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Poland says it will not be 'intimidated'
DEREK SCALLY in Berlin Polish president Karol Nawrocki has praised his country s air force pilots for passing the test posed by the provocation of Wednesday s Russian drone incursions. In advance of a UN Security Council meeting on Friday, Polish investigators say many of the 16 drones recovered so far on its territory were unarmed, foam-and-wood Russian decoys. Mr Nawrocki said on a visit to an airbase in western Poland on Wednesday his country would not be intimidated by Russian drones .
From poorhouse to gourmet destination: Ireland's culinary revolution
Just a few decades ago, Ireland was seen as a culinary no-man’s land – today, it draws gourmets from around the world with seafood of the finest quality. How did the Irish achieve this transformation? My epiphany was served to me on an enormous plate in a small Irish harbor town. As I looked down at it, I suddenly realized just how much my homeland had changed. It was a summer evening in 2008 in Dingle, a fishing village in County Kerry on the southwestern tip of the island.
Vom Armenhaus zum Gourmetziel: Irlands kulinarische Revolution
Mein Aha-Moment wurde mir auf einem riesigen Teller in einer kleinen irischen Hafenstadt serviert. Als ich auf ihn herabsah, wurde mir schlagartig klar, wie sehr sich meine Heimat verändert hatte. Es war ein Sommerabend im Jahr 2008 in Dingle, einem abgelegenen Fischerort im County Kerry, an der Südwestspitze der Insel. Acht Jahre, nachdem ich meine Heimatstadt Dublin gegen Berlin eingetauscht hatte, war ich zurück in Irland und saß mit Freunden in einem Seafood-Restaurant an der Hafenpromenade.
Vom Armenhaus zum Gourmetziel: Irlands kulinarische Revolution
Mein Aha-Moment wurde mir auf einem riesigen Teller in einer kleinen irischen Hafenstadt serviert. Als ich auf ihn herabsah, wurde mir schlagartig klar, wie sehr sich meine Heimat verändert hatte. Es war ein Sommerabend im Jahr 2008 in Dingle, einem abgelegenen Fischerort im County Kerry, an der Südwestspitze der Insel. Acht Jahre, nachdem ich meine Heimatstadt Dublin gegen Berlin eingetauscht hatte, war ich zurück in Irland und saß mit Freunden in einem Seafood-Restaurant an der Hafenpromenade.
It’s my party
On the wall near my home in Berlin, someone has sprayed a thoughtful observation: Machen ist wie wollen, nur krasser – Doing is like wanting, just crazier. That could be the new political motto of Sahra Wagenknecht, Germany’s most polarising politician of the left. Wagenknecht entered politics in 1990 and now, at fifty-five, is German democracy’s longest-serving matron of honour.
Losing its religion: Catholic Poland looks to Irish example as it moves towards secularism
In a cosy Warsaw bookshop cellar, psychologist and writer Marta Abramowicz is explaining to a rapt Polish audience how Ireland swapped its clerical past for a secular present. Her new book Irlandia wstaje z kolan, Ireland Gets Up Off Its Knees, offers a quick primer on Irish Catholic history and how-to tips for Poles to follow our example.
Fragment książki Dereka Scally’ego. Chrzest irlandzkiego katolicyzmu
Plus Minus Po stuleciach upokorzeń odnowiony Kościół napawał nadzieją i dumą. Aktualizacja: 15.03.2024 17:01 Publikacja: 15.03.2024 17:00 Zderzenie starej i nowej katolickiej Irlandii uwiecznił Aloysius O’Kelly w obrazie „Mass in a Connemara Cabin” (Msza w chacie w Connemarze, 1883, olej na desce). Oto zmierzch dawnych tradycji – księża rezygnowali bowiem powoli z mszy stacyjnych na rzecz nabożeństw w kościele, a więc na swoim terenie
Culture connection: Irish arts events to build bridges with Germany and update image
Ireland has unveiled a year-long programme of arts events next year in Germany to build new cultural bridges and to update its image. The Zeitgeist Irland 24 programme of more than 200 events of concerts, exhibitions and plays represents a joint investment of more than €2.5 million by Culture Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Germany musician admits inventing anti-Semitism claims
A German pop singer has admitted in court that he invented claims he faced discrimination at a hotel because he is Jewish. In October 2021, Gil Ofarim posted a tearful video to Instagram, claiming he had been the target of anti-Semitic abuse at a Leipzig hotel. Holding up to the camera a Star of David chain he was wearing, Ofarim claimed a staff member had told him that, if he wanted to check in, he should “put away the star”.
