The German army is facing a half billion euro bill for its role in the migrant crisis due to its missions rescuing migrants off the coast, housing them and watching the borders. The German army or Bundeswehr has spent 428
(REUTERS) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday the European Union’s Bratislava summit had failed to change the bloc’s immigration policy, which he called “self-destructive and naive.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to fight the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Sunday’s Berlin election and was met with boos at her own rally.
New research shows Germans are showing less interest in sex as a recreational activity, while birthrates in the central European nation flatlines. It is thanks only to mass migration, now, that the German population is growing at all.
(AFP) – Badly conceived and economically wrong, the euro is at the heart of most of the eurozone’s problems such as stagnation, unemployment and the rise of the far-right, Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told AFP Wednesday. The outspoken economist said
The number of Muslims in Germany turning to radical Salafism is increasing at an alarming rate, with the number of Salafists almost doubling in the past three years.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Germany needed “viable solutions” to integrate refugees into the workforce faster after she met with blue-chip companies, which have hired just over 100 refugees since around a million arrived in the country last year.
Police say some 100 officers had to get between far-right Germans and asylum-seekers who were fighting in the eastern German town of Bautzen.
This week’s terror arrests in Germany are a direct result of Angela Merkel’s decision to open the borders to over a million migrants last year, the Bavarian Interior Minister has said. Joachim Herrmann, who is a member of the Christian
A huge group of between 40 and 50 migrants attacked the security at their asylum camp using fists and stones to beat the guards who were forced to call in local police to quell the riot. A migrant camp built
(REUTERS) – Three young Syrian men arrested in Germany on Tuesday were Islamic State members brought into the country by the same network that smuggled militants into France to carry out deadly attacks last November, the German government said. Federal
Migrants with recognised refugee status are holidaying in the countries they supposedly “fled”, their vacations funded by German taxpayers, a newspaper has found.
A former SS medic who served at the Auschwitz death camp has gone on trial in the northern German city of Neubrandenburg, although questions remain about whether the 95-year-old is fit enough for the proceedings to continue.
(Reuters) – Germany’s interior minister has warned that the country is home to more than 500 Islamic militants who could be capable of carrying out assaults on their own or as members of “hit teams.” Speaking in an interview with
BERLIN (Reuters) – Once Britain leaves the European Union, Germany could have to contribute an additional 4.5 billion euros (3.81 billion pounds) per year in both 2019 and 2020 to the EU budget, according to an internal Finance Ministry report
(REUTERS) – Germany, France and Italy should not be allowed to dictate the European Union’s response to Britain’s planned exit from the bloc, Austria’s finance minister said, adding he was surprised how relaxed the EU response to the vote has been.
Record numbers of migrants are dying in Germany’s rivers and lakes as they enter the waters despite being unable to swim, according to the country’s lifeguard association.
Germany will spend more than €20 billion on ‘refuges’ in 2016, one of the world’s top trade research centres has said in a report.
The anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has reached a new record in national polls firmly making them the third largest party in the country.
(AFP) – German police on Tuesday said investigators working together across Europe had dismantled a trafficking ring suspected of smuggling Syrian refugees into the EU, leading to 16 arrests. Thirteen of the arrests were made in Italy, and one each
Contents: Migrants from Libya to Italy surge in the Mediterranean; Anti-immigrant party in Germany hands Angela Merkel a stinging defeat
(REUTERS) – The number of migrants claiming German welfare benefits soared by 169 percent last year, data showed on Monday, a figure likely to further boost anti-immigrant groups such as the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which performed well in a
After the Alternative for Germany (AfD) populist party handed Angela Merkel’s CDU party a humiliating defeat in her home state Sunday, the victors are saying that the Chancellor brought this on herself with her woeful immigrant policy.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s embassy in Berlin lambasted the city of Oldenburg teachers union over a call to completely boycott the Jewish state in the first such incident since the Holocaust, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The Chief of Frankfurt’s police is warning lawmakers to take the threat of underage radical Salafist children seriously in order to prevent potential future acts of terror.
A German regional mayor and member of Angela Merkel’s conservative party has been forced to apologise after posting a picture of a cucumber which looks like an Islamic burka on Facebook.
The leaders of Germany, France and Italy will discuss the migrant crisis with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a meeting of the G20 countries in China next week, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.
TEL AVIV – Dozens of brains and other body parts were discovered at the Max Planck Psychiatric Institute in Munich, Germany, when the building was undergoing renovations.
TEL AVIV – A German lawmaker has launched an inquiry into whether the country’s federal government is unwittingly funding Palestinian terrorism.
A year after suspending EU rules and inviting “no upper limit” of migrants to Germany, Angela Merkel has admitted she made a mistake.
(Reuters) – The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) has overtaken Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) in a pre-election poll in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cicero magazine said on Wednesday. The poll, conducted by the Insa Institute for
At least two high profile members of the Alternative for Germany Party, including a regional party chairman, have been attacked this week by left-wing extremists.
TEL AVIV, Israel — Seventy years after the most daring attempt of Jewish Holocaust survivors to seek revenge, the leader of the plot has only one simple regret — that to his knowledge, he didn’t actually kill any Nazis.
(Reuters) – Police were questioning a suspect on Wednesday after a security breach prompted the evacuation of Frankfurt airport’s Terminal 1 and caused significant flight delays at Europe’s fourth largest airport. The passenger entered into the departure gate area at
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel says the influx of migrants won’t fundamentally change Germany, a year after she first insisted that “we will manage” the refugee crisis. Merkel said in an interview with the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung published Wednesday
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s European Commissioner told the Bild newspaper on Tuesday that Turkey would probably not join the European Union while Tayyip Erdogan was president. Turkey began talks about joining the European Union in 2005 but has made little
Germany has drafted a law requiring mothers to inform their partners if their children were fathered by another man, Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Monday. The measure, dubbed the ‘milkmen’s kids law’ in the media, is to pass the
Israelis along with Germans launched the Action Forum group, which included a protest against BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) activists targeting Jewish state products in front of a Berlin department store on Thursday.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top migration official expects fewer than 300,000 migrants will come to the country this year. Frank-Juergen Weise says his agency is planning for between 250,000 and 300,000 new arrivals in 2016. The head of the Federal
A new report has leaked information that the Turkish spy agency has over 6,000 operatives in Germany and may reach into neighbouring Austria as well. According to a new report from German media, the Turkish intelligence service, known at MIT,
