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Anti-Semitic attack on Paris bagel shop The managers of the Bagelstein restaurant in Parisʼs 6th arrondissement said on Sunday that they had been the victims of an anti-Semitic attack. The store window had been graffitied with the German word meaning "Jews" in yellow paint overnight. "We discovered the tag on Saturday morning, and it was probably done on Friday night into Saturday," co-founder of the chain, Gilles Abecassis, told French news agency AFP on Sunday. He added that some of their other windows have also been vandalized in the past. Abecassis said that he thought the yellow color of the graffiti was significant, not because of the recent yellow vest protests in France, but "maybe for the Star of David," armbands the Nazis forced Jews to wear. "One anti-Semitic tag in the middle of Paris is one too many," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner wrote on Twitter. "Our response: to do everything we can so that the perpetrator of this ignominous act is condemned."
German rescue ship named after drowned toddler Alan Kurdi A German migrant rescue ship operating in the Mediterranean was renamed on Sunday after Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian Kurdish boy whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish shore during the height of Europeʼs migrant crisis, galvanizing global opinion. German charity Sea-Eye renamed the ship in the presence of Alanʼs father, Abdullah Kurdi, and aunt, Tima Kurdi, in Palma on Spainʼs Balearic Island of Mallorca. Read more: Aunt of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi calls for compassion "We are happy that a German rescue ship will carry the name of our boy. My boy on the beach must never be forgotten. Our grief for the loss of my wife and sons is shared by many, by thousands of families who have so tragically lost sons and daughters this way," Abdullah Kurdi said in a statement released by Sea-Eye.
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Hungary gives tax breaks to boost population, stop immigration He said the policy was meant to create more Hungarians
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced tax benefits and subsidies to encourage families to have more children. He said the policy was meant to create more Hungarians instead of promoting EUbacked immigration.
Poles abandoned in Brexit no manʼs land Warsaw wants Poles in the UK to come home and help the booming economy, well, keep booming. London now says it wants them to stay, but where does that leave the almost 1 million people caught in the middle? "Give us our people back!" Polandʼs prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki (pictured above, right), is not known for his quasi-biblical soliloquies. His UK counterpart, Theresa May (also above), even less so. And, finally, after months of wavering, her recent call for Poles to stay in Britain has done little to allay confusion and anger among many of the estimated 900,000-strong community. And the uncertainty means
those caught in the crosshairs are unsure of their future. Marta Mills is a Polish woman who has been living in the UK since 2004, when Poland joined the EU. Married to an Englishman for 13 years, she lives in London. Marta says the 2016 referendum brought the worst out in some British people. "I mean theracism and the feeling of superiority over others, feeling of having the empire again, which I find pretty pathetic," she says. "People started saying nasty things out loud, as if the Brexit vote somehow legitimized what they were feeling but had always been unable to say out loud. Brexit has made them feel empowered to ʼfinally come out and tell those bloody immigrants what to do.ʼ"
Celebrating firebrand poet Else LaskerSchüler 150 years on If you take a trip to Wuppertalʼs Elberfeld suburb in search of Jewish German poet and playwright Else LaskerSchülerʼs place of birth (on February 11, 1869) youʼll only encounter two huge, dark slabs of granite there — the house was destroyed during World War II. The monument portrays LaskerSchüler with a stern facial expression contrasted with one of her most recog-
nized poems, "Weltflucht" (Withdrawal from the World): "I would flee into the immensity Of myself, Already the meadow saffron blooms In my soul, Perhaps — itʼs too late to turn back! O, I die with you! Since I was choked with you. I wanted threads to encircle me — Ending confusion! Undeterred, Tangled in you, In order to escape Into myself!"
Spain: Thousands demand Pedro Sanchez resign Huge crowds of anti-government protesters converged on central Madrid on Sunday topressure Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to step downand call fresh elections. An estimated 45,000 people packed into the capitalʼs Plaza de Colon, many of them waving Spanish flags and signs reading "Stop Sanchez" and "For a united Spain, elections now!" The rally was organized by the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) and the center-right Citizens Party, with backing from thefar-right party Vox. "The time of Sanchezʼs government is over," PP leader Pablo Casado told reporters at the start of the march. His opposition party is firmly against the prime ministerʼs decision to tackle political tensions in northeastern Catalonia by negotiating with pro-independence parties.
Hard Brexit risks 100,000 German jobs A hard Brexit could cost more than 100,000 jobs in Germany, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday, citing a study by the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH) and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The study, which looks at the effect of a hard Brexit down to individual districts and cities, showed that some of Germanyʼs well-known auto and technology hubs could face the maximum brunt.
