Projected results put Germany's far-right AfD party ahead of its rivals in Thuringia and on course for a gain in Saxony. Here are the results and what they mean for the balance of power in the states' parliaments.

TikTok, Ghosting, and Triggerwarnung were new additions, as well as Mocktail and Gojibeeren. Words about the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine were also added.

After success of bottle deposit schemes, some retailers are trying to widen culture of reuse – and start tackling Europe’s waste problem

Ingrid Strobl, geb. am 6. April 1952 in Innsbruck, gest. am 25. Januar 2024 in Köln.

As we write this post, Israel is systematically displacing, maiming, and murdering Palestinians. At the same time, a global web of power structures is actively suppressing solidarity campaigns with Palestine and Palestinians. State representatives, police agents, and university administrators (among others) form an assemblage of power that reinforces the delegitimation of collective struggles for Palestinian liberation.

The coalition government wants to expand its remembrance culture to include the history of German colonialism. Initial proposals have been met with criticism, in particular from heads of Holocaust memorial sites.

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Am U-Bahnhof Bülowstraße in Schöneberg gibt es jetzt ein Plakat von deSta! Es geht um die neue Black Feminism Tour, die wir seit Anfang dieses Jahres anbieten.

Diese einzigartige Führung lädt Dich dazu ein, Dich mit der Vielfalt und Intersektionalität des Schwarzen & queeren Feminismus vertraut zu machen. ✨

Sei dabei, erlebe transformative Momente und unterstütze die Anti- Diskriminierungsbewegung. 👣

Housing is the social issue of the 21st century, German politicians and experts say time and again. And yet there's no improvement in sight, especially in cities, where affordable housing is in short supply.

Although Germany's women's rights activists weren't as radical as their sisters in Britain, they started their struggle for equal rights very early, and they persevered.

What would Germany look like if only women voted? Which parties would be in power and which decisions might have gone differently?