Sueddeutsche Zeitung

The European Union's competition chief Margrethe Vestager has expressed concern about the "huge differences" in coronavirus state aid among member states, saying they were starting to distort the bloc's single market.

German newspapers Bild and BZ published on Sept.9 a pull-out guide in Arabic for refugees in the capital city, headlining it "Welcome to Berlin".

Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Thursday revealed that the German intelligence agency helped the NSA monitor the French presidential palace and foreign ministry officials as well as members of the European Commission.

European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said April 30 he expected Berlin to get to the bottom of a Brussels spy scandal after Germany reportedly snooped on the EU and France at Washington's behest.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Monday that the death of German author Guenter Grass meant that Europe had lost a ?cultural point of reference? and that Greece had lost a ?valuable friend.?

In an interview with German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung that will be published on Monday, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said that a joint Greek-German Committee of experts should be established to discuss the issue of WWII reparations that Greece claims from Germany.

US Secretary of State John Kerry was due in Kyiv Feb. 5 for talks focussing on the possibility of arming Ukrainian forces, a day after four civilians were killed when a hospital in east Ukraine was shelled.
       

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said she was weighing bringing war crimes charges against militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in an interview published Nov. 20.

Fatou Bensouda told the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung that such steps would be possible for extremists whose home countries have signed on to the ICC's treaty.        

BELGRADE - German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Monday that Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) top Jihad recruitment sources in the Balkans, adding that Serbia is adopting amendments to the criminal law in order to hinder and prevent perspective fighters from joining the radical Islamic groups.

Germany's intelligence agency eavesdropped on calls made by U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton, as the German intelligence also targeted Turkey, Der Spiegel reports.