Because of pressure from ‘The City of London’ banking speculators towards Conservative leader Cameron, the UK is facing a self-imposed isolation in Europe
David Cameron vetoed a proposed amendment of the Lisbon treaty, which forced the other European Union members to bypass the UK and agreed amongst themselves -an unofficial agreement between the governments – thus just outside of the official architecture of the EU.
Cameron has [...] Continue Reading…
Conductor Daniel Barenboim will today receive the first ever ‘Willy-Brandt International Prize’.
The prize is, presented by the Social Democratic Party of Germany /SPD to honour the memory of SPD German politician Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin from 1957 to 1966 and Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 til 1974.
Barenboim leads an Israeli-Arab orchestra – the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra- with which [...] Continue Reading…
Hundreds of Berliners again took to the streets this Saturday to demonstrate against the present financial system in which banks are attempting to force governments to make taxpayers pay for their mismanagement, profligate casino type hedge fund betting and unfettered greed.
This was the 2nd Saturday in a row that demonstrators marched to this theme – last weekend, around 10,000 people took part [...] Continue Reading…
The German Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble is reported to have said yesterday that non-government private commercial lenders to Greece should either take a hair-cut or be given a hair-cut.
Brussels also wants these private banks to accept ‘haircuts’ – losses- of 30%-50% of their holdings in Greek debt instead of the presently agreed 21%.
In other words private banks should [...] Continue Reading…
Today the German parliament, the Bundestag voted in favor of German tax-payers money be used to increase the Euro-zone rescue fund to circa 440 billion Euro. This is a powerful signal to the international financial markets, and it shows that Germany takes its European responsibility seriously . It was also a personal win for Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schäuble, her [...] Continue Reading…
Imaginative ‘Home-Made’ Posters from the Anti-Pope-Visit Berlin 22nd Septemeber 2011
More than 10,000 Berliners protested on a sunny early evening along the Under den Linden Boulevard while the Pope was saying mass across town at the Olympic stadium.
Protesters brought up a range of various controversial issues like, priest celibacy requirements, women [or lack thereof] in the church, gay rights, [...] Continue Reading…
‘ILA – Berlin’ is one of the world’s major air shows, not as large as Farnborough or Paris but equal in regional importance to other shows like Dubai and Singapore.
It is certainly the oldest – the original Berlin air show was in 1909 and a special anniversary was held in 2009 to celebrate the 100th anniversary.
The new ILA-Berlin [...] Continue Reading…
Johann Sebastian Bach was familiar with the world around him and this certainly applied to the musical world. He, more than most of his musical European contemporaries, kept abreast with the ‘new’ and ‘what was for sale’ in the store-front of European music literature.
Music relating to Bach’s Italian masters, those he greatly admired, ranges from the music of the 16th and [...] Continue Reading…
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Many thousands of people marched all over Germany this Easter Weekend to protest against both NATO wars in Libya [...] Continue Reading…
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Am kommenden Donnerstag, dem 7.4. um 20.30 h wird die belgische Pianistin Michele Gurdal einen Klavierabend geben, der zwei Herzstücken der romantischen Klaviermusik gewidmet ist, den [...] Continue Reading…
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