May 22, 2012
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National: 29 Mar 12
Mums and dads are patrolling a primary school in Berlin after a man entered the school unnoticed and sexually abused an eight-year-old girl in the toilets, police confirmed on Wednesday.
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National: 9 Feb 12
After exporting power to France earlier this week, Germany has switched on reserve energy plants amid surging demand for electricity due to the ongoing deep freeze hitting Europe.
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National: 15 Dec 11
The German capital’s entire commuter train system broke down on Thursday afternoon, leaving thousands stuck in trains on the tracks. The Berlin authorities do not suspect an attack behind the S-Bahn malfunction.
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Society: 11 Dec 11
A 15-year-old girl fell ill at a Berlin Christmas market on Saturday, bringing to eight the number of confirmed Christmas-market-poisonings this week. This time, though, the poisoner was apparently dressed as Santa Claus.
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National: 9 Dec 11
Police are hunting a man who visited two Christmas markets in Berlin Thursday evening and offered visitors a swig of a poisonous beverage that so sickened them that they had to be hospitalised.
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National: 26 Nov 11
The new Berlin airport, expected to start operations in a little more than six months, has entered a key test phase and authorities are determined to figure out problems ahead of the June 3, 2012 opening.
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National: 17 Nov 11
Revelations a neo-Nazi gang was able to commit racist murders unhindered for a decade – and Germany’s seeming indifference to the crimes – has shaken the country’s minority communities. Moises Mendoza reports.
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Education: 17 Nov 11
More than 100 police officers forcibly cleared a lecture hall occupied by protesting students at Berlin’s Free University overnight ahead of large, nationwide rallies on Thursday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 14 Nov 11
A shocked Germany is asking how a neo-Nazi gang could carry out a campaign of terror for more than a decade. The Local’s media roundup looks at the reaction on Monday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Nov 11
Bavarian conservatives’ insistence on paying parents to keep their children out of public day care has made a mockery of Angela Merkel’s family policies, writes Der Tagesspiegel’s Hans Monath.
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Society: 27 Oct 11
Police are slowly uncovering a group of paedophiles who worked as volunteers at a Berlin park miniature steam train ride – and used the opportunity to sexually abuse boys who came to help.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Oct 11
As Germany this week marks a half century of mass Turkish immigration, The Local’s Marc Young explains why it’s time to end the country’s hypocritical stance towards dual citizenship.
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Analysis & Opinion: 11 Oct 11
The leftist extremists claiming responsibility for arson attacks on Germany's rail system this week said they do not want to hurt anyone, but it’s only a matter of time until they do, comments Gerd Nowakowski from Der Tagesspiegel.
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National: 10 Oct 11
Train services between Berlin and Hamburg were severely disrupted on Monday after a sabotage attack on rail lines claimed by leftist extremists. Police also said they had foiled an arson attack on the German capital’s main train station.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Sep 11
Benedict XVI’s address to the German parliament made waves before he had even set foot in the Reichstag building. The Local’s media roundup assess the impact.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Sep 11
Members of The Left party are boycotting the pope's speech to the German parliament during an official visit to Berlin. For Malte Lehming, leftist attitudes toward Catholicism are no different from right-wing populist bigotry against Islam.
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Society: 12 Sep 11
The Bethanien arts centre has unveiled a large work painted onto one of its walls by British street artist Banksy eight years ago.
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National: 8 Sep 11
Police on Thursday arrested two men in Berlin for acquiring chemicals amid suspicions they were planning a terrorist bomb attack.
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National: 6 Sep 11
After several months of strife between the United States and Germany over its Libya policies, an advisor to US President Barack Obama said Germany had been more involved in the NATO air campaign than widely thought.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Sep 11
Is Chancellor Merkel’s centre-right alliance heading towards political oblivion? Commentators in The Local’s media roundup examine the impact of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania vote.
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Society: 30 Aug 11
The German government’s integration commissioner said Tuesday that former central banker Thilo Sarrazin damaged efforts to integrate immigrants with his controversial book “Germany Abolishes Itself,” which was published a year ago.
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National: 28 Aug 11
German anti-smoking advocates want shock photos of destroyed smokers’ lungs and rotten teeth to be placed on packs of cigarettes.
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National: 26 Aug 11
Defence Ministry officials gave conflicting views Friday about whether Germany will need to take part in a peacekeeping mission to stabilize Libya after fighting ends. There was also rare German praise for the NATO effort against Qaddafi.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Aug 11
As the end of Libyan despot Muammar Qaddafi's reign nears, commentators in The Local’s media roundup examine what’s next for the North African country and the impact of Germany’s decision to break with its NATO allies.
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Analysis & Opinion: 17 Aug 11
With the eurozone debt crisis still simmering, Germany and France have proposed an economic government for Europe’s currency union. But newspapers in The Local’s media roundup aren’t so sure it will be enough to save the euro.
