Outgoing German Federal President Joachim Gauck used his final major speech to slam the rise of populism in Europe and the U.S. and claimed Germany’s democracy was under threat.
BERLIN (AFP) – A leading member of German right-wing populist party AfD sparked an outcry Wednesday by criticising the Holocaust memorial in Berlin and calling for the country to stop atoning for its Nazi past.
Police were able to arrest a suspect early Wednesday morning after a woman was knocked unconscious having been pushed onto the tracks of the Hamburg S-Bahn underground railway by a Moroccan illegal.
Muslim translators are deliberately misinterpreting migrants who converted to Christianity in order to get them deported, a Berlin pastor has said.
Union chief Rainer Wendt is the “Donald Trump of the German police” and should be banished from the airwaves according to Green Party Police Vice President Oliver von Dobrowolski.
The European Union is in the thrall of a politically correct “left-green” narrative that leaves it unable to deal with the migrant crisis, a leading Muslim academic has said.
Germany has handled the migrant crisis “exceedingly well” and other countries should learn from its example, a senior partner at PwC Germany has said.
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When U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump told The Times Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) was “so smart”, he added a coded warning for the bloc’s leaders: “People, countries want their own identity and the UK wanted its own identity … so if you ask me, I believe others will leave.”
AFP — German Chancellor Angela Merkel led a sharp European response to US President-elect Donald Trump Monday after he branded NATO “obsolete” and said more countries would leave the EU after Britain. In a hard-hitting interview with two European newspapers,
BERLIN (AP) — Germany has published a timeline of authorities’ handling of the Tunisian man who drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and wounding scores. The chronology, published Monday , details Anis Amri’s whereabouts
Facebook has launched new features in Germany to counter so-called “fake news” after authorities claimed such stories could help populists in this year’s elections and threatened to sue the social media firm.
President-elect Donald Trump’s latest shot across the bow of NATO hit close enough to leave some European leaders dripping with “astonishment and agitation,” as German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier put it.
Two asylum seekers have gone on trial in Germany, accused of arson and causing injury, after allegedly burning down a huge migrant facility because food was being served during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Facebook will soon begin to roll out their “fake news” filter in Germany according to a report in the Financial Times.
BERLIN (AP) — A lawmaker in Berlin’s new state government has resigned his position over his past with communist East Germany’s Stasi secret police, saying he no longer had the support of the left-wing governing coalition.
Broadcasters’ bias against Donald Trump is “unbearably unprofessional”, Bild’s former editor-in-chief has said in an interview in which he berates the German media as out of touch.
The globalists in world politics and international finance are celebrating a somber occasion in Davos, media reports indicate, as their influence on the global stage is waning rapidly in the wake of the U.K. referendum to leave the European Union and the U.S. election of Donald Trump to the presidency.
A senior German lawmaker who speaks for the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on human rights and humanitarian aid has resigned from the party, citing Angela Merkel’s “open door” immigration policy and efforts to marginalise conservatives. Erika Steinbach, a representative of Frankfurt
The firebombing of a synagogue by three Muslim men was not anti-Semitism, but a legitimate act of criticism against Israel, a German regional court has ruled.
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — A Germany-bound Eurowings passenger flight from Oman landed in Kuwait on Sunday over a bomb threat but no explosives were found on board, authorities said. The plane from Salalah heading to Cologne was Eurowings flight No.
A German journalist is asking for money from other left wingers to found a new website that he claims will counter the growing popularity of Breitbart News in Germany ahead of the federal election later this year.
Angela Merkel warned Germans should not take freedom for granted, in a speech aimed at countering a rising tide of populism on Friday night. Speaking at a party conference in Saarlouis, the chancellor called on Germans to show respect for
About 150 residents of Nebraska gathered near the state’s capitol to demand the influx in refugees and migrants during the Obama administration’s years continue during President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
Berlin’s mayor on Saturday sought the dismissal of an official who has faced increasing pressure over his former ties with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, an affair that has marred the new city government’s start.
A senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel says he’s open to launching a parliamentary inquiry into whether authorities made mistakes in handling the Tunisian man who drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin.
Vandals “devastated” a Christian parish centre in Germany, writing Islamist slogans on the walls, in another example of an attack on a Christian site during the New Year.
A 24-year-old Ghanian asylum seeker has been sentenced to three years and two months in prison after admitting to having raped a 15-year-old girl last summer in the German city of Duisburg.
The largest Islamic association in Germany, the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), has admitted that members of the organisation have spied on opponents and critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
With figures branding their appearance a provocation to the authorities, police have set up a working group to find out why so many North African men showed up in Cologne on New Year’s Eve.
German Police Union chief Rainer Wendt has warned of the possibility of “police free areas” in which police and other authorities will be unable to enforce the law.
The German city of Leipzig is home to high amounts of left-wing extremist violence according to a new report that showed there have been at least 22 separate cases in 2016.
Germany’s interior and justice ministers, representing the two blocs in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition, agreed on Tuesday on tougher measures for asylum seekers whose documents are not in order or who are deemed to pose a security threat.
German police are hunting “five black Africans” after a nurse was lured into a city park after her shift and sexually assaulted.
Germany’s interior and justice ministers hope to thrash out initial plans for a response to last month’s truck attack on a Christmas market, with a tougher stance expected toward suspected extremists who don’t have asylum.
EU Commissioner Guenther Oettinger defended himself on Monday over controversial remarks he made about women, homosexuals and Chinese people.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is renewing a pledge to make a “national effort” to ensure that failed asylum-seekers return home, while stressing the need to show their home countries “respect.”
Nearly half of Germany’s women now feel unsafe walking about their local neighbourhood, a survey has revealed, with many taking precautions such as pepper spray with them when out at night.
Germany threatened on Sunday to end development aid to countries that refuse to take back rejected asylum seekers, a response to failings which kept the suspected Berlin attacker from being deported.
The German press, together with establishment politicians, Germany’s police, and left-wing international news agencies have railed against Breitbart London’s reporting of an 1,000-strong crowd, many of whom were chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’, and firing fireworks at one of the oldest churches
