Berlin’s Left Party lead candidate for governing mayor, Elif Eralp, privately expressed fear of Hamas-linked figures tied to her party’s orbit in internal notes accidentally returned to Der Spiegel, raising sharp questions about her ability to lead the capital’s security structure.
Child marriages rightly outrage us. They shatter our understanding of marriage as a union based on love and mutual trust, and they violate both the principle of individual autonomy and the basic duty to protect children.
With Halloween approaching on Oct. 31, German security authorities are intensifying preparations for planned youth protests in more than 20 cities, warning that the events could be overtaken by violent actors in patterns seen during recent mass unrest in France.
Many of the videos feature different social media influencers calling for French-style protests.
Nearly 5,000 Germans emigrated to Poland in 2025, outpacing the numbers who left for Britain, Italy or the Netherlands, according to new government data.
German Federal Police recorded 98,026 crimes at train stations and on trains in the first half of 2026, with foreign nationals substantially overrepresented among identified suspects in violent, property and sexual offenses relative to their share of the population. In the crime of sexual offenses, foreigners represented 53 percent of suspects.
Germany’s federal states are proposing that social media platforms reserve at least 20 percent of algorithmic recommendations for content from a pool of approved media outlets deemed important for opinion diversity, according to a draft under public consultation. The proposed measure is already being slammed as a state-mandated propaganda effort that would force German citizens to view content friendly to the ruling establishment parties.
China has been blamed for the loss of half a million German factory jobs since 2019, as experts have warned that Europe’s manufacturing engine is losing momentum.
German industry shed 496,000 jobs between 2019 and 2025, according to the Ifo Institute in Dresden, representing a drop of 7.1pc.
Joachim Ragnitz, the managing director at Ifo Dresden, said: “Employment is shrinking in almost all industrial sectors, which is likely a result of declining competitiveness, particularly vis-à-vis China.
German Police are investigating ten suspects ages 13 to 15, including suspects from Syria and Chechnya, in connection with a violent assault and robbery of a student outside a secondary school Wednesday, according to the Eastern Police Directorate.
Alice Weidel has said that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) does not want the country to become a “caliphate”.
Speaking to the Economist, the co-leader of the hard-Right German party claimed that Syrian and Afghan asylum seekers were responsible for the “skyrocketing” rate of some of the “worst crimes” in Germany since 2015. She argued: “The law enforcement is very clear in Germany, 100% of the Syrians — because the war has ended — have to go back to their country.”
An African man, who was described as “perfectly integrated,” is on trial in Bonn on charges connected to the strangling murder of his wife, whom he then dismembered. The woman’s remains were later found in several locations across Germany, according to court proceedings.
The German government has spent at least 400 billion euros on its immigration system since former chancellor Angela Merkel sparked the European Migrant crisis, a leading author has calculated.
While the political and economic establishment in Berlin attempted to sell the mass influx of foreigners into Germany as an economic boon that would provide the needed panacea to avoid the financial pitfalls of demographic decline, the decision to fling open the gates of Europe to migrants from Africa and the Middle East appears to have been far more costly than any forecasts by open-borders advocates a decade ago.
Germany’s Interior Ministry has ordered consulates to withhold citizenship certificates under a postwar restitution law after investigators found that dozens of applicants, most of them Chinese nationals, allegedly posed as descendants of people persecuted by the Nazis.
Hundreds of child marriages have been revealed in Germany, as new data indicates that girls as young as 11 are being married off to adult men.
New data revealed that since April 2012, officials in the German state of Baden-Württemberg recorded 358 marriages involving a child.
But in just eight of these cases were marriages formally annulled.
This is why Germany is voting AfD.
“The poison of betrayal is by no means as rare as we like to think of it. It’s not a nice part of our existence but it’s an entirely predictable one.”
I had good reason in recent days to remember this cynical observation on human nature and espionage as an extraordinary scandal rocked Germany and its allies.
My spy-philosopher was Markus Wolf, who had spent four decades at the helm of East Germany’s feared foreign intelligence services, earning himself the nickname “the man without a face” – which would be the title of our book.
Germany’s radical right AfD party is threatening to end the career of hapless conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz by winning two state elections in former communist east Germany. A hungry fox has entered the chicken coop of German politics and is ready to wreak havoc.
