Tag: Germany

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 21:58 UTC

  German family of 17 deported from Paraguay due to lack of COVID-19 vax

  

  Paraguayan authorities have deported a German family of 17 people who were all unvaccinated against COVID-19. They had sold all their assets to settle in the South American country, where other groups of European nationals have been reported to have migrated to avoid immunization mandates.

• Friday, March 4th 2022 - 12:02 UTC

  Ukrainian invasion triggers dramatic change in German post war policy

  

  By Ed Turner, Reader in Politics, Co-Director, Aston Center for Europe, Aston University - If you’d asked experts just a fortnight ago what the key features of Germany’s approach to foreign and defense policy were, there would have been several strands. Alignment with the west, and of course membership of the EU and Nato would have been a feature.

• Thursday, February 24th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  Germany confident is can cope without Russian gas: “relief will be provided if necessary”

  

  Germany is confident it can meet its energy needs even without Russian gas, given the current dispute over the self-declared, Moscow-supported independent provinces in Ukraine. The statement is from Germany's Economy minister Robert Habeck when he was asked on public radio on the situation

• Wednesday, February 23rd 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  “Europeans welcome to the new world and much dearer natural gas,” former Russian president Medvedev

  

  Europeans will soon have to pay €2,000 ($2,200) per thousand cubic meters of natural gas, former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev tweeted on Tuesday. The warning comes after Germany ordered a halt to Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline certification.

• Monday, February 21st 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  Brazilian born activist and “green influencer” crowned Miss Germany

  

  A Brazilian-born activist and “green influencer” has been crowned Miss Germany. Domitila Barros, 37, who lives in Berlin was competing for the title against other contestants at Rust in the district of Ortenau in Baden-Württemberg, home of the famous theme park Europa-Park.

• Tuesday, February 15th 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  Global Britain Commission planning to equal Germany's export prowess

  

  Boosting UK exports could result in a £500bn Brexit uplift creating some five million new jobs, according to the Global Britain Commission, a group of business leaders led by former trade minister Liam Fox.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Former German chancellor criticized for being member of Russian energy companies' boards

  

  In the midst of the conflicting situation between NATO and the US, with Russia, regarding a possible invasion of Ukraine and which has the European continent on the edge, a former German chancellor was appointed to the supervisory board of the Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom, one of the largest energy corporations in the world.

• Monday, December 20th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  German streets crowded with demonstrations against vaccines

  

  Ordinary citizens opposing anticovid measures and mandatory vaccination were mixed with neo-nazi groups and members of the far-right “identity movement” during Sunday's protests which garnered some 12,000 demonstrators in the German city of Nuremberg against the Governments sanitary decisions which compromise individual liberties.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 20:08 UTC

  German families seek shelter in Paraguay from vaccines and lockdowns

  

  German citizens who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or put up to harsh mobility restrictions have fled their country and sought shelter in a community within Paraguay, it was reported.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Graf Spee's anchor ferried to future Battle of River Plate memorial site

  

  The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, marking the end to the Battle of the River Plate against British Commonwealth forces at the beginning of World War II, has been ferried by lorry to Punta del Este to be a part of the Memorial site to be opened before the end of the year.