According to German media, an employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the United States. Intelligence expert Schmidt-Eenboom tells DW why this case is outrageous. Intelligence expert Schmidt-Eenboom: ‘It’s a huge scandal’… Read More ›
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Nazi Veterans Created Illegal Army
By Klaus Wiegrefe Newly discovered documents show that in the years after World War II, former members of the Nazi Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS formed a secret army to protect the country from the Soviets. The illegal project could have sparked… Read More ›
Referendum to keep foreigners out of Switzerland?
On Sunday, the Swiss vote on whether to restrict immigration to their country. The ramifications of a yes vote, experts say, could be huge. To their shock, the referendum has a decent shot at passing. When Germans hear Switzerland, they… Read More ›
How Peace Kept WWI Alive
EEV: Excellent article on the coming storm, if things stay their course. The Thirty Years’ War By Jan Fleischhauer On two separate occasions, in 1918 and 1945, the world had to decide what to do with Germany. The second time around,… Read More ›
Welfare debate stokes Germany-EU tensions
“The German social welfare system is not a self-service convenience store for all the Europeans that come to our country,” Does the German social welfare system contravene European law? The EU seems to think so. It has made a statement… Read More ›
Attrition: Fighter Pilots Doomed By Poverty
December 30, 2013: The political battles over chronic deficit spending in the United States has led to sharp and often unexpected cuts in the military budget over the last few years. This has forced the U.S. Air force… Read More ›
Mass spy programmes threaten freedom of expression: Snowden
03 Nov 2013 Berlin (AFP) US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says mass secret service surveillance poses a threat to freedom of expression and open society, in a text published in a German news magazine Sunday. Snowden, who faces criminal charges… Read More ›
Why the Germans can’t help being rude: Historic divisions mean they are used to being surrounded by enemies
EEV: ??? Germans like ‘stability and structure’ because of nation’s fractured past Respected German institute produce video showing the difference between them and their foreign counterparts By Hayley O’keeffe PUBLISHED: 23:40 EST, 17 October 2013 | UPDATED: 07:20… Read More ›
Anger in Athens as Merkel says Greece should never have been allowed to join the euro
Angela Merkel says Greece should never have been allowed to join the euro German leader blames predecessor, Gerhard Schroder – and sparks anger in Athens Nathalie Savaricas Wednesday, 28 August 2013 Greece’s former Finance Minister, who steered the country into… Read More ›
Hungary Warns of German EU Leadership
Hitler-Stalin Pact? Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told diplomats on Tuesday that closer ties between a Germany-led EU and Russia were enough to make people check to see if their “children are still in the yard” — an oblique yet… Read More ›
NSA ‘In Bed Together with the Germans’
In an interview, Edward Snowden accuses the National Security Agency of partnering with Germany and other governments in its spying activities. New information also indicates close working ties between the German foreign intelligence agency and the American authority. In an… Read More ›
Switzerland charges man with selling bank’s client data to Germany
Source: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:17 PM Author: Reuters By Emma Thomasson ZURICH, June 28 (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors have charged a German IT expert with selling client data from private bank Julius Baer BAER.VX in Zurich to the German… Read More ›
François Hollande calls for ‘European political union’ within two years; Calls for a more federal Europe
John Lichfield Thursday, 16 May 2013 A beleagured President François Hollande went on the offensive today calling for an “economic government” for the Eurozone and “political union” in Europe within two years. Stung by accusations that he has been too… Read More ›
‘I give the euro medium-term only a limited chance of survival’ – Merkel’s advisor
© Photo: SXC.hu In an interview for Die Welt, the Chairman of the Council of Scientific Advisors to the German Ministry of Finance Prof. Dr. Kai A. Konrad proposed a compromise between austerity and the desire of the European countries… Read More ›
Angela Merkel: ‘Austerity makes it sound evil, I call it balancing the budget’
