The polling institute YouGov recently asked: “Do you think Angela Merkel, as chancellor, would be better, worse, or just as well suited as the current chancellor, Friedrich Merz, to solving the problems and challenges Germany faces today?” The result: Forty-eight percent of Germans believe Merkel would be better suited than the incumbent Friedrich Merz to solving today’s problems. Twenty-nine percent thought Merkel would be just as well or as poorly suited as Merz. Only 8% thought Merkel would be worse. Fifteen percent gave no answer.
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Germany’s triple threat: Russia, China, far-right extremists
The heads of Germany’s intelligence agencies rarely provide information openly. What members of the Bundestag’s Parliamentary Control Committee discuss in their bug-proof meeting room with the presidents of the Federal Intelligence Service, or Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), as well as the president of the Military Counterintelligence Service, is strictly confidential.
Since 2016, however, a public meeting has been held once a year, open to journalists, as well as citizens who register in advance. At this year’s meeting, held Monday, intelligence officials seemed extremely alarmed. They painted a picture of a country in the midst of a confrontation with Russia.
In Germany “far-right extremist” is anyone who voted AfD.
Former German spy chief arrested for espionage and treason
Former German spy chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, treason and obtaining classified information for a foreign power, the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office says.
Hanning headed the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1998 to 2005 and has since been working as a private consultant.
Prosecutors allege that he used classified intelligence to “draft an analysis” for one foreign intelligence service and maintained contact with another foreign spying service. Investigators have not disclosed which foreign powers were involved.
Europe’s housing crisis is an immigration crisis, as Berlin data confirms
Across the West, native Europeans are dying out but rental prices continue to go up every year. While the left would like to point the finger at capitalists and greedy landlords, the primary factor driving the housing affordability crisis is mass immigration.
Related … I would vote for Alice
Germany: Turkish national went from working in supermarket to buying purple Lamborghini and gold watches through €11 million healthcare fraud scheme
German authorities have frozen €5.9 million ($6.5 million) in assets of an operator of a fast-growing intensive-care nursing service. She is now in custody over allegations that the company billed public health insurers for services that were never fully provided or were performed by unqualified staff, causing an estimated €11 million in damage.
German Priest Calls Islam ‘Alternative Christianity’, Muslims ‘Younger Siblings’ on 9/11
German Catholic priest and theology professor has drawn heavy criticism after describing Islam as an ‘alternative form of Christianity’ and dismissing concerns about the Islamization of Germany. His argument, published on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, is considered by many to be an attempt to minimize fundamental differences between the two religions while ignoring the threats that political Islam poses to Western civilization.
The author of the controversial piece is Oliver Wintzek, professor of dogmatics and fundamental theology at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and a priest at the Jesuit church in Mannheim.
Majority of Muslim Voters Backed Far-Left Die Linke in Berlin Elections
Muslim voters were a major contributing factor to the far-left Die Linke party’s victory in the Berlin elections last week, an analysis of religious affiliation exit polling has revealed.
According to data collected by the Wahlen research group and obtained by the Catholic News Agency (KNA), Die Linke (The Left) won 51 per cent of Muslim voters in last Sunday’s Berlin elections, meaning that if only Muslims voted, the radical leftist party would have won an absolute governing majority in the Berlin state parliament.
I think that’s Hans Gruber !
Germany’s far-Left takes inspiration from AOC and Mamdan
While the AfD is the largest party across east Germany, a regional exception can be found in Berlin. In last week’s state election, the far-Left Die Linke more than doubled its previous vote share to 25.7%, making it the largest party, with the AfD in third place. In east German politics, it’s clear that the CDU’s support base is being eroded by the AfD. But Berlin presents an exact mirror image, with the SPD being sidelined by Die Linke.
Unlike the CDU with its Right-wing rival, the SPD does not have a formal firewall against Die Linke. That may be changing now, though. The Berlin branch of Die Linke is the most radical in the country. Its main proposals are rent control in the city and the expropriation of private housing owned by property companies. After the Berlin result, the share price of Vonovia, a large Berlin property company, declined against a more hostile political backdrop.
Germany: Merz government may use radical double secret “Bundeszwang” if AfD party controls Saxony-Anhalt
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the Saxony-Anhalt state election by a wide margin but fell short of an absolute majority. Nevertheless, the party may still come to power if it can garner enough support from BSW or peel off a few MPs from rival parties. This possibility has thrust an unused and radical clause of the German constitution, federal coercion or “Bundeszwang,” to the center of a fight over how far Berlin can go if the right-wing party takes power.
Germany sets out plan to phase out fossil fuels by 2045
Germany has presented a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels by 2045.
Germany’s Environment Minister Carsten Schneider told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that the plan “combines independence, affordability, and climate protection.”
Europe’s largest economy is now the third country to have provided a solid plan for the phaseout — to which nearly 200 countries committed at the 2023 COP28 climate conference in Dubai — following France and the Netherlands
Germany phased out nuclear power and is currently edging toward economic collapse due to energy shortages so it makes sense to formalize national suicide.
No wonder the AfD is gaining on all fronts.
Shock poll: Anti-immigration AfD now the most popular party in key western German state in a national vote
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is known for its strength in the east of the country, but its popularity in Western Germany is also only growing, including in the country’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia.
The big immigration lie: China increasingly dominating Germany’s automobile industry
This is an article about China’s booming automobile industry and Germany’s declining automobile industry, but in reality, it is really an article about how anti-immigration China increasingly dominates the open borders, multicultural West.
That is not the typical way to open an article in our modern Western press, but this framing is entirely accurate, fair, and a reflection of reality.
Germany: Outrage after notorious clan chief celebrates at Left Party election celebration in Berlin
On election night in Berlin-Neukölln, clan boss Issa Remmo walked into the Left Party’s (Die Linke) victory party and declared he finally felt supported by the party. Now, the far-left party is in damage control after trying to distance itself from Remmo, whose son has already leaked chats alleging his family’s ties go deeper with the Left Party than anyone thought possible.
Muslim, Young Female Vote Drives Far-Left Die Linke ‘Election Intifada’ in Berlin
Far-left Die Linke is celebrating an ‘election intifada’ in Berlin after winning 25.7 per cent of the vote and finishing first in the state election. The party’s surge was overwhelmingly driven by young women and Muslim voters, while its Neukölln branch has once again become embroiled in a pro-Palestine antisemitism controversy.
German Leaders Prepare to Deny AfD Access to Secret War Plan
Spooked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the German military drafted a 1,000-page blueprint in 2024 to set out how to respond to another Russian attack in Eastern Europe. Senior leaders in Germany’s 16 states are among the few government officials allowed access to the classified document, known informally as an “Oplan.”
Now, Germany’s federal government, under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, is preparing to restrict that access, in order to prevent a far-right, Moscow-friendly party — which won a recent election in the small eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt — from reviewing the plan.
