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Best of the Blogs 2012: Winners Announced

After a month of voting and jury discussions, the awards for this year's Best of the Blogs - the BOBs - have been decided. In addition to winners decided by user vote, a jury of bloggers, media experts and activists have curated the best blogs, campaigns and media projects in six multilingual categories.

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Latest stories about Germany

17 May 2012

Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko's Plight and Euro 2012

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Freedom of Speech, Governance

There must be some corners on the web where football fans are still having apolitical discussions of Euro 2012, scheduled to take place in Poland and Ukraine from June 8 to July 1. For the past few weeks, however, the upcoming sporting event has featured prominently in arguments and discussions among those who seem more interested in the Ukrainian and European politics than sports.

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15 March 2012

Macedonia: Fuel Prices Continue to Rise

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Elections, History

Continuous increase of fuel prices is a cause of much concern for citizens of Macedonia, and some vent the tension through humor.

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14 March 2012

Europe: Will ACTA Treaty Pass After Protests?

Written by Suzanne Lehn · Translated by Danielle Martineau · Governance, Law

The ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Treaty (ACTA) by the European Parliament has been delayed in expectation of an opinion from the European Court of Justice on its conformity with fundamental rights.

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12 March 2012

Germany: Email Monitoring #Bomb(e) Drops

Written by Katrin Zinoun · Translated by Rachel Horst · Humor, Technology

German intelligence agencies examined more than 37 million emails containing particular search terms, for instance "bomb". Reactions in online media ranged between outrage and humor.

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8 March 2012

The Best of the Blogs Awards: Have You Submitted Your Blog?

Written by Claire Ulrich · Freedom of Speech, Education

Nominate your favorite blogs in 17 categories and 11 languages to the Deutsche Welle Best of the Blogs Awards (BoBs) before March, 13, 2012. Bloggers, writers, artists, citizen video reporters, activists and educators are invited to participate in this respected global blog competition.

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15 November 2011

Eurozone Crisis: Where Will the Economy Go?

Written by Evan Fleischer · Governance, International Relations

Economists would be hard pressed to forecast the future of Europe's bailouts and the consequences of the current financial crisis. While opinions differ, reactions abound online to try to make sense of what future awaits the Eurozone.

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16 October 2011

Food Around the World on Blog Action Day 2011

Written by Solana Larsen · Arts & Culture, Development

Every year since 2007, Blog Action Day has united bloggers from around the world in talking about one global issue. Collectively, the thousands of bloggers participating have an audience of millions. And this year on October 16, 2011 they talked about food.

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11 May 2011

Slovakia: Second-Class Customers

Written by Tibor Blazko · Environment, Food

Even though customers might expect products from the same brand to be of the same quality worldwide, regional differences in quality and price do exist, depending on whether the products were manufactured for Western European markets or for those in Central and Eastern Europe. Tibor Blazko reports on the reactions of Slovak netizens to a recent study on the issue.

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8 April 2011

Global Voices at the 7th Annual BOB Awards

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Arts & Culture, Technology

A number of Global Voices contributors from around the world are among the nominees for the prestigious Deutsche Welle Blog Awards – the BOBs. Find out more and vote now!

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Video: Checking out the BOBs Video Channel Nominees

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Arts & Culture, Film

The Deutsche Welle International Blog Awards, known as The BOBs are one of the most important awards for content producers online. One of their 17 categories is the award for Best Video Channel and today we'll get to know a bit more about the 11 nominees to better cast your vote.

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Updates about Germany

21 May 2012

German

The Bavarian broadcasting company, Bayerischer Rundfunk, in Germany recently launched a social TV experiment called “Rundshow” [de] (Roundshow). Viewers are actively incorporated into the show through virtual means such as Google Hangout, videos, an app called “Die Macht” (The Power), and Twitter. The concept of blurring the lines between TV and the Internet can already be seen with Al Jazeera's show The Stream. But Rundshow is the first format of its kind to be attempted in Germany.

• Mario Sorgalla

25 April 2012

French

French group Rhodia and German company Tantalus announced the signing of a Letter of Intent to exploit a 300 km-long region filled with rare deposits [fr] in the Ampasindava peninsula in the North-West of Madagascar. The group expects to produce 15,000 tons a year within the next 18 months, a total value estimated at 2 billion euros [fr]. Madagascar is still marred in a political crisis that was triggered by a land grab scandal. Meanwhile, the head of the transitional government Rajoelina has seemingly kicked off his presidential campaign [fr] [photos] after announcing two years ago that he would not run [fr] for president.

• Lova Rakotomalala

11 April 2012

Youth

Thanks to the work of dedicated volunteers, Global Voices special coverage of “Europe in Crisis” has been named a national winner for the European Charlemagne Youth Prize. The final winners for all of Europe will be announced in Aachen, Germany in May 2012. The award aims to encourage a European consciousness among young people.

• Solana Larsen

5 April 2012

French

The Pirate Party, which was started in Sweden in 2006, has since spread to other countries in Europe. In Germany, the local elections of Sunday, March 25, 2012, allowed the party to enter the parliament of Saarland after an earlier victory admitted it to the Berlin Parliament. This result has inspired its French counterpart to put forward candidates for this year's French Legislative Election. The newly created Alsace branch [fr] of the Pirate Party is preparing an “essentially digital campaign costing zero Euros”. Le blog de la vache libre [fr] hosted a video [fr] interview in which a candidate explains the objectives [fr] of the party, and journalism student Jérémie Nadé describes the anticipated pirate invasion on his blog.

• Suzanne Lehn

5 March 2012

German

As a reaction to the corporate efforts to enact an even more draconian legislation and in response to the attempts of the distributor of the film Downfall to take down the Hitler meme on copyright grounds, Ribaro published [mk] an animated parody of the iconic scene, free for download and re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License.

• Filip Stojanovski

10 February 2012

French

Elsa Doladille writes [fr] on the Educators Without Borders blog : ” While the Guéant Bill in France aims at toughening the conditions for foreign students to obtain a work permit, Germany encourages the integration of students from abroad in their workforce.”

• Abdoulaye Bah

6 September 2011

English

ChinaSMACK has a post about about the Nazi Chic cosplay culture in China and translated Chinese netizens' reactions to a set of Nazi Chic photos.

• Oiwan Lam

12 August 2011

English

Kelly Hignett at The View East writes about the Berlin wall, and its historical significance as a divide between East and West, as it is now 50 years since the wall - demolished in 1989 - was constructed.

• Vilhelm Konnander

18 July 2011

English

David Cook at The View East writes about the East German security police, Stasi, during the Cold War, and its system of informers.

• Vilhelm Konnander

15 July 2011

English

James Shingler at The View East writes about East German rock and pop music and its subvertive role in changing society during the 1970s and 1980s.

• Vilhelm Konnander

Comments on "Germany"

The Best of the Blogs Awards: Have You Submitted Your Blog?

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