China wants to build a huge battery factory in Hungary, but local residents still have a few questions. There are droughts here, lack of energy, and then such a big project - seriously?From Catherine KahlweitThe hamlet of Mikepércs, where chickens cackle by the roadside and narrow paths weave through a network of orchards and humble tenement houses, doesn't look like the center of a revolutionary movement. And the four women sitting on two gray couches among biscuits and children's toys...
Leopard tank:Up to the pain limitJan 25, 2023 at 8:50 p.mReading time: 9 minsOpen detailed viewThe discussion was brutal for the chancellor because it raised fundamental questions: Does he have a plan? Why is he hesitating? And why doesn't he explain what he's doing? (Photo: Friedrich Bungert)Many were just stunned by the Chancellor's speechlessness about "Leopard 2". But didn't Olaf Scholz use his stubbornness to get the Americans to deliver? In any case, it's being celebrated now, the only question...
Homepoliticsdefense policyBerlin:My first day at workJan 19, 2023 6:36 p.mReading time: 9 minsOpen detailed viewSo far, the only armed force under his command has been the Lower Saxony police force. Now Boris Pistorius is in control of an entire army. (Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)Swearing-in, formation of honor, and then immediately world politics: The new Defense Minister Boris Pistorius only has a few hours, and it's already about tanks and the Ukraine war. What is expected of him now? Definitely more...
It all started in a room in a shared flat in London, with a loan from my stepfather. And now? Jacques Testard has already won his third Nobel Prize with his small publishing house Fitzcarraldo Editions. The story of a journalistic miracle. from Felix StephenWhen you discuss with literary publisher Jacques Testard how his tiny London-based indie publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions racked up three Nobel Prizes in just eight years, there comes a moment when he pulls a Siegfried Unseld book...
from Oliver Meiler, RomeThe curse with Giorgia Meloni is that she's nice. And often funny, and self-deprecating. Even those who don't like them think so. Empathy isn't everything, God forbid, especially in politics. But she's not nothing either. source site
Europe is now talking about the "Qatar Gate" and Eva Kaili is the face of this scandal. But the second lead, which leads to Morocco, could be even more dangerous for the EU's credibility.Of Josef Kelnberger and Oliver Meiler, Rome/BrusselsIf everything had gone according to plan, the Panzeri family from the Bergamo hinterland would now be in Marrakech. In Paradise. Instead, everyone is in prison. Two rooms were booked in the Hotel La Mamounia, one of the best hotels in...
Nowhere else in Brazil is more soya produced than in Sorriso. And nowhere is the newly elected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva so hated. A visit to Bolsonaro country. source site
65,000 people were gassed, shot and torn by dogs in the Stutthof concentration camp. The secretary Irmgard F. accepted it, says the judge. The verdict is two years probation. The question remains: why so late?Of Renate Meinhof, ItzehoeFor the last time she is pushed into the hall in a wheelchair. A slender woman in beige, her beret in her curls, her jacket not removed, as if she must be ready to leave at any time. And yet Irmgard F. seems...
Of course, many in Bad Lobenstein knew about the prince's crude views, about the strange meetings in his hunting lodge. But no one claims to have noticed that a group around him was planning a kind of putsch. That's part of the problem.Of Christoph Koopmann, Bad LobensteinOf course they've all seen something, heard something. What you get in a town like Bad Lobenstein. The prince's car, for example, in the parking lot in front of the supermarket, easily recognizable by...
The Saxons and the refugees, a difficult topic, also in Wehrsdorf. People like Katharina Groß fight here with angry citizens, but above all: with the authorities.Of Constanze von Bullion, WehrsdorfIt's already evening and the cold is creeping into the village when this inner restlessness drives them out of the house again. She has already spent half the day in the home, now she wants to go there again. She promised people she would. And besides - all that grief up...
