Germany

Ruining the Planet: Not only are the German Far Right Scary Racists, they’re Climate Denialists to Boot

By Rachel Waldholz | – Der Spiegel: ( Clean Energy Wire) – Right-wing populist parties could make major gains in the coming European elections, with many of them bringing a new climate scepticism to the chamber and making it harder to pass ambitious climate policies, Annika Joeres and Susanne Götze report in Der Spiegel. Parties […]

Donald Trump

Trump and Don Jr. Wage Scathing War of Words on . . . Conservatives of Britain and Germany?

AFP

By Shaun TANDON | – Washington, DC (AFP) – President Donald Trump is once again tearing up the diplomatic norm of treading lightly in allies’ domestic politics, with his team attacking Britain’s beleaguered leader over Brexit and irritating Germany. Trump, who has slaughtered so many sacred cows in US politics, has shown no compunction over […]

Donald Trump

Leader of Free World Angela Merkel Rips Bark off Trump for humiliating German Auto Industry

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a major speech on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed anxiety that the world’s ‘security architecture’ is unraveling. “What we see as an overall architecture underpinning our world as we know it is a bit of a puzzle now; if you like, it has […]

Coal

Germany to End its Coal Industry, Go Green, within 20 Years

Clean Energy Wire

( 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

(Informed Comment) – The year after the recent influx of refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan into Europe, I went to see how communities across Germany were responding. Chancellor Angela Merkel had said all communities in Germany must take 1.5 percent of their populations in asylum-seekers, so there were all manner of programs. I went […]

Germany

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

TeleSur

A 50-year-old driver injured Syrian and Afganistan migrants and shouted racist comments as he was being arrested. A 50-year-old man has been arrested after driving his car into a crowd of people in Germany in what police say appears to be a racist attack. A group of migrants from Syria and Afghanistan was attacked in […]

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

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Germany, a pioneer in renewables among the advanced industrial economies, now gets 38% of its electricity from renewables. In the United States the proportion of electricity generated by renewables is only about 20%, about half as much as Germany, because of the opposition to green energy of Big Oil, Big […]

Far Right

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

Open Democracy

By Samuel Salzborn | – ( OpenDemocracy ) – The AfD wants to use Israel to exploit the false notion that whoever is pro-Israel could not be antisemitic, and to find strategic allies in its fight against Muslim immigration.

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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 […]