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The December sales period could mark a negative watershed moment for the auto industry, threatening to slow Europe’s adoption of electric vehicles. The December sales period could mark a negative watershed moment for the auto industry, threatening to slow Europe’s adoption of electric vehicles. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

Fraction of the respondents from West and East who believe that the financial security is the responsibility of the state. Unbalanced sample. Credit: German Economic Review (2023). DOI: 10.1515/ger-2022-0042 Even after 27 years of reunification, East Germans are still more likely to be pro-state support than their Western counterparts, a new study published in German Economic Review finds. Of the sample studied, 48% of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAll Quiet on the Western Front has put the proverbial cat among the pigeons at this year’s film awards season.The German-language adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 anti-war novel was released on Netflix last October to little fanfare.However, the film swept last night’s (19 February) Bafta Awards, picking up wins in seven of the 14 categories it was nominated in, including Best…

Cyclist in December 2022 on the way between Uniwiese (green) and Cafeteria Zülpicher Strasse in Cologne. Credit: Niclas Carl The Dutch use their bicycles around twice as often as their German neighbors in the winter months. Generally, bicycles are used more often in the Netherlands than in Germany. In the summer (June to August) the Dutch use their bicycles for 23.0% of their journeys—in Germany only 16.7%. The Dutch also use…

The Leipzig Authoritarianism Study 2022 has just been published. Since 2002, scientists at the Leipzig University have been observing the development of authoritarian and right-wing-extremist attitudes in Germany. Credit: Thomas Häse Public satisfaction with democracy in Germany has risen over the past two years, while in some cases extreme right-wing attitudes have declined significantly. At the same time, hatred of migrants,…

When he first glanced at the script for a new adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1928 novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Daniel Brühl was immediately hooked. “When I was growing up, this was one of the most important books we read. I think almost all of us read it at school and it so impressed us. When I was older I felt I had to read it again.” So, almost 100 years after it was published, being able to adapt it cinematically in its original language for the first time was something Brühl was “immediately intrigued…

Credit: Bertelsmann Stiftung Among Germans, 46% have a good opinion of Israel and 34% have a poor opinion. In contrast, many Israelis have a decidedly positive image of Germany, with 63% saying their view of the country is favorable, and only 19% saying it is poor. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The majority of Germans feel that their security is threatened by the current political crises. Over 78 percent of respondents to the latest "Politikpanel Deutschland" (Political Panel Germany) survey conducted by the University of Freiburg regard the war in Ukraine as threatening or very threatening. The war in eastern Europe thus overshadows all other problems. In second place is the fear…

Eighty percent of premium car drivers in Germany intend to switch to an electric vehicle within the next five years, according to a survey. The majority (66%) would finance the vehicle rather than buy it outright. This was the result of a recent Kantar survey on behalf of Mercedes-Benz Mobility among 2,500 drivers across various brands in Germany, the US and China. In all countries, preferred providers when switching to…