Germany
Data may indicate that German businesses are reducing ties to Iran to avoid getting snagged up in U.S. sanctions against the country.
Heiko Maas: If German Jews are afraid to display their religion in public, “it is a disgrace to the state.” Berlin has seen a 14 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the past year.
Bruno Dey is charged as an accessory to murders committed at the Stutthof concentration camp from August 1944 to April 1945.
“We hope this success story will encourage others to keep researching and pushing auction houses and governments to return the thousands of other Nazi stolen items on the market to their rightful owners,” said U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell.
Social-media guidance sent to the country’s diplomatic posts states “that even ‘likes’ are understood as expressions of opinion of the German government.”
A 25-year-old student was insulted, threatened and spat on in front of Potsdam Central Station by two Syrian nationals.
His 17th book was published this year, the third in the past two years.
“We regret anyone was offended; it was certainly not our intention,” said Debra DeShong, senior vice president of corporate communications for MGM Resorts International.
A conference on anti-Semitism in Berlin revealed varying ideological roots of contemporary anti-Semitism according to different parts of the world.
Along with expanded home-care funding and pension increases, the Claims Conference reached a few “first-ever” agreements this year.
“Data from the German Chamber of Commerce showed that trade volumes between Iran and Europe’s largest economy were down 49 percent over the first four months of the year compared to the same period in 2018, with volumes continually declining,” reported Reuters.
A resident told local press, “For us, it’s important to send the message from Ostritz that there are people here who won’t tolerate this, who say ‘we have different values here, we’re setting an example.’ ”
