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index.feed.received.yesterday — 13 mars 2025

German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S.

13 mars 2025 à 22:18
Amid President Trump’s border crackdown, German news media have closely followed the treatment of two tourists who say they tried to enter the United States legally.

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Two German tourists were detained at the busy San Ysidro border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana.

Sofia Gubaidulina, Composer Who Provoked Soviet Censors, Dies at 93

13 mars 2025 à 20:13
Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, colorful compositions.

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Sofia Gubaidulina, 2021. She was part of a group of important composers in the Soviet Union, including Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, who found disfavor with the authorities but acclaim abroad.

Merz Challenges Germans to Make a Bold Strategic Shift. Will They Do It?

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is closing fast.

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Friedrich Merz, Germany’s likely next chancellor, introduced a measure on Thursday that would rip away Germany’s signature limits on government spending.

Merz presses Greens to name their terms for German defence spending rise

13 mars 2025 à 18:09

‘What more do you want from us?’ asks chancellor-in-waiting as he seeks urgent support for fiscal rule changes

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting has tried to win over the Greens to his ambitious but controversial plans to raise the country’s defence spending, promising to expand the scope of the plans and demanding of them: “What more do you actually want from us?”

The outgoing parliament met on Thursday to debate the creation of a €500bn (£420bn) fund for infrastructure investment and radical changes in Germany’s borrowing limits in order to boost defence spending.

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© Photograph: Liesa Johannssen/Reuters

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An Unexpected Trump Bump for the World’s Centrists

12 mars 2025 à 10:30
As President Trump’s “shock and awe” policies radiate around the world, they are galvanizing support for moderate leaders and unifying Europe.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, left, has reaffirmed Britain’s steadfast support for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. Amid a flurry of diplomacy, his poll ratings have surged.

From the archive: The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war? – podcast

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.

This week, from 2018: The foreign policy establishment has been lamenting its death for half a century. But Atlanticism has long been a convenient myth

By Madeleine Schwartz. Read by Kelly Burke

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© Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Democracy Dies in Dumbness

11 mars 2025 à 22:15
Until Donald Trump, no president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history, so incompetent in implementing his own ideas.

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German tourists’ ordeal reportedly ending as they are returned from US detention

11 mars 2025 à 21:03

Jessica Brösche to join Lucas Sielaff, who is reported to have returned to Germany on 6 March

A German tourist detained by US immigration authorities is due to be deported back to Germany on Tuesday after spending more than six weeks in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement.

Jessica Brösche, a 29-year-old tattoo artist from Berlin, will reportedly join Lucas Sielaff, 25, from Bad Bibra in Saxony-Anhalt, who is reported to have returned to Germany on 6 March, after being arrested at the Mexican border on 18 February before being detained for almost two weeks.

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© Photograph: Bing Guan/Reuters

© Photograph: Bing Guan/Reuters

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