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Is Germany edging toward recession?
Fresh figures suggest that Europe’s biggest economy may be heading for a recession, as its growth slowed in the second quarter. Calls for more fiscal stimulus are growing louder, but the government sees no need for it. Western Europe hasn’t been immune to the global economic slowdown currently underway. Germany, with its export-oriented economy, is…
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Worries on the horizon for Angela Merkel
From climate change and trembling spells to a trembling government, German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces many challenges as she returns to office post-vacation. Chancellor Angela Merkel sat down on Wednesday as she welcomed Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda in Berlin to the tune of military bands playing national anthems outside the chancellery. This was the third time she has chosen to…
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US Nuclear Weapons Should Be Out of Germany Along With Its Troops, German Lawmaker Says
AP Photo/Mindaugas Kubis US Ambassador Richard Grenell’s renewed criticism of Berlin’s failure to spend more on defense and praising an idea to withdraw American troops from Germany has prompted a backlash in one of Washington’s key allies in Europe. The head of the left-wing party Die Linke’s parliamentary group has welcomed this idea. Member of…
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German MP warns US has to take away nuclear weapons if it relocates troops to Poland
The US is estimated to have around 20 nuclear warheads in Germany. A German lawmaker says the United States has to remove its nuclear weapons — presently kept in Germany— and take them to its own soil, in the event of relocating American troops from Germany to Poland. The chairman of the Left Party faction in the…
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Merkel crisis: Germany recession threat bleeds into EU economy – shock warning
GERMANY is in the midst of an economic crisis that is now bleeding into the EU in the months before Brexit. German news site Der Tagesspiegel warned several hard-hiring factors are playing a part in Berlin dragging down the rest of the EU by weakening the Eurozone. Examples of these are the bitter trade spat…
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Anti-immigrant rage spills over in Germany following child murder in Frankfurt
Anti-immigrant rhetoric has grown more prominent in days following the murder of an 8-year-old at Frankfurt Station. TA picture taken on August 5, 2019, at Frankfurt am Main’s central station shows flowers that people left to pay tribute to an eight-year-old boy who died after he was pushed under a train a week earlier. The…
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Germany once again rejects possibility of joining US-led mission in Strait of Hormuz
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas looks on prior to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin on July 31, 2019. (Photo by AFP) Germany has once again rejected a US proposal to join an American naval mission tasked with protecting vessels that pass through the Strait of Hormuz from an alleged Iranian threat….
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‘Kicks and Punches’: 300 German Police Officers Attacked Trying to Deport Migrants in 2018
The number of deportees being expelled from Germany is continuing to decline, statistics by the country’s Interior Ministry suggest. While airlines are being blamed for hampering the process, police are reporting that assaults against officers carrying out deportations have become part of the job. German federal police are facing considerable violence during deportations, with scores…
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Attacks on Germany’s Mosques Were Preceded by Spike in Migrant Crimes – AfD MEP
Germany’s Muslims have called upon the government to protect mosques amid increasing bomb threats and Islamophobia. But according to the Deputy Leader of the AfD in Rhineland-Palatinate Joachim Paul, the rise in crimes could have been fuelled by the refugee crisis that started in mid-2015. Germany’s Coordination Council of Muslims, an umbrella entity for the…
