Germany
“It’s a Mistake To Think We Have this Disease Under Control”
How are things going with the treatment of COVID patients? And what happens if infection rates continue to rise? Doctors discuss their daily lives...
Right-wing propagandists in Germany promote “herd immunity”
By Gregor Link
Nov. 2, 2020
In the past several days, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)—the German federal government agency and research institute responsible for disease...
After their attacks on climate science, industrial lobbyists target the scientific...
by Olivier Petitjean
6 February 2018
A nebulous coalition of industry-sponsored players, deregulation lobbyists and the far right has formed to deny or downplay the health...
Far right attacks scientists as coronavirus infections explode in Germany
By Gregor Link
Oct. 28, 2020
Over recent days, well over 11,000 people have been infected each day with coronavirus in Germany. The Robert Koch Institute...
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The Greek OXI Was a Message of Freedom to the World
By Philip Chrysopoulos
Oct 27, 2020
Throughout the history of Greece, the word “OXI” (“No”) was...
German parents’ associations protest against dangerous school openings
By Gregor Link
18 October 2020
Twenty of the largest parents’ associations in Germany have written a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel (Christian Democratic Union, CDU)...
Russia criticizing Germany very strongly
Maria Zacarova, spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry said the following commenting German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas’s interview with RIA Novosti:
In an interview with...
German foreign minister cancels visit to Ankara
12.10.2020
Germany’s Foreign Minister cancelled a scheduled visit to Ankara, a few hours after Turkey announced it was sending again research vessel Oruc Reis for...
Denmark allows Nord Stream 2 to operate in its waters
Work on the project to lay pipelines from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea ground to a halt in late 2019 due to...
EU incompetence reigns in Brussels
By Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos
Oct. 3, 2020
At the beginning,the European Council was to convene on September 24 and 25 with only item on the agenda relations...