List of Germany articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Is What Happens When Good News Is Bad For U.S. Stocks
Here's why Wall Street is treating more jobs as bad news.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Europe Can’t Be Soft on Crime Anymore
As the continent gets more diverse, its lenient criminal justice system won’t cut it.
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GREECE. Kos. September 11, 2015. A small dinghy of migrants arrives in Kos. Tens of thousands of migrants have attempted the journey in flimsy craft from Turkey to Kos. Hundreds of thousands have set off to other Greek islands. The death of Aylan Kurdi the previous week set off a firestorm of attention to the plight of migrants and refugees (largely from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan) crossing into Europe. More than 500,000 have arrived thus far in 2015. The Road to Germany: $2400
Each of the millions of Syrian refugees who have fled their brutalized, unrecognizable homeland did so for uniquely personal reasons—the regime bombarding cities, the Islamic State threatening a return to the dark ages, the loss of jobs in a crumbling economy. Yet their quests cohered around one purpose: They all wanted better lives. ¶ Some set out on a complicated journey to Europe with a crude graphic—a flowchart of the route from Turkey to Germany—as a guide. In its rudimentary geometry, refugees saw an accessible dream. In its illustrated stick figures, kicking their heels upon reaching the final destination, they saw themselves. They allowed an image, powerful and meditative in its simplicity, to shape their personal stories. ¶ FP has done the same. On the following pages, the odyssey of several refugees—men, women, and children—is presented in the form of a nonfiction comic. Each panel is based on firsthand reporting gathered by journalist Alia Malek: Captions describe real events, and speech bubbles show either direct (shaded in pink) or paraphrased quotes. ¶ Showing what happens when strangers are thrown together by adversity—how desperate alliances form and dissolve—it is a diary of an exodus from a war zone to a hopeful, if uncertain future in the West. ¶ How long the voyage to asylum would take, the refugees didn’t know; they prayed that they would survive it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nein Doesn’t Mean Nein
Germany’s problems coping with sexual violence go far beyond the assaults committed by migrants in Cologne.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Davos Diary: Iran Insists It’s Open for Business. Will It Have Any Customers?
With nuclear sanctions lifted, Tehran wants the world to invest in its economy. It remains to be seen if it will have any takers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Davos Diary: Europe Fears ‘Brexit’ But Not At ‘Any Price’
Europe wants Britain in the EU, but it won't include it at any cost.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Davos Diary: Money is Rushing Out of Emerging Markets. Blame China.
China is slowing down, and pulling out hundreds of billions from emerging markets in the process.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Berlin’s Hipster Ghetto
Refugees and cool kids are living side-by-side -- but not together -- in one of Germany’s most immigrant-heavy neighborhoods.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Unfounded Fears About Iran’s Oil Sparks Steep Global Losses
World markets are tanking amid misplaced fears about Iran's oil flooding an already oversaturated market.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Europe Doesn’t Need Stronger Borders
The push for a bigger, badder Frontex is about political showmanship -- not a real solution to the migration crisis.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Turkey Arrests Suspect in Istanbul Attacks, But Won’t Tell Who It Is
Turkish authorities have made an arrest in Tuesday's bombing in Istanbul. But his identity has not yet been revealed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Germany to David Bowie: Thank You for Helping to Bring Down the Berlin Wall
Germany thanked David Bowie for the role his 1987 concert played in bringing down the Berlin Wall.
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A poster with the face of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, reading "Wanted, Again", is displayed at a newsstand in one Mexico City's major bus terminals on July 13, 2015, a day after the government informed of the escape of the drug kingpin from a maximum-security prison. Mexican security forces scrambled Monday to save face and recapture "El Chapo" as authorities investigated whether guards helped him escape prison through a tunnel under his cell. AFP PHOTO / YURI CORTEZ (Photo credit should read YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Could Cologne Unravel European Refugee Policies?
European countries are using the Cologne attacks as an opportunity to attack EU refugee policies.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Internal Police Report: Women in Cologne ‘Ran a Gantlet’ to Avoid Predators
A new police report sheds light on what really happened on New Year's Eve in Cologne, Germany.
