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The FDP looked on track to fail to reach the 5% threshold to enter parliament in Bavaria, and possibly Hesse too. They and the AfD were the only parties to make gains in the Bavaria election. Still, coalition parties were likely to continue to follow increasingly separate paths to focus on issues relevant to their core electorate in response to the bad results, he said, while all taking a tougher stance on migration. "We must in the future better communicate SPD projects and be more visible," SPD lawmaker Sebastian Roloff told German outlet Handelsblatt. Reporting by Sarah Marsh; Editing by Nick Macfie, Ros Russell and Mark PorterOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Chancellor Olaf Scholz's, Scholz, Thomas Kemmerich, Jens Spahn, Spahn, Nancy Faeser, Markus Soeder, Philipp Koeker, Sebastian Roloff, Sarah Marsh, Nick Macfie, Ros Russell, Mark Porter Organizations: Social Democrats, Greens, Free Democrats, Christian Democrats, CDU, ARD, Christian Social Union, CSU, DRUBBING, Free Voters, University of Hanover, Thomson Locations: Hesse, Bavaria, BERLIN, Germany, Ukraine, Frankfurt

☆ Hesse, Bavaria votes highlight discontent with Scholz's government, exit polls show
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] Hesse State Premier Boris Rhein of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party gestures after the first exit polls for the Hesse state elections were published, in Wiesbaden, Germany, October 8, 2023. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach Acquire Licensing RightsBERLIN, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Germany's opposition conservatives were on track to win state elections in Hesse and Bavaria on Sunday, according to exit polls by state broadcaster ARD, highlighting discontent with the Chancellor Olaf Scholz's centre-left federal government. In Hesse, the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) looked set to take 35.5% of the vote compared to 16% for Scholz's Social Democrats, dealing a personal blow to Interior Minister Nancy Faeser who ran as the SPD's lead candidate in the state. The SPD, which is traditionally weak in Bavaria, trailed with 8.5% of the vote. Meanwhile the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) made gains, rising to 16% in Hesse and 15% in Bavaria compared to 13.1% and 11.6% respectively in 2018.

Persons: Hesse State Premier Boris Rhein, Kai Pfaffenbach, Olaf Scholz's, Nancy Faeser, CDU's, Sarah Marsh, Thomas Escritt Organizations: Hesse State Premier, Christian Democratic Union, CDU, REUTERS, Rights, ARD, Christian Democrats, Scholz's Social Democrats, Christian Social Union, CSU, Free Voters, SPD, Greens, Free Democrats, Thomson Locations: Hesse, Wiesbaden, Germany, Bavaria

☆ Hesse, Bavaria Votes Highlight Discontent With Scholz's Government Exit Polls
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's opposition conservatives were on track to win state elections in Hesse and Bavaria on Sunday, according to exit polls by state broadcaster ARD, highlighting discontent with the Chancellor Olaf Scholz's centre-left federal government. In Hesse, the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) looked set to take 35.5% of the vote compared to 16% for Scholz's Social Democrats, dealing a personal blow to Interior Minister Nancy Faeser who ran as the SPD's lead candidate in the state. In Bavaria, CDU's sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) looked set to take 37% of the vote - its worst result since 1950 albeit likely enough to continue its coalition with the populist Free Voters on 14%. The SPD, which is traditionally weak in Bavaria, trailed with 8.5% of the vote. Meanwhile the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) made gains, rising to 16% in Hesse and 15% in Bavaria compared to 13.1% and 11.6% respectively in 2018.

