That means that’s nothing to laugh about.
Although, actually…
Car sharing driver overturns – laughing gas in the car!
Serious accident at night in Berlin-Wilmersdorf! A car-sharing car crashed into several parked cars and left a field of debris in its wake.
I love the smell of CO2 in the morning.
Snowstorms cause havoc on German motorways – Drivers with summer tires were stuck due to 10cm snowfall.
Snowstorms in Germany’s Bavaria region caused havoc on motorways on Sunday morning.
10cm of snow caused problems for many drivers who had switched to summer tyres, leaving them slipping or stuck.
The A9 motorway between Bayreuth and Pegnitz was particularly affected.
You’re a European, after all.
And we have too many of those.
Germany: No asylum for Russian draft dodgers?
German authorities say that men coming to Germany from Russia to avoid being enlisted in the army are not at risk of persecution if they return to Russia.
“We are expected to speak out and be more politically active, and then we are denied asylum. According to several articles of the law in Russia, we can be thrown into jail just for taking part in protests here.”
So it must be true.
Enjoying a nice day at the beach doesn’t mean you’re not starving, after all. Right?
‘We’re not like the Nazis’: Netanyahu said to chide German FM on Gaza ‘famine’ remark – heated exchange reportedly occurs after Annalena Baerbock charges Israel pushing Gaza toward starvation; Germany complains about ‘distorted’ leaks
“Come and see the pictures of the markets in Gaza, the beaches in Gaza, there’s no famine there.”
Or at least that’s what they used to call it.
We don’t all smoke weed in Germany, Scholz assures Chinese students – Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday reassured Chinese students in Shanghai that they did not have to smoke cannabis if they studied in Germany and that Germany had legalised cannabis hoping that consumption would go down.
Scholz made the comments in response to a question from a student at Tongji University, who asked whether he would have to smoke cannabis if he studied in Germany, as the drug was not legal in China.
He was the author of a January essay that expressed understanding for the Hamas militants who carried out the deadly October 7 raid in Israel that sparked the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Then understand this.
German police shut down pro-Palestinian conference – Police in the German capital, Berlin, have stopped an event expressing solidarity with Palestinians amid the Gaza war. Authorities said they were concerned over potential antisemitic remarks and glorified violence.
Other countries should follow their example. All you need is a Green foreign minister lady and a phone.
Why didn’t anybody ever think of doing this before?
German FM Urges Iranian Restraint In Call With FM – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for de-escalation in the region amid an Iran-led proxy war, in a call with his Iranian counterpart.
“No one can have an interest in a wider regional escalation. We urge all actors in the region to act responsibly and exercise maximum restraint,” German Foreign Ministry wrote on X following the phone call with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday.
That means unlikely. As in “a recovery of German industry to the level before the war in Ukraine is unlikely.”
Go Green, go… lean.
Germany set to permanently pay for reliance on Russian gas—as power chief says ‘significant structural demand destruction’ means it will never fully recover from energy crisis.
German industry got rich, thanks partly to its close energy trading relationship with political and economic rival Russia. The past few years have shown just how misguided that relationship was, as Russia invaded Ukraine and cut off Germany’s cheap, vital gas supply.
Now, one of Germany’s leading renewable-power bosses has suggested it’s a mistake the country could rue forever, as the fallout from the energy crisis is set to permanently damage its industry.
Neither does Olaf Scholz.
In the future, Olaf Scholz will be present on the video platform Tiktok – just like around 21 million mainly young people in Germany every month. But there will be no dance videos from him, he promises...
Tiktok is owned by the Chinese company Bytedance and is suspected of being under the influence of the communist leadership in Beijing and not taking data protection and fake prevention very seriously.
Not.
Everybody knows what’s going on. Just like everybody knows nothing will be done to stop it.
Germany: Violent crime reaches 15-year high — report. Germany recorded more than 214,000 criminal acts of violence last year, according to official police statistics. Overall crime also rose, according to data seen by the German paper Welt am Sonntag.
The number of suspects arrested rose by 7.3% to 2.246 million and 41.3% of them did not have a German passport.
Among the people without German nationality who were charged, 402,514 were described as refugees, asylum seekers and those who entered the country illegally.
In 2023, the offense of unauthorized entry rose 40% over the previous year, to 93,158 cases, while the offense of unauthorized stay increased by nearly 29% to 187,059 cases.
A third of crimes (1.971 million) were theft offenses, which rose 10.7% last year.
Observing Hermann 