Europe is unavoidably heading towards a triple crisis, German publicist Thomas Fasbender told Preussische Allgemeine in an interview on the occasion of the publication of his new book, “The eerie century” (Das unheimliche Jahrhundert). The subtitle of the book, “Before the turning point,” is a direct quote of an expression taken from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s special address to the Bundestag... 

More than a tenth of all Somali nationals residing in Germany are suspected of committing crimes in the country, according to reports. Data obtained by a parliamentary official indicate a stunning number of citizens of the East African nation have been implicated in criminal activity while living in Europe. Harald Weyel, a member of the Bundestag representing the Alternative für Deutschland party,... 

The German Bundestag has recognized the Holodomor, the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine, as a genocide against the Ukrainian people. Between three and seven million Ukrainians are estimated to have starved to death as a result of the Soviet authorities’ policies against Ukraine in 1932–1933. Until now, however, it has been controversial to describe the Holodomor as a genocide, partly because it... 

Germany’s leading ethics body has supported the idea of extending mandatory coronavirus vaccination to all adults, stressing, however, that direct coercion and use of “physical violence” on the unvaccinated must remain off-limits. The country’s Ethics Council said Wednesday it was in favor of rolling out mandatory Covid jabs for all aged 18 and above. The council is an independent body, established... 

Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers who were forced to leave Germany have made it back to, and living in the country once again. A total of 28,283 migrants who applied for asylum in Germany since 2012 have made their way back to Germany, despite having been previously deported. Around 5,000 migrants have returned multiple times after they had been denied asylum, Die Welt reports. About 1,023... 

The United States maintains nearly three dozen military bases in Germany, with troops stationed in the country since the end of the Second World War, and long after the end of the Cold War and the withdrawal of Soviet/Russian troops from the country in the early 1990s. Lawmakers from Germany’s opposition Left (Die Linke) Party want US troops and nuclear weapons out of the country, calling on Berlin... 

Using the pretext of the recent attack in Halle in which no Jews were even hurt let alone killed, Germany’s Interior Minister announced a new six-point plan to combat antisemitism on Thursday: Speaking to the federal parliament, the Bundestag, Interior Minister Horst Seehoffer acknowledged that “antisemitism is anchored in parts of our society.” His plan includes an obligation to report hate... 

Only the US – not Germany or the EU – is interested in economic sanctions against Russia, the head of the Bundestag’s economy and energy committee has said. German MPs are looking at ways to lift the restrictions, he added. Bundestag energy and economy chief Klaus Ernst of Die Linke party accused the US of behaving as if Germany is its colony, as Washington tries to bully Europeans out of buying... 

The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has come under fire for launching an online portal where children can tell on their teachers for expressing political opinions. Well why the anger? AfD is right, there is no place for politics in schools, teachers must not be allowed to indoctrinate children with any kind of politics, neither leftist nor rightist! So anyway! The AfD Hamburg... 

The populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is now Germany’s second largest party, displacing the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from that position for the first time since the founding of the modern German state. According to the ARD morning magazine’s latest Infratest dimap poll, the AfD has “pushed past the SPD for the first time” and the “governing coalition [between the conservative... 

About 50 members of the German Identitarian movement stormed the offices of the Justice Ministry in Berlin on Friday in protest against a massive crackdown on freedom of speech in Germany. The group arrived in a rental truck carrying a 32-foot ladder and tried to climb onto the roof of the ministry, while throwing pyrotechnics, a police spokesman told national daily Die Welt. “They were driving... 

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... 

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has signaled his readiness to help Germany’s parliamentary panel investigate US National Security Agency spying on German politicians, according to his interview with the magazine Der Spiegel. In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said, among other things, that he is poised and ready to provide assistance to the... 

Intelligence service BND failed to protect the private data of German citizens as it handed over internet data collected at a Frankfurt traffic hub to the US, German media report citing secret documents. The documents cited by VDR and EDR television and the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which broke the news together, were obtained from the federal government during an ongoing parliamentary investigation... 

Former NSA agents-turned-whistleblowers are testifying before a German parliamentary committee as the Bundestag investigates America’s wiretapping methods with one of them branding the NSA approach “totalitarian.” It is hoped that evidence from the two US citizens, William Binney and Thomas Drake, will shed light on the methods of surveillance used by the American National Security Agency (NSA),...