The official crime statistics for Germany have now been released for 2025, and they show a continued “upward trend” in the proportion of non-German suspects, particularly in serious and violent crime categories like murder, rape, and robbery.
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Germany wants reservists up to 70 as troop shortage bites
The Reservist Association of the German Armed Forces has called for the government to raise the age limit for army reservists from 65 to 70 years.
As Bastian Ernst, the association’s new president, told news agency RND today, this was necessary to counter the army’s manpower shortage problem:
“We should raise the age limit for reservists from 65 to 70. In our view, this makes sense in many respects. After all, the retirement age is rising in other areas too.
“Stop AfD at Any Cost”: Rule of Law Takes a Back Seat in Germany
Germany’s declining establishment parties are again undermining the very institutions they pretend to defend in order to limit the capabilities of the rising Alternative for Germany (AfD).
In Rhineland-Palatinate, in the southwest of the country, where the populist party recently secured a record election result, the CDU/CSU, SPD and Greens are teaming up to alter the constitution. They want to change the rules for parliamentary inquiry committees so as to block the AfD from convening investigative committees of their own.
Germany to Limit Ukrainian Men Seeking Asylum
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Berlin will limit the number of Ukrainian men seeking asylum and facilitate their return home.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, April 14, Merz said Berlin would work closely with Kyiv on the issue.
“We will work closely [with Ukraine] on issues related to Ukrainian citizens who have sought asylum in our country and facilitate their return home,” he said.
Someone has to answer WTF is going on in Ukraine.
Germany’s Authoritarian Liberals Have Gone Berserk
Remember when you, a conservative-leaning, patriotic European, were ridiculed and laughed at for fearing that the game was being rigged, that the Left was coming after you, and that the days in which political institutions at least tried to simulate ideological neutrality were gone? Remember being portrayed by the press as a tin foil hat-wearing simpleton for fearing that Chat Control wasn’t actually—or, at least, not primarily—about destroying the horror of child sexual abuse, but, rather, about social, ideological, and therefore political control? Do you recall being painted as a silly conspiracy theorist for doubting that Marine Le Pen’s judicial prohibition from running for the presidency was really just the impartial courts doing their work? Well, the crumbling German government is tired of keeping up appearances: if it has its way, as in all likelihood it will, right-wing critics of the establishment will soon find it difficult to buy a house or any other form of real estate, for that matter. This will be done, they say, in the name of liberty and democracy.
German YouTubers Niko and Tino are currently under investigation by German authorities after they posted a video criticizing Islam.
If convicted, they will face up to THREE YEARS in prison.
WTF is going on in Germany??? pic.twitter.com/fqw3HbE1LV
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 13, 2026
Migrants Overrepresented in German Violent Crime Data
Germany’s latest police crime statistics (PKS) have reignited the migration debate, with new data showing a stark overrepresentation of foreign nationals in violent offences.
According to the figures, non-German suspects—particularly from Syria and Afghanistan—feature disproportionately in serious crimes. While foreign nationals account for around 15% of the population, their share of violent crime suspects is significantly higher.
AfD: Reopen Nuclear Plants and Repeal ‘Green’ Energy Laws
German right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) wants to see the Nord Stream gas pipeline back online and also proposes reactivating nuclear power.
That is the content of a position paper presented by the party’s parliamentary group, according to Welt. The proposal, seen by AFP, states:
We will further diversify the supply of gas and oil in Germany’s interest, avoid new import dependencies, and enable the commissioning of existing supply routes such as the Nord Stream pipeline.
Three Attacks a Day: Violence Against Teachers Surges in Germany
Violence against teachers in Germany has hit a record high, with more than three attacks reported every day last year, according to police crime statistics.
In 2024, authorities recorded 1,283 cases of intentional simple bodily harm against teachers—the highest level in at least a decade. The figures, drawn from the Police Crime Statistics (PKS), point to a sustained rise in school-related violence.
Uproar in Germany over law requiring men get military approval for long stays abroad
A little-noticed clause in sweeping changes to Germany’s military service policy has caused uproar after it emerged that the law requires men aged up to 45 to get permission from the armed forces before any significant stay abroad, even in peacetime.
The legislation, which went into effect on 1 January, aims to bolster the military and demands all 18-year-old men fill out a questionnaire to gauge their suitability to serve in the armed forces, but stops short of conscription.
Syria Calls Migrants in Germany a “Strategic Asset”—Rejects Returns
Another week, another reminder that the German government’s rhetoric on migration rarely matches reality.
Friedrich Merz was clearly hoping to claw back some support from the anti-migration AfD when he said on Monday that he expected 80% of Syrians in Germany to return home within three years. The only problem is that the figure is disputed—and rapidly unravelling.
Germany has long had a love-hate relationship with US soldiers
Is it right for American troops to still be stationed in Germany more than 80 years after the end of the Second World War? Their presence has long inflamed passions on sections of the German Left, but some on the Right are now also questioning their continued presence.
Tino Chrupalla, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) populist party, reignited this debate at the organisation’s regional conference last weekend. He was keen to remind supporters that there was more to the AfD than its anti-immigration stance. Its official programme demands the withdrawal of all remaining Allied troops from German soil. Keen to move the AfD on from being a “one-issue party”, as he put it, Chrupalla told delegates: “Let’s start implementing this with the removal of US troops from Germany.”
AfD Launches ‘Knife App’ as Berlin Violence Surges
The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has launched an interactive online tool tracking knife attacks across Berlin, as the party seeks to make rising violent crime a central issue in the city’s election campaign.
The so-called “knife app” provides a detailed overview of incidents reported by police over the past 30 days, including an interactive map showing where attacks occurred, the number of injuries, and comparisons with official police crime statistics (PKS).
Syrian Leader Contradicts Merz on Migrant Returns
The German chancellor said up to 80% of Syrians could return within three years, citing Damascus—an account now disputed.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s claim that Syria supports large-scale returns of its nationals has been contradicted by the country’s interim president.
The German chancellor stated in Berlin, alongside Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa, that around 80% of the Syrians currently living in Germany should return to Syria within three years. It was the central figure in the CDU’s new narrative: migration toughness, Syrian reconstruction ,and the recovery of political control after a decade of crisis.
AfD demands US troops leave Germany
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has called for the withdrawal of all US soldiers from the country.
Tino Chrupalla, the far-Right party’s co-leader, told a meeting on Saturday that it was time to remove allied troops and nuclear weapons from Germany in order to pursue an “independent” foreign policy.
“Let’s start implementing this with the withdrawal of US troops from Germany,” he told supporters in Saxony.
Long a popular opinion in Germany, it may hasten the end of NATO.
The German Establishment’s Secret Plan Against the Truth
For months, the German public has been treated to a media-concocted spectacle of moral panic—manufactured, amplified, and weaponised with surgical precision and malign intent. At its centre stood the now-infamous so-called “Potsdam meeting;” a 2023 gathering in which right-wing figures, including Austrian activist Martin Sellner and figures linked to Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the centre-right Christian Democratic Union, and the Werteunion discussed the topic of remigration. The encounter was elevated overnight from an innocent private event into the affirmed locus of a dark, conspiratorial ‘master plan’ to deport millions of people, including legal citizens of the German state. The only problem with the lurid tale? What the media claims to have been discussed never actually was.