May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Reichstag":
Politics: 1 Apr 12
Determined to get kids into politics, the German government is turning the Reichstag's famous glass dome into a "kids zone" during the summer recess - complete with Bobby cars to zoom down the famous spiral walkway.
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National: 23 Mar 12
Joachim Gauck used his first speech as German President on Friday morning to call for the country to “dare to have more Europe” in times of crisis, and for determination in facing down extremists.
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Politics: 18 Mar 12
Activist pastor Joachim Gauck took office as German president on Monday morning after being elected by an overwhelming majority, marking the first time someone from the former communist east acts as head of state.
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Politics: 15 Mar 12
Former East German rights activist Joachim Gauck will be elected Germany's ninth post-war president on Sunday, putting easterners in the country's two most powerful offices for the first time.
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Politics: 2 Jan 12
A work of art in the Reichstag building which includes Adolf Hitler in a list of “freely and democratically” elected members of the German parliament has been repaired after someone attacked it.
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National: 12 Nov 11
Thousands of demonstrators in Berlin and Frankfurt gathered on Saturday to protest against the continuing power of the banks. In the capital, protesters assembled to form a human chain.
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National: 16 Oct 11
Around 200 people camped out in front of the European Central Bank building in Frankfurt overnight, organizers said, as anti-capitalism protesters planned a fresh demonstration in Berlin Sunday.
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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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National: 13 Sep 11
As preparations are finalised for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Germany at the end of the month, a number of MPs have declared they will boycott his speech to parliament.
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National: 3 Sep 11
Horst Kasner, the father of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, died on Friday at the age of 85, a government spokesperson said. The chancellor canceled all appointments scheduled for Saturday.
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National: 7 Jul 11
A police officer suspected of attempting to rob a post office in a restricted area of a parliament building in Berlin on Wednesday night has been found dead after apparently committing suicide.
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National: 19 Jun 11
An Austrian terror suspect arrested this week was plotting to crash a plane into the Reichstag building in Berlin, which houses the German parliament, a report said Saturday. A German with links to the suspect was also detained.
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National: 11 Apr 11
A woman has been hospitalized with severe burns after setting herself on fire in front of the Reichstag parliamentary building in Berlin over the weekend.
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National: 8 Apr 11
One of Berlin’s most popular tourist attractions, the dome at the Reichstag parliamentary building, will be reopened to tourists on April 21 after being closed due to security concerns for the last several months.
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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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National: 1 Feb 11
The strengthened police presence at German transport hubs and public buildings owing to terrorism fears will be scaled back, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said Tuesday.
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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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National: 11 Jan 11
Some two months after declaring a heightened terrorism alert, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said Tuesday he still couldn’t give an all-clear signal.
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National: 30 Dec 10
The threat of terrorist attacks in German cities remains acute six weeks after authorities warned of an imminent danger, and tight security measures must remain in place, the Christian Social Union party has said.
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National: 27 Dec 10
Security at the Reichstag in Berlin is set to be tightened after an inventory showed that nearly 23,000 people including tradespeople, interns and lobbyists have virtually unfettered access to the building.
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National: 1 Dec 10
Despite dire warnings by authorities and the heavy police presence at train stations, airports and tourist sites, the overwhelming majority of Germans have greeted the latest terrorism alert with a shrug, a poll on Wednesday found.
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Politics: 24 Nov 10
A fiery Angela Merkel went on the offensive during the parliamentary budget debate Wednesday. As her centre-right coalition’s poll numbers lag, the Chancellor took aim at the increasingly popular Greens.
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National: 23 Nov 10
The latest terror alert in Germany has sparked a debate over the country’s security structure, with law enforcement calling for help from the military to protect citizens, media reports said Tuesday.
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Society: 22 Nov 10
Police have closed the dome and roof terrace of Berlin’s Reichstag in a dramatic security clampdown following reports that Islamists were planning a Mumbai-style attack on the building.
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National: 20 Nov 10
Reports are flying through the German media that al-Qaida has sent armed terrorists to Germany to storm the Reichstag, take hostages and kill as many people as possible in a Mumbai-style attack.
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National: 28 Oct 10
Greenpeace activists occupied the roof of the conservative Christian Democrats' party headquarters in Berlin on Thursday, hanging an enormous banner in protest of a planned parliamentary vote to extend the life of Germany’s nuclear reactors.
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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: 20 Jul 10
Germany on Tuesday marked the 66th anniversary of a failed attempt by army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler in his "Wolf's Lair" military headquarters in a daring bid to end World War II.
