(AFP) — A German mayoral candidate active in helping refugees was seriously wounded on Saturday in what police described as a stabbing with a “racist political” motive, heaping further pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel over the migrant crisis.
Contents: Russian troops may take control of Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan; European Union agrees to terms in exchange for Turkey’s help with refugees; Hungary closes the border with Croatia; Polls show British voters more willing to leave European Union; Turkey’s president Erdogan ridicules Europe over refugee crisis
New allegations surfaced on Friday that bribes paid to FIFA executive committee members by German soccer officials helped secure their bid for the 2006 World cup.
The chairman of the youth wing of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own party has publicly declared the group’s opposition to Germany’s current open doors immigration policy, arguing that a ceiling on immigration figures should be set. He rejected Merkel’s claims
A migrant centre in the German town of Kitzingen is now only employing male cleaning staff after a female cleaner was sexually assaulted there every day for ten days. Two migrants aged 38 and 52 are now in police custody
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s malevolent and malignant anti-Semitic manifesto, will be sold in German bookstores starting in January.
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin state police say they have arrested a 30-year-old Russian imam on terrorism charges, alleging he tried to recruit members and support for the Islamic State group online and also procured equipment to send to its fighters
A pro-migrant, open borders activist is reported to be “very sad” after being stabbed twice in the back by a gang of “Arabs” as he stood outside a pizzeria in Dresden, east Germany. Twenty-nine year old ‘Julius G.’ involved himself in
The Kurdish Rudaw news agency reports that American Patriot missile batteries have been withdrawn from the Syrian border in southeastern Turkey. Their two-year deployment began in 2013, and was not renewed after it expired this month.
The former summer residence of the Bavarian royals – Nymphenburg Palace – may become home to the new VIPs of the 21st century, immigrants and refugees, if the demands of one group are to be accepted. Members of an artists
Migrant teenagers living in Germany are shamelessly showing off their spoils from pick-pocketing sprees while the German police look on, powerless to act. While most are waiting for asylum claims to be processed, their crimes are unlikely to affect their
Villagers in a tiny, rural area of Lower Saxony in Germany, are demanding answers after it transpired that their village with a population of just a few hundred will be forced to accept one thousand migrants due to Angela Merkel’s decision to throw
A school in Germany has asked its students to cook and clean for migrants at an asylum centre as part of “practical work experience”. Parents are furious that children will be changing bed linen and working in the kitchens at an
Prosecutors in the German state of Saxony are investigating Monday night’s PEGIDA protest after photographs circulated on social media showing a mocked-up gallows, complete with hangman’s nooses. Attached to the plaited ropes dangling from the arm of the gallows were
Twenty migrants have sued the Berlin State Office for Health and Social Affairs because they had to wait more than a week to register their asylum cases and receive welfare handouts. They are demanding instant payment. Germany is struggling to cope
Three Afghan migrants were seriously injured in a brawl at a migrant detention in Germany this weekend after getting into an argument with a group of Syrians. The fight reportedly started after the two groups of migrants started shouting insults
Nationalist Turks living in Germany have threatened to boycott a drugstore chain because one of its outlets is raising funds for the Kurdish community. The local branch of “dm” in Troisdorft, near Cologne, is planning to hold what is known
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s invitation to migrants to come to her country has been described as “insane” by U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has predicted more violence will follow in the country as a result. Donald Trump, the Republican Party
Berlin (AFP) – Almost declared dead only months ago, Germany’s populist far-right is seeking a comeback amid a record wave of asylum-seekers, hoping to anchor itself in mainstream politics.
