Germany

( Clean Energy Wire) – Energy transition home country Germany eyes a phase-out of coal power by 2038 at the very latest, as the country tries to get back on track to create a climate-friendly economy. In its highly anticipated phase-out proposal, the country’s coal commission said the world’s fourth largest economy could also wean […]

Displaced and Refugees

The Surprising Successes of Community Work with Muslim Refugees in Germany

Frances Trix

I studied the most positive refugee settlement programs inside Germany

Germany

Germany: MSM won’t Tell you White Nationalist Drove into Muslim Refugees

TeleSur

Police said the attack was premeditated and that one of the victims is still in hospital receiving treatment

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Germany’s Electricity 38% Renewable in 2018, more than Coal for 1st Time

Juan Cole

Meanwhile, carbon dioxide emissions fell 6% in the world’s 4th-largest economy.

Far Right

The Antisemitic Turn of the Rising Far Right ‘Alternative for Germany’ Party

Open Democracy

The AfD wants to use Israel to exploit the false notion that whoever is pro-Israel could not be antisemitic

Featured

Germany halts arms Sales to Riyadh, as Investors sell $1 bn in Saudi Stocks

Juan Cole

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 […]

Germany

“Untrump the World”: Hundreds of Thousands March in Berlin against Far Right

Common Dreams

“We are indivisible”

Donald Trump

Calls grow in Germany to Expel US Ambassador who Aims to Empower Hard Right

Hui Min Neo

A member of the German government accused the new US ambassador in Berlin of meddling in domestic politics and aggravating already tense ties

Climate Change

Cheap German Green Energy, Decarbonization Laws, Pressuring Dirty Polish Coal

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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: […]