Trump tells Europe it is facing ‘civilizational erasure’
Washington publishes a national security document that adopts the far right’s arguments and says immigration will make the Old Continent ‘unrecognizable’ in 20 years or less
Why Germans put up with snail-speed internet
The largest European economy has serious coverage issues, and not just in isolated areas but also in large cities such as Berlin and Munich. A study found that mobile networks run at speeds slower than in Albania
J. D. Vance launches ideological attack on Europe that highlights rift between EU and US
At the Munich Security Conference, the vice president avoided talking about the war in Ukraine, and instead focused his speech on criticizing European action against the far right: ‘In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat’
Munich police shoot dead an armed suspect near the Israeli consulate
The incident comes on the anniversary of the 1972 bombing at the Munich Olympics in which Palestinian gunmen killed 11 Israeli athletes
Humanity is closer to stopping HIV, and the biggest obstacle is the price of the drug that will do it
Lenacapavir, an antiviral drug already approved as a treatment that costs $40,000 in the US, prevented 100% of infections in a study on African women with just two injections a year. UNAIDS is asking the drugmaker Gilead to reduce the cost in order to make it more widely available
Navalny’s death deepens tension between democracies and authoritarian regimes
The Munich Security Conference has highlighted the broken global order in which Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are closing ranks. ‘The question is whether democracy will survive,’ says the president of the European Commission
Thousands attend memorial service for Franz Beckenbauer at Bayern Munich’s stadium
Among the guests were German chancellor Olaf Scholz and a host of other political figures, FIFA president Gianni Infantino, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin
A 300-year-old painting stolen by an American soldier during World War II returned to German museum
The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a German museum representative in a brief ceremony at the German Consulate in Chicago
What is China’s peace proposal for the war in Ukraine?
President Xi Jinping’s government is reiterating his country’s claim to being neutral, despite blocking efforts at the United Nations to condemn the invasion
Blinken: China’s spy balloon program has been ‘exposed to the world’
Blinken and Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, held talks in Munich after the US shot down an alleged surveillance device
US: Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine
The Biden administration formally determined last March that Russian troops had committed war crimes in Ukraine and said it would work with others to prosecute offenders
Essayist Yascha Mounk: ‘Humans are tribal. We can be incredibly cruel to those outside the group’
The German-American scholar – published widely during the Trump era – is studying how multiculturalism can thrive in democratic societies