A court in Leipzig has lifted a ban imposed by the German government on the influential far-right magazine Compact. The ruling is seen by some as a blow to Germany’s fight against right-wing extremism, although for others it could be proof of the country’s high standards of free speech. In July 2024 the German interior...
Wirtz is already one of the Bundesliga’s top performers at the age of 22, largely operating as a number 10, a dynamic playmaker blessed with pace, awareness and the ability to make clever decisions at high speed. He was the most effective dribbler of all Bundesliga players last season, both in terms of volume and...
It says a lot for German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius that he is still in the seat after all the uproar with the German government changeover and the constant tension between new Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s fragile coalition and the now ever-present number two party in the country, the outcast Alternative for Germany (AfD). With Merz’s...
Members of the Western alliance Nato need to prepare for a possible attack from Russia within the next four years, according to Germany’s chief of defence. General Carsten Breuer told the BBC that Russia was producing hundreds of tanks a year, many of which could be used for an attack on Nato Baltic state members...
If any part of this rumored data leak of Russian nuclear blueprints is true? AY DIOS MIO It changes the calculus of just how decrepit the Russians seem to be on the surface and what they really are. Danwatch, a Danish investigative media watchdog working in conjunction with German magazine Der Spiegel, has somehow managed...
Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Reuters Saúl Luciano Lliuya says water in Lake Palcacocha has increased, putting his hometown at risk A court in Germany has rejected a lawsuit brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy giant RWE in a long-awaited decision. Saúl Luciano Lliuya had argued that the firm’s global emissions contributed to the...
Ullstein Bild / Getty Images The genocide in what is now Namibia lasted from 1904 to 1908 Dubbed “Germany’s forgotten genocide”, and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic murder of more than 70,000 Africans is being marked with a national day of remembrance for the first time in...
A Syrian man has admitted carrying out a knife attack in the German town of Solingen last August in which three people were killed. “I have committed a grave crime, I am prepared to accept the verdict,” Issa al H said in a statement read out by his defence lawyers at the start of his...
Germany has made its first permanent foreign military deployment since World War Two, sending troops to Lithuania’s eastern flank. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and defence secretary Boris Pistorius attended an inauguration ceremony for the deployment, in the company of Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nauseda, in the country’s capital city of Vilnius. “Peace in Europe has been...
The entire super secret, 1100+ page report has been leaked to numerous media sources in Germany. I can now report the bombshell findings of months of exhaustive investigative research, snooping, and spying by the finest agents available in the German intelligence community and democracy protection racket. The repercussions of this incendiary, voluminous tome could be...
Hamburg have earned promotion back to the Bundesliga to end a seven-year absence from the German top flight. Needing a win to confirm their return, the six-time German champions thrashed Ulm 6-1 at home on Saturday and fans engulfed the pitch at the Volksparkstadion at the final whistle to celebrate. Hamburg, who are one of...
This had to be an unwelcome surprise for the Master of the Old Magoo. Friedrich Merz has spent his whole life massaging the various super-sized egos along the path of his political career, fawning at the feet of such Christian Democrat (CDU) luminaries as Angela Merkel, to reach the pinnacle of German political power –...
Seriously, what is the point of defending Europe? Well, maybe to defend the Louvre and some monuments to a once-great culture? I can’t think of many other reasons, now that the continent has descended once-again into the 1930s-style of fascism (no, not the Nazis of the late thirties and 40s, but more Mussolini-style fascism). Elections...
Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country’s federal office for the protection of the constitution. “The ethnicity- and ancestry-based conception of the people that predominates within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order,” the domestic intelligence agency said in a statement. The AfD came...
Germany’s defence minister has warned Ukraine not to agree to a deal which involves sweeping territorial concessions in return for a ceasefire with Russia. Boris Pistorius said Ukraine “should not go as far as the latest proposal by the American president”, which he said would amount to a “capitulation”. US President Donald Trump said this...