Exit polls and preliminary results in German regional elections show significant success for the right-wing AfD party, which will probably enter three state legislatures. Chancellor Merkel’s conservative CDU party suffered losses in two out of three states. The AfD (Alternative for Germany) party secured 24.2 percent in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, making it the second-largest party after... 

Fences and police forces cannot change the immigration trends that we are currently seeing and, therefore, Europe needs different political answers than those that right-wing parties offer, Dr. Rainer Rothfuss, Geopolitical Analyst and Consultant. Germany is preparing for key local elections which will take place this Sunday. And the results are expected to be challenging for the Chancellor, Angela... 

A sobering new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Minister of Defense (MoD) says that President Putin has ordered an immediate deployment to “combat status” of “all currently operational” RS-26 intercontinental ballistic missile systems ahead of what is described to be a “terror spectacular” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) attack upon the European Union and/or United... 

A visa-free regime for Turkish nationals in the Schengen zone could open a “gateway” for a new refugee influx to Germany, a senior German official said. The focal point of the EU-Turkey deal is stemming the number of refugees coming to Europe. Vice-President of the Bundestag (lower house of the German parliament) Johannes Singhammer told Passauer Neue Presse on Tuesday that lifting EU’s visa... 

Merkel’s humanitarian approach to the refugee crisis has failed, declares German media. The countries of the European Union have abandoned her idea of an “open-arms migrant policy”, preferring to re-seal their internal borders and re-erect fences to prevent an inflow of refugee into their territories. European countries have apparently rejected Merkel’s open-arms approach to the refugee... 

US food major Mars is recalling products in 55 countries after plastic found in one of its candy bars in Germany. Reports said on Tuesday that US chocolate company Mars Inc. is recalling millions of candy bars and other items in 55 countries after plastic was found in one of its products. The discovery has been reportedly made in Germany where a customer is believed to have found a piece of red plastic... 

A 24-year-old woman, and speaker for the German “Left Youth” party was gang-raped by 3 immigrants on January the 27th, in the city of Mannheim. German police are still carrying out their investigation, but on January the 30th, the woman, wrote an apology on Facebook, addressed to the immigrants who allegedly raped her. Here’s a few excerpts from the now-deleted post: “Dear male Refugees, you... 

A Mayor in the German town of Bad Schlema prompted fury when he responded to a grandfather’s concern about young girls being sexually harassed by migrants by responding; “don’t provoke them”. The exchange occurred during a raucous municipal council meeting last week which ended with residents demanding the Mayor step down over his comments. With public opinion on the 1.1 million migrants... 

The German government is set to spend €600 million euros housing migrants in upmarket Berlin hotels at a cost of 18,000 per “refugee,” while the city’s 10,000 homeless population will remain on the streets. According to a Frankfurter Allgemeine report, “The Berlin Senate is negotiating with a hotel chain over the longer-term leasing of 10,000 hotel places for refugees.” Grand City Hotels... 

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 complacent attitude of senior European Union (EU) leaders to the Cologne sex attacks. They appear more concerned with limiting... 

Migrants in Germany stabbed a father who was out walking with his baby and then chased the pair into a freezing pond as rescuers were forced to revive the infant from the brink of death. The incident occurred in the city of Hamburg on Monday night. The 24-year-old father was walking near the Lohmühle Pond at around 10:30pm when he was confronted by two dark-haired men speaking a foreign language. The... 

Police in the German town of Kiel were told not to prosecute or arrest migrants for petty crimes, media have revealed. The instruction, which was filed weeks before the sexual harassment scandal in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, cited a lack of IDs among the migrants. The documents first emerged in Bild newspaper and local Kieler Nachrichten daily. According to the media, the official guidelines of... 

The migration crisis reflects the weakness of the EU’s architecture, which is leading to the rapid disintegration of the supranational union’s member states, according to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Europe is swiftly falling to pieces as EU countries remain at odds over many pressing issues, including those related to the ongoing migration crisis, political analyst... 

After the incidents of sexual assault in Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve committed by Muslim refugees against German women, feminist apologetics have acquired renewed vigor in the European debate. Pundits and politicians assure the public that refugee males now storming the gates of Europe from the Middle East, Northern Africa and Central Asia will be required to learn that Western women are... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migration policy has brought into question the German leader’s political future. What if Angela Merkel steps down? Experts weigh the pros and cons of the potential move. Angela Merkel’s “open-door” refugee policy has already prompted fierce debate among the Chancellor’s political opponents and ordinary Germans; the violent massive sex...