Kate Connolly

Berlin

Foreign Correspondent at The Guardian

Foreign Correspondent, The Guardian @kateconnolly.bsky.social

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German police crack down on illegal street car tuning as season begins

6 days ago | msn.com | Kate Connolly

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German police crack down on illegal street car tuning as its season begins

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Kate Connolly

Police in Germany have pledged a crackdown on illegal racing and the unauthorised modification of cars as members of the so-called tuning scene meet across the country for the start of their annual season. The Good Friday holiday marking Christ’s death on the cross, called Karfreitag in German – from the Old High German word kara, meaning sorrow – is otherwise known by the extreme car enthusiasts as Carfreitag (car Friday) for its unofficial gathering of the ‘tuners’ and ‘car posers’.
Marina Abramović and Igor Levit on their marathon 16-hour concert

6 days ago | msn.com | Kate Connolly

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‘He will not leave the stage. Ever’: Marina Abramović and Igor Levit on their marathon 16-hour concerty

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Kate Connolly

Amid the experiments and cross-genre collaborations in this year’s Multitudes festival is one event that will challenge its performer as much as its audience – and the only one where specially appointed brow-moppers will be on hand. At 10am on 24 April in London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, pianist Igor Levit will begin a performance of a single piece, Erik Satie’s Vexations, in a concert that will last at least 16 hours.
US’s Rubio shrugs off market falls at Nato press conference – as it happened | France | The Guardian

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jakub Krupa |Lisa O'Carroll |Kate Connolly |Miranda Bryant

US secretary of state says ‘markets will adjust’ during press conference following Nato summit in Brussels
‘Another nail in the coffin’: Germany’s car industry faces up to Trump’s tariffs

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kate Connolly

Emerging into the springtime sun from gate 17 at Volkswagen’s main factory in Wolfsburg at the end of his shift on Thursday afternoon, Carsten, 63, pulled heavily on a cigarette and shook his head when asked about Donald Trump’s US tariff policies. “It’s just another nail in the coffin for the German car industry,” the assembly line worker said.
How AfD’s Alice Weidel went from German pariah to top opposition figure

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kate Connolly

Alles für Deutschland, (“everything for Germany”) was once a Hitler-era rallying cry. It was more recently adopted by Björn Höcke, a high-ranking member of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland at party rallies, for which he was prosecuted. Then in August last year the slogan popped up at events attended by Alice Weidel, the party’s co-leader, but in a subtly modified form – Alice für Deutschland.
German MPs approve €500bn spending boost to counter ‘Putin’s war of aggression’

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kate Connolly

Germany’s parliament has voted in favour of unleashing historic levels of spending to boost the military of Europe’s biggest economy and inject its infrastructure with investments worth hundreds of billions of euros. The conservatives of Friedrich Merz and the Social Democrats (SPD), who are likely to form a new coalition following last month’s election, led the drive for the creation of a €500bn fund and relaxation of its constitutionally protected debt rules.
Bundestag prepares to vote on historic borrowing package in key test for Merz

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kate Connolly

Germany’s likely next chancellor is to face a key vote on plans to unlock a record level of state borrowing, which he argues is necessary to boost the country’s military spending and inject growth into its ailing economy. Ahead of the crucial Bundestag vote on Tuesday, Friedrich Merz has faced a barrage of complaints from the opposition and from within his own ranks that he is not coupling the historic levels of spending planned – as much as €1tn (£840bn) – to demands for reform.
Merz secures Greens’ support for defence spend boost

1 month ago | msn.com | Kate Connolly

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