Persons: Olaf Scholz's, Nancy Faeser, CDU's, Sarah Marsh, Thomas Escritt Organizations: BERLIN, ARD, Christian Democrats, CDU, Scholz's Social Democrats, Christian Social Union, CSU, Free Voters, SPD, Greens, Free Democrats Locations: Hesse, Bavaria, Germany

AfD members sit in voting booths on the day of the European election assembly 2023 of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Magdeburg, Germany, July 29, 2023. Thursday's vote in Thuringia's parliament, when the far right, the conservative Christian Democrats and the pro-business Free Democrats combined to push through a tax cut against the wishes of the left-wing coalition, is the latest sign of change. But, highlighting the dilemma, the regional CDU leader Mario Voigt said such a course of action would effectively deprive him of the right to oppose. The party's regional leader, Bjorn Hoecke, is currently on trial for hate speech after uttering a slogan that stems from a Nazi chant. "We democrats have to stop the finger-pointing, sit down together and find a position that lives up to that responsibility."

Persons: Annegret, Germany's, Bodo Ramelow, Mario Voigt, Bjorn Hoecke, Stephan Kramer, Daniel Guenther, Thomas Escritt, Rachel More, Nick Macfie Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Christian Democrats, Free Democrats, CDU, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Thomson Locations: Germany, Magdeburg, Rights ERFURT, Thuringia's, Thuringian, Sonneberg, Saxony, Anhalt, Thuringia, East Germany, West Germany, Brandenburg, Berlin, Schlweswig, Holstein

☆ AfD's Regional Budget Win Erodes German 'Firewall' Against Far Right
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Sept. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

By Thomas EscrittERFURT, Germany (Reuters) - The convention by which Germany's far right is kept far from government regardless of how many parliamentary seats it wins was dealt another blow on Thursday when its votes were used to defeat a regional government in a crucial budget bill. Thursday's vote in Thuringia's parliament, when the far right, the conservative Christian Democrats and the pro-business Free Democrats combined to push through a tax cut against the wishes of the left-wing coalition, is the latest sign of change. But, highlighting the dilemma, the regional CDU leader Mario Voigt said such a course of action would effectively deprive him of the right to oppose. The party's regional leader, Bjorn Hoecke, is currently on trial for hate speech after uttering a slogan that stems from a Nazi chant. "We democrats have to stop the finger-pointing, sit down together and find a position that lives up to that responsibility."

Persons: Thomas Escritt, Germany's, Bodo Ramelow, Mario Voigt, Bjorn Hoecke, Stephan Kramer, Daniel Guenther, Rachel More, Nick Macfie Organizations: Christian Democrats, Free Democrats, CDU, Frankfurter Allgemeine Locations: Thomas Escritt ERFURT, Germany, Thuringia's, Thuringian, Sonneberg, Saxony, Anhalt, Thuringia, East Germany, West Germany, Brandenburg, Berlin, Schlweswig, Holstein

[1/5] A view shows a sign for a heavy haulage convoy during transport of a nacelle of a wind turbine near a wind farm, in Biegen, Germany August 31, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner Acquire Licensing RightsBERLIN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Germany's wind power expansion is facing an unexpected roadblock: builders need permits to transport the heavy turbines down the country's roads, and they are waiting months to get them. "Assuming nothing changes, it could cost 115 million euros extra by the end of the year," Felix Rehwald, a spokesperson for wind turbine manufacturer Enercon, told Reuters. Transport permits are needed to drive heavy loads over bridges and highways. The cost of applications had jumped to more than 1,000 euros per permit in 2021 from 100 euros, Nordex said.

Persons: Lisi Niesner, Felix Rehwald, Rehwald, Nordex, Kai Westphal, VDMA, Sebastian Steul, Steul, Morten Arnskov Boejesen, Soren Andersen, " Westphal, Johannes Gotfredsen, Toby Sterling, Riham, Thomas Escritt, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Transport, GmbH, Wednesday, of, of Danish Industry, Danish, Directorate, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson Locations: Biegen, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, of Danish, Copenhagen, Amsterdam

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during a plenum session of the lower house of parliament, Bundestag, for a general debate on the Federal Government policy in Berlin, Germany September 6, 2023. The chancellor announced a new "Germany pact" with a bundle of measures aimed at reducing bureaucracy, speeding up approval processes for new construction and digitising citizens’ access to key government services. The chancellor rejected the idea of fresh stimulus to boost an economy battling high inflation, financing costs and a drop in exports. Such sums showed Germany was holding its own vis-à-vis the U.S. and the $430 billion U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, he said. For a special Reuters World News podcast on what is ailing the German economy please click here .

