The German parliament, the Bundestag, will soon vote on a bill that the majority of the coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals promised as an important project during their election campaign: It should be made much easier for trans persons to change their gender entry in official documents.

All of Europe is groaning under the heat. Our calibrated thermometer on the north side of our house read 36.9 degrees at 2 metres last week. Celsius - not Fahrenheit.

The German public is shocked: A young girl was murdered by some peers. Nothing is known so-far about the motives. But still, we know that young people’s access to online violence and porn cannot remain without consequences.

I was very pleased. Today ‘my’ German Chancellor promised to send Ukraine the most modern and deadly weapons produced in Germany. So new and modern that the German army does not even have them in use yet (or not enough, and he therefore asked the Netherlands to also give Ukraine some of the German-made howitzers).

For some months, the debate about gender-neutral language and its worldview has been playing an increasing role in Germany. To understand its origin, one should know the peculiarities of the German language.

Seven hours by car from Germany’s border to the East, terrible scenes have been playing out for weeks. The Belarusian dictator Lukashenko is using refugees from the Arab region to blackmail the European Union. And for a few days now, the situation has been coming to a dramatic head: soldiers and war equipment are being deployed, and the refugees are suffering from the cold.