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Society: 3 Jun 10
A programme offering people persecuted by the Nazis a chance to visit their former hometown Berlin is slowly winding down. Julia Lipkins speaks with some of the last survivors.
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Society: 17 Feb 10
One of three Red Army soldiers in a famed 1945 photograph that depicts the Soviet flag being lifted over Berlin's Reichstag has died at age 93, Russian officials said on Wednesday.
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National: 10 Feb 10
Colonel Georg Klein, the German commander who ordered the controversial air strike that killed up to 140 Afghans last year, appeared before an parliamentary inquiry on Wednesday after defending his actions publicly through his lawyer.
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Society: 13 Jan 10
Mice have infested Germany’s parliamentary offices, but officials are keeping the problem under wraps to protect the “dignity” of the hallowed government buildings, daily Die Welt reported on Wednesday.
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Lifestyle: 7 Jan 10
This Week's Highlights: Dinosaurs in Cologne, a dance festival in Berlin, and Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" in the middle of winter in Hamburg.
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Society: 17 Dec 09
Babies may soon be allowed into parliamentary debates at Germany's lower house, the Bundestag, if female politicians get their way, Cologne daily Express reported on Thursday.
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Science & Technology: 7 Dec 09
Google Earth recently added a new feature for history fans: With the program’s historical imagery function, users now can explore the devastating ruin of Berlin just before the end of the Second World War.
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Lifestyle: 5 Nov 09
This Week's Highlights: Moby arrives in Cologne, Juliette Lewis sets up in Munich, and a 'Festival of Freedom' commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Politics: 28 Oct 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel formally embarked on a second term on Wednesday, leading a new centre-right coalition that has pledged to make Europe's biggest economy emerge stronger from the global financial crisis.
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Lifestyle: 4 Oct 09
David Wroe and photographer Penny Bradfield take in the spectacle of giant marionettes walking the streets of Berlin to celebrate German reunification this weekend.
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Society: 3 Oct 09
Berlin’s 368-metre communist-era TV tower turns 40 years old Saturday. Although it was initially a symbol of East Germany’s love of monumental architecture, the tower has become a favorite part of the capital city’s skyline.
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Society: 2 Oct 09
Big-city Berliners will be turned into Lilliputians as a French theatre company marches its massive marionettes through the streets as part of German Unity Day celebrations this weekend.
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Politics: 27 Sep 09
Join The Local for live coverage from the election headquarters of Germany's five main political parties in Berlin. We'll have interviews and insights all evening long.
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National: 8 Sep 09
The German parliament voted Tuesday to lift Nazi-era convictions of wartime "traitors" whose names, 70 years after the fighting started, had still not been cleared.
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Society: 4 Sep 09
Billed as the longest programme in television history, a 24-hour panorama of work, fame, sex, the arts and poverty in Berlin two decades after the fall of the Wall will premiere on Saturday.
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National: 1 Sep 09
Demonstrators from the environmentalist group Greenpeace on Tuesday scaled the large columns on the façade of the Reichstag building, home to the German parliament, to attach an anti-nuclear energy banner.
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Analysis & Opinion: 11 Jun 09
Giggling Japanese girls and buffoonish British teens? Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, looks at the flipside of the impact of tourism on the German capital.
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Analysis & Opinion: 20 Apr 09
As the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, so too does the choice of a national monument to German reunification. The jury should be bold, argues Daniel Miller.
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Science & Technology: 3 Mar 09
Berlin is now the first German city that can be viewed in 3-D format on internet program Google Earth, according to the project’s organisers.
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Lifestyle: 15 Oct 08
This week's highlights: A Gerhard Richter exhibition opens in Cologne, Sunday shopping in Hannover, the Festival of Lights in Berlin, and the Munich ballet interprets Saint-Exupéry.
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National: 21 Jul 08
Seven German demonstrators who were arrested in Berlin on Sunday during the first-ever swearing in ceremony for new Bundeswehr recruits in front of the Reichstag have been released, police said on Monday.
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National: 20 Jul 08
Barack Obama will make his Berlin speech in front of the Siegessäule landmark next week, his team has confirmed to the press.
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National: 20 Jul 08
New soldiers will be sworn into the army in front of the Reichstag for the first time this evening.
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National: 4 May 08
Another piece of the story behind the iconic 1945 photograph of Red Army soldiers hoisting the hammer and sickle flag on the Reichstag in defeated Berlin, has been revealed.
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Lifestyle: 17 Mar 08
Only steps away from Berlin's Holocaust memorial and the site of Hitler’s bunker, a new exhibition explores the Nazi leader’s plans to turn the city into Germania. Matt Robinson reports on architecture fit for a megalomaniac.
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