Source link Federal judges have sided with the Bavarian government in its litigation against an atheist group The authorities in Bavaria have the right to demand that Christian crosses be placed in all government buildings, the German Federal Administrative Court – one of the nation’s five federal supreme courts – ruled on Tuesday. The decision […]
Source link The defense ministers of Berlin and Vilnius have signed a plan for a major military deployment Germany and Lithuania on Monday signed a roadmap for what is set to become the largest deployment of German troops on foreign soil in the modern era. Under the plan, the 5,000-strong brigade will be stationed less […]
Source link The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won a mayoral election for the first time, with candidate Tim Lochner making history in the Saxon town of Pirna. The victory comes less than two weeks after regional authorities designated the AfD as “extremist.” The AfD has enjoyed rising support among German voters in […]
Source link Germany may confiscate gift parcels sent from Russia ahead of this year’s festive season, the country’s Federal Customs Service announced in statement on its website this week. According to the statement, gift parcels are regulated by the same sanctions legislation as any imports, as they may contain sanctioned goods such as paper, pulp, […]
Source link Bundeswehr Inspector General Carsten Breuer had previously expressed concerns about the nation’s war readiness The German army has neither the strength nor the equipment required to effectively defend the nation, the tabloid Bild reported on Wednesday, citing its own analysis of the state of the armed forces. The outlet was fact-checking a warning […]
Source link Security services in Saxony claim the organization is “undoubtedly” pursuing an anti-constitutional agenda Authorities in the German region of Saxony have designated the local branch of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as an extremist group. The move follows similar decisions in Thuringia and Sachsen-Anhalt, while the party is accused of being a […]
Source link New orders for German-made industrial goods dropped unexpectedly in October amid the energy crisis and weak global demand, provisional data from the country’s federal statistics office Destatis showed on Wednesday. Factory orders in manufacturing were down 7.3% year-on-year and down 3.7% from September. The figures defied analysts’ predictions of a 0.2% increase month-on-month. […]
Source link Fewer donors pledge smaller new packages, with focus shifting towards weapons, IfW Kiel has said New commitments of weapons and money to Ukraine by the US and its allies have reached a new low in the past three months, down to almost one tenth of what they were a year ago, Germany’s Kiel […]
Source link Several videos have surfaced on social media showing the Russian soldiers seizing and driving trophy Western equipment Russian soldiers in Ukraine have seized several Western-made pieces of heavy equipment in recent days, a series of videos published on social media has shown. The clips show Moscow’s troops driving a trophy US-made Bradley infantry […]
Source link The “crux of the issue” for Ukraine is that hundreds of thousands of its citizens are avoiding military service, Roderich Kiesewetter has said Making hundreds of thousands of able-bodied Ukrainian men who fled to the EU go back and join the army would greatly aid Kiev’s cause, German MP Roderich Kiesewetter told Die […]
Source link Local media claim it to be the largest snowfall in Munich since records were first collected in 1933 Extreme snowfall and sub-zero temperatures led to chaos in the Bavarian state capital of Munich on Saturday as a winter storm paralyzed air and rail travel, led to road traffic accidents, and forced the cancellation […]
Source link Back in 2018, Juergen Helfricht co-authored the publication without informing his employer, the tabloid BILD Germany’s BILD newspaper has sacked its reporter Juergen Helfricht after it emerged that he’d co-authored a book titled ‘To learn to love Russia’ in 2018 without informing the editors about the project. The media outlet explained that the […]
Source link Anxiety is rising among the country’s auto manufacturers as the border protest by Polish truckers shows no sign of abating The buildup of freight at the Poland-Ukraine border due to the ongoing protest by Polish truckers and farmers is a growing cause for concern in Germany’s automotive industry, Bild reported on Thursday. Thousands […]
Source link The Qatari foreign minister kept Frank-Walter Steinmeier waiting in scorching heat German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was kept waiting for almost 30 minutes in a plane passenger exit in the searing heat of Doha on Wednesday, before Qatari Foreign Minister Soltan bin Saad Al-Muraikhi finally arrived to receive him, German media have reported. State […]
Source link Soldiers have yet to see any of the billions of euros that the chancellor vowed to spend, the American newspaper reported Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s €100 billion ($109 billion) cash injection into the German military has yet to reach the barracks, where soldiers told the New York Times that they still lack weapons, ammunition, […]