After failing to achieve independence from Russian gas in the short term, German Minister of Economy Robert Habeck blocked the sale of the German subsidiary of Russian energy company Gazprom, and put it under state controlled trusteeship to ensure security of supply.
The German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach spent months campaigning to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations. But the parliamentary vote on April 7th clearly rejected all proposals.
More than 500 years ago Antoine Brumel wrote a 12-part Mass that allows us to experience the uninhibited spirituality of the pre-Reformation world of the early 16th century. Its construction from a tiny motif of Gregorian chant from the Easter Lauds is nothing less than awe-inspiring.
The attendance of a performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion during Holy Week has long been a staple of the educated bourgeoisie. But what once used to be a reverent experience, is in danger of becoming increasingly demystified. A plea for awe.
Proceeds from the sale of scammer Anna Sorokin’s drawings are intended to cover her legal costs, with 15% of the revenue to be donated to an “unspecified children’s charity.”
The German Ethics Council released a statement criticising politics and media for their crisis management during the pandemic, calling for measures to be “democratically legitimised,” while conveniently forgetting how the Ethics Council helped shape those very measures they now criticise.
Following a decision by the German Conference of Minister-Presidents, Ukrainian refugees are now being treated as recognized refugees, giving them access to better healthcare, basic benefits, and the workforce. Critics fear this might create a new pull-factor within the EU.
Saad al-Kaabi, Qatar’s Minister of Energy, referred to hopes that Qatar could immediately replace Russian gas deliveries to Germany as “nonsense.”
The latest figures, published at the beginning of March by Germany’s third-largest statutory health insurer, DAK-Gesundheit, show that absence from work due to mental illness reached a record high in 2021.
In a first visit to Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover last August, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke about economic cooperation between the two countries, and renewed his call to the U.S. to end sanctions.
Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” is one of the most popular pieces of classical music in the world. Aesthetic changes in the 19th century have created an image of a proto-romantic work, while in fact it may be an homage to a bygone tradition of the 18th century.
In a statement first released by Tichys Einblick, Cardinal Gerhard Müller addresses the harm the LGBT ideology causes in children and young adults, calling out its “totalitarian position of power in politics” and reaffirming the existence of two sexes as God’s creation.
