Tag: democracy
Day of Rage: Impressive NYT film about the storming of the Capitol – Media
The film is so brutal that it needs a warning: it shows drastic violence, it says in the opening credits, bad swear words can be heard; You can only see…
Citizens’ Council on Climate Protection: Cheap Meat? Rather dispensable – politics
The organizers wanted to represent a mini Germany in the Citizens’ Council for Climate Protection. 160 women and men came together, young and old, town and country, with and without…
Hohenzollern dispute: who destroyed the Weimar Republic – culture
Who were the driving forces behind the destruction of democracy in the early 1930s? The Nazis, of course. The communists, even if their destructive role turned out to be quite…
The return of MEPs to Parliament marks a “strong moment for democracy”
MEPs finally back to the Strasbourg Parliament – T. Gagnepain / 20 Minutes After more than fifteen months of absence, MEPs returned to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Monday,…
Erdogan sees the text as a “guillotine blow inflicted on French democracy”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a speech in Ankara on May 8, 2021 (illustration). – / AP / SIPA The Turkish president is once again attacking French policy. Recep…
Seized by parents, the ECHR considers compulsory vaccination “necessary” in a democracy
Illustrative image of a vaccination. – Subash Shrestha // SIPA The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) had been seized by parents of children refused by nursery schools, for lack…