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Old April 19th, 2023 #361
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Germany closes its last 3 nuclear plants, ending an era of cheap and stable energy


Germans are divided on phasing out nuclear power

April 17, 2023
editor: REMIX NEWS author: MAGYAR HÍRLAP



Between 10:00 p.m. and midnight on Saturday, the last three nuclear power plants still operating in Germany were shut down, marking the end of nuclear power generation in the country after 60 years. The measure was received with mixed reactions across Germany.

A representative organization of large industrial energy users says energy shortages are to be expected, while environmentalists across Germany celebrated the fulfillment of a decades-long dream of no more nuclear power plants in the country.

“Today is a very big day, we have shut down the last three nuclear reactors. The Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 was the biggest boost to our success, but our decade-long struggle has also contributed to this,” said one unnamed environmental activist.

The end of nuclear energy in Germany came after the power plants Isar 2 in Bavaria, Emsland in Lower Saxony, and Neckarwestheim 2 in Baden-Württemberg were permanently disconnected from the grid. At the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a giant toppled dinosaur symbolized the closure of nuclear power plants and the victory over nuclear power.

However, not everyone in Germany was so enthusiastic about the closure of the last nuclear power plants. One demonstrator in Berlin said the closure would mean the country would return to fossil fuels and coal, which pollutes the air with carbon dioxide. Some in Emsland, where one of the closed nuclear power plants is located, also said they did not understand the point of the measure.
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Old April 25th, 2023 #362
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Frankfurt can’t cancel Roger Waters concert over his antisemitism record, court rules


BY GABE FRIEDMAN APRIL 25, 2023 4:38 PM



Roger Waters at a news conference in Rome, Jan. 16, 2018. He is a leading celebrity in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. (Ernesto S. Ruscio/Getty Images)

(JTA) — Frankfurt’s administrative court ruled that the city can’t cancel a Roger Waters concert after calling him “one of the most widely known antisemites in the world.”

Waters, the former frontman of the band Pink Floyd, took legal action and prevailed on Tuesday after Frankfurt officials said in February they would cancel his concert in May. The city can appeal the ruling.

The Frankfurt court ruled that because Rogers “did not glorify or relativise the crimes of the Nazis or identify with Nazi racist ideology” in past concerts, it was not appropriate to cancel the upcoming one.

Waters’ full-throated anti-Israel activism has frequently been accused of veering into antisemitism. In addition to being a leader of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, Waters’ has flown a pig-shaped balloon bearing a Star of David at his concerts, spoken about the alleged power of a nefarious Jewish lobby in the United States and compared Israeli actions in the West Bank to South Africa under apartheid and Nazi Germany.
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Old April 26th, 2023 #363
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German intelligence classifies AfD youth wing as 'extremist'

April 26, 2023

Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has reclassified the far-right Alternative for Germany's (AfD) youth wing as an extremist entity that threatens democracy, it said on Wednesday.

The domestic spy agency began monitoring the Young Alternatives organization for suspected extremism in 2019, but it will now be monitored as a confirmed case of right-wing extremism.

German intelligence classifies AfD youth wing as '''extremist''' – DW – 04/26/2023
 
Old April 27th, 2023 #364
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US spying on German Defense Ministry – media


Washington has reportedly been surveilling Berlin through electronic means

American spies have continued to eavesdrop on the German military even a decade after the 2013 NSA scandal, the newspaper Die Zeit and public broadcaster ARD reported on Thursday. The outlets cited a fresh ‘Pentagon leaks’ document detailing information that US intelligence had gathered about talks between the German and Chinese militaries.

The document in question describes a February meeting between German Defense Ministry officials and a Chinese People’s Liberation Army delegation. The Germans demurred on deeper cooperation with their Chinese counterparts and called on Beijing to become more “transparent,” the paper seen by the media outlets states.

Die Zeit and ARD said they considered the leaked document to be “authentic” even though Washington did not officially confirm it. The outlets also said that the German authorities had officially informed the US embassy about the meeting described in the document.

According to Die Zeit and ARD, the leaked document was also shown to the German government and is now “occupying [the attention] of the German security authorities.” However, it is not the contents of the document but the way the information was obtained that provoked Berlin’s concerns, the outlets added.
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Old April 28th, 2023 #365
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German government boosts annual funding to main Jewish organization by 70%

APRIL 27, 2023

Germany has boosted the annual subsidy to Germany’s Jewish umbrella organization by 70%, in a move intended to shore up security and support a new center for Jewish intellectual life inspired by one closed by the Nazis.

The Central Council of Jews in Germany, which distributes government funds to Jewish communities and institutions, will get 22 million Euros (about $24 million) from Germany starting next year, up from 13 million Euros this year.

