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So how well does Cate Blanchett handle a baton? A couple of critics hash out the personalities and classical music in ‘Tár’

CHICAGO — The new Cate Blanchett film “Tár” is no issue movie. It has, however, brought a lot of rarified and/or unfashionable issues back into the spotlight: symphony orchestra politics; the cost of obsessive artistic ambition and devotion to a calling; and, for writer-director Todd Field, the challenge and allure…

Chicago Tribune

Macron vows to preserve Franco-German alliance

France's President Emmanuel Macron vowed Thursday that he was working hard to repair strained ties with Germany and to preserve the alliance underpinning EU unity. His remarks come after a regular Franco-German summit was postponed until January when Berlin indicated that it needed "more time" to find common ground with…

Radio France Internationale

German president cancels trip to Kyiv on security concerns

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called off a planned visit to Kyiv on Thursday for security reasons, his office said on Wednesday.

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French, German meeting postponed as cracks emerge over energy, defence

The French and German governments have postponed a meeting planned for next week until January, officials said on Wednesday, after what sources told Reuters were divisions including over energy policy and defence.

Reuters

German spy chief: 'Russia is the storm, China is climate change'

Germany's intelligence service chiefs warned on Monday that China could use stakes in critical infrastructure as leverage to pursue political aims amid a debate in Berlin over whether to let Chinese shipping company Cosco invest in Hamburg port.

Reuters

Movie review: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ a searing indictment of war

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” a 1928 World War I novel by war veteran Erich Maria Remarque, was banned and burned in Nazi Germany. When the Academy Award-winning 1930 film version from Universal Pictures opened in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels himself entered the theater and started a riot. In 1979,…

Boston Herald

France's Macron Seeks German 'Solidarity' on Energy

French President Emmanuel Macron called on Germany Sunday to show European "solidarity" over soaring energy prices, warning that Berlin's multi-billion plan to help its consumers could lead to "distortions". "We cannot stick to national policies, because this creates distortions within the European continent," the French leader said in an interview…

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Attention Eurobaddies: Berghain Is Rumoured To Be Shutting Its Doors At The End Of The Year

Praying to the leather Gods it ain’t true.

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The week in classical: The Ring of the Nibelung; Berlin Philharmonic/ Fischer review – a human experiment

Outstanding performances can’t save Tcherniakov’s new Ring, complete with live rabbits, from closing to a barrage of boos…

The Guardian - UK

Putin: Germany unlikely to accept gas via remaining Nord Stream 2 pipeline

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Germany was unlikely to accept Russian gas from the one remaining undamaged line of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, two days after Berlin rejected his initial offer.

Reuters

Beautiful, decadent, damaged: a walk back in time through roaring 20s Berlin

With the fourth series of Babylon Berlin starting on Friday, this atmospheric stroll peels back the history of a city that rarely stopped dancing – even during its darkest days

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a harrowing report on child sex trafficking in the US

Channel 4 heads to Texas, where 80,000 children are victims of the industry, plus the return of Babylon Berlin. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

France starts exporting gas to Germany amid energy crisis

French gas network operator GRTgaz says it has started conveying gas to Germany via pipeline for the first time, as Berlin strives to diversity its energy sources

The Independent UK

‘Enjoy your shameful minute of fame’: Anger as far-right German politician ‘dances’ on Holocaust memorial

AfD member posed on a stone slabs on the Berlin landmark

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Daily Record

Man's horrendous '29 hour flight' with children screaming for entire journey

Henry Beasley was travelling to Berlin with a nearby crying child onboard ferociously screamed their lungs out throughout the entire journey.

The Independent UK

Eating Berlin: In search of delicious and unpretentious food

Berlin doesn’t immediately spring to mind when you think: foodie citybreak. But it should and this is why, says Sean Russell

Glasgow Live

When two Glasgow art students painted 80s icon 'Mr Happy' on the Berlin Wall

Former city art student Mike Mackiggan gives Glasgow Live the lowdown on the day he and a pal painted an iconic homage to their hometown on the Berlin Wall.

Reuters

Berlin sees no need for further EU debt to ease energy crisis

Germany does not see the need for further European Union debt to tackle the bloc's energy crisis, a government spokesperson said, after a media report said Berlin would change its position and support a joint issuance of EU debt through loans.

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The Guardian - UK

Jürgen Wittdorf: Berlin gallery revives homoerotic art of communist era

In what would have been artist’s 90th year, first retrospective at Biesdorf Palace has been a surprise success

The Independent UK

Germany to pay December gas bills for households and businesses in new energy crisis plan

Europe’s largest economy must cut consumption by 20 per cent to avoid potential shortages, expert warns

WEKU

An act of sabotage shut down parts of Germany's rail system for hours this weekend

Officials say a key train communications system was compromised, stranding passenger and cargo trains across the northwest of the country on Saturday.

Reuters

Germany's Scholz to meet Hungary's Orban on Monday - German govt spokesperson

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet with Hungarian Prime Minster Viktor Orban in Berlin on Monday, a German government spokesperson said.

Los Angeles Times

In the Ukraine war, a shadowy key player emerges: Russia’s private army of mercenaries

BERLIN — As Russia suffers one devastating military setback after another in Ukraine, a key player in the conflict is stepping out of the shadows: the private army known as the Wagner Group.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Depeche Mode Line Up 1st Album, Tour in over 5 Years

Depeche Mode have lined up a new album and the band's first live shows in more than five years, an announcement that comes months after the death of founding member Andy "Fletch" Fletcher. The band said in Berlin on Tuesday that the album, "Memento Mori," will be released next spring.…

Reuters

Poland seeks good cooperation with Germany on WW2 reparations, says minister

Poland is counting on good cooperation with the German government on resolving the issue of reparations for World War Two, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said on Tuesday during a joint press conference with Berlin's top diplomat.

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