The latest figures for Germany, which come from the Federal Labor Office (the corresponding OAED), refer to the month of June. According to them, approximately 7,600 jobs in tourism and catering remain vacant. The Institute of German Economics estimates that in 2020 alone, the first year of the pandemic, around 216,000 workers left the industry. […]
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Zelensky, Erdogan, Guterres in Lviv
International eyes are on Lviv, Ukraine and Ukrainian President Zelensky’s tripartite meeting with Turkish President Erdogan and UN Secretary General Guterres. Tayyip Erdogan left today on the presidential plane for Lviv, Ukraine, where he will have a tripartite meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The first concern of Guterres […]
One last legal chance for Assange
In September, the High Court in London makes a final decision on the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the US. His relatives are worried about his health. Julian Assange has been held at Belmars maximum security prison in London since 2019. The Victorian building is one of the toughest prisons in Great Britain. […]
Uproar in Germany over Abbas’ statements about ’50 Holocausts at the expense of Palestinians’
Abbas’ statements from the chancellery in Berlin about “50 Holocausts at the expense of the Palestinians” have caused an uproar. The government representative “takes it upon himself”. The statements of the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, at the joint press conference with Olaf Scholz yesterday afternoon at the chancellery have caused a wave […]
Trump wins, Cheney loses in Wyoming
Liz Cheney, one of Donald Trump’s most powerful intra-party opponents, was swept in the Wyoming primary. However, he does not lay down his arms. He is one of the most prominent political figures of the Republicans, a congressman since 2017, a sworn internal opponent of the former president Donald Trump, with many sympathies in Washington. […]
Supply of new Russian S-400 missiles from Turkey?
The information about whether Turkey will also purchase new S-400 missiles from Moscow is contradictory. Erdogan wants new operation in Syria but does not have the green light. “Nothing new, the process continues as it was signed on the first day,” the Turkish Presidential Defense Service responded to the Russian news agency’s report about the […]
Political uproar in Australia with the superpowers secretly amassed by Morrison
A political uproar has erupted in Australia with the revelation that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, alongside the country’s highest political office, had secretly assumed ministerial positions. Mr Morrison today sought to justify his action to be “co-minister” in five sectors by saying that the circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic required it. “As Prime Minister […]
Mperbock and little Maria of Evros
Commentary on TAZ on the occasion of the refugee drama in Evros. The debate on banning visas for Russian tourists and a publication about the Virgin Mary of Cyprus. In the new refugee drama that unfolded on the island of Evros and in the death of the little refugee girl Maria from a scorpion sting, […]
People are starving in Afghanistan
A year after the Taliban took power, the situation for the world has worsened. Children mostly suffer the consequences. Wars and climate change are destroying the country. David Beesley, head of the UN World Food Programme, described the situation in Afghanistan as late as last year as “hell on earth”. Since the Taliban took power […]
‘Extension’ for German nuclear plants?
A Wall Street Journal publication claims that Germany has decided to extend the operation of three nuclear plants due to the energy crisis. Denies Berlin. The American newspaper speaks of an “economic war” with Russia and claims that, after 20 years of banning atomic energy, German policy “makes a change” and decides to extend the […]
