While Americans are anxiously awaiting full details of the tax bill now being finalized in Congress, German economists are warning that the changes sought by President Donald Trump mean that significant amounts of new investment and jobs will shift from Europe to the United States. “The tax competition will have a new dimension,” said Christoph […]
Declassified Docs: U.S., Germany, France, Britain Assured Gorbachev Against NATO Expansion…
U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 […]
Germany’s Martin Schulz Wants ‘United States of Europe’ Within Eight Years…
The leader of Germany’s Social Democratic party has sketched out red lines for talks to form another coalition government with Angela Merkel. In a speech at the SPD’s party conference in Berlin that called for the creation of a “United States of Europe” by 2025, as well as a more robust social security net and […]
Why Is the Former East Germany Tilting Populist?…
860,000 in Germany Have No Home As Migration Levels Soar…
The number of people without a home in Germany has more than doubled since 2014, mostly driven by mass migration. The Federal Working Group for Homelessness announced that there are around 860,000 ‘homeless’ people living in Germany, up more than 150% since 2014. According to the data, 440,000 of those are migrants who came to […]
Germany: Full Censorship Now Official…
A new German law introducing state censorship on social media platforms came into effect on October 1, 2017. The new law requires social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, to censor their users on behalf of the German state. Social media companies are obliged to delete or block any online “criminal offenses” such […]
Germany Says It Found “No Evidence” Kaspersky Helped Russia Spy on U.S….
US intelligence agencies are claiming that the Russian government leveraged the popularity of Kaspersky Labs’ cybersecurity software to create what is tantamount to a global spy network with the company’s explicit cooperation. However, Germany’s intelligence agencies say they’ve found “no evidence” to suggest these reports are true. The Wall Street Journal, which last week reported […]
Spy Spin Fuels Anti-Kaspersky Campaign…
A German Election Analysis…
As your host is German you may want to read his opinion and analysis of today’s federal election results in Germany. German election results (ARD 6pm exit poll) Update: Preliminary official result…
Facebook Purges THOUSANDS of Accounts. Right Before the German Election…
Facebook has deleted tens of thousands of accounts ahead of German federal election, according to Facebook’s own specifications. The accounts are suspected to have spread false information or misleading content. As the company announced on Tuesday in Berlin, Facebook can now – based on an analysis of activity patterns…
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