Most of the increase — 16 million Euros — will benefit the operation of the Jewish Academy in Frankfurt, according to Central Council President Josef Schuster. The new institution — envisioned as an inheritor of the Jewish House of Free Study, or Lehrhaus, founded in 1920 by Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig — has been in the works for more than a decade and is scheduled to open in 2024.

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Old May 2nd, 2023 #366
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Kremlin says German involvement in Ukraine conflict is growing due to arms supplies


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MOSCOW, May 2 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Germany's involvement in the Ukraine conflict was growing by the day, and that Berlin had no way of ensuring that weapons it had provided to Ukraine would not be used against Russian territory.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said German-supplied weapons were already being used in the Donbas region, which Russia has declared its own, a step Ukraine and the West have dismissed as illegal.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday that Germany had insisted, like other NATO member countries, that the weapons it is supplying to Ukraine must not be used against Russian territory.

But Peskov told reporters: "First, Germany doesn't have a way to check. Second, the weapons supplied by Germany to the Kyiv regime are already firing at Russian territory, because the Donbas is a Russian region."
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Old May 14th, 2023 #367
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Fanning the flames: Germany plans largest arms shipment to Ukraine


Saturday, 13 May 2023 10:01 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 13 May 2023 10:45 AM ]



Ukrainian soldiers training with a Leopard tank, Klietz, Germany, May 2023. (Photo by Reuters)

The German military has announced plans for shipping a massive package of weaponry for Ukraine worth 2.7 billion euros in its latest bid to further fuel the US-led war effort against Russia.

Announcing the arms shipment, Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius conceded in a Saturday statement, however that despite his wishes for a quick end to the conflict, “this is not in sight.”

"We all hope for a rapid end to this terrible war by Russia against the Ukrainian people, but unfortunately this is not in sight," Pistorius claimed in the statement after declaring Germany’s largest arms shipment to Kiev since the Ukraine conflict began in February 2022.

Berlin’s arms package for Kiev includes 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 30 Leopard 1 tanks, 15 Gepard anti-aircraft tanks, 200 reconnaissance drones, four additional Iris-T anti-aircraft systems including ammunition, additional artillery ammunition and more than 200 armored combat and logistics vehicles.
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Old May 14th, 2023 #368
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Germany mulls Berlin Olympics redo 100 years after Nazis


The interior minister says applying to host the event on the centennial of the 1936 Games is “the right step”

Berlin is considering a bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2036. Interior and Sports Minister Nancy Faeser has promoted the idea, saying it would help the nation to rectify its past mistakes.

The idea is “conceivable that you deal with it in a special way at the place where it happened, where exclusion and this terrible disregard for humanity took place,” she said on Thursday, when asked whether the German capital could once again host the Olympics 100 years after Adolf Hitler welcomed the international community, except for athletes from the Soviet Union and a handful of other states, to Berlin.

“The 1936 games were terrible. The Nazis organized the games as a means of promoting themselves,” Faeser said, referring to the fact that Hitler sought to use the Olympics to improve the image of his regime across the world three years before the start of WWII.

Faeser’s predecessor, Horst Seehofer, considered the idea inconceivable. In 2019, he warned that it could be seen in the world as if the “Germans are celebrating the centennial of the Nazi Olympics.”
https://www.rt.com/news/576239-germa...s-no-russians/
 
Old May 15th, 2023 #369
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Northvolt to invest billions to build gigafactory in Germany


By Supantha Mukherjee and Victoria Waldersee

STOCKHOLM/BERLIN, May 12 (Reuters) - Sweden's Northvolt will invest several billion euros to build a gigafactory in Germany, able to supply around 1 million electric vehicles with battery cells every year, the lithium-ion battery maker and German government said in a joint statement on Friday.

The federal government as well as the Schleswig-Holstein state government will provide subsidies for the project in Heide, northern Germany, subject to approval by the European Commission, the statement said.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/n...ny-2023-05-12/
 
Old May 16th, 2023 #370
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Zelenskiy collects Charlemagne Prize on behalf of Ukrainian people


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BERLIN, May 14 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy collected the prestigious Charlemagne Prize on behalf of the Ukrainian people on Sunday in honour of services to Europe, capping a visit to Germany in which he secured new military aid and warm support from Berlin.

Zelenskiy flew to the western city of Aachen with Chancellor Olaf Scholz following talks in the German capital. He received a standing ovation at a ceremony in the Coronation room of Aachen town hall, where he was awarded the prize, which celebrates services to European unification.

