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The Guardian Germany 08.02.2025 MEZ 19:00:27
Merz’s gamble: Germany’s centre-right leader splits voters by flirting with hardline AfD
Would be chancellor Friederich Merz breaks post-war convention of no political deals with far rightOn a foggy, frigid morning in Saxony, far-right MP René Bochmann could not believe his party’s luck in the final days of the German election campaign, with all eyes on Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).Since conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz signalled a taboo-breaking openness to AfD suppor (...)
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NZZ International 08.02.2025 MEZ 16:59:01
«Wir sind der Schutzwall, wir sind die Brandmauer», ruft Markus Söder beim CSU-Parteitag
Erneut schwören die Unionsspitzen ihre Parteien auf kämpferische Tage bis zur Wahl ein. Der Kanzlerkandidat Merz müht sich aber auch um Vorsicht. Derweil sind vom CSU-Chef Söder ungewohnte Worte zu hören.
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Le Monde Europe 08.02.2025 MEZ 16:01:42
« Le racisme ? Pas avec nous » : contre l’extrême droite, des dizaines de milliers de personnes mobilisées dans toute l’Allemagne
A deux semaines des élections législatives, les manifestants ont mis en garde contre toute collaboration avec le parti d’extrême droite Alternative pour l’Allemagne (AfD), crédité de près de 20 % des intentions de vote.
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The Guardian Germany 08.02.2025 MEZ 16:00:23
September 5 review – terrific, edge-of-the-seat newsroom drama about 1972 Olympics terror attack
Tim Fehlbaum’s taut thriller deploys hand-held cameras and actual footage to gripping effect as it relives a caught-off-guard TV crew’s coverage of a hostage crisisIt’s the news journalist’s dream: to have the scoop and a front-row seat at one of the biggest stories of the decade. But the events of 5 September 1972 – the Black September terrorist attack and hostage crisis at the Munich O (...)
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The Guardian Germany 08.02.2025 MEZ 06:00:12
English writer’s forgotten ‘masterpiece’ predicting rise of Nazis gets new lease of life
Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying’ 1934 novel to be republishedSally Carson was not an oracle or a prophet, just a young woman from Dorset, born in 1901. Yet she foresaw a dark and violent future for Europe and gave voice to those fears in a 1934 novel that is now being hailed as “an electrifying masterpiece”.Carson’s book, Crooked Cross, predicted the scale of the Nazi threa (...)
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de Volkskrant Ausland 07.02.2025 MEZ 05:03:00
‘Ik ontdekte een nieuw woord dat Duitsers op mij plakten: Rampensau. Dat betekent podiumvarken’
The Guardian Germany 06.02.2025 MEZ 17:18:22
Swedish opposition leader calls for changes to gun and social media laws after country’s worst mass shooting – as it happened
Former PM Magdalena Andersson says there are too many guns available in country and ‘too much romanticising of violence’ on social media. This live blog is closedSeveral nationalities among Sweden school shooting victims, police sayThe press conference ends with no questions.But police investigators are now giving interviews to individual media. Continue reading...
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NZZ International 06.02.2025 MEZ 05:30:00
Frankreich wartet auf Friedrich Merz
Viel schlechter als zwischen dem Zögerer Olaf Scholz und dem Draufgänger Emmanuel Macron kann es in den deutsch-französischen Beziehungen nicht werden. Vom Kanzlerkandidaten Merz erhofft sich Paris in einigen Bereichen frischen Wind.
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The Guardian Germany 05.02.2025 MEZ 18:29:19
Gwen Watkins obituary
Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who went on to become a successful authorGwen Watkins, who has died aged 101, deciphered German air force codes at Bletchley Park during the second world war, helping RAF and US Army air force fighter aircraft to combat Luftwaffe bombers, and allied reconnaissance aircraft and bombers to evade German air defences.Watkins joined the Women’ (...)
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