Germany musician admits inventing anti-Semitism claims
A German pop singer has admitted in court that he invented claims he faced discrimination at a hotel because he is Jewish. In October 2021, Gil Ofarim posted a tearful video to Instagram, claiming he had been the target of anti-Semitic abuse at a Leipzig hotel. Holding up to the camera a Star of David chain he was wearing, Ofarim claimed a staff member had told him that, if he wanted to check in, he should “put away the star”.
Centre for Irish studies opens at Flensburg university in Germany
Ireland has another cultural foothold on the European continent with a new centre for Irish studies at the Europa University (EUF) in the northern German city of Flensburg. The new centre fits into Ireland’s post-Brexit plan to widen and deepen its footprint in Germany, and will be headed by James Joyce scholar Michelle Witen, a junior professor for English and Irish literature in Flensburg.
‘Public service broadcasting is a giant cruise ship’: German largesse carries echoes of RTÉ crisis
As spending by public broadcasters goes, RTÉ largesse towards “talent” is remarkable – but not unique, as this reporter discovered in mid-2011. Ireland had just entered its bailout and the troika was in town – and so were the Germans. Tom Buhrow, a high-profile evening news anchor for Germany’s ARD public television, was in Dublin for a live broadcast. By chance so was I. We arranged to meet for an interview in Temple Bar, where I expected to talk for five minutes with him and a cameraman.
Sexueller Missbrauch: Meine Kirche, deine Kirche, unsere Schuld
Inhalt Auf einer Seite lesen Inhalt Seite 1 — Meine Kirche, deine Kirche, unsere Schuld Seite 2 — Der gemeinsame Nenner der katholischen Missbrauchsskandale Derek Scally, 45, ist Deutschlandkorrespondent der "Irish Times". Sein Buch "The Best Catholics in the World" (Penguin Books) über den katholischen Missbrauchsskandal in Irland stand dort über Wochen auf der Bestsellerliste. Mark Twain scherzte einmal, manche deutschen Wörter seien so lang, dass sie ihre eigene Perspektive hätten.
James Joyce und die Iren: Wie wir gelernt haben, „Ulysses“ zu lieben
James Joyce und Irland Wie wir gelernt haben, den „Ulysses“ zu lieben Von Derek Scally „Bloomsday“ in Dublin: James-Joyce-Lookalike John Shevlin beobachtet eine Aufführung des „Hades“-Kapitels auf dem Glasnevin Cemetery. Bild: picture-alliance Im Jahr des hundertsten Jubiläums von „Ulysses“ ist die Begeisterung in der Heimat des Schriftstellers riesig. Doch was hat sich gegenüber der früheren Ablehnung geändert? Ein Gastbeitrag.
The Best Catholics In The World Hb By Derek Scally
by Derek Scally | 18 March 2021 PAPERBACK 'At once intimate and epic, this is a landmark book' Fintan O'Toole 'A great achievement ... Brilliant, engaging and essential' Colm Tóibìn When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church where he was once an altar boy. Not for the first time, the collapse of the Catholic Church in Ireland brings to mind the fall of another powerful ideology - East German communism.
Berlin's Stagnant Summer - Berlin Policy Journal - Blog
How long will Angela Merkels fourth and final government last? In Berlin, there’s speculation that her grand coalition could collapse this fall. © REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch Klaus Wowereit, Berlin’s partying ex-mayor, was once asked what kind of champagne he preferred. His reply: “The free kind.” In the spring of 2018, with that in mind, I made a wager with a member of Angela Merkel’s government that her fourth administration would not run its full term.