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Reform Germanyʼs welfare state,
German car dealers have a diesel crisis
urges communal association
Sales of diesel cars conforming to Euro 5 emissions standards have plummeted, despite recent moves to allow retrofitting. Even newer models are selling poorly.
A simplification of Germanyʼs welfare state is wanted by its Association of Towns and Municipalities (BStGB). Only then, it says, will communities be able to cope with demographic aging and future economic strains. Germanyʼs11,054 communal authoritieswere overburdened with complicated welfare delivery and needed "de-bureaucratization" to stay within budget in the future, asserted association chief executive Gerd Landsberg on Tuesday. "Every problem is met with the promise that there is more money and naturally more personnel," he said, adding that, longterm, Germanyʼs highly legislated welfare state would not function, given finite taxation revenues, populations withmore elderly, and regions facing loss of industry and jobs. Landsberg told newspapers run by the Funke MedienGruppe (media group) – which is based in Essen in the once coal and steel-dominated Ruhr region – that the reform should start with the reexamination of welfare grants and tax relief for families.
Reasons to care about your gut flora So what do we actually know about whatʼs going on in there and how it affects our overall health? With probiotics, fermented foods and kombucha all trending in recent years, we wanted to find out what all the fuss was about when it comes to our gut health. Inside our stomachs and intestines are hundreds of different kinds of ʼgoodʼ bacteria that help us digest food, making up what is known as the microbiome.
This ʼgut floraʼ is partly made up of bacteria we are born with (coming from our mothers) and partly dependent on our diet and lifestyle. Each personʼs mix of gut bacteria is unique. Foods high in fiber from fruits and vegetables, along with yogurt, kefir, other fermented and pickled foods are believed to culture a healthier gut. A healthy balance of good bacteria also keeps ʼbadʼ bacteria at bay, by squeezing them out for space to grow.
Gareth Bale: Real Madrid forward tops British export greats with
It only takes the weather to be unfavorable,and megacities across the world sink into wafts of mist. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), some 7 million people die every year partly as a result of inhaling polluted air over longer periods. Increasing traffic has no doubt contributed to creating "thick air." Many nations are in the middle of campaigns to reverse the trend by pushing e-mobility, arguing that electric vehicles donʼt have exhaust pipes as sources of poisonous nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. But a closer look reveals that fine particulates cannot be reduced drastically through electric cars. "Irrespective of a carʼs transmission system, it will always produce a lot of particulate matter," says Jan-Eric Raschke, who heads the fine particulates/filtration division at the German company Mann+Hummel. He explains thatroughly 90 percent of all particulate emissions in cars stem from tire wear and the braking system.
Germanyʼs migrants: wooed and discriminated
100th goal for Spanish club Real Madrid got an instant return on Gareth Bale when they signed him from Tottenham Hotspur for a then worldrecord fee of £85.3m in 2013. The 24year-old Wales forward made an immediate impact on his debut on 14 September 2013, scoring at Estadio de la Ceramica alongside Cristiano Ronaldo asReal Madrid were held to a 2-2 draw at Villarreal. Scroll forward six seasons and 1,974 days and Bale, now 29, claimed his 100th goal for Los Blancos, scoring Real Madridʼs third in a3-1 win over city-rivals Atletico.
No Red Bull Air Race for Budapest in 2019 Budapest Mayor István Tarlós has not authorised the organisation of the Red Bull Air Race in Budapest this summer – according to a statement just issued by the Mayor’s Office. Held annually in several major cities with notable landmarks for skyline backdrops, the Red Bull Air Race is Formula 1 in the air, presenting incredible stunt-flying spectacles performed by the world’s best pilots. Every year except one since 2003, Budapest has hosted the race, but now it seems that for 2019, the Red Bull Air Race will skip the Hungarian capital.
Mann+Hummel: Hidden champion fights fine particles
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"We are Hamburg. Are you in?" Thatʼs the slogan Hamburg is using to advertise municipal jobs to migrants. From police officers to teachers, doctors, bookkeepers and prison workers — the city is hoping to hire more employees with an migrant background. And itʼs not just Hamburg making this push. All throughout Germany, the business and public sectors alike are focusing on the countryʼs newest residents. Rising education levels Thatʼs because the average education level of migrants in Germany is on the rise. In 2011, one-quarter of young migrants between the ages of 18 and 25 had completed their "Abitur," or high school certificate exam. By 2015, that figure had climbed to 33 percent. During that same period, the percentage of youth without a migrant background who completed high school rose from 32 to 39 percent.