Asylum seekers are presumably safe once upon their arrival in Greece. Yet thousands upon thousands are continuing their journeys to Germany anyway.
New data—revealed as part of a response to a parliamentary question from the Green Party—show that well over 100,000 migrants with protection status recognised in Greece have reapplied for asylum in Germany.
Since former Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the gates of Europe to mass migration in 2015, immigrants in Germany have committed at least 2.8 million crimes, according to police statistics.
Responding to a parliamentary question from the populist anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the Bundestag, the government has disclosed official Police Crime Statistics demonstrating that migrants are overrepresented in criminality.
In a major German city, a four-year-old has been targeted at a local kindergarten solely because of his father’s position as an Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) member of the Bundestag.
Parents petitioned for the child’s exclusion, prompting the father to attend an extraordinary parents’ evening at the daycare venue.
During the meeting, which included 15 parents, three staff members, and the father, tensions were high. The father emphasized, “I’m here at the daycare center as a father, not as a politician,” assuring participants of a clear separation between his professional role and his family life. He expressed concern that his child might be ostracized.
Germany’s establishment parties appear totally incapable of slowing the AfD’s surge in popularity across the country and may soon have no choice but to scrap their ‘firewall,’ which forbids cooperation. In some areas, especially in the eastern parts of the country, this policy might not matter soon anyway, with the anti-immigration party looking close to entering government.
Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely.
The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades.
The Berlin-based researchers found that as the far right moved from fringe issues in the late 1990s to topics such as integration and migration, mainstream parties had increasingly reshaped their communications to respond, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate.
Someone inform the Guardian the AfD is the mainstream.
There’s a difference between dissent and betrayal. Between protest and open allegiance to a group like Hamas.
There’s something quietly revolutionary about paperwork. It rarely makes headlines or history books. But every so often, a bureaucratic act reveals a moral frontier.
That’s what happened last week in Berlin, when the German government revoked the citizenship of a man named Abdallah A., a naturalized Palestinian-German who used his new German identity to glorify Hamas’s October 7 atrocities , the deadliest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust. His Instagram stories praised the attacks as heroic, sanctified the gunmen as martyrs, and circulated celebratory footage of the carnage. The message was clear: if you celebrate the slaughter of civilians in the name of jihad, you don’t get to carry our passport.
The right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has crossed the 40% mark in a regional poll for the first time—an unprecedented result that signals a major political shift.
According to a survey conducted by the INSA for the news portal Nius, the AfD would achieve 40% if state elections in Saxony-Anhalt were held this Sunday. This represents a ten-point increase since June and the highest level ever recorded for the party in any German state. The governing CDU follows at a distant 26%, losing eight points, while the Left Party stagnates at 11%. The SPD and the left-wing nationalist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) stand at 6% each. The Greens and the liberal FDP would fail to enter parliament with only 3%.
About nine months after a deadly knife attack on a group of nursery school children in Bavaria, court proceedings have begun to determine whether the suspect can be held criminally responsible.
The Aschaffenburg District Court is examining whether Enamullah O., a 28-year-old Afghan man who is believed to suffer from mental illness, was legally sane at the time of the January 22, 2025, attack.
Prosecutors, citing a forensic-psychiatric report suggesting insanity, are seeking his permanent confinement in a psychiatric hospital.
Prosecutors say there is no indication the man had extremist or terrorist motivations.
Hamburg is German’s leading industrial city. Its companies add €20 billion in gross value every year. Much of this economic output is related to Hamburg’s happy location on the Elbe and the fact that the city is home to Europe’s third-largest port. All of this has made Hamburg extremely prosperous, which prosperity has filled it with rafts of clueless virtue-signalling morons who have no idea how anything works, why they find Hamburg attractive in the first place or how their hip urban lifestyles are maintained.
Germany’s governing coalition has reached a compromise on reinstating military conscription, agreeing that a lottery system will determine which young men will be required to serve.
The deal between the centre-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democrats (SPD) follows months of tense negotiations over how to address the Bundeswehr’s chronic manpower shortages amid rising security concerns in Europe.
LONDON — A brutal August knife attack on an American who stepped in to defend young women from harassment on a train in Dresden, Germany, has reignited a fiery debate over immigration policies that increasingly have become the focus of national elections.
John Rudat, a part-time model, was slashed across the face in an attack that is expected to leave him permanently disfigured. A person briefly detained in the case is a Syrian refugee, but officials have not arrested or identified any suspected assailant.
The attack follows other high-profile crimes this year and in years past involving migrants who have flocked to Germany to take advantage of the country’s immigration-friendly policies.
Germany’s highest administrative court has confirmed a disciplinary penalty against intelligence professor Martin Wagener over his book on national identity, saying the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) acted lawfully when it cut his pay by ten per cent for two years.
Wagener’s book, Kulturkampf um das Volk (Culture War Over the People), discusses Germany’s national identity and criticises official approaches to multiculturalism. The BND accused him of insulting citizens with immigrant backgrounds and breaking the duty of moderation required of public officials.
Germany today offers the world a disturbing spectacle: a state in its death throes which, under the guise of democratic virtue, is sinking into authoritarianism. The erosion of civil liberties is not occurring through a coup d’état, but by the slow accumulation of administrative, legal and police measures that shape the contours of a dictatorship as implacable as it is convinced of its own virtue.
As Germany commemorates the 35th anniversary of reunification, the contrast with 1990 could not be more stark. Back then, jubilant crowds gathered spontaneously at Brandenburg Gate and atop the crumbling Berlin Wall. Last week’s celebrations still drew many people, but the atmosphere was tainted by fear. In Germany today, one question looms over every public gathering: will we be safe?
“It is already statistically proven that this wave of migration has fuelled crime. To deny that would be irresponsible.”
Manuel Ostermann serves as the First Deputy Federal Chairman of the DPolG Federal Police Union in Germany. He is also the domestic policy spokesperson for the Junge Union, the governing CDU/CSU alliance’s youth organisation in the state of North Rhine–Westphalia, and an expert on internal security and policing. We spoke with him last week in the Hungarian city of Szeged, on the sidelines of a conference on the 10th Anniversary of the European Migration Crisis organised by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) and the Migration Research Institute (MRI).
