The new chairman of the Catholic German Bishops Conference, Heiner Wilmer, is four days older than his predecessor, Georg Bätzing: almost 65 years old. This is not what one would call a generational... Read more »
Skip next section Merz arrives in Beijing 02/25/2026February 25, 2026 Merz arrives in Beijing German Chancellor Friedrich Merz landed in Beijing on Wednesday for his first visit to China. A large delegation of... Read more »
China’s rise from poverty to the world’s second‑largest economy rewrote the rules of globalization. Now Beijing’s push into high-end technology is unfolding at an even faster pace. While the United States and United... Read more »
It sounds like the plot of a screenplay, but it happened to two Berlin film students in real life. Moritz Henneberg and Julius Drost had created an animated short film for their final project at university.... Read more »
Berlin’s government is effectively sabotaging the city’s international status as an artistic and academic hub, according to students and teachers at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), which is pressing ahead... Read more »
Germany launched a major artificial intelligence (AI) project this month to cut its reliance on US providers of high-performance computing and data processing — a move seen as helping Europe to control its own... Read more »
Worldwide, autocracies are on the rise, populists are gaining momentum, democratic societies are under pressure. Wars, inflation and fear of economic decline are causing great uncertainty. The “Germany-Monitor 2025” shows that the vast... Read more »
Skip next section More protests over presence of AfD’s Björn Höcke in Düsseldorf02/23/2026February 23, 2026 More protests over presence of AfD’s Björn Höcke in Düsseldorf Björn Höcke is currently touring Germany’s largest... Read more »
This year’s Berlin International Film Festival prize winners, and their acceptance speeches, make clear the difficult tightrope along which the festival has to walk. Closing a 10-day festival that had been marked... Read more »
There is no shortage of gloomy assessments of the global situation at the moment. “In the era of great powers, our freedom is no longer a given. It is under threat,” said... Read more »