Conflicting reports are emerging from Germany, with some claiming the federal government is thinking of imposing a “solidarity tax” or “Soli” on its resident tax payers in order to help pay for the migrant crisis. Government sources are refuting the
Germany’s Interior Minister has warned that his country is a “focus of international terrorism” and its only thanks to luck and the security services a big attack has not happened. In an interview with Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ), German Minister
Germany’s Interior Minister has blamed a rising tide of migrant violence in asylum centres on native Germans attacking “refugees”, despite a growing body of evidence to the contrary. Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière made the remarks in an interview
Europe risks importing an Islamic cultural crisis unless it carefully manages the challenges posed by European migration, according to a German-Turkish writer. Zafer Senocak, born in Turkey but living in Germany since 1970 having moved there as a child, is
Fewer than one in 10 of the 311,000 working-age migrants in Germany have applied for work permits since the start of the year, the country’s Federal Employment Agency (BA) has revealed. Since the beginning of 2015, just 17,401 migrants have
European Union (EU) governments agreed on Thursday to step up deportations of illegal immigrants and discussed creating an EU border force among measures to cope with hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria’s civil war. Underlining the havoc brought by
A record number of demonstrators turned out yesterday to support a protest led by Alternative for Germany (AfD) against German asylum policy. Police in attendance estimated as many as 8,000 people joined the rally in Erfurt, reports news weekly Der
Europe is bracing itself for a second migrant wave from Syria as up to three million people begin to flee the country in the wake of the Russian military intervention. Russian warships fired 26 cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea
The head of one of Europe’s leading economic think tanks has called on Germany’s government to scrap the minimum wage and raise the country’s retirement age in order to cope with the huge influx of migrants now underway. Only by
A photo-montage of Chancellor Merkel’s face with a traditional Iranian garment, the Reichstag building and Islamic minarets imposed has led to accusations that the national public service station is broadcasting right-wing propaganda. Broadcast in the regular Sunday slot, ARD’s Report From Berlin
The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is again rising in the polls thanks to its rhetoric on controlled immigration. A poll conducted last Sunday put the party on seven per cent nationally, high enough to secure it seats in
The first comprehensive social and scientific study on violence in migrant centres in Germany has revealed that conflict is part of “everyday life” for inhabitants and is likely to increase. The “ultimate and primary cause” was ethnic and religious tensions, researchers
Germany’s police union and women’s rights groups accused the authorities on Tuesday of playing down reports of harassment, sexual assault and even rape at refugee shelters because they feared a backlash against asylum seekers. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere called
Three-quarters of Germans believe refugees should stay in the first safe country they reach while four-fifths think the nation should re-instate border controls, in a strong rejection of Chancellor Merkel’s open-door policy on immigration. A new opinion poll has revealed
Migrants from countries hostile to Israel may strengthen anti-Semitism in Europe, the leader of Germany’s Jewish community has warned. The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (CCJG) warned Chancellor Angela Merkel of the issue in person during a
German police are investigating the death of an Eritrean after a fatal fire at an asylum shelter in Saalfeld, south-east Germany. The unidentified 29-year-old man was found in his locked room, while the other migrants housed at the dormitory managed to
Thousands of German anti-Islam protesters on Monday vented their fury at Chancellor Angela Merkel over her welcoming of refugees, accusing her of “high treason” and “crimes against the German people”. With Europe’s top economy expecting to take in up to
A German police commissioner has told an audience of how “delinquent”, mainly Muslim migrants refuse to accommodate to their host nations, adding: “We have an increasing number of migrants in Germany, and many have not learned to have respect for
The 182nd Oktoberfest, the world’s biggest beer festival and funfair, was hit by a fall in attendance blamed on border controls tightened because of the migrant crisis. As the 16-day Volksfest finished in Munich yesterday, Oktoberfest chief Josef Schmid explained the drop
The official government forecast for so-called asylum seekers arriving in Germany has risen again to 1.5 million, according to internal documents seen by Bild, Germany’s top-selling daily. The new 1.5 million figure represents a remarkable increase from the previous official 800,000
Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) founder Lutz Bachmann has been hit with charges by the state of Saxony for racial hatred for Facebook posts made back in 2014. Although the Facebook posts were private and were only