Persons: Olaf Scholz, Annegret, Scholz, Sarah Marsh, Andreas Rinke, Thomas Escritt, Miranda Murray, Friederike Heine Our Organizations: Bundestag, Federal Government, REUTERS, Scholz's Social Democrats, Deutsche, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Berlin, Germany, BERLIN, Europe's

REUTERS/Lisi Niesner Acquire Licensing RightsMESEBERG, Germany, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Germany's coalition on Tuesday set aside weeks of squabbling to agree to a total of 32 billion euros ($34.63 billion) in corporate tax cuts over four years to boost the flagging economy. "The German economy can do more." The German economy stagnated in the second quarter, showing no sign of recovery from a winter recession and cementing its position as one of the world's weakest major economies. An agreement was reached on Tuesday when the two sides agreed to cut the planned Child Basic Insurance to just over two billion euros. A government document seen by Reuters showed subsidies are set to almost double to 67.1 billion euros next year compared to 2021.

Persons: Olaf Scholz, Lisi Niesner, Finance Minister Christian Lindner, Lisa Paus, Lindner, Forsa, Scholz, Matthias Williams, Christian Kraemer, Thomas Escritt, Tomasz Janowski, Ed Osmond, Barbara Lewis Organizations: Schloss, REUTERS, Reuters, Finance Minister, Greens Family, Insurance, stoke, Thomson Locations: Schloss Meseberg, Gransee, Germany, Berlin

BERLIN, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Despite the murders of four of her colleagues for their reporting, Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko never considered she had been poisoned when she fell ill on a train to Berlin. But when I found myself in Europe I totally forgot all these security measures." Her symptoms started with disorientation and stomach ache on the train journey from Munich to Berlin and persisted for several weeks. A former Chechen rebel died in Berlin in what a German court said was a Russian state assassination. She was one of three Russian independent woman journalists who were apparently poisoned while abroad in a similar period.

Persons: Elena Kostyuchenko, Kostyuchenko, Vladimir Putin, Sergei Skripal, Sergei Litvinenko, Thomas Escritt, Mike Harrison Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Berlin, Russia, Europe, Munich, Chechen, Ukraine

[1/2] Federal Chairman of Free Voters (Freie Waehler) Hubert Aiwanger talks to the media during a discussion at the German upper house of parliament Bundesrat, in Berlin, Germany April 22, 2021. Aiwanger heads the populist Free Voters party which governs Bavaria in coalition with Soeder's Christian Social Union (CSU). Soeder has previously said he wants to renew his alliance with the Free Voters after October's election. The leaders of the Social Democrats and Greens in Bavaria, said Aiwanger must stand down if he was the author of the flyer. Charges of antisemitism are particularly sensitive in Germany because of its role in the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Persons: Hubert Aiwanger, Axel Schmidt, Markus Soeder, Soeder, Aiwanger, Thomas Escritt, Frances Kerry Organizations: Free Voters, Freie, REUTERS, Rights, Bavaria, Soeder's Christian Social Union, CSU, Social Democrats, Greens, Thomson Locations: Berlin, Germany, Bavaria

☆ Germany plans to double AI funding in race with China, U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters and robot hand are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023. The target, announced by research minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger on Wednesday, is modest compared with the $3.3 billion that the U.S. government spent on AI research in 2022 according to a Stanford University report. It is dwarfed by private AI spending in the U.S., which reached $47.4 billion in 2022, almost double Europe's total spend, and well ahead of China's $13.4 billion, the Stanford report found. Simpler regulations would promote private research spending, she added. Even though Germany has nothing to compare with the U.S.'s tech behemoths, its number of AI startups has doubled in 2023, but that still only puts Germany in ninth place globally, Stark-Watzinger acknowledged.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Bettina Stark, Stark, Watzinger, Thomas Escritt, Devika Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Stanford University, Stanford, European Union, U.S, Germany, Thomson Locations: Germany, China, United States, U.S

