Tag: Germany

German Court Orders Protection of People with Disabilities in Triage Decisions (Jonas Bull, Human Rights Watch)

In a December 2021 ruling, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ordered lawmakers to protect people with disabilities against discrimination during medical triage decisions. Nine people with disabilities...

Germany ramps up Indo-Pacific engagement (Vanessa Geidel, The Strategist)

After 16 years of Angela Merkel’s leadership, a tight race on election night and almost two months of coalition negotiations in Germany, the Social...

UK, Germany new envoys hold talks with Iran top negotiator (IRNA)

The new envoys of UK and Germany on Saturday met and held talks with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and head of the Iranian team...

China-German relations will continue moving forward during adjustments, boosted by BRI: senior diplomat (Global Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone with Germany's new chancellor Olaf Scholz on December 21, 2021, in which the two leaders pledged...

Su Google “pugno di ferro” tedesco. L’Antitrust pronto a inasprire i controlli (L.O., CorCom)

L’autorità esercita i poteri “rafforzati” dalle nuove misure introdotte nel Paese. L’azienda nel mirino per “influenza significativa” ossia per un peso rilevante sul mercato...

Germany Pulls Plan To Honor Israeli Holocaust Historian Over Srebrenica Comments (RFE RL)

The German government has scrapped plans to award the country’s highest honor to an Israeli Holocaust historian due criticism about his work on genocide...

Germany withdraws award for Srebrenica genocide denier (Al Jazeera)

The German foreign affairs minister has withdrawn its proposal to award Israeli historian Gideon Greif with the country’s Order of Merit after the academic...

Chinese diplomat urges new German govt not to play ‘Taiwan card’ as Lithuania aims to hold EU hostage (Li Xuanmin and Tu Lei, Global...

A Chinese diplomat in Germany has urged the new German government to play an active role in the EU, abide by the one-China principle...

Germany’s Russia Test (Liana Fix, Carnegie Moscow Center)

The new German government’s Russia policy could not have gotten off to a more difficult start. Barely a week after Annalena Baerbock was sworn...

Over 11,000 Migrants Entered Germany Via Belarus Route In 2021 (RFE RL)

More than 11,000 illegal migrants have entered Germany this year after transiting through Poland from Belarus, German police said on December 27. The EU accuses...

Germany holds the key to deterring Russian moves against Ukraine (Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings)

Thirty years after the outbreak of the Yugoslav wars, the Western alliance is once more facing the possibility of a major armed conflict at...

Germany Warns Russia That Costs Would Be High If Moscow Invades Ukraine (RFE RL)

German ministers have reiterated EU warnings that Russia would face harsher sanctions in the event of military aggression against Ukraine, which they said could...

German proposal for an EU arms-export regime faces uphill battle (Sebastian Sprenger, Defense News)

The new German government’s focus on a common arms-export policy for the European Union is facing an uphill battle after one French official indicated...

German Regulator Says Russian State Media Is Broadcasting Without A License (RFE RL)

German regulators have launched proceedings against Russian state-controlled media RT for broadcasting in the country without a valid license. RT DE, the German-language channel of...

German Regulator Says Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Approval Months Away (RFE RL)

Final approval for the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is not expected to come in the first half of...

China, gas and beyond: all the pending dossiers between Italy and Germany (Otto Lanzavecchia, Decode 39)

Are Italy and Germany edging towards a strengthened partnership? The historical juncture seems favourable, and shared challenges require shared approaches. Here are the key...