Allgemeine Zeitung

Moscow announced on Tuesday its decision to block access to 81 prominent European media outlets across Russia. This move comes in retaliation to European Union sanctions that restrict the distribution of Russian TV channels and internet media due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

Europe needs debt mutualization and a common "Marshall Plan" to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, even as Germany dismissed calls for the debt-pooling idea.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias condemned once again the "unacceptable" detention of the two Greek servicemen who have been imprisoned in Turkey since early March, when they strayed into the country in bad weather, in an interview with German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Nearly 14 hours after it was found, sappers from the Berlin police disposed a 250-kilogram WWII bomb, according to the national daily Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, FOCUS News Agency reported.

Maybe the dial in his mind was still switched to the rigors of the Dutch elections, or possibly his focus was on former colleagues who might now want to challenge him for his post as Eurogroup president. Whatever the case, Jeroen Dijsselbloem exposed one of the ugliest and most damaging sides of the discussion about the eurozone since the crisis broke out.

It was during the Soviet Union's heyday that Joseph Stalin introduced the political term "useful idiot" to describe that category of citizens who embraced and upheld Moscovite policy with innocent intentions.

Eurozone chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem came under increasing pressure Wednesday to step down for what many see as derogatory comments about southern debt-ridden nations that have sought outside help to emerge from financial crisis.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will hold talks with his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel in Athens Thursday.

A joint press conference will take place after the meeting at around 2 p.m.

Jaber al-Bakr, the Syrian national detained by police on suspicions of a terror attack in preparation has killed himself in his prison cell, German media report.

Saxony's Justice Ministry has added more details will be announced on Thursday.

The collision of two trains in the area of Munich in Bavaria, Germany has killed at least eight people, German police say.

"Dozens" of others are injured, German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung quotes officials as saying.

Reportedly, one of the trains was derailed and a "head-on" collision followed. The reason for the incident has not yet been established.