The current head of the Legal and Organization Department, Jan Stöß (51), will become the new civil servant State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg). Defense Minister Boris Pistorius also decided to replace the long-standing State Secretary for Armaments, Benedikt Zimmer (63), with Jens Plötner (57) in the summer. The former foreign policy […]
One week after the start of a new food distribution system in the Gaza Strip, dozens of Palestinians were killed at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution point in Rafah on Sunday. The Israeli army said it was investigating the incident. Critics of the GHF, which is supported by the USA and Israel, accuse the […]
International pressure on Israel to allow significantly more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip is growing. After German Chancellor Friedrich Merz accused the Israeli government of violating international humanitarian law on Monday, Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also took his successor Benjamin Netanyahu to task more harshly than ever before: “Israel is committing war […]
The Egyptian human rights activist Mohammed Abdel Salam has his passport back. Just a few days after the country’s National Security Service (NSS) confiscated it at Cairo International airport, the domestic intelligence service contacted the director of the Association for the Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) by phone last Friday. It was said to […]
Not even a thousand days have passed since Nils Hilmer moved into his office overlooking the Landwehr Canal in Berlin-Tiergarten. But for the Social Democrat born in Hanover in 1981, it must seem like an eternity: He was promoted to State Secretary in March 2023, just a few weeks after Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz brought […]
Mr. Mützenich, the EU Commission has announced that it is considering suspending the Association Agreement with Israel. 17 EU foreign ministers spoke out in favor of this last week, while Federal Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul is against it. Is that a mistake?I would have been in favor of the German government joining the vote of […]
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, is “alarmed” by the actions of the Egyptian authorities against the executive director of the human rights organization AFTE, Mohammed Abdel Salam. “Egypt must stop harassing and intimidating human rights defenders,” she wrote on X on Thursday. Abdel Salam was interrogated for an hour by […]
Four CDU/CSU members will head the Bundestag’s committees for defense, foreign affairs, human rights and economic cooperation and development. Armin Laschet (Foreign Affairs Committee), Thomas Röwekamp (Defense), and Mechthild Heil (Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid) are considered to be set; prior to the constituent meetings this Wednesday, it was still unclear which CDU/CSU member would […]
France, Canada and the UK expressed their clear opposition to the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. He was “appalled by Israel’s escalation,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the House of Commons on Tuesday – and renewed his country’s, Canada’s and France’s call for a ceasefire.On Tuesday alone, more than sixty people […]
The EU foreign ministers want to decide on easing sanctions against Syria at the Foreign Affairs Council in three weeks. As Table.Briefings has learned from diplomatic circles, the meeting on Jan. 27 is expected to see the easing of some of the sanctions imposed on the regime of former ruler Bashar al-Assad since 2011. This […]