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Submitted by Lukas Ramonas, via The Baltic Word…
This week was marked by a lot of sad news about the spread of coronavirus in different parts of the world. And Germany was no exception.

Submitted by InfoBrics, authored by Paul Antonopoulos, Research Fellow at the Center for Syncretic Studies…

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the push to broker a final peace in Libya during the Berlin Conference.
The conference in Berlin of 11 countries was aimed at bringing an end to the fighting between the UN-recognized government in Tripoli led by the prime minister, Fayez al-Sarraj, and the Libyan National Army in the country’s east led by Gen Khalifa Haftar.

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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the meeting in Moscow between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, where a variety of topics were discussed including Nord Stream 2, Ukraine, Libya and the Iran JCPOA.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss a massive defense bill signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, that includes legislation imposing sanctions on firms laying pipe for Nord Stream 2…a natural gas pipeline which will double gas capacity along the northern Nord Stream pipeline route to Germany.
Berlin and Brussels have criticized the White House sanctions. accusing President Trump of interfering in national and bloc sovereignty.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Normandy Four summit in Paris, France where the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany declared progress in settling the ongoing conflict in East Ukraine.
This was the first summit between the four nations in three years, ending with a comprehensive agreement on the full implementation of a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine before the end of 2019.

It’s hard to overstate the importance of the election results last weekend in Thuringia.  The complete collapse of the two centrist parties there, Angela Merkel’s CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD), is looking like a harbinger of what comes next in German politics.
A majority in Thuringia, ruled by the CDU since the early 1990’s until 2014 when Die Linke took over with the Social Democrats and the Greens, just voted against the centrist, Merkelist, grand coalition of standing for nothing but globalism and tighter EU integration.

Authored by Serban V.C. Enache via Hereticus Economicus:
“The haggling around rescues in the Mediterranean has to be ended.” German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas.
“We cannot continue to do nothing as thousands of men, women and children who’ve left behind everything fall into the hands of human traffickers. We cannot simply abandon them to face either shelling in Libya or drowning in the Mediterranean.” French President, Emmanuel Macron.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the now confirmed Friday meeting to take place on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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