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In some parts of Germany today, it feels like waking up with a proper hangover. In 1989, the people of the GDR shouted ‘wir sind das Volk’ and achieved the incredible: the Berlin Wall fell and Germany was reunified. Today in Thuringia and Saxony, almost 50% of the almost 75% of those eligible to vote have opted for parties that pursue a different political concept ... read more
Good morning, has your sense of security been shaken by the terrible knife attack in Solingen? Young people stab at random at people standing around them, whose only mistake is to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, where an Islamist radicalised on the internet thinks he has to pave his way to heaven. Weapons bans do not help here, but, as it ... read more
Good morning, I'm still angry, even though three days have passed since the coalition parties agreed on the German budget for 2025. No, it is not the lack of respect for culture, which is also hidden in this, that is causing my anger, but the address of devotion to the Russian genocidist and aggressor, which is probably based in the chancellery: Look, we will make ... read more
A very good morning on the first day after the Olympics in Paris – the whole thing is really over now, but that hasn't meant 14 days of peace in the world. In Gaza and Israel, the fighting continues. Russia is still bombing Ukraine and is striving for a peace dictated by the aggressor, which Michael Kretschmer, the Prime Minister of Saxony, is latently supporting ... read more
Only 20 weeks left and then this year will be over. The art market will be quiet for the next four weeks, apart from a few local events. The opposite is true for seasonal business, if you compare it to tourism. After these four weeks, elections will be held in three eastern German states - and everyone will be staring at the oracles of the ... read more
The next typhoon to hit the Philippines, also causing deaths, was around the time of the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris, which took place in pouring rain – so we were lucky again. The weather does not seem to be on our side – climate change is everywhere, but there is little constructive action to combat it. What is often forgotten is the ... read more