Words Don’t Come Easy: “Schwesterpartei”
The aging sisters of German politics, Angela Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sibling CSU, have always been more devoted to power than each other. “Sisters, sisters/There were never such devoted sisters…” When US songwriter Irving Berlin penned his ironic ode to the joys of sisterhood for the 1954 movie “White Christmas,” Germany’s most famous political sisters were already nine years old.
“You Fix the Roof When the Sun is Shining“
Last week, 154 German economists signed a letter to the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung warning against eurozone reform and a deeper currency union. Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), explains why their views are not representative of the German mainstream—and why there’s room for optimism even if public debate is lagging. How would you put the FAZ letter signed by 154 German economists into context? What does this letter signify?
A Tale of Two Models
The EU’s policy in the Western Balkans has proven fruitless—and that has opened a vacuum for authoritarian leaders from Russia to Turkey to step in. In politics, there are no coincidences. That could be the lesson from the fact that the EU hosted its annual Western Balkans summit just days ahead of President Erdogan’s visit to Sarajevo, as part of his AKP party’s “regional” election campaign.
Berlin Policy Journal - Blog
Yanis Varoufakis, Europe’s most-hated and most-loved former finance minister, is trying a comeback in Greek politics. What’s more, he’s in with a chance. The man who outraged the EU in 2015 while trying to negotiate Greece’s debt restructuring officially announced the formation of a new party on March 26. Called, in English translation, the Realistic Disobedience Front, or MERA25, it is a coming-together of leftists, greens, and liberals.
The AI Revolution
At the Aspen Institute’s “Humanity Disrupted: Artificial Intelligence and Changing Societies” conference, there’s a lot of talk about AI’s potential—and a lot of worry about responsibility. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers exciting potential but also requires policy oversight—the kind of policy oversight that, unfortunately, no government can realistically provide on its own.
Mr. Franco-German
Heiko Maas is a newcomer to foreign policy, and while he is eloquent, polite, and well-dressed enough to satisfy any diplomat, he is also very outspoken. With his Saarland background he will likely bring a much-needed Franco-German and pro-European instinct to the table. Heiko Maas, Germany’s new foreign minister, grew up in the Saarland, a coal-and-steel region in the very west of West Germany.
A Perfect Opportunity
German-Polish relations have been rocky of late, but now Warsaw seems willing to change tack. The incoming German government should rise to the occasion and test how far the new Polish prime minister allowed to go. On Friday, February 16, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will host new Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
We Mourn Sylke Tempel
German Council on Foreign Relations and the BERLIN POLICY JOURNAL team mourn the death of Dr Sylke Tempel. It is with great sadness that the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and the German Foreign Office report the death of Dr Sylke Tempel, Editor-in-Chief of the DGAP journals INTERNATIONALE POLITIK and BERLIN POLICY JOURNAL. She died in an accident on October 5, 2017. Dr Sylke Tempel was an extraordinary person who influenced the debate on foreign policy in Germany and far beyond.
The End of the Roth Republic
The success of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on September 24 marks the end of a broad German consensus that tended to delegitimize conservative views, and about time, too. The country needs controversial debates within the limits of the democratic mainstream. As the mist lifts, the road on from Germany’s federal election is slowly becoming clear.
The G20 to End all G20s
Rising tensions between the erratic US president and his European counterparts could cause this week’s summit in Hamburg to end in disaster. But EU leaders would be wrong to placate Trump in order to keep the G20 alive. In November 2008, as the global financial fire sparked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers threatened to burn out of control, the leaders of the world’s twenty biggest economies met for the first time.
Lost in Translation
Germany’s chancellor is a committed Atlanticist, but not a linguist. Combine that with the short attention span of the modern media and you have a problem. As Germany marks 500 years of the Reformation, Martin Luther’s vernacular translation of the bible is still celebrated in his homeland as a linguistic marvel of clarity. East German pastor’s daughter Angela Merkel is a latter day linguistic marvel all of her own – for very different reasons.
A Bad, Very Bad Trip
US president Donald Trump heaped further scorn upon Germany before last week’s NATO summit. With parliamentary elections coming up in France and Germany, he will become the perfect foil – and Chancellor Angela Merkel has already launched the first shot.
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