Christopher Schuetze

Berlin, Germany

Reporter at The New York Times

not quite a real Berliner yet, but I'll definitely give directions and talk about how things used to be.

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Berlin doctor charged with serial murder of palliative patients

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Christopher Schuetze

By Christopher F. Schuetze April 17, 2025 — 11.47am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Hanover, Germany: Authorities in Germany have charged a Berlin palliative care doctor with killing 15 patients over the course of three years. The public prosecutor said that a further 75 patient deaths were being investigated as suspicious.
Palliative Care Doctor Is Charged With Serial Murder of 15 Patients in Germany

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Christopher Schuetze

A British family doctor, Harold Shipman, was convicted in 2000 of murdering 15 of his patients. A later inquiry found that he had killed at least 215, over a period of 23 years. Also in Britain, Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse, was convicted in 2023 and 2024 of killing seven babies and trying to kill seven others.
Germany Is Falling Apart (Literally). Here's How the New Government Might Fix It.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Christopher Schuetze

The AVUS, on the western edge of Berlin, opened in 1921 as an automobile racetrack. It was the forerunner of the modern German autobahn and is now integrated into the city's highway system. By some measures, it was once the fastest road in Germany. Now, some consider it among the slowest. Last month, engineers found a crack in part of a bridge on the highway that connects Berlin with the AVUS, forcing its closure and causing huge commuter delays.
Coalition deal in Germany clears way for Friedrich Merz to become chancellor

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Christopher Schuetze

BERLIN – Germany’s centrist parties announced Wednesday that they had formally reached a coalition agreement to allow Friedrich Merz, a conservative, to take the reins as chancellor at a tumultuous moment when Europe’s economic and security order is being upended.
Coalition Deal in Germany Clears Way for Friedrich Merz to Become Chancellor

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Christopher Schuetze

Daniel Friedrich Sturm, writing in Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin's largest daily newspaper, noted, "It is now really time for the black-red negotiators to finally get their act together - and for the citizens to be able to see six and a half weeks after the election what this potential government wants to tackle and how." Recent polls suggest that the AfD, which won 20.8 percent of the vote in February, and the conservatives, which took 28.6 percent, would be running neck and neck if an election...
Germany’s new parliament is sworn in, but where are the women?

3 weeks ago | thestar.com.my | Christopher Schuetze

TWO days after a coalition of conservatives won Germany’s federal election last month, the governor of Bavaria took to Instagram to say the parties were “ready for political change” and posted a group picture of the likely future chancellor, Friedrich Merz, with five other leaders. But the photo seemed to suggest that a changed Germany will look remarkably like the country of old: It shows six middle-aged white men sitting around a table of snacks.
In Germany's New Parliament, Women Will Be a Rarer Sight

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Christopher Schuetze

Two days after a coalition of conservatives won Germany's federal election last month, the governor of Bavaria took to Instagram to say the party was "ready for political change" and posted a group picture of the likely future chancellor, Friedrich Merz, with five other leaders. The photo seemed to suggest that a changed Germany will look remarkably like the country of old: It shows six white middle-aged white men sitting around a table of snacks.
Why Germany Wants to Loosen Its Debt Brake

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Jim Tankersley |Christopher Schuetze

The German Parliament is set to vote on Tuesday on a plan to loosen government borrowing limits in order to spend heavily on defense and infrastructure, in an effort to offset America’s pivot away from Europe and to lift the country out of years of economic stagnation. If the measure eventually becomes law, it will radically reorient Germany’s relationship to government debt — and, its authors hope, allow Germany to shoulder a more powerful leadership role at a critical moment for Europe.
Merz Challenges Germans to Make a Bold Strategic Shift. Will They Do It?

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jim Tankersley |Christopher Schuetze

Germany's centrist politicians are losing votes to the far right and the far left. They are losing faith in America, their longtime friend and protector. And they are rapidly losing what could be their best chance to address both those problems at once.
German Court Convicts Five Over Plot to Kidnap Health Official and Spread Chaos

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Christopher Schuetze

Five people have been sentenced to prison over what the authorities in Germany described as a plot to kidnap the country's health minister on live television in 2022 in an attempt to destabilize the German state. After a nearly two-year trial, a court found on Thursday that the five, under a group billed as the "United Patriots," had planned to create a widespread weekslong power outage and then use the chaos to reinstate a 19th-century Constitution ceding power to an all-powerful Kaiser.