☆ Exclusive: German guarantees for China investments plummet -document
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Andreas Rinke | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The flags of Germany and China are seen ahead of a meeting between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Berlin, Germany, June 19, 2023. Only 51.9 million euros ($56.26 million) in guarantees have been issued so far this year, according to the document seen by Reuters, less than a tenth of the 745.9 million euros in guarantees issued over the whole of last year. Slowing growth, however, has concentrated minds in Berlin, where officials fret that ever-more-advanced Chinese manufacturing poses a threat to Germany's economic model. "China has changed, and that's why our policy towards China also needs to change," Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday. Companies can invest without government guarantees, meaning real changes in levels of German FDI in China may have fallen by less.

Persons: Olaf Scholz, Li Qiang, Fabrizio Bensch, Annalena Baerbock, Andreas Rinke, Thomas Escritt, Rachel Armstrong, Kirsti, Marguerita Choy Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Germany's, Companies, U.S, Thomson Locations: Germany, China, Berlin, Ukraine

☆ China fast encroaching on Germany's share of EU markets - study
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A study by the employers' economic think tank IW found that in some sectors China's share of EU imports had risen as much as or more in the two years to 2022 as they had in the preceding decade, prompting the think tank to warn that there was a risk of Germany's economic motor stalling. "These findings give cause to worry given the challenges of the energy change and problems with Germany's competitiveness," said researcher Juergen Matthes. Among the challenges the study listed was the role played by Chinese state subsidies in many sectors where Chinese companies were taking an increasing EU market share, and while high energy costs following the loss of Russian gas were weakening energy-intensive sectors like chemicals. High energy costs were also a drag on automotive exports at a time when Chinese e-vehicle makers were starting to conquer the European market, Matthes added. Reporting by Reinhard Becker, writing by Thomas Escritt, editing by Rachel MoreOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Juergen, Matthes, Reinhard Becker, Thomas Escritt, Rachel More Organizations: European Union, EU, Thomson Locations: Germany, Ukraine

Germany, which has been courting the world's largest contract chipmaker since 2021, will contribute up to 5 billion euros to the factory in Dresden, capital of the eastern state of Saxony, German officials said. "There is going to be a real ecosystem for semiconductor manufacturing in Germany," said economy minister Robert Habeck. VOTE OF CONFIDENCETSMC said it would invest up to 3.499 billion euros into a subsidiary, European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC), of which it will own 70%. Semiconductor makers Intel (INTC.O) and Wolfspeed (WOLF.N) have already taken advantage of the subsidies on offer to set up shop in Germany. TSMC said in a statement after a board meeting that approved the German investment that it had also approved a capital injection of not more than $4.5 billion for the Arizona plant as part of the overall $40 billion investment.

Persons: Robert Habeck, TSMC, Germany's Bosch, Habeck, Ben Blanchard, Thomas Escritt, Louise Heavens, Mark Potter Organizations: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, European Union, Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Infineon, Semiconductor, Intel, EU, Sony, Thomson Locations: Dresden, Arizona, TAIPEI, BERLIN, Germany, Europe, Taiwan, China, Asia, United States, Saxony, Netherlands, Ukraine, U.S, Japan

July 25 (Reuters) - Further deterioration in demand for glyphosate-based weed killers led Bayer (BAYGn.DE) to cut its full-year earnings outlook and announce a 2.5 billion euro ($2.8 billion) write-down on glyphosate-related assets. That was lower than a previous 2023 outlook of 12.5 billion euros, or slightly higher. Free cash flow would come in at zero, down from a previous prediction of 3 billion euros, the company said. "Based on the anticipated market development, in particular with respect to the glyphosate business, Bayer also expects to record a goodwill impairment of approximately 2.5 billion euros," it said. That would result in a second-quarter net loss of 2 billion euros.

