EU politics
DW News – Wagenknecht steps down as BSW leader
The strange demise of Wagenknecht’s so-called ‘left-conservative’ party, having looked so electorally promising at one stage, is worthy of study. Read the article HERE.
Germany
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David Goeßmann – Why Germany Is Doing the “Dirty Work” for Trump’s Peace Plan
Similar to Ukraine, Germany is now going to step in and pay reconstruction costs in Gaza for destruction caused by a war machine partly of Germany’s own making. David Goeßmann is a journalist based in […]
EU politics
Alexander Reisenbichler – Germany’s housing crisis is making Europe’s sick man even sicker
Germany, long-known for being a cheap country for housing due to widespread affordable renting, has seen rent rise 70% and property prices double since 2010. Dr Alexander Reisenbichler is an Associate Professor in Political Science […]
Corruption
Politico – German center-right chief in European Parliament investigated for fraud
Is there anyone in the European Parliament who isn’t involved in a corruption scandal? Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Politico – Germany’s new €377B military wish list
Germany’s new economic strategy – for the government to spend hundreds of billions on predominantly German-manufactured arms – is coming to fruition. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Polina Manolova – German Social Democrats Cast Low-Wage Migrants as Fraudsters
‘In today’s Germany, foreign populations are treated as disposable — desired for their labor but despised for who they are. That this is also the fault of SPD politicians shows what German Social Democracy has […]
Geopolitics
Michael von der Schulenburg – Is a re-unified Germany back on the warpath?
Germany’s transformation from relative pacifism to warmongerer-in-chief continues apace. Michael von der Schulenburg, former Assistant Secretary-General (ASG), worked for 34 years for the United Nations and briefly for the OSCE in leading positions in development […]
EU politics
Politico – Brussels approves Germany’s mega spending plan
EU spending limits are only for nurses and hospitals, not bombs, and only for countries like Greece and Portugal, not Germany. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Marco Carnelos – How European powers could ignite a new war with Iran
France, the UK and Germany are re-imposing sanctions on Iran, despite it being the US which broke the Nuclear Deal which lifted the sanctions in the first place. Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. […]
Austerity
DW News: German welfare state ‘can no longer be financed’ — Merz
The shift from welfare state to warfare state is in full motion. Read the article HERE.