Tunisian, Algerian FMs commend solid relations binding both countries

According to Algerian Annahar News TV, Minister of State, Minister of  Foreign Affairs and International cooperation Ramtane lammara talked Saturday with his Tunisian counterpart Khemais Jhinaoui, on the sidelines of the International Meeting for Peace in the Middle East in Paris. Annahar News TV underlined that Algerian Minister stressed that relations between Tunisia and Algeria are solid and based on mutual trust. Besides, the two countries coordinate their efforts within the framework of their relations with the neighbouring countries to find a peaceful solution to Libya. The meeting was an…

What is Denglisch and why is it so catchy?

English has been quietly conquering the German language since the end of the Second World War, with sometimes baffling consequences No other language – apart from Latin maybe – has had such a profound effect on Germany’s people, business and culture, as English. It is omnipresent: in schools, homes, workplaces, government institutions and, for a couple of years, even in primary schools. Yes, that’s right, even four-year-old Germans speak English. If you address people in English anywhere in Germany they will, without a moment’s hesitation, reply in English. My mother…

Tragedy of the State of independence in Tunisia…

The first documentary on the coup attempt in 1962 “Tragedy of the state of independence in Tunisia” is the milestone title of a documentary film about the military coup attempt on the rule of President Habib Bourguiba in 1962. A documentary considered by its initiators as exceptional in the way of conceiving the event through a balanced reading away from the spirit of hatred, revenge and mistrust. The documentary film is exceptional in terms of the testimonies and the written and audio-visual archive sources presented for the first time. The film,…

Stay or go? Germany’s difficult and controversial deportation of North African migrants

When the first aeroplane carrying unsuccessful Tunisian asylum seekers took off from Leipzig in April last year, the German authorities believed they were close to resolving a key point of controversy. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere had recently reached agreement with the Tunisian government on returning rejected Tunisians ineligible for asylum on special chartered flights, each carrying 25 at most. But by the end of the year there had been just five further flights, returning an average of 12 people each. German migration authorities rejected 8,363 asylum applications from…

Tunisia’s new measures for media sector

Prime Minister Youssef Chahed announced, Saturday at the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT)’s headquarters, eleven measures and decisions taken at an inner Cabinet meeting held Friday. They are: – Establish the governance of public advertising for written and electronic press through the creation of a commission setting criteria for granting adverstisment and another one for franting and distributing advertisment. – Devote 5% of the public advertising revenues to the “Amicale” of Tunisian journalists. – Adopt the direct subscription regime of public institutions to newspapers and periodicals, in compliance with…

Berlin terrorist suspect did cocaine & ecstasy, possibly on drugs during attack – report

Anis Amri, the Tunisian suspect accused of ramming a lorry into a crowd at a Christmas market in Berlin, regularly consumed cocaine and ecstasy, German media says, citing investigators. Authorities are now checking if he was on drugs during the attack. Amri was killed by Italian police on December 23, when officers stopped the suspect and asked for his ID in a Milan suburb. The man pulled out a pistol and opened fire, injuring one of the officers, but was shot dead as the patrol returned fire. The Berlin truck…

Riots erupt in Tunisia on anniversary of revolution

Hundreds of protesters demanding jobs clashed with police in several Tunisian towns on Saturday, blocking the route of visiting President Beji Caid Essebsi in one region, on the sixth anniversary of the country’s revolution. Local residents said protests that erupted in the southern town of Ben Guerdane had spread over the weekend to several other areas such as Sidi Bouzid, Meknassi and Gafsa, where Essebsi visited to mark the 2011 uprising that ousted autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Six years after that revolt, Tunisia is hailed as a model…