Research and Honors, October 2025

Research and Honors is a monthly column of the Illinois State Report newsletter, celebrating recent Honors, Publications, and Presentations of faculty and staff. Honors Valerie Wright, MCN, received the AgriSafe Nurse Scholar Farm Credit Illinois...

German MP: ‘We are actively discussing how to respond to crisis of democracy in Georgia’

German MP on crisis in Georgia German Bundestag member Knut Abraham has given an interview to Formula on the current situation in Georgia. He said Germany is actively discussing how to respond to the crisis of democracy in the country. Abraham...

German Left Party Calls for Assassination of AfD’s Alice Weidel After Justifying Killing of Charlie Kirk – Taxpayer Funded with $27.5 Million

The German Left Youth calling for killing Alice Weidel, leader of Germany’s largest opposition party The Antifa-related youth wing of the German opposition party The Left has called for the assassination of AfD leader Alice Weidel, two weeks after...

German students build mobile energy trailer using solar, battery and hydrogen

Mechanical engineering students in Germany have designed an innovative mobile energy trailer that combines solar power, battery storage, and a hydrogen fuel cell to deliver reliable electricity where the grid doesn’t reach. The young researchers...

German company seeks to buy more Azerbaijani gas from SOCAR

A German company wants to buy additional natural gas from SOCAR, APA-Economics reports. Within the framework of the 9th meeting of the Coordination Committee between SOCAR and the German company "Uniper", a meeting was held between SOCAR President...

What Friedrich Merz Must Do To Revive Germany’s Economy

A long-dead German finance minister, Ludwig Erhard, a German statesman and economist, was largely responsible for the economic recovery of West Germany after World War Two. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images A...

Germany moves to simplify rules for recognising foreign medical qualifications

Foreign doctors, dentists, pharmacists, and midwives who want to work in Germany face a long bureaucratic process to see their qualifications recognised. Now the government aims to speed up the process. It's understood that Germany faces a major...

Top 10 online shops drive growth in German ecommerce

Amazon remains by far the largest online shop in Germany, ahead of local players Otto and Zalando. This is shown in a new top 1,000 ranking by retail institute EHI and ECDB. The combined revenue of the thousand top sellers was 3.8 percent higher...

Germany: Over One in Three 35-Year-Olds Have Migrant Background

A study to mark German reunification has found that over one-third of 35-year-olds in the country have a migration background. Berlin’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has released a special demographic report on those born in 1990 when East...

GCB and Fraunhofer IAO launch Research Centre for Future Meeting Studies

The German Convention Bureau (GCB) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) have announced the launch of their new Research Centre for Future Meeting Studies (rcfms). The Research Centre builds on and continues the work of the...

The European Political Community Summit started, with general security situation in Europe set as main topic

Among the main topics are the overall security situation in Europe and how to make Europe stronger and safer in the current geopolitical context. The meeting is co-chaired by António Costa, President of the European Council, together with Mette...

Germany's long-term growth hit by industrial weakness: ifo

BERLIN, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Weakness in Germany's industrial base has been a key driver of the country's long-term economic slowdown, with growth halving over the past five decades and fresh signs pointing to further strain ahead, according to a...

Suspected Hamas member arrests spark German dual citizenship debate

German conservative lawmaker Alexander Throm raised the question whether dual citizens convicted of terrorist acts on German soil should face easier revocation of their citizenship, following the arrest of three suspected Hamas operatives,...

Merz's Germany: Inexperience, coalition crisis, growing AfD threat

On May 6, 2025, Friedrich Merz assumed office as Germany’s 10th Chancellor, taking on the formidable task of steering the country through the “Zeitenwende” ("turning point") period, widely regarded as a defining moment in German politics. Leading...

Viktor Orbán and Ukraine's sovereignty: only a tool in a domestic political game

The more strained relations between Hungary and Ukraine become over the next six months, the better it will be for Orbán. The key to understanding Viktor Orbán's comment about Ukraine's sovereignty is in Hungarian domestic politics. Hungary is...

M&A veteran joins international bank to drive seafood sector expansion

Veteran banker German Thoss has taken on a new role as managing director and global head of corporate finance at PUENTE, an international investment bank with more than 400 employees and offices in South America, Miami, Florida (US), Madrid...

Encompass selected for corporate digital identity, financing by BNP Paribas

European banking giant BNP Paribas is leading a financing round for corporate identity validation and verification provider Encompass and will deploy its corporate digital identity (CDI) platform. Encompass plans to use the funding for further...

On how this industry comes back to life

It’s been a tough year for the sustainability industry, but signs of new growth defy the odds with innovation and enormous talent. News of sustainability’s demise has indeed been greatly exaggerated. Sign up for our free newsletter. Sure, for the...

EMO 2025 drives AI and automation for greater global industrial...

For five days, Hanover became the stage for EMO, the world’s leading trade fair for production technology. With around 80,000 trade visitors from across the globe – more than half from outside Germany – the event generated significant innovation...

Purported dissident who monitored Chinese activists in Germany convicted of espionage 

A German court this week sentenced a former political aide featured in ICIJ’s China Targets investigation to more than four years in prison after finding that he spied for China for nearly two decades. Announcing the verdict in the Higher Regional...