27 de mayo de 2015, 11:26Berlin, May 27 (Prensa Latina) A week and a half ahead of the G7 summit in Germany, anti-capitalist activists will present today their action plans to protest the controversial meeting. The summit of the seven most influential nations in the world will be held on June 7-8 at the castle Elmau, around 100 kilometers south from Munich, capital city of Bavaria. Simultaneously, the activists announced to analyze a lawsuit that prohibits to set up a protest camp against Read more [...]

Dalem’s Chalet’s 50th anniversary dinner is on Saturday, May 30. The sit-down dinner has seatings at 6, 7, and 8 p.m. Reservations are recommended, and can be made by calling 802-254-4323. Dalem’s Chalet is located at 78 South St. in West Brattleboro. Originally published in The Commons issue #307 (Wednesday, May 27, 2015). This story appeared on page C2.If you'd like to share this story on your website, please feel free to do so with credit to The Commons and a link back to commonsnews.org.By Read more [...]

The governing Christian Social Union party in Bavaria’s state government sparked a row over excluding Muslim students and other immigrant pupils from visiting concentration camps as part of Holocaust educational programs. “There are a lot of children from Muslim families who do not have a connection to our past,” said CSU politician Klaus Steiner in the parliamentary debate justifying the exclusion, according to a May article Read more [...]

[SatNews] ESA BIC Bavaria, part of the European Space Agency's Business Incubation Center (BIC) program, is poised to expand its presence in Bavaria's thriving aerospace atmosphere with the opening of another branch office in Ottobrunn near Munich. The Bavarian state government, itself a longstanding ESA BIC partner and supporter, also hailed the program's new partnership with Airbus Defence and Space at the Ludwig Bölkow Campus in Ottobrunn. "The new ESA BIC Bavaria branch location in Ottobrunn Read more [...]

The luxury hotel, Elmau Castle, in southern Bavaria, where the next G7 summit will take place on June 7 and 8 is normally an idyllic alpine resort. But authorities don't want to take any chances that anti-capitalist demonstrations could devolve into violent clashes with police. To that end, the interior ministry has said there will be a temporary reintroduction of border checks on people moving between countries in the usually control-free Schengen area. The ministry said the checks would be carried Read more [...]

US President Barack Obama could skip the Group of Seven (G7) June summit in Bavaria if the German government hands over a list of US spying targets to parliament, German tabloid Bild said citing its sources on Tuesday. The two-day summit is scheduled to kick off on June 7 in Bavaria's castle Elmau, less than 60 miles from the notorious Bad Aibling monitoring station used by US spying agency NSA to eavesdrop on EU firms and officials. Chancellor Angela Merkel's Socialist coalition partners regard Read more [...]

Munich federal police chief Hubert Steiger told reporters in Munich that the southern border between Freilassing and Lindau would be under the heaviest controls. Under normal circumstances, there are no border checks on people moving between countries that are party to the Schengen Agreement, which covers most of mainland Europe. But the rules of the pact allow states to declare temporary exceptions to the rule. Police hope to prevent a repeat of anti-capitalist demonstrations in Frankfurt Read more [...]

YEREVAN, MAY 26, ARMENPRESS. The U.S. President Barack Obama could skip the Group of Seven (G7) June summit in Bavaria if the German government hands over a list of US spying targets to parliament, German tabloid Bild said citing its sources on Tuesday. As reports “Armenpress” citing  Sputnik News, The two-day summit is scheduled to kick off on June 7 in Bavaria’s castle Elmau, less than 60 miles from the notorious Bad Aibling monitoring station used by US spying agency NSA to eavesdrop Read more [...]

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By our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online         Munich (dpa) - Germany reintroduced border checks on Tuesday ahead of the G7 summit taking place in Bavaria on June 7 and 8, in a bid to prevent any violent attacks on the international meeting.The Interior Ministry said that travellers could possibly be stopped and checked any time up until Read more [...]