Germans have been urged to stay at home over the Easter period to stem the third Covid-19 wave, as the country’s intensive care association calls for a two-week lockdown and a faster vaccination programme. Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Germans on Thursday to stay at home over Easter and meet fewer people to help curb … Read more
Angela Merkel made an astonishing plea for forgiveness today as she scrapped plans for a strict Easter lockdown in Germany which she said were ‘my mistake, and my mistake alone’. The planned five-day shutdown – in which even grocery stores would have shut on all but a single day – was agreed between Merkel and … Read more
Give it a few years and I predict that Britons will look back on this unholy Brexit affair and credit two unlikely factors with saving the day: The pandemic… and the ghastly Germans. While the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier and his compatriot, the French president Emmanuel Macron, were all for giving you Brits a … Read more
What happened yesterday regarding the Brexit talks was reminiscent of the Battle of Waterloo – at least the version taught in my German school. The French had Britain on the brink of defeat, when Prussian troops stormed in and reprieved them. Chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier – a former foreign minister of France, don’t forget … Read more
Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned Germans to expect ‘difficult months ahead’ as the country posts a new daily record of over 7,800 new coronavirus cases. On Saturday she also urged Germans to come together like they did in the spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus. ‘Difficult months are ahead of us,’ she said … Read more
British holidaymakers will be treated like pariahs if they go abroad this year over fears they could be coronavirus super-spreaders. Families hoping to jet off to picturesque destinations in Italy, Germany, Spain or France face a less-than-warm welcoming from panicking locals. Incredibly the ill-feeling against British tourists is only eclipsed by their worries over whether people … Read more
An episode of Fawlty Towers from which the N-word and other offensive terms had previously been cut has been taken down from the BBC’s Netflix-style streaming service UKTV. The 1975 episode titled The Germans – fondly remembered for the repeated line ‘Don’t mention the war’ – is the latest in a series of British programmes to be culled from … Read more
Hundreds of people gathered in a square in Berlin yesterday to mark May Day in defiance of a ban on public gatherings of more than 20. The move has exposed deep frustrations with social distancing rules in place in Germany since mid-March to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Police blocked roads around the Kreuzberg district … Read more
Germans should be able to work from home even when the coronavirus pandemic is over, a Government minister has said. Hubertus Heil is working on legislation to give employees the right to work from a home office once Covid-19 has passed, so long as their workplace permits it. ‘Everyone who wants to and whose workplace … Read more
Shocking coronavirus simulation shows how infected shopper can cough cloud of deadly droplets across TWO supermarket aisles – with bug hanging in the air for ‘several minutes’ Scientists in Finland all run computer tests to see how coronavirus spreads Experts from three different bodies show disease can spread across two aisles Even in a ventilated … Read more