The number of licences for ‘small weapons’ in Germany rose by 21,000 over the month of January, pushing the total number of papers held across the Federal Republic to 301,000. The declaration of small weapon licences comes after a request
In the latest of a series of raids, German police have searched two homes in a rural village after a television channel interviewed a suspected Islamic State commander living there as a refugee. Sankt Johann is a small village in the south west German
A senior manager of Germany’s Federal Employment Agency (BA) has said there is only limited capacity for the national job market to absorb new migrants, and it is already significantly overstretched. Speaking to a club meeting of Hamburg business journalists,
Police say at least four people have been killed and many injured in an early morning train crash in southern Germany. They say two trains were involved in the crash near Bad Aibling, in Bavaria. It was not immediately clear how
An ethnically-diverse Berlin neighbourhood has been rocked by two nights of rioting by radical left wingers, with a city official calling the attacks acts of “terrorism”. Up to 100 masked leftist political actors set cars alight and threw stones in
The anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may be threatened with expulsion from its European Parliament group after its leader said border guards should be able to use firearms against migrants as a last resort. Frauke Petry, national leader
In a major blow to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations currently taking place between the European Union (EU) and America, the German Magistrates Association (DRB) has said that special courts allowing firms to sue countries “had no
Thousands of people have attended a rally in Dresden today organised by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) movement. The crowds gathered in the early afternoon and walked along the banks of the River Elbe, holding
The German Catholic Church called for a reduction in the influx of refugees arriving in Germany, saying the country cannot take in “all the world’s needy,” according to an interview published Saturday. Germany has been struggling to cope with 1.1
German security forces have received more than 100 tip-offs that Islamic State fighters may be hiding among migrants currently staying in the country, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) has said. The Berliner Zeitung says Hans-Georg Maassen mentioned
The number of reported sexual assaults at Cologne’s annual carnival more than doubled this year, with 22 cases reported on the ‘Women’s Carnival’ day. Only nine cases were reported on last year’s “Weibsfastnacht”, when women don costumes and head to
More than one in four Germans think border guards should be able to use firearms to stop migrants entering the country illegally, a poll has found. The survey by polling company YouGov, reported in Die Welt, found rising concern at
Business Insider writes that Angela Merkel’s open borders policy has brought her popularity plummeting to new lows. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “open-door” asylum policy to people from across the Middle East and North Africa is being scaled back after roughly 1.1
A German town cancelled its children’s carnival today after authorities received an anonymous letter written in German and Arabic threatening “infidels”. The letter, which was written in a style described as “disjointed”, contained a series of phrases in both languages,
As central Europe builds up to the climax of the carnival season next week there have already been a number of sex assaults by so-called asylum seekers, despite a massive police presence. Police in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the German state
Limiting immigration is a “moral and political imperative” and not “unethical”, Germany’s President has said. Speaking in an interview with radio station WDR, Joachim Gauck warned that Europe cannot take an unlimited number of migrants as countries may be overwhelmed
As carnival season gets under way in Germany, police in Cologne have taken to handing out flyers telling women to “break away”, “scream” and “repel” if they are sexually assaulted. After the mass sex attacks in the city on New
Police have arrested three Algerian migrants in Germany in a massive, three-city blitz targeting an Islamic State terror cell allegedly planning an attack on Berlin’s “Checkpoint Charlie.” On Thursday, some 450 officials including SWAT teams with bomb dogs took part
Families in Germany are switching their children’s schools fearing that large amounts of migrants will ruin their child’s chance at a good education. According to a detailed report in Sueddeutsche, more and more German families are switching their child’s schooling
A senior German educator has called for all pupils in the country to be forced to study Arabic until they graduate in the interests of the multicultural state. Professor of Computer Science Thomas Strothotte and President of a private Hamburg university has
A victim of the Cologne sex attacks has spoken out, describing how she was hit and pulled to the ground by migrant men on New Year’s Eve. The woman, named as Miriam, told BBC World Service how she is now
German police today arrested two Algerian men reportedly linked to the Islamic State terror group during raids in Berlin, Hanover and Attendorn in the North Rhine-Westphalia state. The suspects are said to have “lived in refugee shelters”. https://twitter.com/AFP/status/695173030285303808 The main suspect, reported to be a
Scores of migrants with a history of delinquency and trouble making are being moved to a single camp with high fences and extra security. The camp in Stuttgart, Germany has been designated exclusively for men of North African origin. The first group
Germany’s open borders policy has divided Europe and could bring about the ultimate collapse of the Schengen agreement, Bavaria’s Finance Minister has said. Markus Söder said the German federal government must bear a large portion of the blame for Europe’s
The Independent has drawn attention to the fact that etiquette leaflets advising migrants not to grope women while in public swimming pools were issued in 2013, in a bid to suggest that the migrant crisis has not led to a rise
A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what — and what not — to report. National public service broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), which was recently
A new centre dedicated for the use of gay migrants opened in Germany yesterday, despite claims from the local state’s Social Ministry that potential residents face no major risk of attack by other migrants. The first tenants are expected to move into the dedicated
Around 350,000 migrants will receive unemployment benefits this year, Germany’s Federal Employment Agency has said. Detlef Scheele, a member of the agency’s governing board, admitted that those aged over 35 do not have a good chance of qualifying for a
DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel is under increasing pressure to reduce the numbers of migrants reaching Germany and voters are increasingly doubtful that the state can tackle the refugee crisis, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Monday. The
The Mayor of a small German town has caused outrage, telling concerned residence their children must stay away certain areas and “not provoke” migrants to avoid sexual harassment, as well as suggesting they need not worry because German men are a “problem” too. “In your own country?
Cologne is on high alert ahead of its giant carnival festivities since a shocking spate of sexual assaults, with German authorities anxious to prevent a repeat of the rampage and ward off potential jihadist attacks. Police in the western German
Germany’s vice chancellor called on Sunday for the surging Eurosceptic political party – Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) – to be put under observation by the government agency that tracks extremists. Sigmar Gabriel made his announcement to the Bild newspaper on
A famous German social worker has broken his silence on sexual abuse and theft committed by migrants in Germany, going so far as to say that what happened in Cologne on New Year’s Eve is happening in German towns every
A stunning new report on migrant employment has skewered the oft-cited economic argument for mass migration, revealing that most migrants are unemployed for years, and countries won’t see a benefit for at least a generation. The report for German paper Die
NEUBRANDENBURG, Germany (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had
Ynetnews reports: About 9,300 kilometers separate Los Angeles and Berlin, and in the 1930s – long before the age of the internet, the cell phone and jet planes – the distance seemed even greater. Nonetheless, there were those in California who
Thousands of migrants in Germany have been waiting so long for their first asylum processing interview they have taken to the courts to speed up the system, a situation described by critics as “organised government failure”. According to figures from the
A German proposal for a continent-wide fuel tax to help finance the absorption of migrants has won backing from the European commissioner for the euro, news magazine Spiegel reported Saturday. Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble had last week floated the
The European Commission has declared the Cologne sex attacks on New Year’s Eve have nothing to do with Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis, describing such links as “false associations”. Internal minutes of a European Commission meeting held on January 13th illustrate the
A new smartphone app released by the German government aims to teach new migrants about German culture. But traditional German customs seem noticeably absent and newcomers are taught Germany is a “land of immigration”. Ankommen or “Arrive” is available for