Angela Merkel tried to contain her irritation when asked at a podium discussion in Berlin whether southern European countries could take much more German-ordered austerity. Angela Merkel finds herself under fire from European partners and the centre-left opposition at home… Read More ›
Germany forces EU countries to cede sovereignty
Фото: EPA German Chancellor is trying to use the economic crisis as a pretext for stripping the European countries of the last remnants of their sovereignty. The recent comments and demands made by Angela Merkel will surely anger the eurosceptics… Read More ›
Luxembourg is the next Cyprus
Jean Asselborn, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration of Luxemburg Photo: EPA The offshore countries of the European Union are gripped by fear. No one wants to repeat the fate of Cyprus but it seems that the European authorities are… Read More ›
Could Germany spark another war? I fear it’s all too possible
EEV Warning: Some Imagery will be found offensive. These articles are becoming more common, and being printed with a greater and greater frequency. By Dominic Sandbrook PUBLISHED: 18:56 EST, 12 March 2013 | UPDATED: 03:53 EST, 13 March 2013 The… Read More ›
‘In fact, Italy’s already out of the euro’ – Grillo
Mar 13, 2013 18:20 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Beppe Grillo, the leader of the “Five Star Movement” which won 25% of the votes cast in the last parliamentary elections was interviewed by the German financial newspaper Handelsblatt. The former comic… Read More ›
Wave of euroscepticism reaches Germany / “predicted the collapse of the Eurozone”
Natalia Kovalenko, Alexander Shishlo Mar 12, 2013 16:31 Moscow Time © Flickr.com/Luigi Rosa/cc-by-sa 3.0 German opponents to the common European currency have set up a new political party named Alternative for Germany. They urge disbanding the Eurozone, going back to… Read More ›
John Kerry: Americans have the right to be stupid
Tuesday, 26 February 2013 ‘In America, you have a right to be stupid, if you want to be… and we tolerate that,’ Kerry said to a packed Internet cafe in Berlin. Kerry stopped in Berlin as part of his nine-country… Read More ›
Germany saves money by Deporting the Elderly
Friday, 28 December 2012 German pensioners are being sent to care homes in Eastern Europe and Asia in what has been described as an ‘inhumane deportation’. Rising numbers of the elderly and sick are moved overseas for long-term care because… Read More ›
Germans stop shipment of life-saving cancer drug to Greece as Euro crisis deepens
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:08:24 EST, 3 November 2012| UPDATED:08:26 EST, 3 November 2012 Life-saver: Erbirux is given intravenously and has been proven to be effective on various types of cancer The spiralling decline of the Greek economy took… Read More ›
Germany shocks EU with fiscal overlord demand, to Counter the competition Tsar the arch-enforcer of the EU machine. After taking on contingent liabilities of €2 trillion
Germany has stated its exorbitant price for keeping Greece in the euro and agreeing to mass bond purchases by the European Central Bank. Finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble dropped his bombshell in talks with German journalists on a flight from Asia…. Read More ›
If Germany were to leave the euro, it would be better off
Another week, another conference about the euro. This time it was in Singapore. Nevertheless, it was Germany that was uppermost in my mind, not least because several Singaporeans asked me why Germany doesn’t leave the euro. A worker walks by… Read More ›
German court rules Catholics must pay tax to remain in church
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:41 EDT Topics: catholics ♦ roman catholics ♦ the Catholic Church A top German court ruled on Wednesday that Roman Catholics must pay their church tax in order to remain a member of… Read More ›
German bishops get tough on Catholics who opt out of church tax
Fri, Sep 21 2012 By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS (Reuters)- Germany’s Roman Catholic bishops have decreed that people who opt out of a “church tax” should not be given sacraments and religious burials, getting tougher on worshippers who choose… Read More ›
Greece tells Germany: You owe US money for crimes committed during the Nazi occupation
Greece says it has right to claim millions because it was forced to accept ‘unfavourable terms’ during 1950 negotiations Working group has been set to scour old archives to hunt unpaid reparations Many in Greece blame Germany for the tough… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 