Germany has begun felling up to 120,000 trees from the 'fairy tale' forest of Reinhardswald – setting of many Brothers Grimm tales – to make way for wind turbines. But not a peep in protest comes from the Greens.
France enjoys electricity prices 41% cheaper than Germany thanks to its nuclear industry, while Germany becomes increasingly dependent on unreliable renewables and environmentally harmful biomass.
When it comes to who was behind the lab leak that may have started the pandemic, fingers often point at China and the U.S. But what about the German-Chinese lab at the epicentre of the first outbreak, asks Robert Kogon.
German politicians are so worried about the rise of anti-democratic forces they are taking decisive action to ban criticism of Government figures and sending police to search the homes of dissenters.
An art gallery's latest woke stunt is to display altered versions of classic artworks with the world 'on fire' from climate change. Why are modern political obsessions being shoehorned into everything, asks Steven Tucker.
The German Government's growing clampdown on the insurgent Right-wing opposition is certainly illiberal and authoritarian, says Eugyppius, but it's not helpful to label it 'fascist'.
Eugyppius paints a bleak picture of the state of democracy in Germany, as the Government seeks to use increasingly antidemocratic measures to suppress opposition.
Covid totalitarianism is akin to Nazi totalitarianism, says C J Hopkins, "and even should the German state imprison me for saying this I will continue to do so". Read his powerful statement to the judge who acquitted him.
Yes, the German President did liken AfD supporters to "rats", says Robert Kogon. The claim that he was just alluding to the Pied Piper leading children astray doesn't stack up. And anyway, that's offensive enough.
German intelligence agency the BfV has branded leading politician Hans-Georg Maaßen a "Right-wing extremist" for criticising globalism, the Green Party and mass immigration after he proposed working with AfD.
