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Dangerous gas smell around Ukraine

Herman Michiel
Analysis
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If Russia invades Ukraine, the pipeline between Russia and Germany will not become operational. There will be no more Nord Stream 2. We will put an end to that. Promise, we are able to do...

Germany’s declining middle class

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
Coronavirus
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Even though Marx’s well-acknowledged truth that capitalism creates two classes is over 160 years old, class remains a much debated issue. Marx’s idea is relatively straightforward. In capitalism, there are two classes: firstly, there are workers or proletariat. Workers...

The Nazi language of German anti-vaxxers

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Coronavirus
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In Germany, conspiracy myths linked to the Coronavirus pandemic are spreading particularly well in the former East-Germany state of Saxony. Not by accident, Saxony remains a stronghold of Germany’s Neo-Nazi party, the Alternative for Germany or AfD....

Mandatory Covid-19 vaccination in Germany

Thomas Klikauer
Coronavirus
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As Germany has just reached the 100,000 Corona death mark, the debate on mandatory vaccination is heating up in the country. As a matter of fact, Germany has had ample time to properly discuss or introduce such a...

ELMO: Right to housing struggles in Eastern Europe and the Berlin referendum

András Juhász
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The value of global real estate makes up nearly 60% of the value of all global assets, with residential real estate comprising 75% of the total. In a September referendum, which was the result of...

The kitchen-floor debate or what does the left want?

Julia Rone
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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It was a wicked, foolish lie, Mankind will never fly, Said the Bishop to the People. Bertold Brecht, Ulm 1592 On kitchen floors and Lidl The first stories I ever heard about Western Germany were told...

The disastrous election defeat of the German Left

Herman Michiel
Elections
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According to analysts, of these 2 million, 820,000 would have voted for the social-democratic SPD, 610,000 for the Grünen (Greens) and 520,000 would not have voted. The score of 4.9% of the votes cast was...

Who bought Politico for a billion dollars? A right-wing German news conglomerate?

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Germamy
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At the end of August 2021, Germany’s right-wing Axel Springer bought the US political magazine Politico for about $1bn (€850m) – the most expensive acquisition in the history of Germany’s right-wing Springer Group. Until the...

Germany’s new neo-Nazis: the Reichsbürger

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Democracy
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Only a few weeks ago, a Reichsbürger in Germany shot a police officer with a crossbow during a house’s search in a remote town called Linden, in the north of Hessen. The Reichsbürger is accused of attempted manslaughter...

Merkel, German men & motor cars

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Analysis
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In September 2021, outgoing German chancellor Angela Merkel took herself off to Germany’s International Motor Show celebrating Germany’s lasted achievements in cars. Almost since its invention, the automobile has been a weapon, as well as...