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Skip next section Thank you for reading March 15, 2026 Thank you for reading The results from the Hesse local elections have already started to trickle in, but it will likely not be clear for a while how the various parties have fared. So for now, we will be winding down this blog, but be

Voters in France are going to the polls on Sunday in muncipal elections that are being considered as a final major gauge of political sentiment in the country ahead of a presidential vote next year. In particular, the ballot is being seen as a test of the far right's strength as mainstream parties seem to

He himself calls it a 'strong signal:' A man with non‑European roots serving as a Catholic bishop in Germany. This Sunday, the Carmelite Father Joshy Pottackal , originally from India, is to be consecrated as a bishop in Mainz Cathedral, and will serve as an auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Mainz in the west of

Numerous accounts on the social media platform Instagram have been publishing glorifying photos of the Wehrmacht and SS officers from the period of National Socialism (NS) under Adolf Hitler. The accompanying texts highlight the individuals' bravery, courage, and strategic skill. Their participation in war crimes and in the Holocaust, the mass murder of Europe's Jews

Transparency and self-criticism were long taboo at Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). It wasn't until 2007 that the agency, Germany's central federal policy force, began to subject its own history to scrutiny. Anyone visiting the BKA's website these days, as it marks its 75th anniversary, can read statements such as: "Until the late 1960s, the

Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova was personally handed the Charlemagne Prize on Saturday after having been awarded it in absentia in May 2022. The ceremony was held in the western city of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia state. The Charlemagne Prize recognizes people who have worked to advance European unity. Kolesnikova was awarded with the prize

Jürgen Habermas, world-renowned German philosopher and sociologist, has died in the town of Starnberg near Munich, where he has lived since 1971, the Suhrkamp publishing house said. One of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, he remained active until his final years and was one of the few public intellectuals in Germany to regularly take

The narrow victory in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg on March 8 was a liberation for the battered ecologist Green Party. With around 180,000 members, the German Greens are one of the biggest parties in the green movement worldwide, but they had lost nine elections in the past three and a half years, both at the

A Jewish school in Amsterdam was hit by an explosion early on Saturday in what the city's mayor called "a deliberate attack against the Jewish community." The explosion on Saturday is the latest in a spate of suspected attacks against Jewish institutions in recent weeks. Many of these incidents coincided with the US-Israeli war against

The small black plaque on the facade of house No. 99 on Budapest’s grand Andrassy Boulevard marks an episode that happened in November 1956, when Soviet troops invaded Hungary and brutally crushed the country's short-lived uprising against the Communist Party. Some Soviet soldiers refused to take part in the bloodbath against the Hungarian freedom fighters — and