Tag: Germany

Sunday, December 1st 2019 - 02:22 UTC
UK delegation travelling for the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the River Plate

This Sunday, December first members of the HMS Ajax and River Plate Veterans leave for Chile, Uruguay and Argentina to recall events of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the River Plate, 13 December 1939.
Tuesday, November 26th 2019 - 09:26 UTC
Thieves empty German museum of €1 billion in jewels and treasures

Thieves grabbed jewels and other treasures worth up to €1 billion from an eastern German museum in the early hours of Monday, Bild newspaper reported.
Friday, November 15th 2019 - 09:45 UTC
Germany and Brazil renew nuclear cooperation agreement; third nuclear plant to be built by 2026

Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, on Thursday ignored pleas from the Green party to scrap a nuclear agreement with Brazil. “Our cooperation in this area has worked well for decades,” Parliamentary State Secretary for the Environment Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) said. “There are currently no plans to cancel the agreement.”
Saturday, November 9th 2019 - 10:36 UTC
Life is communist Germany was simpler, almost comfortable, Angela Merkel recalls

Life in the Communist-ruled German Democratic Republic (GDR) was simpler and sometimes could be “almost comfortable in a certain way”, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in the former East, told Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:31 UTC
Germany will celebrate 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in a “reflective spirit”

Germany marks three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall this week, but a hint of a return of the Cold War and the rise of nationalism is dampening the mood. Leaders of former Cold War powers will be absent from anniversary festivities, as Donald Trump's America First, Britain's Brexit and Russia's resurgence put a strain on ties.
Tuesday, October 29th 2019 - 19:02 UTC
Germany's Christian Democrats hounded by far left and far right voters

German conservative leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Monday (Oct 28) faced a rebellion by party members angry at a humiliating election result in eastern Thuringia state where the Christian Democrats (CDU) lost voters to both the far-left and far-right.
Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:40 UTC
German farmers protest new agricultural policy which promotes organic practices

Thousands of farmers drove their tractors into German cities on Tuesday, in protest at the government's new agricultural policies which they say will hurt their livelihoods and make them scapegoats for climate change.
Thursday, October 10th 2019 - 09:13 UTC
Attack on synagogue in Germany killing two people live-streamed on Twitch

An anti-Semitic attack that killed at least two people in the German city of Halle on Wednesday was streamed live for 35 minutes, and eventually seen by around 2,200 people, the online platform Twitch said.
Monday, September 9th 2019 - 09:40 UTC
Germany stunned by the election of a neo-Nazi as head of town council, with votes from democratic parties

The unanimous election of a neo-Nazi politician in Germany as the head of a town council, thanks to votes from rival party members, has sparked outrage among senior political figures.
Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 09:40 UTC
Extreme right advances in German regional elections deepens ruling coalition division

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners bled support to the far right in two state elections in eastern Germany on Sunday, dealing a double blow to her already unstable ruling alliance.