Trump Threatens Apple and the EU with Tariffs
The Return of Economic Nationalism. In a time when markets are reeling and the global order is wavering, Donald Trump once again resorts to his proven tool of provocation: ...
Why Europe Now Has to Save the Legacy of a Free Press
Trump vs. Radio Liberty – Why Europe Now Has to Save the Legacy of a Free Press. It is one of those stories where historical irony and political reality painfully overlap. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ...
Are All Deportees at CECOT Now Getting a Free Telekom Phone?
How Corporate Executives Like Höttges Indulge in Trump’s Illusions. It is a statement that defies comprehension. Timotheus Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, has publicly praised Donald Trump's reindustrialization policy. During the company’s quarterly earnings presentation...
The Chancellor Who Doesn't Arrive
Friedrich Merz and the Emptiness of Leadership. It hadn’t even been 100 days when the façade already began to crack. Friedrich Merz, once the great hope of a conservative Union longing for clarity and authority, ...
Spain vs. Airbnb
A Country Pulls the Emergency Brake in the Fight for Housing. It is as if Spain has pulled the plug – and for tens of thousands at once. More than 65,000 vacation rentals are set to disappear from the Airbnb platform by government order...
Trump's Tariff Offensive Slows Europe's Economy
Germany on the Brink of Stagnation. It is a quiet rumble echoing through European markets – no catastrophe, no panic, but a palpable chill. It is the cold breath of protectionist ...
Femicides in Germany: An Alarming Problem and the Hypocrisy of the AfD
The number of femicides in Germany remains shockingly high. In 2023 and 2024 alone, well over 600 women were killed – a nearly daily crime. Former Interior Minister Nancy Faeser publicly presented a situation report on gender-based ...
Terrorgram and the Case of “Operation 14”
There are stories that creep like poisonous vines through the digital thicket, invisible yet deadly. Terrorgram is one such story. A network of far-right Telegram channels that spreads like ...
Article 72: A Shield Against Humanity
How Europe Seals Its Borders and Sacrifices Human Rights It begins with a paragraph – a legal text that reveals nothing of the coldness it brings into the world. Article 72 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) is a sentence of legal formulas, sober and factual:
Palantir for the Police?
Why Germany Should Never Entrust Its Citizens' Data to an Enemy of Democracy. The Bundesrat's decision on March 22, 2025, may read like a routine administrative act: Police forces across ...
Días del Cóndor – The Sorrow of the Horses
“The heart is a poor instrument.” Not because it feels nothing – but because it hopes too much. It doesn’t beat, it errs. In Andalusia, where the evening sun sinks like a final ...
The Forgotten of Calais
A Fate on the Edge of Europe. At Calais, on the border between France and the United Kingdom, a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding that rarely makes the headlines. While the world focuses...
The Scandal of Russian Influence
The Scandal of Russian Influence, the AfD, the Role of Intelligence Agencies, an Informant, and Blood and Honour. How Russia, with the Help of the Far Right, Becomes a Global Threat. Investigations by the BBC and various investigative ...
Germany is experiencing an alarming escalation of far-right crimes
The numbers keep rising, and authorities seem increasingly unable to counter them. There is a lack of trained personnel, decisive action, and above all, a clear strategy to stop this development...
"A climate activist is too dangerous for the classroom - and the far right are now the new teddy bears"
There are moments when you have to wonder if anyone in this country is still paying attention. While a climate activist in Bavaria is not allowed to become a teacher because her activism is supposedly incompatible with the constitution, ...
Weidel and Orbán - When Contempt for Democracy Meets Admiration for Autocracy
Alice Weidel is currently in Hungary to meet with Viktor Orbán—and instead of advocating for German interests, she used the opportunity to badmouth Germany in front of the Hungarian press. She spoke of restricted freedom of speech ...
Rescue at Sea: Heroes Against the Barbarity of Authoritarian Regimes and Europe’s Cold Indifference
While authoritarian regimes, far-right governments, and dictatorial rulers terrorize people day after day, there is a group of individuals who tirelessly do what should be a matter of course: ...
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