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German shooting clubs lobby against EU gun control
- 21st December 2015,
German gun club lobbyists were invited to the Interior Ministry to voice their opposition to the..
CDU forced to publish lobbyist list after legal battle
- 1st December 2015,
Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union has been forced to publish a list of lobbyists it gave..
Bundestag MPs allowed to vote despite vested interests
- 24th November 2015,
An MP who works for a law firm representing Volkswagen in the emissions scandal voted to..
‘It was your decision,’ judge tells Auschwitz bookkeeper Gröning in one of last Nazi trials
- 15th July 2015,
Judge Franz Kompisch delivered a long, powerful judgment to end the trial of Oskar Gröning, the..
Mehmet Daimagüler represented an Auschwitz survivor in the Gröning trial and relatives of NSU murder victims..
Gröning says ‘I’m sorry,’ as Auschwitz verdict to be delivered earlier than expected
- 14th July 2015,
The verdict in the trial of 94-year-old Oskar Gröning, the so-called “accountant of Auschwitz,” will be..
Cornelius Nestler, a lawyer jointly representing 49 of the co-plaintiffs in the trial of the “accountant..
Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad cartoons – to print or not to print?
- 9th January 2015,
Editorial boards and TV networks have spent the last two days struggling with the dilemma of..
A guide to Germany’s right
- 14th December 2014,
There has been much talk of a rightward shift in European politics this year, though Germany’s..