Persons: Bayer, Bill Anderson, Roche, Markus Manns, Anderson, Hurricane Ida, Werner Baumann, Thomas Escritt, Ludwig Burger, Jonathan Oatis, Susan Fenton, Kirsten Donovan Organizations: Union Investment, Barclays, FMC, BASF, Bayer, Thomson

BERLIN, July 24 (Reuters) - Weak demand for glyphosate-based weed killers led Bayer (BAYGn.DE) to cut its full-year earnings outlook for the second time and announce a 2.5 billion euro ($2.8 billion) write-down on glyphosate-related assets. That was lower than a previous 2023 outlook of 12.5 billion euros, or slightly higher. Free cash flow would come in at zero, down from a previous prediction of 3 billion euros, the company said. "Based on the anticipated market development, in particular with respect to the glyphosate business, Bayer also expects to record a goodwill impairment of approximately 2.5 billion euros," it said. That would result in a second-quarter net loss of 2 billion euros.

Persons: Bayer, Hurricane Ida, Bill Anderson, Roche, Werner Baumann, Thomas Escritt, Ludwig Burger, Jonathan Oatis, Susan Fenton Organizations: Bayer, FMC, BASF, Thomson Locations: BERLIN

☆ Adidas sees smaller 2023 loss thanks to Yeezy sales
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The German company had previously forecast a full-year operating loss of 700 million euros. Operating profit for the second quarter was 176 million euros, down from 392 million a year earlier. Adidas said the potential impact of a Yeezy stock write-off was now 400 million euros, down from 500 million euros expected previously. The shoes' popularity has endured despite Ye's public pronouncements, with Yeezy shoes selling at high premiums on resale sites. Adidas said the rest of its business also did "slightly better than expected" in the second quarter.

Persons: Ye, Bjorn Gulden, Helen Reid, Thomas Escritt, Jan Harvey, Susan Fenton Organizations: Adidas, Kanye, Defamation League, Thomson Locations: BERLIN

☆ "Lioness" spotted near Berlin may have been boar, mayor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Michael Grubert, Mayor of Kleinmachnow, holds a picture which shows that suspected animal on the loose may not be a lion, according to experts, in Kleinmachnow, Germany July 21, 2023. REUTERS/Annegret HilseBERLIN, July 21 (Reuters) - After a fruitless two-day hunt by police, hunters and veterinarians for a suspected escaped lioness in a wooded suburb of Berlin, the local mayor said on Friday that the beast may actually have been a wild boar. The search, started in the early hours of Thursday after a tip-off from passers-by, will now be scaled back although officers will still keep their eyes peeled, Kleinmachnow mayor Michael Grubert said. Computer analysis of the mobile phone video originally handed to police as well as other shots taken by local people showed that the "lioness" was likely to be a wild boar, Grubert told a press conference. "We only found a family of wild boar."

Persons: Michael Grubert, Hilse, Grubert, Thomas Escritt, Rachel More, Angus MacSwan Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Kleinmachnow, Germany, Hilse BERLIN, Berlin

[1/5] An employee works at the Chisinau-1 gas distribution plant of Moldovatransgaz energy company in Chisinau, Moldova March 4, 2023. REUTERS/Vladislav CuliomzaCHISINAU, March 10 (Reuters) - A coup attempt, bomb hoaxes, internet hacks, fake conscription call-ups, mass protests: Moldova says it's had them all in the past year. Moldova hosts the breakaway statelet of Transnistria - a sliver of land running along its eastern border with Ukraine that's controlled by pro-Russian separatists and garrisoned by Russian troops. FAKE CONSCRIPTION NOTICESMounting tensions between Moscow and the West over Ukraine have raised the temperature in Moldova. RUSSIAN TROOPS IN TRANSNISTRIAAn estimated 1,500 Russian troops are stationed in Transnistria, most of them recruited locally from Transnistrians with Russian passports.

