Every year, the Japanese community of Düsseldorf generously donates a grand firework to the people of Düsseldorf.
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The picture is courtesy of banger1977 under the CC...
Verkehrsverbund Rhein Ruhr (VRR), a transport authority of numerous cities in the West German state of Northrhine Westphalia, has cut its contractual ties to German national railway carrier over fraud allegations -...
he European Union slides further down the slippery slope to
become a belated paradise of neocon economic ideology, as labor
ministers agree upon "voluntary" 65 hours working week, while
employees are weakened by...
The neo-Nazis are gaining ground in German politics. Why? Oficially, no one will be able to tell you, Berlin is surprised. Inofficially? Germany is a decaying society at the brink of unrest. Markus tries to shed some...
40 years ago today, Bobby Kennedy was assasinated at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles. Markus tries to make sense of it, asks whether Obama will be able to fulfil the legacy 40 years on, and reflects about America's approach to its own history. An Audio comment....
Germany has some stiff legislation about obligatory contact information on websites. Actually, so complicated, that an army of lawyers is making a living of serving costly legal notes to website owners who do not...
Yesterday I went shopping at the Cora supermarket near Liege, Belgium. Quite a pleasant departure from German dog food at premium prices when you look at it in terms of value for money. A picture and an audio comment.
The trend towards a labor market of working poors in Germany spells out trouble for the rest of Europe's economies. An audio comment. A copy of the referenced report can be retrieved here (in German).
This is probably as relevant as political debate, hands-on protest, and civil disobedience get in the digital age:
"A hacker club has published what it says is the fingerprint of Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's...
Germany is squandering its political credibility to the former communists, while social democrats spearhead movement towards rapid decay of credibility for political class. On January, 27 the German state of...
This year, the German conservatives of chancellor Angela Merkel did not take too much of the new year's time to unleash a fireworks of politicking upon the German elector.
With decisions looming, amongst others, in the German key state of Hesse, Merkel's party looks set...
KARLSRUHE, Germany - Some 30,000 people lodged a complaint in Germany Monday against the creation of a vast telecommunications database as part of anti-terror measures.
The 150-page complaint filed here with Germany’s top tribunal, the Federal Constitutional Court, is...
Germany's ecochampion government is set to take inflation one step further as plans emerge to heighten toll collection for trucks by up to 120 per cent, beginning 2008.
In practise, this could mean that prices move up to some 30 Euro cent per kilometer of road usage,...