The joint decision from Merkel’s conservative bloc and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) brings the total of incoming refugees from the Greek islands to about 2,750, a government spokesman confirmed.
The Social Democratic Party is ramping up pressure on its conservative partners in the country’s governing coalition to take in more refugees from Greece in the wake of a fire that destroyed the overcrowded Moria camp.
The virus poses no danger to humans, but it is almost always fatal in pigs. Germany is one of the world’s largest pork producers, with 55 million pigs slaughtered in 2019, according to the German meat industry.
The Moira refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos was officially built for around 2,800 people, but almost 13,000 refugees lived there. The cause of the fire is still unknown.
Cases of COVID-19 are rising and despite warnings from Berlin to remain alert, a growing number of Germans are pushing back against hygiene and social distancing rules even as their neighbors — the French — embrace those measures to try and avoid another lockdown. Host Sumi Somaskanda explores the subject.
In an interview Tuesday morning with public broadcaster ZDF, Bavarian Premier Markus Soeder warned of mass unemployment if the government fails to do more for the car companies.
Dilek Kalayci said in the last few weeks and months, it was traveling Berliners that led to an increase in the number of COVID-19 infections.
Planners of the event said they won’t let COVID-19 stop a nearly 150-year-old tradition of waking the Hoppeditz, a jester-like character that kicks off the months-long countdown to Lent.
The nerve agent is from the same chemical group that was used to poison a former Russian spy and his daughter in England in 2018.
The debate over unconditional basic income is not a new one, but it has gotten more attention in the wake of the COVID-19 health crisis. A new long-term study on how society would change if people were to receive a basic income is underway in Germany. Host Sylvia Cunningham explores some of the arguments for and against.
