Help me Rwanda yeah. It’s time for them to depart!
Germany: Migration commissioner proposes Rwanda deportations – Joachim Stamp accused Russia and Belarus of encouraging migration to the EU as part of their “hybrid warfare.” These migrants should be sent to a third country such as Rwanda, he suggested.
Oh, sorry. Green energy already turned the lights off for you.
Germany in crisis: Intel and Volkswagen mull a multibillion-dollar withdrawal from the country.
For the first time in its 87-year history, Volkswagen is considering shutting down plants in Germany, where it employs around 300,000 people, as the company ramps up efforts to save €10 billion in costs…
Reuters reports that Intel will consider pausing or halting plans for its €30 billion ($33 billion) factory in the east German city of Magdeburg as the semiconductor manufacturer looks for cost savings. Germany had committed €9.9 billion ($10.9 billion) to the project when it was announced in June last year.
Hitler’s Germany invaded Poland 85 years ago – World War II began with Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Adolf Hitler used a propaganda lie as a pretext to strike. It was a historic turning point that still has relevance for today.
More German of the day: Handgeld. That means “hand money” as in token payment or signing bonus.
A new business model is born. Come illegally to Germany, get free room, board and medical for years, commit felonies, get more free room, board and medical for years, then get flown back home (to Kabul) with 1,000 euros hand money as a reward.
The plane has taken off (the first one in three years) – Germany deports numerous criminals to Afghanistan.
The German government has deported 28 Afghan criminals to their home country. This was confirmed by the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. Spiegel” had previously reported on this. According to the report, a charter flight took off from Leipzig to Kabul at 6.56 a.m. on Friday morning.
The Afghans had been brought together from various federal states. The deportation was organized by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, with the support of the Chancellery. According to the report, each of the deportees received 1000 euros in hand money, according to the authorities. A doctor accompanied the flight.
This European City Was Just Named the No. 1 Solo Travel Destination in the World — and It Has Affordable Hotels and Food – Berlin came in at the top, followed by Vancouver.
Some things are better done alone. While travel is often marketed as something to do with your partner, friends, or family, traveling solo has some real perks…
And once you’ve shown everybody the show, leg dich wieder hin (go lie down again, go back to sleep).
Everybody knows that you’ll never do anything about the real problem.
Germany’s Scholz to visit Solingen after deadly knife attack – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was set to visit the western German city of Solingen on Monday, three days after a knife attack which claimed the lives of three people.
That’s where this attack took place. No joke. You can’t make this stuff up, people.
An attack at a festival in a German city kills 3 people and seriously wounds at least 5 – An attacker with a knife killed three people and seriously wounded at least five late Friday at a festival in the western German city of Solingen, authorities said.
Witnesses alerted police shortly after 9:30 p.m. to an unknown attacker having wounded several people indiscriminately with a knife on a central square, the Fronhof. Police said the perpetrator was on the run, and they had only very little information on the man so far.
They said they believe the stabbings were carried out by a lone attacker.
PS: Solingen, famous in Germany for its knife manufacture, is sometimes referred to as the “city of blades” here.
The rebuilding of Berlin’s Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule – It’s yet another German construction debacle.
Almost 25 years ago, in October 1999, Gerhard Schröder, Germany’s then chancellor, attended a ceremony to mark the renovation of Berlin’s Old National Gallery, one of five world-class museums that constitute the Museumsinsel (Museum Island) in Berlin. Mr Schröder talked about the courage and vision needed to rebuild the rest of the quintet within ten years. “We will manage this,” he promised…
There are more Russian spies in Berlin than Russians in the Kremlin.
Scholz: Ukraine did not consult Germany over Russia incursion – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday Ukraine had not consulted Berlin about its Aug. 6 shock incursion into Russia and that he expected that military operation to be limited in time and territory.
Speaking at a press conference after talks with Moldovan President Maia Sandu in Chisinau, Scholz said Berlin was monitoring further developments around the incursion closely.
Ukrainian leaders have cast the attack as proof that their military can still succeed in offensive operations, and still surprise. Russia has vowed to repel the incursion.
EU approves German state aid for $11 billion TSMC chip plant – Taiwan’s TSMC (2330.TW), opens new tab on Tuesday launched a major new computer chip plant in Dresden, Germany, expected to be a key supplier to European industry and carmakers after the EU Commission approved 5 billion euros ($5.5 billion) worth of state aid.
The large aid award for the project, which will cost 10 billion in all, is the biggest approved so far under the EU Chips Act, and the first in Germany.
It is also the first project in Europe under TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, and is expected to improve Europe’s resiliency if a chip shortage of the type experienced during the COVID pandemic happens again.