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The best Christmas markets in Europe and cheap flights from Glasgow to get there

With Glasgow's Christmas markets not returning in 2022, this year is the perfect time to visit some of Europe's best festive destinations, and indulge in some new culture.

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Berlin lags on defence purchases after 100 billion euro pledge - sources

Germany is struggling to ramp up defence procurement or even just replace arms and munitions it has supplied to Kyiv, several sources told Reuters eight months after Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged 100 billion euros to bring the military up to speed.

Reuters

Moon Sugar by Angela Meyer review – blending the wonder of fantasy with the thrill of crime fiction

Reminiscent of David Mitchell, this life-affirming, magical novel sees two people travel to Berlin to piece together the final days of a mysteriously missing friend

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Macron, Scholz play down tensions in 'friendly', 'constructive' meeting

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a "friendly" and "constructive" conversation over lunch Wednesday, Paris and Berlin said, after the relationship suffered some bruising in recent weeks over a number of issues including energy and defence.

Radio France Internationale

Analysis-Behind facade of unity, Franco-German relations falter as crises mount

When Germany unveiled a 200 billion euro ($200 billion) package to shield its industry and consumers from soaring energy prices, its government failed to notify neighbouring France beforehand, leaving French President Emmanuel Macron seething in private.

Reuters

French, German leaders to meet in Paris to discuss diverging policy stances

French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Paris on Wednesday, amid divergences between the two neighbors and key European Union allies over EU strategy, defense and economic policies.

France 24

French, German leaders to meet in Paris amid diverging views

French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to meet in Paris with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz amid divergences between the two neighbors and key European Union allies over EU strategy, defense and economic policies

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Berlin conductor Petrenko worried `no one needs us anymore'

Kirill Petrenko will lead the Berlin Philharmonic on its first U.S. tour in six years, conducting from Nov. 10-21 in New York, Boston, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Naples, Florida

The Independent UK

Berlin conference lays out vision of post-war Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the European hosts of a conference on his country's reconstruction laid out a vision of a future Ukraine as a European Union member and major exporter of green energy to the continent on Tuesay.

Reuters

Iran protests spark solidarity rallies in the U.S. and Europe

Chanting crowds marched in the streets of Berlin, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran.

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Protesters take to streets in Europe, US in fresh rallies over Mahsa Amini's death

Chanting crowds marched in the streets of Berlin, Washington DC and Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that country's morality police.

France 24

Iran protests trigger solidarity rallies in Europe, US

Tens of thousands rallied in Berlin and hundreds in Washington in solidarity with protesters facing a violent government crackdown in Iran

The Independent UK

Protest Against Iranian Regime Draws Thousands in Berlin

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Germany's capital Saturday to show solidarity with antigovernment protesters in Iran, where a movement sparked by the death of a woman in the custody of morality police has evolved into a challenge to Tehran. Berlin police estimated that 37,000 people had joined the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Thousands protest in Germany demanding solidarity in energy relief

BERLIN/DUESSELDORF - Tens of thousands of protesters in six German cities gathered on Saturday to demand a more just distribution of government funds to deal with rising energy prices and living costs and a faster transition away from fossil fuels.

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Western Balkans to agree free movement in step toward EU membership

Western Balkan ministers are set to agree on Friday on visa-free travel between the six countries and on mutual recognition of university diplomas and professional qualifications, taking a step towards EU membership.

The Guardian - UK

EU summit divided over capping price paid for wholesale gas

Prospects of deal seem distant, with Germany and Netherlands fearing any cap could backfire

Chicago Tribune

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…

Radio France Internationale

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…

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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.

Reuters

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.

Boston Herald

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,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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.

The Guardian - UK

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…

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