On Wednesday, a court in Hungary ruled that Maja T.*, an anti-fascist activist from the city of Jena in the eastern German state of Thuringia, was guilty of seriously injuring several suspected right-wing extremists in Budapest in February 2023.
After months of mounting pressure on independent media, academic institutions and NGOs, Serbia's ruling majority has turned its attention to the judiciary.
Massive Russian drone and missile attacks on infrastructure and cities, 20 hours or more each day without water, electricity, and at times even heat, and outside temperatures of -15 Celsius (5 Fahrenheit): This is what many Ukrainians are being forced to endure this winter.
Russian President Vladimir Putin bathes in the blood of Ukraine, while US President Donald Trump tears up the climate protection agreement like an angry child: These Dusseldorf Carnival floats made by German artist and float builder Jacques Tilly are meant to provoke.
Germany's military, the Bundeswehr, is currently on a spending spree: it has more than €108 billion ($129 billion) at its disposal this year — a gigantic, unprecedented sum. This is being financed both by the official federal budget and special funds, for which the state is taking out loans.
Videos of Germans who have moved to Russia seeking "traditional values" garner hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok and YouTube. These new residents are regularly invited to appear on state television, while the Kremlin speaks of mass immigration from the West.
The rule of the strongest is back: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke of a "new world of great powers" at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. There was much talk of armament, economic might, power plays — and of course US President Donald Trump.
"With a four-day week and an exaggerated work-life balance, prosperity cannot be maintained," Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in early January, despite OECD data that shows Germans work even more than they did in previous years.
In a classroom in Chennai, India, around 20 nurses are learning German at breakneck speed. They have six months to become fluent enough to work in Germany. Ramalakshi, one of the nurses, says her family struggled financially, but still managed to pay the equivalent of several thousand euros for her nursing college.
Germany has no equivalent of the specialized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in the United States, though that would change if the Bavarian branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) had its way.
Green Party co-chair Franziska Brantner seemed very uncomfortable when she held a press conference in Berlin this week.
As the gavel came down to seal the Paris Agreement in 2015, tears fell, world leaders joined hands and attendees of the UN COP21 climate summit erupted in a standing ovation. Just over a decade later on January 27, 2026, the withdrawal of the US — the world's second-largest emitter — from global climate pact has come into effect.