☆ Documentary 'On the Adamant' wins Berlin Film Festival's top award
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Nicolas Philibert poses for a photo with the Golden Bear for Best Film for "On the Adamant" at the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 25, 2023. Jorg Carstensen/Pool via REUTERSBERLIN, Feb 25 (Reuters) - "On the Adamant," a documentary about a floating daycare centre in Paris for adults with mental disorders, won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear award on Saturday. Accepting the Berlinale's top prize, director Nicolas Philibert said he was deeply touched by the jury's decision to award it to a documentary rather than a work of fiction. "That documentary can be considered cinema in its own right touches me deeply," he said. The festival's Silver Bear for best leading actor went to Sofia Otero, who plays an 8-year-old transgender child in "20,000 Species of Bees."

☆ Remember the 2011 quake: Berlinale film's message to Japan's young
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Hanna Rantala | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Director Makoto Shinkai attends a news conference during the promotion of 'Suzume' at the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 23, 2023. The result was "Suzume", an animated feature that has been a blockbuster in Japan and which held its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday. In touring sites of recent trauma and wreckage, the film has triggered painful memories, and not all in Japan have welcomed this, Shinkai said. "I personally think a Japanese society which is able to accept this kind of a movie is a better society," Shinkai said. Additional reporting and writing by Thomas Escritt, editing by Emma-Victoria Farr and Josie KaoOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Chinese company discusses sending Russia drones -Der Spiegel
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BERLIN, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Russia is in talks with a Chinese manufacturer about buying 100 drones, with a delivery date of April, German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Thursday, without citing specific sources. Der Spiegel said Chinese drone manufacturer Xian Bingo Intelligent Aviation Technology had said it was prepared to make 100 prototypes of its ZT-180 drone, which the magazine said could carry a 35-50kg warhead. It said the drone was similar to Iran's Shaheed-136, with which Russia has launched countless attacks on Ukraine, claiming hundreds of lives and damaging civilian infrastructure. The magazine also said Bingo had plans to help establish a production site for the drone in Russia, where up to 100 aircraft could be made a month. It added that there had been earlier plans for a company controlled by the Chinese army to send Russia spare parts for its SU-27 warplane.

☆ Ukraine's warplane demand currently makes no sense -Germany's Scholz
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BERLIN, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The question of whether to arm Ukraine with warplanes "currently makes no sense", German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview in which he was asked to address growing calls for western powers to do so. Interviewed by ZDF public television, Scholz, who earlier faced criticism for perceived foot-dragging over sending Ukraine tanks, said other countries' difficulties in meeting Ukraine's demands vindicated his decision to move in lockstep with them. Earlier this month, Germany agreed to send, and allow other countries to send, heavy battle tanks to help Ukraine take the offensive against Russian troops in its east. Ukraine is now asking for warplanes, though Germany does not have any of the F-16 fighters that have been mentioned in this context. Reporting by Maria Martinez and Thomas Escritt; editing by John Stonestreet and Bernadette BaumOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Berlinale film unearths traumas of Australian indigenous communities
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Zuzanna Szymanska | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/8] Director Ivan Sen and cast members Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen and Simon Baker attend the screening of 'Limbo' at the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 23, 2023. "Almost every indigenous family in Australia has had this kind of experience." The black-and-white film, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, casts "L.A. Confidential" star Simon Baker as a detective sent to the opal-mining town of Limbo to review a 20-year-old unsolved murder. The film, one of 19 competing for the top Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival, often lingers over a scarred landscape, seen from far above in lengthy drone shots that highlight the terrain's inhuman scale.

☆ German minister: Next World Bank boss should be a woman
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BERLIN, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The next World Bank president should be a woman, Germany's international development minister told Reuters in remarks that could strengthen the potential candidacy of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the American-Nigerian head of the World Trade Organization. "As Germany's World Bank governor I say: 'It is time for a woman at the head of the World Bank'," she said on Tuesday. "The World Bank must be a pioneer in fighting poverty and global crises like climate change, biodiversity loss and pandemics." By convention, the World Bank president is a U.S. citizen. Okonjo-Iweala, who holds dual U.S.-Nigerian citizenship, earlier worked at the World Bank.

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