After evading numerous requests by Ukraine for heavy weapons, the German governing parties have now acquiesced and voted for a parliamentary proposal for such a delivery, alongside training offers for Ukrainian soldiers on German soil.
The notion that there are limits to our growth is holding the West in a psychological stranglehold. Whereas other civilizations are thriving, the West suffers from a weariness that stifles any belief in further progress. This weariness has had a name for almost 2,000 years: Acedia.
The head of the Berlin Greens said that expropriations are “not a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘how.’” During a referendum last September, a majority had voted for expropriations of large housing companies. An expert commission has now been appointed to advise on the process.
With the introduction of various green passes, Italy has been at the forefront of implementing variations of digital identification. But a new app that rewards people for “virtuous behavior” is the final step towards a full blown social credit score system.
A passerby at the Berlin Ostkreuz train station had a knife plunged into his back by a 29-year old Iraqi
In Eastern Germany, a soviet memorial for victims of the war and a memorial for victims of a concentration camp have been defaced. Besides Swastikas, pro-Ukrainian messages have been spray painted in blue and yellow.
70 years ago Akira Kurosawa won the Oscar for his film Rashomon. In our world, that demands us to constantly pick sides, the tale of four different versions of a story, that questions our perceptions of reality and our inevitable subjectivity, is as current as ever.
The “Ramadan agreement” that has been in effect since 2010 explicitly offered Muslim professional footballers the opportunity to make up for “the fasting days in the match-free period” so that “faith and profession” could be reconciled without conflict.
Édouard Manet’s world-famous “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” is the latest piece of art to receive a ‘woke’ trigger warning for its “unsettling” presence of a male in the painting.
After four years of legal battles, Shawnee University in Ohio has reached a $400,000 settlement with one of its professors, who sued the university after being reprimanded in 2018 for not addressing a transgender student by his preferred pronouns. The teacher, Nicholas Meriwether, had referred to a biologically male student as ‘sir,’ to which the […]
After a car accident involving two drunken bodyguards of the Austrian chancellor, suspicions of structural abuse of bodyguards by high-ranking politicians harden. An anonymous letter reveals abusive structures, the opposition inquires.
Following a series of scandals surrounding her decisions following the flood in 2021, German Minister of Family and Youth Anne Spiegel reacted to public pressure and resigned from office. She will be succeeded by fellow Green party member and financial expert Lisa Paus.