"Ukrainians will always make Europe stronger," Zelenskiy said in English before switching to Ukrainian to address the gathering that included European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

"Ukraine is proposing a victory not just in this war but a victory over aggression, annexations, deportations over the catastrophe of genocide, anywhere throughout the world," he said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...le-2023-05-14/

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Old May 17th, 2023 #371
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Scholz's Social Democrats win Bremen state vote, Greens slump


By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke

BERLIN, May 14 (Reuters) - Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats won an election on Sunday in Germany's smallest state, Bremen, in a vote that could give a modest lift to the centre-left party which has seen its popularity slide nationally.

The state is not deemed a political bellwether for other parts of Germany given its specific characteristics and its small size with around 683,000 inhabitants in Bremen city and its Bremerhaven North Sea port.

By contrast, the states of Bavaria and Hesse, which will hold elections in October, together comprise nearly a quarter of Germany's population of 83.2 million.

Still, the traditional SPD stronghold - a car hub that is turning into a key port for the growing offshore wind industry - is the first federal state to hold a fresh election this year.
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Old May 17th, 2023 #372
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Germany to order 123 Leopard main battle tanks in effort to rebuild military


Germany is beefing up its tank fleet with billions in spending

May 16, 2023
editor: REMIX NEWS author: MANDINER



German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius aboard a Leopard tank. (MTI/EPA/Friedemann Vogel)

Determined to show a more decisive image than his predecessor, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is moving forward to begin aggressively working on fixing the deplorable state of his country’s military.

The Bundeswehr is in such a poor state that many experts believe piecemeal measures cannot help and it must be practically rebuilt. On the one hand, Pistorius has taken a firm stance in favor of increasing the German defense budget above the NATO requirement of 2 percent of GDP, and on the other, he has immediately started to buy weapons, a task that his predecessor had completely neglected. Now, the German armed forces are attempting to rearm at breakneck speed to make it Europe’s leading military power.

Scholz announced a shift in Germany’s decades-long defense policy on Feb. 27, 2022, in reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three days before. The speech has become famous for the biggest change in defense policy since the end of World War II.
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German carmakers call for post-Brexit rules to be postponed


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BERLIN, May 18 (Reuters) - Germany's powerful auto industry association is urging the European Union and Britain to postpone post-Brexit rules it says would hamper the transition to electric vehicles, potentially boosting the hand of UK-based carmakers calling for the same.

Under the trade deal agreed when Britain left the EU, 45% of the value of an electric vehicle (EV) sold in the EU must come from Britain or the EU from 2024 to avoid tariffs.

The problem is that a battery pack can account for up to half a new EV's cost and Europe has not yet developed a big enough battery industry of its own - and is unlikely to do so by the end of 2023, the VDA association said in a statement.

Tariffs both on exports to Britain and imports from it would be "a significant competitive disadvantage for the European car industry in relation to its Asian competitors in the so important UK market", it said.
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Germany’s president backs lowering voting age to 16 and introducing longer terms in office


The move would likely benefit left-wing parties and harm conservatives

May 19, 2023
editor: REMIX NEWS author: JOHN CODY

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says he is open to lowering the voting age for federal elections to 16.

In the wake of the demographic shift, he believes it is “not only necessary but imperative to think about balancing the weight of younger people by lowering the voting age to 16 in federal elections as well,” he said in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Wednesday.

“In a number of federal states, this is already the law for local and state elections anyway,” added Germany’s head of state, according to a report from Deutschlandfunk. In 1996, Lower Saxony was the first state to allow 16-year-olds to vote in local elections, but six other states have now adopted the same rule at the state level, as well as nine states at the local level.

The move to reduce voting ages has long been pushed by the left-wing Social Democrats and Green party. Young people are increasingly likely to vote for these parties, and many of them are either foreign-born or the children of immigrants, which fuels their support for pro-migration parties.

“I am convinced that young people at 16 are very capable of making a responsible electoral decision,” said, for example, the former governing mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey (SPD).

The Green party has also run petitions calling for a lower voting age, writing: “Political decisions often affect young people particularly badly, such as the closing and reopening of schools during the pandemic. They show solidarity in the crisis and take responsibility for the climate — but have no say.”
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Germany pours cold water on Ukraine F-16 hopes


Berlin does not have any of the fighter jets for Kiev, and a pilot training program is “a long-term project,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said

Ukraine should not expect F-16 fighter jet deliveries from the West in the near future, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday, while expressing support for a plan to train pilots to fly the advanced jets.

Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Scholz stated that “what is connected with the training of pilots is a long-term project,” adding that the US has not yet decided what will happen at the end of the program.

