If you’ve only been reading the Irish media, there’s a very good chance you won’t be aware of the mounting row in Brussels over whether or not the EU should issue so-called “Eurobonds” to help countries like Italy (and Ireland, indeed) get through the Covid-19 crisis. There has been some coverage, but not a vast […]
Aachen Cathedral in Germany is renowned for its beauty and for being one of the oldest cathedrals in Europe, constructed by order of the emperor Charlemagne, who was subsequently buried in the church in 814. Now the Cathedral is the focus of international attention because it contains in its treasure chamber the relics of Saint Corona, the patron saint […]
Germany’s highest court has overturned a ban on assisted suicide, introduced in 2015, which was ‘supposed to prevent anyone offering assisted sucide as a commercial venture’ while excempting from punishment ‘relatives or doctors who helped a single patient to die on a one-off basis’; the German constitutional court ruled that the ban meant those ‘offering […]
The play’s author and director, LGBT activist Falk Richter, had manipulated the quote from a speech Kuby delivered in 2014, making it appear that she supported a totalitarian state.
A German man is being investigated on suspicion of attempted murder after he drove his car into a crowd at high speed, injuring 61 people, including 20 children, on Monday.
A Berlin pharmacist has won a landmark court victory defending his right to refuse to sell the ‘morning-after pill’ on the grounds that doing so would violate his conscience and deeply held beliefs.
Ironically for a country that defeated Hitler, it was Britain that gave birth to Hitler’s malign influences, Malthusianism and eugenics. Under these influences the Great War was seen as a racial disaster; eugenicists saw the European races killing each other, to the benefit of the ‘lesser races’.
The Bundesbank says Germany is headed to recession. Not good news, especially with the possibility of a hard Brexit on the horizon: The German economy could slip into a technical recession in the third quarter after failing to recover over the summer, the Bundesbank said on Monday. In a monthly report, the Bundesbank said falling […]