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Zaragoza city council announced last week that it wants to make insurance mandatory for all cyclists and electric scooter users. The measure was proposed by the far-right party Vox and agreed to by the conservative People’s Party (PP). They say they want to end the ‘legal uncertainty’ when a cyclist is involved in an accident. If the measure passes, the northeastern Spanish city would be the first in Europe to force cyclists to take out civil liability insurance. Cyclists slam proposed mandatory insuranceCycling organisations have come out strongly against the idea. “Zaragoza would be an excep...
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Pro-Palestinian university protests in Europe have resumed with renewed vigour as Israel launches a ground assault on Rafah after rejecting a ceasefire proposal that had been accepted by Hamas. At Berlin’s Freie Universität in Germany on Tuesday, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters occupied a courtyard. The protesters set up tents and formed a human chain, chanting slogans such as “Viva, Viva Palestina”. Police carried some protesters away, some of them with a struggle. Earlier in the morning, at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, police arrested 125 activists and broke up a pr...
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Ahead of EU elections, the frontrunner of the Party of European Socialists met his SPD counterpart in Berlin on Monday. Nicolas Schmit - currently the EU Commissioner for Employment and Social Rights - held talks with the Social Democratic Party's lead candidate Katharina Barley. "Every election is important," he said. "But if we look around us and see the general context, then this election is a very important election." Europeans voting in June's European Parliament elections face a "choice of direction," he continued. "Not only internationally, but also internally - where Europe should actu...
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Sunsets in calm ports, ships in waveless waters, and young men and women looking into the distance - these serene scenes encapsulate the essence of German Romanticism as depicted by the renowned painter Caspar David Friedrich. Now, the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin is hosting a major exhibition showcasing 115 of his landscape masterpieces. The showcase honours the 250th anniversary of Friedrich's birth, who is hailed as one of Germany's preeminent artists over the past two centuries. But Friedrich's artistic legacy wasn't always celebrated. Born in Greifswald, northeastern Germany, in 1774, h...
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Hundreds of people attended the Kosher Food Festival in Berlin on Sunday, despite Iran's overnight attack on Israel. The Jewish community group, Chabad, organised the event to respond with a “positive spirit” to the ongoing situation in the Middle East, inviting all residents of the German capital to get a taste of Jewish life. In the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, people considered cancelling the festival. But Chabad chairman, Yehuda Teichtal, said it was more important than ever that events like these go...
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With companies starting to realise that climate change isn’t going away, more are working together to bring green solutions to the table One such solution comes from Heat Storage Berlin, a German company that’s on a mission to store surplus renewable energy as heat. “This allows us to supply entire industries such as breweries or the paper industry with steam, using sustainable energies,” founder and CEO Ulrich Prochaska tells Euronews Green. He created the technology to address the problem of global warming. “We've already reached 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming,” says Ulrich. “With cli...
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A Berlin museum is dedicated to highlighting cultural differences surrounding food, challenging the very notion of what is - and what isn't - edible.
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Ravers, rejoice. Berlin's techno scene has been added to a UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage, along with five other German traditions. Established in 2003, the intangible cultural heritage list is designed to support and preserve cultural lived traditions and expressions, including music, beliefs, crafts and community gatherings. There is now a total of 150 UNESCO entries in Germany. 'A major milestone'The German capital city has long been known for its vibrant techno club scene, which originated in the early 90s and signified a resilience and return to optimism following the fall of...
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Last weekend marked the second grim anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Many people around the world commemorated this day by taking to the streets in big cities. In Berlin, the protest was organised by Vitsche, an association of young Ukrainians based in Germany. The group organises protests, cultural and educational gatherings, offers support to refugees, and coordinates humanitarian efforts for Ukraine with the aim of amplifying Ukrainian voices in Germany. The term "vitsche" has a long history within the Ukrainian language, dating back to the early stages of Ukrainian s...
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A former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction group wanted for involvement in several robberies, has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run, German authorities said on Tuesday. Daniela Klette, 65, was arrested at an apartment in Berlin on Monday afternoon. According to the investigators, a tip from the public received in November guided them to her, though they refrained from providing further details. Klette, who had a foreign passport under a different name, put up no resistance, the head of Lower Saxony state's criminal police office, Friedo de Vries, told ...
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