Germany plans to take on a bigger military role in ensuring global security, shedding decades of reticence after World War II, according to a draft government position paper seen Friday. The government white paper on security policy states that Europe’s
A spokesman for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has accused the church of taking advantage of the migrant crisis for corporate gain, cynically using it as a means to make money. The comments follow recent news articles about German churches
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The German state of Bavaria is currently running a campaign to employ migrant police officers in order to help solve crimes involving migrants. The Bavarian Interior Minister, Joachim Herrmann, made the announcement this week, stating “Our experience has shown that
Istanbul (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel told President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday of her “deep concern” over the state of democracy in Turkey and voiced doubt that a plan to offer Turks visa-free travel to the EU would
A massive, migrant crime wave is surging across Germany according to figures buried in a new report released by the country’s Interior Ministry. The data reveals that without migrants considered, crime rates in Germany would have remained roughly static since
Glenn Beck’s blog on Medium dishing on his trip to Facebook headquarters declares that the employees he met, while left-wing, were not “progressives,” a term he has used in to label Republican politicians such as Newt Gingrich.
The German Football Association (DFB) has called for a ban on “beer showers” in case it offends players who are Muslim. Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, two of Germany’s most prestigious football clubs, are up in arms over the decision
According to a new report, North Africans are rarely approved for asylum – but Germany is having a difficult time getting them to leave. The migrant report released Wednesday by the German government showed that only one out of every two migrants
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – China is the most welcoming country when it comes to refugees, according to a new survey of citizens’ attitudes published on Thursday, with Germany ranking second and Britain third. In its first ever report to
Migrants from Syria and Iraq almost never have their asylum applications rejected, but among those who do, only half actually leave Germany. Following a request by the German left wing party Die Linke, the German federal government has released new data regarding
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is condemning a contest in Iran for cartoons depicting the Holocaust, saying it sows hatred and deepens divisions in the Middle East.
Written by German television comedian Jan Böhmermann in response to Turkey’s arrests and prosecution of government-critical journalists and other censorious activities, Defamation Poem has now been banned in Germany. Jan Böhmermann sparked a free speech powder keg with his “Defamatory Poem,” broadcast
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas states that the AfD are “nationalistic, authoritarian and misogynistic,” and compares the party to Donald Trump. Heiko Maas, German Federal Justice Minister and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), has upped the rhetoric against the
Latest figures show the number of home invasions and burglaries committed by migrants has drastically increased, while crimes committed by Germans have decreased. Gangs of migrants have increased the number of home invasions in Germany according to the head of the Federal Criminal Police
A court in the German city of Hamburg on Tuesday banned the author of a poem lampooning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from publicly reciting passages from his work. The court ruled that only six lines of the 24-line poem
Local authorities in Germany have sounded the alarm on a “cost explosion” of unaccompanied migrant minors. The German Federation of Municipal Authorities has argued that the significantly increasing cost of the minors’ “all-round care” means a change in approach to
To aid integration, a linguistics professor has said that it is Germans who should learn Arabic or Kurdish, rather than migrants learn German. Professor Angelika Redder believes that Germans should adopt a multilingual concept of Germany rather than expect new migrants to
A gang of men of “Turkish descent” sexually assaulted two young women at a Berlin street fair celebrating multiculturalism in the city. The latest in the epidemic of public sex assaults in Germany has happened at a street fair held in honour of how diverse
In Germany, the latest scheme by the government of Prime Minister Angela Merkel to deal with Europe’s migrant crisis envisions hiring of up to 100 thousand asylum-seekers in a new state program for the employment of immigrants.
German police said on Saturday they found a pig’s head bearing an “insulting inscription” outside Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office. A police patrol discovered the animal’s head outside the office in the Baltic sea town of Stralsund in the early hours
During the height of the migrant crisis in Europe last fall, Lasse Landt came to a startling realization. Thousands of migrants were pouring into Germany every day, but the 36-year-old startup consultant from Berlin hadn’t met a single one of
(Reuters) – Germany’s government expects to spend around 93.6 billion euros (74 billion pounds) by the end of 2020 on costs related to the refugee crisis, a magazine said on Saturday, citing a draft from the federal finance ministry for
The Times of Israel reports: The umbrella group of French Jewish communities objected to the planned marketing at Cannes of a film it said falsely blames German security forces for the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes held hostage by Palestinian
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s government expects to spend around 93.6 billion euros by the end of 2020 on costs related to the refugee crisis, a magazine said on Saturday, citing a draft from the federal finance ministry for negotiations with
A vote by Britain to quit the European Union (EU) could reignite the vicious, historical conflict in Northern Ireland after years of peace, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier claimed Thursday. The minister argued that the only reason for peace in the
Experts say the link between mental illness and so-called “lone wolf” terrorists is driven by the fact that unstable individuals are often influenced by events in the news, a fact that is exploited by global jihadist groups. Tuesday’s knife attack
The number of Germans who say Islam does not belong in their country has risen from just over half to more than 60 per cent in two years, as over a million mostly young Muslim men arrived last year. Only 34 per
TEL AVIV – A 94-year-old Holocaust survivor penned a letter rejecting controversial remarks made by Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan (pictured above, right) during a Holocaust Remembrance Day address in which he compared Israel to Nazi-era Germany.
German police admit that they are investigating migrants in at least 40 cases on suspicion of links to terrorism. Since the very beginning of the migrant crisis many have warned that groups like Islamic State would use the mass, uncontrolled flow of
According to German federal crime office, a number of Islamic terrorists have entered Germany by hiding amongst recent flows of migrants from the Middle East, and since last year 369 people with suspected ties to the Islamic State have come into the country in this way.
A new survey shows 64 percent of Germans do not want Chancellor Angela Merkel to stay on for another term, as her coalition plummets in the polls. New findings from a poll conducted by German magazine Cicero show that 64 per cent
From The Sun: Germany was secretly in control of David Cameron’s EU renegotiation throughout – and talked him out of asking for a key immigration block, Iain Duncan-Smith today claims. The former Work and Pensions Secretary breaks ranks to sensationally lift
A senior government minister in Germany has cast doubt on the future of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) because of reluctance from the U.S. to make “any serious concessions”. Germany’s Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Christian Schmidt, has accused the U.S. of having
BERLIN (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) is seeking a preliminary injunction against German publisher Axel Springer’s chief executive Mathias Doepfner, German media cited Erdogan’s lawyer as saying on Monday. German media cited Ralf Hoecker, a lawyer for Erdogan,
One person has died and three more were injured in a suspected Islamist knife attack at a station near the German city of Munich. The attacker reportedly shouted “allahu akbar” as he carried out the stabbing. The attacker, believed to
A restaurant in Cologne, Germany, selling a special burger named after Turkey’s President Erdoğan has closed because the owner could not guarantee his employees’ safety in the face of threats and intimidation. Jörg Tiemann, manager of the ‘Urban Burgery’ restaurant, told the Bild newspaper
“The Germans are in very, very deep trouble,” Michael Walsh says. “Angela Merkel is probably the worst German chancellor since Hitler, and I don’t mean that lightly at all. She’s done more to destroy that country, culturally speaking, than anybody.”
German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has denied rumours that he will soon resign because the stress of the migrant crisis had impacted his health. The Socialist Party (SPD) in Germany is seeing historic lows in polls and a new rumour
Of all the crises to hit Europe over the past years, the migration crisis remains the greatest threat to the survival of the European Union, says the Wall Street Journal. The arrival of more than a million migrants in 2015