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Analysis & Opinion: 11 Aug 11
Could Germany see riots like those hitting the UK this week? Many commentators in The Local’s media roundup don't think so. But they seem to agree with the assessment that parts of UK society are “sick.”
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jul 11
Norway’s mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik wanted the opposite of freedom. That's why open societies like Germany must resist xenophobia and isolationism in the face of terror. A commentary by Der Tagesspiegel’s Gerd Appenzeller.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jul 11
A German computer whiz has created a website that he claims can determine whether a writer is full of hot air. Two texts that don’t pass the BS test: the Bible and the party platform of the pro-business Free Democrats.
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Sport: 13 Jul 11
Less than a week after Munich’s Winter Olympics bid was defeated, Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said he wants the German capital to host the Summer Games.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jul 11
Now that Germany have been tossed out of the World Cup and the black, red and gold flags are being packed away, we'll see whether women's football has really caught on, writes Robert Ide from Der Tagesspiegel.
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Society: 6 Jul 11
A United Nations report has ripped into Germany’s social policies, saying the nation's poor and immigrants continue to suffer greatly.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Jul 11
Germany was once a strong yet evil country. Then it was weak but good. Today it's both strong and good, making the innate caution of its leaders more important than ever, argues Malte Lehming from Der Tagesspiegel.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 Jun 11
A by-the-numbers exchange on human rights and new deals worth billions. The Chinese juggernaut has passed through Berlin, leaving German commentators pondering the implications in The Local's media roundup on Wednesday.
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National: 28 Jun 11
A string of tit-for-tat attacks in Berlin between political extremists on the far-left and right, including an alleged knife attack on a young mother walking with her three children, has given rise to fears of surging ideological violence.
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Politics: 24 Jun 11
As the Greens gathers for a special conference to decide on whether to support the government’s nuclear power exit strategy, the party's leadership said it would be contingent on the introduction of tighter safety standards.
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Politics: 17 Jun 11
The Green party is set for a major internal battle next week when its leadership asks parliamentarians to support the German government's nuclear power exit strategy even if it's less ambitious than they would like.
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National: 11 Jun 11
German officials say that the likely source of the deadly E. coli epidemic, a vegetable sprout farm in Lower Saxony, will probably not face criminal prosecution.
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Analysis & Opinion: 8 Jun 11
Barack Obama’s enthusiastic reception of Angela Merkel in Washington wasn't just politeness. As commentators in The Local's media roundup on Wednesday agree, the US was making clear it expects more from Germany.
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Politics: 6 Jun 11
US President Barack Obama will ask Angela Merkel for a stronger German contribution to the military intervention in war-torn Libya when the chancellor visits Washington on Monday, according to a media report.
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Politics: 1 Jun 11
Pressure is growing within Germany's Left party to take decisive action against alleged anti-Semitic tendencies among the socialists.
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Society: 31 May 11
Activists angry over Berlin’s rising rents came out in force this week, occupying flats and storming a press conference. Other groups in the capital are attempting to co-opt tourist into making protesting gentrification part of their holiday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 31 May 11
Consigned to minor role at last week’s G8 summit, the economic power Germany is in danger of being sidelined politically, argues Gerd Appenzeller from Der Tagesspiegel.
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Society: 20 May 11
German officials have given an ultimatum to statutory health insurers: Treat former customers of a now-bankrupt insurance company fairly or they will face a legal crackdown.
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Politics: 16 May 11
In an effort to signal a break with the past and whip up fresh momentum, the pro-business Free Democrats have blasted the “bureaucratically fossilised welfare state” and called for an end to parenting payments.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 May 11
As European countries threaten to reintroduce border controls, some worry the idea of a united Europe is in danger. In The Local's media roundup, the German media expresses its scepticism and concern for the future.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 May 11
Are Germans right to criticize the joyous reaction to the killing of Osama bin Laden? Der Tagesspiegel’s Moritz Schuller detects a misplaced whiff of condescension.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 May 11
History’s most extensive and expensive manhunt has come to an end. In The Local's media roundup, the German press on Tuesday gauge the symbolism versus the reality.
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Politics: 13 Apr 11
The Bundestag will not pursue a complaint for breach of copyright against Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, a spokesman said Wednesday in the first piece of good news for the former defence minister mired in a plagiarism scandal.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Apr 11
The political body blows that have rained down on Free Democrats leader Guido Westerwelle for more than a year have finally taken their toll. But can his party recover? The Local’s media round-up gauges the debate.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Mar 11
With the Greens emerging as the winners of two state elections, has there been a seismic shift in Germany’s political landscape? Newspapers in The Local’s media roundup sift through the wreckage Chancellor Merkel’s coalition.
