Not more than 24 hours ago was I here writing up a summary of the pivotal talks for the future of the Eurozone that are taking place […]
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The specter of Greece and the capitulation of the European project
The Eurogroup emergency meeting came to an abrupt end at 12 a.m. Brussels local time, after 9 hours of excruciating debates. The vacuum of information […]
Mixed feelings at Berlin’s gay memorial
Of all the feelings I thought I’d have at a memorial to gay Holocaust victims, shame was the furthest from my mind. Yet it’s exactly what I felt
Flipping off: Germany to abandon nuclear by 2022, activists not satisfied
Despite the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster and renewed fears about the safety of nuclear power, almost no country has taken a position against the controversial energy source, except one. Europe’s economic engine and most populace country, Germany, has bucked the global trend and announced it will shut down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022, at the latest. But ask Jana Wiechmann, Greenpeace coordinator for the northern German city of Bremen, if the battle over nuclear in Germany is won and the answer is simple: no.
Achtung! Germany getting greener beyond doors of Klimahaus museum
When Bob Geldof opened the world’s first climate change museum in northern Germany two years ago, he was surprised by two guests, a man from Niger and a man from Samoa whose countries feature prominently in The Journey, the main exhibit at the Klimahaus. Geldof, a well-known human rights activist and music producer, spoke about water, from rising sea levels to desertification, and how these global warming problems will lead to climate migration. People like Foua from Samoa and Ibrahim from Niger would be forced to abandon their homes and homelands because their island is being flooded or there simply isn’t enough water available to survive where their people have lived for centuries…
Das Klimahaus ist gut! World’s first climate change museum gives visitors the 8th degree
They say seeing is believing, but at Germany’s imaginative and revealing climate change museum, they believe experience is even better. Opened in June 2009 in the northern German port city of Bremerhaven, the UNESCO-sponsored museum is the first of its kind. The journey exhibit takes people through a range of the world’s climate zones: mountain glaciers, scorching desert, muggy rainforest and…
Latest: U.S soldiers shot, one killed at German airport
There has been a shooting of U.S. Soldiers at the Frankfurt International Airport.
The Gunman, believed to be from Kosovo, drew a weapon and attacked a bus full of soldiers located near terminal 2.
The motivation for the attack remains unknown, but some are speculating that it could be politically motivated.