EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based M-Appeal has posted some early sales on Spanish filmmaker Mikel Gurrea’s latest feature, Saints, which debuts this week in competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Check out a trailer for the film above. Elastica Films has taken distribution rights in Spain. The company, which this year is also handling Spain’s Cannes breakout […]
Deadline•Zac Ntim20m ago
The socialist Left Party won the Berlin election partly on the promise to implement the city's 2021 expropriation referendum as a way to solve the city's rent crisis. But can it really happen?
Deutsche Welle21m ago
Munich, Berlin, or the Cologne-Rhine-Ruhr region? Germany aims to host the Olympic Games again. Three candidates are in the running, with one city considered the slight favorite.
Deutsche Welle3h ago
Volotea has launched direct flights between Berlin Brandenburg Airport and Florence, marking the first time the Tuscan capital has been served nonstop from BER. The route will operate up to twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, using a 156-seat Airbus A319. The journey takes just under two hours. Services are scheduled around periods of strong […]
Aviation24.be•André Orban4h ago
Volotea launches nonstop Berlin–Florence flights up to twice weekly, with services in autumn, over Christmas and from late March for the summer timetable.
In a striking show of antiestablishment voter sentiment, the Left won in Berlin on the same night that the far-right Alternative for Germany won in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
Berlin's young voters overwhelmingly supported the victorious socialist Left Party. Are the young more radical? Or is that just a reflection of current German politics?
Deutsche Welle22 Sept
Berlin's Europe minister rebuked the European Council president's remarks to POLITICO.
The affected dates were due to include stops in Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Hamburg and Berlin.
Germany is leading European drive to reduce dependence on America for space-based intelligence, says US group’s CEO
There's the inroads of the far right, but also the broader desire for change. Introducing Berlin's answer to Zohran Mamdani: Elif Eralp, who led the far-left Die Linke party's historic win in Sunday's municipal elections in Berlin. We ask if the 45-year-old daughter of Turkish political exiles can push through her promises of rent freezes and nationalisation of private real estate companies. Just like in New York last year, affordable housing was a hot-button issue. It didn't hurt that her party ran a social media-savvy campaign.
Volkswagen's chief says the carmaker will accelerate its streamlining measures as workers protest. The Israeli ambassador says the Left Party win in Berlin polls poses a risk to the city's Jewish community. DW has more.
Deutsche Welle22 Sept
The Left party, led by Turkish-origin Elif Eralp, won Berlin, offering a contrast to the far right's wins in the east.
Al Jazeera22 SeptNach dem Wahlschock steht die politische Reformagenda in Berlin auf dem Prüfstand. CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz rückt scheinbar plötzlich die soziale Gerechtigkeit in den Fokus. Rasmus Buchsteiner ordnet ein, was Phantom-Debatten sind und wie Union und SPD planen, die politische Mitte wieder für sich zurückzugewinnen. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview fordert der niedersächsische CDU-Landesvorsitzende Sebastian Lechner einen Kurswechsel. Er […]
RT Features, behind James Gray’s “Paper Tiger” and Walter Salles’ Oscar winner “I’m Still Here,” has announced a star cast of Taiwan’s Lee Kang-sheng and Argentina’s Miranda de la Serna and Marcelo Subiotto for “Bodies of Summer.” A speculative sci-fi drama, the film marks the latest from Fund, who leaped to international attention last year […]
Variety•Emeza80521 Sept
Victory in Berlin signals that Germany continues to be liberal, that, despite the far right's rise, experts say.
Al Jazeera21 Sept
Chancellor defensive after AfD’s second electoral victory in the east and far left wins in Berlin
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and CDU representatives held a press conference on Monday, September 21, after the party suffered its worst regional election defeat in postwar Germany. Merz called the result in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a “disaster”, as the CDU fell below the 5% threshold for entering the state parliament. According to FRANCE 24 Europe editor Armen Georgian, Merz and his party’s Berlin candidate, Stefan Evers, offered no concrete solutions to address the historic defeat, despite pledging to keep the coalition together in the name of a “democratic future.”
Friedrich Merz clinging to power after Christian Democratic Union loses two state elections Europe live – latest updates Germany’s beleaguered leader, Friedrich Merz, has sought to shore up support for his flagging chancellorship among senior members of his conservative party after its drubbing at the polls in two state elections. Merz, who has vowed his fractious coalition government will plough ahead with an unpopular reform agenda, held an early meeting in Berlin with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)’s leadership on Monday. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Kate Connolly in Berlin21 Sept
