Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference Image: dpa Bad news from Ukraine, a transatlantic dispute on the open stage and a lukewarm performance by the Chancellor. If things continue like this, the West will have poor chances. ZAt the Munich Security Conference, the Russian side managed to achieve successes on several … Read more
Dhe Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was greeted with a standing ovation at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. February 24, 2022 “could have been the end of the world as we know it,” said Zelensky, referring to the start of the Russian war of aggression almost two years ago. Ukraine’s resistance together with its partners … Read more
European, but not German: Photo taken after the explosion of the first French nuclear bomb in the Algerian Sahara in February 1960 Image: AFP No German chancellor sought his own nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, the civilian use of nuclear energy was viewed with great suspicion – not to Germany’s detriment. A guest post. DThe Federal Republic … Read more
Biberach is not Germany. At least not only. That is the reassuring news that comes from Robert Habeck’s visit to Leipzig on Wednesday. Given the general conditions, the trip of the Green Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister could have ended differently. His party is not exactly well-liked in the East. The visit to a crafts … Read more
2023-08-08 20:33:58 This bill has been washed… and blow-dried, made up and styled! Despite the end of her term of office, the federal government continues to pay for the styling of former Chancellor Angela Merkel (69, CDU). And not too tight: since the end of her term of office, 55,000 euros have already been collected … Read more
2023-01-03 08:00:00 A lack of historical awareness, misrepresentation of history and, of course, cancel culture: the knee-jerk criticism of the renaming of the Bismarck room in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin was to be expected. The wood-panelled room in which the SED Politburo met until 1989 is now called the “Hall of German Unity”. … Read more
2023-07-13 13:31:00 Even if, in view of the pandemic that has just passed, doubts remain as to whether humanity will act more cautiously in the next one, there is still hope in relation to individual aspects. It remains to be seen whether the toilet paper crisis will repeat itself. Meanwhile, at least some Europeans will … Read more
2023-07-11 19:49:30 Schallenberg, Sobotka, Edtstadler and now Nehammer: The list of ÖVP recommendations for the FPÖ is getting longer and longer Vienna (OTS) – FPÖ Secretary General NAbg reacted calmly today. Christian Hafenecker responded to the statement by ÖVP Chancellor Nehammer, according to which he ruled out working with Herbert Kickl after the next election. … Read more