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Society: 27 Mar 11
A German neurologist has attributed Knut's sudden death last Saturday to the consequences of an epileptic seizure, while recriminations about the demise of Berlin's famous polar bear refused to abate.
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Society: 23 Mar 11
A Berlin city politician on Wednesday called for a crisis meeting on cyber-bullying after an online conflict escalated into the brutal group beating of a 17-year-old who was apparently trying to mediate the row.
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Society: 21 Mar 11
Eastern German grocery stores have begun rationing sugar, as thrifty Poles cross the border to buy up the sweet staple for half the price in their own country. German customers are reportedly outraged.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Mar 11
Nuclear disaster in Japan has caused Chancellor Merkel to do a sudden about-face and suspend the extension of Germany's atomic power plants. Newspapers in The Local’s media roundup assess the implications.
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National: 12 Mar 11
A fire at an apartment building in Berlin's Neukölln district early on Saturday morning left three people dead and more than a dozen others injured. The fire started after a pram was reportedly set ablaze, according to a Berlin daily.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Mar 11
What caused a young man in Frankfurt to turn to radical Islam and kill two US airmen? Newspapers in The Local’s media roundup on Friday try to make sense of a senseless act.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Mar 11
Decency has won the day, but the price for that victory is high. Malte Lehming from Der Tagesspiegel examines Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg’s downfall and what his resignation might mean for Angela Merkel.
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Society: 28 Feb 11
The war on terror recently became a battle for a clean floor in Germany after a man of Tunisian descent found out his order of a vacuum cleaner part had been flagged on a terrorism watch list.
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Politics: 28 Feb 11
Members of Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg’s fellow conservatives criticized him for plagiarizing his doctoral on Monday, with Education Minister Annette Schavan calling him an embarrassment.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
Is it no longer safe to use public transport in Germany? Recent attacks in Berlin go hand in hand with the city’s decaying infrastructure, argues Werner van Bebber from Der Tagesspiegel.
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Society: 27 Feb 11
A Canadian man was arrested in Berlin on Saturday for making the Hitler salute in front of the Reichstag.
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Science & Technology: 24 Feb 11
Turkey’s culture minister gave Germany an ultimatum on Thursday – return a valuable sphinx displayed at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum or lose the right to continue digging at the archaeological site where it was found.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 Feb 11
Is the SPD's crushing election victory in Hamburg a state-level anomaly or will there be national implications? Papers in The Local’s media roundup on Monday attempt to divine the impact on Chancellor Merkel’s government.
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National: 16 Feb 11
Four teenagers have been arrested for beating a man into a coma in a Berlin metro station. The attack has caused widespread outrage for its senselessness and brutality.
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Analysis & Opinion: 25 Jan 11
Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg this week angrily dismissed criticism of his handling of several military scandals, but newspapers in The Local’s media roundup wrote he risks losing control of his ministry.
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Analysis & Opinion: 19 Jan 11
Germans like meat. But if the whole world ate like them, we'd need at least two planets to feed everyone. A proper Sunday roast free of toxic feed could be the answer, says Der Tagesspiegel’s Dagmar Dehmer.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jan 11
Germans love free thinkers, but they're apparently not so hot on free speech. The reactions to the Giffords shooting in Arizona have revived the spectre of anti-Americanism, argues Malte Lehming from Der Tagesspiegel.
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Society: 11 Jan 11
With prostitution legal in Germany since 2002, the country's sex trade is moving towards greater specialisation, with niches including companionship for the elderly and disabled, a sex worker group said on Tuesday.
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National: 4 Jan 11
Commuters in Berlin struggled to get to work on Tuesday, with the city’s rickety S-Bahn train network running only half its trains due to technical problems. Service to entire suburbs has been cut.
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Society: 28 Dec 10
A group representing German musicians found itself accused of Scrooge-like meanness on Tuesday after pressing kindergartens to pay up for singing songs that are protected by copyright.
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Society: 20 Dec 10
Left-wing extremists are being urged to launch a 2011 campaign against Berlin’s tourism boom by attacking hotels and tourist buses, as well as targeting visitors for petty theft, media reported Monday.
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Society: 17 Dec 10
Pope Benedict XVI plans to visit Berlin in September 2011, and even has a parliamentary address on his agenda. But Catholic officials fear the pontiff will draw embarrassingly small crowds and may not hold any public services.
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National: 16 Dec 10
A group of major German newspapers and a human rights group Thursday published an appeal against the criminalisation of whistleblower website Wikileaks, saying the site deserved as much protection as traditional media.
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Analysis & Opinion: 14 Dec 10
Not used to glamorous politicians, Germans are both dazzled and dismayed by Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and his wife Stephanie. But Der Tagesspiegel’s Malte Lehming believes that might be changing.
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Politics: 29 Nov 10
Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks to German news magazine Der Spiegel over the weekend include embarrassingly frank US assessments of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is described as a weak leader.
