Germany to Pull Back from ACTA. Presented as a law designed to stamp out counterfeit goods imports, the agreement features worrying implications for the Internet liberty.
Germany was expected to sign the treaty, but after noticing the increasing flak from the public, German government seems not that enthusiastic anymore. Although Germany’s home office hasn’t outright decided against the agreement, it will still delay its decision until the European Union makes up its mind this summer. According to the local media reports, signing the treaty has already turned into a sort of complicated discussion. Some of the reports even claim that German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, has taken a decision to withdraw the formal signing of the treaty. However, this doesn’t mean that the country has changed its mind and a decision will be made later.
Meanwhile, in Eastern Europe, public scrutiny has pressured the governments, demanding to delay ratification. By: SaM February 14th,2012 Posted by: SaM. Germany seeks to ban far-right NPD party. Germany seeks to ban far-right NPD party Neo-Nazis marching (file photo) Germany is making a second attempt to ban the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) after the arrest of a former NPD member suspected of involvement in the murder of nine foreigners.
Following a conference in the western town of Wiesbaden on Friday, the interior ministers of Germany's 16 federal states agreed to set up a working group to launch a new legal case against the NPD, The Washington Post reported. The National Democratic Party is “inhuman, hostile to democracy and anti-Semitic,” German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said, adding, “Our aim is to outlaw the NPD.”
The return of the neo-Nazis - Inside Story. Chaos Computer Club - Wiki. The CCC describes itself as "a galactic community of life forms, independent of age, sex, race or societal orientation, which strives across borders for freedom of information....
" Cold-War Style Spying: Russian Couple's Arrest Could Mar Diplomatic Ties - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. It was still dark when a unit of German police commandos burst into a family home in the western town of Marburg at 06.30 a.m. last Tuesday.
Heidrun A. was sitting in her study in front of a wireless transmitter that was receiving encoded messages on a shortwave frequency and was hooked up by cable to a computer. The sudden appearance of armed officers in balaclavas must have been quite a shock -- the woman fell off her chair and pulled out the connecting cable between the receiver and the computer, thereby interrupting the recording of conspiratorial messages coming from the radio, accompanied by a special identification tune. The Marburg arrest is the culmination of a secret, weeks-long effort by German security authorities to hunt down suspected Russian agents.
It was an operation straight out of the annals of the Cold War. Heidrun A., 45, and her husband Andreas, 51, are suspected of having spent over 20 years as undercover agents spying on Germany for Moscow. Incriminating Evidence. National Democratic Party of Germany. NPD logo until the end of 2010.
The National Democratic Party of Germany (German: Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, NPD), is a far-right political party in Germany. It was founded in 1964 as successor to the German Reich Party (German: Deutsche Reichspartei, DRP). Party statements also self-identify the party as Germany's "only significant patriotic force".[4] On 1 January 2011, the far-right German People's Union (German: Deutsche Volksunion) merged with the NPD and the party name of the National Democratic Party of Germany was extended by the addition of "The People's Union".[5] It is currently represented in two of Germany's sixteen state parliaments, with no seats at the federal level.
Udo Voigt led the NPD from 1996 to 2011.[13] He was succeeded by Holger Apfel,[15] who in turn was replaced by Udo Pastörs in December 2013. Platform and philosophy[edit] Google Translate.
German minister raises ‘orderly default’ for Greece. Philipp Rösler - Wiki. Early life and education[edit] Rösler was born in Khanh Hung, Ba Xuyen Province, in the former South Vietnam (now Soc Trang Province, Vietnam) on 24 February 1973.[4][5] He was adopted from a Roman Catholic orphanage near Saigon[6] by a German couple who already had two biological children, and brought to West Germany at the age of nine months.[5] He was raised by his adoptive father, who is a career military officer, after the couple separated when he was four years old.[7] He grew up in Hamburg, Bückeburg and Hanover, where he graduated from high school in 1992.[8] After training to become a combat medic in the German Bundeswehr (the Federal Defence Force), Rösler was accepted to study medicine at the Hanover Medical School.
Following this, he continued his education at the Bundeswehr hospital in Hamburg. Career[edit] Rösler at the World Economic Forum in 2013. Philipp Rösler.