I am Imanuel Marcus, The Berlin Spectator's founder and main editor. Before I came to Berlin, I lived all over the place, including in former Yugoslavia, where I was a war reporter. As a foreign correspondent for German and Swiss radio stations, I worked in the U.S. for almost 6 years. I also lived in Bulgaria and Mexico, meaning I know what it is like to be an expatriate. But I am a former Hamburger in Berlin.
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The Coronavirus is spreading in western and southern Germany. Since Tuesday evening, ten new cases have been confirmed. The authorities have not been in this…
On Wednesday, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court sacked a law that prohibits euthanasia. The judges said there was a "right to self-determined dying".
The city state of Berlin is looking into legal ways to ban the Al-Quds March this year. Interior Senator Andreas Geisel does not want antisemitic events to take…
In Germany, two new Coronavirus cases have led to fright of a big outbreak comparable to the one in northern Italy. One German patient is in critical condition.
In Germany, Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer wants to deregulate so-called ride-sharing services like Uber. His plans anger the taxi business. Late in the game, the city state of Berlin suddenly wants to have its say on the matter too.
After weeks of discussions within Angela Merkel's CDU, two unofficial candidates for the conservative party's leadership became official today, and one dropped…
Police in Hesse ended all carnival parades in the federal state after a man raced into a carnival procession in the town of Volkmarsen. More than 30 people were…
Austria temporarily shut down all train traffic from Italy because of a Coronavirus alarm on a train that had left Venice for Munich. It turned out to be a false alarm, but the fear remains.