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Die Tageszeitung

http://www.taz.de/

Berlin
Language : German
Circulation : 56,700

http://www.taz.de/
Language : German

Alternative daily, founded in West Berlin in 1979 from within the autonomist movement, partly as a reaction to the government’s attempts to gag the press after the spate of left-wing terrorism known as the “German Autumn” (1977). The Taz has become the German mouthpiece of “serious” left-wing feminists, ecologists and pacifists.

Posted on its website are the complete contents of the broadsheet as well as its regional editions from Bremen and Hamburg – plus the German version of Le Monde diplomatique, which is published by the Taz.

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Afghanistan | Mission : Blurred

The US wants more German soldiers in Afghanistan. The current Bundestag debate goes to show the governments involved have yet to clarify their objectives or give up the myth of the noble warrior, and they adamantly refuse to put the public in the picture, deplores the Tageszeitung.

Published on 03 Dec 2009 | Die Tageszeitung

Enlargement | Bosnia on the brink

For Bosnia, the road to Brussels is paved with constitutional reform. But in the current talks between European, American and Bosnian leaders, Brussels has shown a dearth of discernment that could endanger the democratic process, worries Tageszeitung.

Published on 18 Nov 2009 | Die Tageszeitung

Germans in Switzerland | Taming the northern newcomers

The German Finance Minister who has a hard line on tax havens is especially unpopular among the Swiss, and he is not alone. His compatriots who have chosen to live in Switzerland are often criticized for being too loud, too pushy, and too arrogant. A new “integration course” in Zürich is aiming to change all that.

Published on 26 Oct 2009 | Die Tageszeitung

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