Under pressure from Fifa, several associations have announced that they will appear in Qatar without a rainbow armband. But it is not those who were blackmailed who are to blame, but the world football association itself, says star-Author Christian Ewers. Anyone who thought that Fifa President Gianni Infantino's appearance on Saturday could not be increased in his madness, in his self-importance and arrogance will now see himself taught a lesson. World football's governing body announced on Monday that it would...
Aubert de Villaine initially thought it was a joke in bad taste. Co-manager of Romanée-Conti since 1974, one of the most prestigious wine estates in the world, this 69-year-old man discovers, at the beginning of January 2010, with astonishment, the contents of the envelope which had been sent by La Poste to the headquarters of the domain. The entrance to this sober monastic building is indicated only by tiny letters on the intercom of an anonymous gate, opposite the church...
comment by Tomas AvenariusThe nice thing about the Turkish president is his predictability: he always plays at risk in foreign policy. What is less pleasant is that you never know what exactly Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will be up to in the near future - he is a "loose cannon", a security risk. He recently wanted to throw ten ambassadors out of the country, they had insisted on the rule of law when dealing with a well-known opposition figure. The diplomats...
Exclusive Status: 10/14/2021 6:01 a.m. Thousands of refugees had to go to court until the Foreign Office allowed their families to join them. Research by Contrasts, Ippen Investigativ and FragDenStaat. Lawyers call the Ministry's conditions extortionate. Tesfay Haile (name changed) fled Eritrea to Europe and has lived in Berlin since 2017. He wanted to catch up with his wife and four children to save them the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. But it turned into an odyssey that lasted for...
