Chancellor Olaf Solz was given a “warm” welcome by protesters who had gathered around the event venue he was attending in Neuruppin, Brandenburg. Mr. Soltz was speaking at a dialogue event with citizens in the city’s central square. The area was fenced and participants had previously undergone a security check. However, demonstrators had gathered around […]
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Germany: A truck caused a traffic jam on the Rhine River
Around 20 ships have been stranded on the Rhine, where low water levels are already causing problems this summer, as a barge broke down today, closing a section of the river. The vessel, carrying a cargo weighing 1,660 tonnes, was forced to drop anchor due to the damage near Kaub and blocked traffic between the […]
Net losses of more than 12 billion euros in the first half for the German Uniper
Uniper posted net losses of more than 12 billion euros in the first half of 2022, with the now German state-backed utility providing a prime example of the depth of Europe’s energy crisis. Russia has sharply cut gas flows to the European Union in response to Western sanctions following Moscow’s war of aggression against Ukraine, […]
‘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 […]
If Russia cuts off natural gas, Germany will have less than 3 months supply
Germany’s natural gas reserves may be filling up faster than normal, but the country will continue to fight to have enough fuel to get through the coming winter, Bloomberg reports. Even if natural gas reserves can meet Germany’s target of 95% storage capacity by November, this would only cover about 2-1/2 months of heating, industrial […]
Germany: Tension in the chancellery after Abbas’s statements about Israel’s ’50 holocausts’ with Palestinian victims
“From 1947 until today, Israel has committed 50 massacres in 50 Palestinian villages and towns, in Deir Yassin, Tandoora, Kafr Qasim and many others. 50 massacres, 50 holocausts. To this day we have daily deaths from the Israeli army. Our demand is: Stop! Enough! Let us find peace! Let us look forward, to security, to […]
German troops return to Bosnia as fear of instability grows
Germany has deployed troops with the European Union’s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia for the first time in a decade, as concerns that growing instability from the Ukraine war could spill over into the Western Balkans. On Tuesday, the first German soldiers to return to the country were welcomed in a ceremony at the EUFOR headquarters […]
Germany will continue to operate the country’s last three nuclear plants
Germany plans to delay the shutdown of the country’s last three nuclear power plants as it prepares for possible power shortages this winter after Russia cut gas supplies to the country, German government officials said, the WSJ reports. Although temporary, the move is the first departure from a policy that began in the early 2000s […]
German airports hire 150 Turks to fill staff shortage
Around 150 airport workers from Turkey will be sent to German airports, according to an industry association, far fewer than initially expected, despite staff shortages that have caused travel chaos during the summer holiday season. In late June, the German government announced plans to speed up work permits and visas for several thousand foreign airport […]
Germany: ‘Extortion’ of hundreds of euros for natural gas
An additional burden, in addition to the already increased bills, is caused for households in Germany by the “special tax for natural gas”, which is imposed in October. The “special fee” is set at 2.4 euros per kilowatt-hour and essentially passes on to consumption the increased cost of companies forced to import natural gas from […]