“The project has a message for Russia: Russia cannot count on winning if it bets on a long war,” he said.

Scholz stated, however, that there is no chance Germany will take part in F-16 deliveries to Ukraine. “First of all, everyone knows that we don’t even have such aircraft.”

The chancellor noted that Berlin is providing Kiev with what is “immediately important now,” including tanks, ammunition, and air defense equipment, adding that Germany “will support Ukraine for as long as it is necessary, financially, humanitarianly and also with arms.”
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German military to sell tons of toilet paper


The Bundeswehr decided to jettison inventory that does not fit new dispensers

The German military is auctioning off nearly 10,000 rolls of toilet paper that do not fit new dispensers at Bundeswehr facilities, local media reported on Monday.

According to a posting on the Vebeg online auction platform, which was picked up by the German TV network RTL, the Bundeswehr is offering a total of 12 pallets of toilet paper stored in 360 boxes that has a transport weight of over 3 tons.
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Syrian brothers arrested in Germany planned to blow up packed Swedish church


Investigators have concluded that both brothers intended to build a suicide vest and carry out an act of terror on an unspecified Christian place of worship

May 24, 2023
editor: REMIX NEWS author: THOMAS BROOKE



Two Syrian brothers arrested in Germany last month on suspicion of plotting a radical Islamist terror attack had discussed plans to blow up a fully occupied Swedish church, investigators announced on Tuesday.

In a joint press release by German federal police, Hamburg state police, and the Hamburg public prosecutor’s office, authorities revealed that two Syrian nationals had been intending to detonate a homemade bomb on an unspecified Christian place of worship in the Scandinavian country.

Anas K., 28, and Ahmad K., 24, were arrested at their homes in Hamburg and Kempten in the early hours of April 25 as police executed an arrest warrant for the former for terrorist financing.

They soon discovered the brothers had been preparing to build a homemade explosive belt to attack civilians, with police also recovering substantial evidence including chemicals consistent with bomb-making and a number of burner phones.
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Roger Waters could face legal issues for use of Anne Frank's name - UKLFI


Waters, who is currently under investigation for possible incitement by German police, may also have committed trademark abuse.

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD Published: MAY 26, 2023 14:39



Roger Waters, who recently performed at a concert in Germany wearing an SS uniform could be facing civil action, according to UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI).

Waters, who is currently under investigation for possible incitement by German police, may also have committed trademark abuse according to UK-based nonprofit company UKLFI, for the use of Anne Frank's name during his widely-criticized concert, which he used without the consent of the Anne Frank Foundation, which has trademarked the name.

According to the UKLFI website, “UKLFI’s chief executive Jonathan Turner has pointed out that Anne Frank Stichting registered 'Anne Frank' as a trademark inter alia in Class 41 for entertainment services in various jurisdictions.

"Roger Waters’ abuse of the mark seems liable to harm its functions and without due cause to take unfair advantage of its distinctive character and repute and/or to be detrimental to the distinctive character or repute, thereby infringing the rights of the Anne Frank Stichting," the website continued.

According to Turner, “Anne Frank Stichting and its lawyers might consider whether to protect its mark and other rights by threatening and, if necessary, bringing legal proceedings against Roger Waters and/or those organizing or hosting his concerts."
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antis...article-744282

Apparently, Anne Frank is a trademark. Yeah, that sounds about right.
 
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Germany to remove at least 100 staff from its missions in Russia - source


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FRANKFURT, May 27 (Reuters) - (This story has been corrected to clarify that not all employees are directly employed by the German government, in the headline and paragraph 1)

Germany will remove more than 100 employees working at its missions in Russia after Moscow imposed limits on the numbers allowed to work in the country, a source with the German foreign ministry said on Saturday.

"This limit, set by Russia for the beginning of June, requires a major cut in all areas of our presence in Russia," the source said.
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Russia summons Germany, Denmark, Sweden envoys over 'stalled' Nord Stream investigation


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MOSCOW, May 25 (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday said it had summoned the ambassadors of Germany, Sweden and Denmark to protest over what it said was the "complete lack of results" in an investigation to identify who blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last year.

Several unexplained underwater explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and newly built Nord Stream 2 pipelines that link Russia and Germany across the Baltic Sea in September 2022.

The blasts occurred in the economic zones of Sweden and Denmark. Both countries say the explosions were deliberate, but have yet to determine who was responsible. The two countries as well as Germany are investigating the incident.

Russia's Foreign Ministry in a statement accused all three of deliberately dragging their feet and trying to conceal who was behind the blasts.

It said it was unhappy about what it called the opaque nature of the investigation and its refusal to engage with Russia.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...am-2023-05-25/
 
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