A retired President of a German state court has said that Angela Merkel’s immigration policy is illegal and unconstitutional, and has accused the German chancellor of building her own personal empire at the expense of German democracy. Judge Michael Bertrams says that Merkel had “gone it alone” in allowing “hundreds of thousands of refugees into the country“.
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On Wednesday, we documented the astonishing prices beleaguered Canadians are now forced to pay for groceries thanks to the plunging loonie.
Oil’s inexorable decline has the Canadian dollar in a veritable tailspin and because Canada imports the vast majority of its fresh food, prices on everything from cucumbers to cauliflower are on the rise, tightening the screws an already weary shoppers.
In late October, we brought you what we called “haunting” drone footage of the devastation in Syria, where five years of bloody conflict has cost the country both its population and its cultural heritage.
“The civil war has been going on four years. What is now left of Syria?,” Die Presse asked President Bashar al-Assad in a December interview.
“If they talk about the infrastructure, much of it is destroyed,” Assad responded.