Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that Germany would put arms sales to Saudi Arabia on hold in light of the murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. She said that they “could not take place in our current circumstances.” Meanwhile, foreign investors sold […]
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Germany
“Untrump the World”: Hundreds of Thousands March in Berlin against Far Right
“We are indivisible”
Calls grow in Germany to Expel US Ambassador who Aims to Empower Hard Right
A member of the German government accused the new US ambassador in Berlin of meddling in domestic politics and aggravating already tense ties
Cheap German Green Energy, Decarbonization Laws, Pressuring Dirty Polish Coal
By Bartłomiej Derski | Euractiv.com / WysokieNapiecie.pl | translated by Alexandra Brzozowski | – – Since 1990, the production of “green” electricity in Germany has increased by 1,000% and export rates, according to preliminary data for 2017, just smashed another record. EURACTIV Poland’s partner WysokieNapiecie.pl reports. When Germany was reunified, three electricity sources reigned supreme: […]
German Anti-Muslim Party Member in Surprise Conversion to Islam
TeleSur | – – Arthur Wagner resigned from Alternative for Germany (AfD) on January 11 for “personal reasons” and “only afterwards was it known that he had converted to Islam.” Arthur Wagner, a former leading member of German far-right anti-Muslim party Alternative for Germany (AfD), based in Brandenburg, has announced his conversion to Islam in […]
10,000 Deaths Later Germany Bars Arms Sales to Yemen Attackers
TeleSur | – – Only in the third financial quarter of 2017 German arms sale to Saudi Arabia accounted for US$550 million. Spokesperson for German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Friday the country will “immediately” stop all arms exports to countries involved in the ongoing war in Yemen, which began in March 2015 and has so […]
With 75% fall in flying Insects, Call for pesticide ban
By Samuel White | EurActiv.com | – – Scientists have raised the alarm after a study 27 years in the making found the biomass of flying insects in nature protected areas has declined by more than 75% since 1990. The causes of the decline are not fully understood. The decline of Europe’s bee populations has […]
Germany: Immediate Danger of Mideast War if Trump dumps Iran Deal
Foreign Minister warns that Europe will take the Russian and Chinese side on the Iran issue against the USA
Germany and the Rise of a ‘Fascist International’
John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Germany funds foundations for its political parties. If the far right gets one, we’re one step closer to globalizing the alt-right. Germany got its very own electoral shock this week when the far right won 13 percent of the vote in country’s parliamentary elections. […]
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