From the What Did You Expect Department and in an embarrassing situation for Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, one of its paid informants in the neo-Nazi scene went on trial Monday for running a radio station that called for the nuclear destruction of Israel, daily Tagesspiegel reports. ADVERTISING The 31-year-old woman, […]

Under heavy security, German Defence Minister Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Thursday to meet with international military commanders and Afghan officials. ADVERTISING In his first visit to the war-torn country since taking the helm at the Defence Ministry, Guttenberg was to hold talks with […]

Two stories about the religion of peace to come out of Germany this week. First up we learn that a new programme is helping 17 Turkish imams learn German in a bid for integration in North Rhine-Westphalia. The imams from mosques across Germany travelled Dortmund for the course, which has […]

The BBC is on entertainingly xenophobic form in Germany, it seems. In his first press conference after the election Guido Westerwelle, Germany’s newly designated foreign minister, refused to answer a question in English for a BBC reporter who had been sent to report on the German election…despite the fact that he […]