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The public prosecutor in Braunschweig brought charges against the former VW boss Martin Winterkorn on Monday. She accuses him among other things of major fraud and doesn't believe that only the engineers were involved in the manipulation of diesel emission tests, as the car company claims. What can the trial against Winterkorn achieve?

The Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid will travel to Moscow on 18 April for the inauguration of the restored Estonian embassy. While there she will also meet with Vladimir Putin. Is a rapprochement with Russia foolish or wise?

A hearing on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the US will take place in a London court on May 2. The Wikileaks founder was arrested last Thursday in London after Ecuador stripped him of his asylum status. Commentators discuss what should be done with him.

Finland's Social Democrats have won the parliamentary elections, edging out the right-wing populists and the conservatives in their first election victory since 1999. Prime Minister Sipilä's Centre Party suffered significant losses. The new constellation will make forming a new government difficult, commentators stress.

Joseph Ratzinger has written an essay in which he blames the ideology of the sexual revolution in the 1960s and sex education classes for sex abuse. It was during his time as Pope Benedict that it became known that thousands of children worldwide had been abused by members of the clergy. Why is he speaking out on this subject now?