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Politics: 19 Nov 10
Germany has laid out the stark reality for Afghanistan in stronger terms than before, with its special representative to the conflict-riven country saying on Friday that the war could not be won militarily.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Nov 10
Success breeds resentment – so it's little wonder other countries including the US are jealous of Germany's booming economy. But even Germans don't seem to like it when things are going well, says Der Tagesspiegel's Malte Lehming.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Nov 10
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière has warned of imminent terrorist attacks in Germany. His task was delicate, but newspapers in The Local’s media roundup on Thursday praised his approach, saying he had avoided hysteria.
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National: 17 Nov 10
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière on Wednesday warned the government had indications Islamists were planning terrorist attacks in Germany later this month.
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National: 2 Nov 10
A suspicious package containing an explosive substance was found at German Chancellor Angela Merkel's offices on Tuesday and disarmed, the Federal Crime Office (BKA) said.
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National: 25 Oct 10
An S-Bahn commuter train collided with a truck at a level crossing outside of Berlin on Monday morning, leaving at least three people injured, according to the authorities.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Oct 10
Germany may have successfully claimed a seat on the UN Security Council, but newspapers in The Local’s media roundup on Wednesday have few illusions about Berlin’s importance on the world stage.
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Society: 11 Oct 10
A fugitive public transportation fare dodger has been arrested while trying to enter Germany on foot from Poland, police said on Monday. He will now serve almost five months in jail for failing to pay thousands in fines.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Oct 10
The current debate about Islam’s place in German society is often skewed by a perverse interpretation of the religion that most average Muslim citizens do not recognize, writes Thomas Seibert from Der Tagesspiegel.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Sep 10
Heartless or sensible? The announcement of a meagre €5-per-month rise in long-term unemployment benefits touches the core of Germany's identity as a welfare state, according to papers in The Local's Media Roundup on Monday.
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Society: 22 Sep 10
A leading Turkish scholar has likened elements of the latest German debate on integration to racist 19th century notions of “primitive” immigrants who breed uncontrollably.
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Science & Technology: 20 Sep 10
German politicians on Monday called for comprehensive data protection regulations ahead of a summit in Berlin on handling hot-button issues such as geotagging and the controversial online mapping service Google Street View.
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Analysis & Opinion: 17 Sep 10
As Chancellor Angela Merkel fends off accusations her Christian Democrats have lost their conservative edge, Der Tagesspiegel’s Robert Birnbaum argues the party could probably use a new right-wing competitor.
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Politics: 6 Sep 10
As the integration debate stoked by Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin continues to smoulder, conservatives have begun calling for heavier sanctions against immigrants they deem unwilling to become part of German society.
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Politics: 4 Sep 10
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has vowed to fight the Greens should they challenge Klaus Wowereit for the office of Berlin mayor in the election scheduled for next autumn.
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Society: 22 Aug 10
A driver crashed his BMW at more than 100 kilometres an hour through a barrier near the Reichstag in Berlin, landing in the river on Friday night, swam to the side and walked away – without any security staff noticing, it emerged on Sunday.
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National: 16 Aug 10
Vehicles for city tours such as multi-person bikes offering free-flowing beer and electric Segway scooters are increasingly sparking the ire of both motorists and pedestrians in Germany, leading some cities to consider banning them.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Aug 10
German men have become the weaker sex. Not even a court decision handing unmarried fathers joint custody of their children can change that. But that doesn’t make fathers any less important, writes Tissy Bruns from Der Tagesspiegel.
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Politics: 30 Jul 10
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has angered conservatives in his own government coalition this week by keeping open the possibility of full European Union membership for Turkey.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jul 10
If Love Parade organisers and Duisburg city politicians hoped to placate the German media by vowing a full investigation into how 19 people died at the event on Saturday, they sorely misjudged the mood of the nation.
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National: 21 Jul 10
Germany's national rail operator Deutsche Bahn announced Wednesday that it would compensate victims of a horrific air-conditioning failure on a high-speed train during one of the hottest days of the year with €500 for their suffering.
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Analysis & Opinion: 19 Jul 10
The decision by voters in Hamburg to torpedo plans to reform the city's schools sparked a decidedly mixed reaction from newspapers in The Local's media roundup on Monday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 8 Jul 10
The opponents of Bavaria’s strict smoking ban have lost, just like most people whose arguments are based on tradition rather than reason, argues Malte Lehming from Der Tagesspiegel.
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Politics: 1 Jul 10
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was left licking her wounds Thursday after rebels in her coalition turned a routine presidential vote into a damaging debacle that left her bruised and weakened.
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Society: 30 Jun 10
A purported masterpiece by painter Caravaggio stolen from a Ukraine museum and recovered last week by Berlin police is in fact probably a contemporary copy, experts said Wednesday.
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