At a ceremony remembering the millions of Jews and other persecuted groups killed by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust, the president of Germany's parliament called on residents of the country to again stand up against hatred and anti-Semitism. "Let us all have the courage not to remain silent, but to resolutely oppose hatred and bigotry," Bärbel Bas said on Wednesday morning in the Bundestag, as the country's lower house of parliament is known. She thanked the hundreds of thousands of people who ha
Germany is at risk of becoming a “museum of prosperity”, a business chief warned, as train drivers launched their longest ever strike amid tensions over the country’s finances.
Germany’s parliament paid tribute on Monday to Wolfgang Schaeuble, the former finance minister and the country’s longest-serving lawmaker who helped negotiate German reunification. Schaeuble died in December at age 81. French President Emmanuel Macron, Bundestag president Baerbel Bas and Christian Democrats leader Friedrich Merz praised Schaeuble’s long years of service in the German government and his commitment to a unified Germany and to the European project.
The president of Germany's Central Council of Jews, Josef Schuster, has not observed any emigration of Jews from Germany despite the rising number of anti-Semitic incidents. When asked whether members of the Jewish community were turning their backs on Germany, Schuster told the Rheinische Post newspaper in an interview published on Saturday: "No, I definitely don't see any emigration of Jewish people from Germany." There are always people who move to Israel for religious reasons, Schuster said,