Several injured in axe attack at Dusseldorf station – The Daily Telegraph
Excerpt of article written for The Daily Telegraph, published on March 10, 2017: An elderly man was attacked with a machete in Dusseldorf on Friday, hours after a similar attack by a mentally ill asylum seeker wielding an axe left nine people injured at the city’s train…
German finance minister calls Greek leaders’ behaviour ‘incomprehensible’
Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble denounced the Greek government for destroying trust in “incomprehensible ways” when he joined a tense meeting of eurozone finance ministers earlier this month. Mr Schäuble, arriving in Brussels for talks on the new proposals from Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras in…
‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ shouldn’t have been jailed, says Holocaust survivor
A Holocaust survivor criticised a German court for jailing a 94-year-old man dubbed the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” for four years for complicity in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews. Eva Mozes Kor, 81, who is one of 70 co-plaintiffs, said it would provide greater value to…
Angela Merkel looks forward to Queen’s state visit to Berlin – will UK’s EU referendum come up in conversation?
The Queen will be making her fifth state visit to Germany in more than 60 years on the throne this week, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she’s looking forward to what she describes as always a “big event” for the country. But will…