Germany’s outgoing far-left foreign minister has been accused of ignoring the will of the public by using her last weeks in office to ship planeloads of more people from Afghanistan and Pakistan into the country.
Coalition negotiations to form the next government of Germany concluded on Wednesday, paving the way for another establishment government in Berlin as Chancellor Friedrich Merz capitulated to the election-losing leftist party on key issues including immigration, energy, and the economy.
France has reportedly overtaken Germany for the first time in years as the top destination in the European Union for alleged asylum seekers, a survey from the governing Commission has found.
The European Union saw over a million over a million asylum applications lodged by foreigners for the second straight year in 2024, the international migration regulator disclosed this week.
Hours after his party’s victory in Germany’s federal elections, likely incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz began to soften his stance on immigration as he looks to form a coalition with leftist parties rather than the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany.
An asylum seeker from Syria is reportedly suspected of stabbing a Spanish tourist near the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany, on Friday evening
A row over Germany’s open borders immigration system threatens to upend the political status quo ahead of the February general election, as the leader of Angela Merkel’s former party opened the door to passing restrictions with the help of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, sparking panic among the Berlin establishment.
Rival protests took to the streets of Magdeburg on Monday evening, which had been the scene of an apparent terrorist attack last week.
Police in Germany have admitted that they were warned from Saudi Arabia about the potential dangers of the suspected perpetrator of the Magdeburg Christmas market attack, yet failed to act on the warnings.
The suspected perpetrator of the Magdeburg Christmas market attack was reportedly a left-wing asylum seeker activist who was promoted by legacy media outlets, including the BBC.
In the wake of the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Germany and Austria have suspended all asylum applications from the war-torn country until further notice.
A German political activist who was the victim of an Islamist knife attack during a rally in Mannheim in May has been fined for supposedly inciting hatred against Muslim migrants.
Young men in Germany are increasingly identifying as right-wing, with one in four between 12 and 25 classifying themselves as conservative, according to a major poll.
Germany announced a string of proposals Wednesday to enforce its hardened stance on immigration and reduce the number of asylum seekers trying to enter the country and stem threats posed by Islamist terrorism along with cross-border crime.
Germany deported Afghan nationals to their homeland on Friday for the first time since August 2021, when the Taliban returned to power.
The Syrian asylum seeker accused of killing three and injuring several others in Germany reportedly had a deportation order for his removal last year, but authorities failed to remove him from the country.
A 26-year-old asylum seeker from Syria has been arrested after a mass stabbing at a “festival of diversity” in Germany on Friday left three people dead and several injured.
Despite vowing to increase deportations, the leftist government in Germany only managed to deport less than three per cent set for removal.
The migrant who killed a German police officer was reportedly a failed asylum seeker, sparking a national migration debate before the EU elections.
Nearly six in ten suspects in violent crime cases in Germany were committed by foreign migrants, according to federal police crime statistics.
Berlin warned that if Ukraine loses the war with Russia, a mass exodus of migrants of up to ten million migrants will flee the country.
The German state of Saxony-Anhalt decreed that migrants seeking to become citizens must acknowledge the state of Israel’s right to exist.
New, stricter measures to curb the high number of migrants coming to Germany were agreed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the 16 state governors.
Two cabinet members in the German government have called for asylum seeker benefits to be cut amid efforts to stem illegal migration.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz admitted “too many people are coming” into the country illegally and vowed deportations on a “large scale”.
German police said dozens of people, including at least 26 officers, were injured during unrest surrounding an Eritrean cultural festival.
Asylum applications to the EU have risen by nearly one-third over 2022 as the bloc expects over a million to apply for asylum this year.
Nearly half of Ukrainian refugees who fled to Germany say they intend to stay in the country “forever” or at least for a few years.
Germany saw net migration hit a record high in the country last year, yet the government is set to ease immigration standards even further.
A fire at a refugee shelter in eastern Germany killed one person and injured 10 others early Sunday, according to local police.
The Ukraine war is being used by Germany’s Interior Minister to obscure the country’s ongoing migrant crisis, an opposition MP has claimed.
Former Chancellor Anglea Merkel will recieve Germany’s highest award despite the European Migrant Crisis and the Russian energy calamity.
The government’s refusal to deal with the ongoing migrant crisis is a “dangerous cocktail” that now threatens Germany, the head of one police union has warned.
Germany put a temporary halt on admissions of asylum seekers from Afghanistan after claims that migrants may have been abusing the system.
The German leftist coalition government has rejected calls by conservatives to speed up deportations and reduce illegal migration.
The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) says the number of asylum applications in January 2023 has more than doubled compared to last year.
The United Nations granted a cash prize to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for opening her nation’s borders for the 2015 migrant crisis.
The German government is looking to expand the criteria for a positive asylum claim for LGBT migrants, making positive decisions much easier.
A 30-year-old Afghan asylum seeker was shot dead in the city of Ansbach, Germany on Thursday after stabbing random people at a railway station, reportedly while yelling “Allahu Akbar!”
Of the 16 German regional states, just four still have room to accommodate incoming asylum seekers and refugees, as the country struggles to deal with new influxes of migrants coming by the Balkan route.
