) BERLIN — Catholics around the world have their eyes on Germany as it works for change through its “Synodal Path,” which is debating the issues of power, sexual morality, priestly life and the role of…
BERLIN Germany’s foreign minister is scheduled to travel to Israel and the West Bank for political talks late Wednesday night amid the escalating Gaza conflict. “I am planning to travel to Israel for talks in Jerusalem and Ramallah later tonight,” Heiko Maas told reporters in Berlin. According to a Foreign Ministry statement, Maas will meet…
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell at a meeting of the bloc’s defense ministers in Brussels on May 6. John Thys (Reuters) The European Union has approved the participation of NATO members the United States, Canada, and Norway in a project aimed at speeding up the movement of troops and military equipment around Europe. The…
(Marcel Kusch/dpa via AP) Police officers stay in front of a building of the Ansaar International association in Duesseldorf, Germany, Wednesday, May 5. 2021. The German government on Wednesday banned the Muslim organization. Buildings in 10 German states were raided, according to German news agency dpa, which said that the donations Ansaar collected were donated…
BERLIN, (BM) – In the event of a military conflict between NATO and Russia, the chances of Germany not supporting NATO are very high, says German publicist Wolfgang Munchau in his article. His comment is the tensions that have arisen in recent weeks between Ukraine and Russia and the inevitable involvement of the Baltic states in this…
CSU chairman Markus Söder was long seen as a strong contender to replace Angela Merkel as a conservative chancellor. But after a power struggle with CDU head Armin Laschet, he stepped aside. Markus Söder heads the Christian Social Union Bavarian State Premier Markus Söder bowed out of the contest to be the conservative CDU/CSU bloc’s…
KEY POINTS The race has just become even more complicated, with two rivals contesting the conservative ticket. CDU lawmakers will discuss who that should be on Tuesday and hope to come to a decision this week. But it will be a difficult choice between their party leader and someone as popular as Soeder. The CDU/CSU…
Greetings from Tyler, The Dreaded Third Wave! (With several more coming) Canadian Lockdown has teeth! Australian Freedoms Withdrawn America, well forget it ever happened FEAR SELLS! That hidden video of the CNN technical director told us part of what we need to know. At present, the news is wall to wall with COVID reports. They…
Photo(s): Imanuel Marcus Now that Angela Merkel’s amendment to the Infection Protection Act passed the Bundestag and Bundesrat, the ’emergency brake’ will apply starting tomorrow. Counties and cities with Seven Day Incidences below 100 are not affected. Berlin, April 23rd, 2021 (The Berlin Spectator) — After four weeks of discussions and a lot of criticism,…
Tareq Alaows stands in front of the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, in Berlin. Alaows came to Germany as an asylum-seeker from Syria in 2015. He launched a campaign to run in Germany’s federal election in September for the Green Party but recently withdrew his candidacy. —Markus Schreiber/AP BERLIN — Tareq Alaows was hoping to become the…