As Brexit approaches, figures show that Germans who made Britain their home are increasingly applying for repatriation. The majority are the families of those who fled because they were persecuted by the Nazi regime. An increasing number of people living in the UK have applied for repatriation to Germany since the June 2016 referendum result…
French President Emmanuel Macron, center right, speaks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, center, and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, center left, during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. European Union leaders are converging on Brussels for what had been billed as a “moment of truth” Brexit summit…
ANGELA Merkel faces a second defeat in less than two weeks as polls show a massive drop in the support to the Chancellor’s party in the state of Hesse – while far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) looks set to be represented in all the states. The German Chancellor’s party, the CDU, is to receive only…
BERLIN (AP) — A group of media outlets led by Germany’s non-profit Correctiv are reporting traders have manipulated transactions in multiple European countries over years, draining tax coffers of some 55.2 billion euros ($63.5 billion). In Germany alone traders were able to garner 31.8 billion euros in so-called “Cum-Ex” trades, involving receiving multiple reimbursements for…
Arab and Kurdish crime clans are “systematically recruiting” refugees and building parallel societies in Germany, an investigation has found. “The clans have systematically been recruiting refugees for the dirtiest jobs, such as selling drugs in parks and the subway,” Thomas Spaniel, an organised crime specialist with Berlin’s police force, told the Washington Post. Reporter Bojan Pancevski describes how thousands of…
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Monday to do more to restore Germans’ confidence in her unhappy coalition after a battering for both of her governing partners in Bavaria’s state election added to tensions in the alliance. Sunday’s vote stripped Merkel’s conservative allies in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, of their absolute majority in…
German authorities do not know the whereabouts of some 900 refugees under the age of 14. The head of a German children’s charity said the new figures were alarming. The number of refugees under the age of 14 who are missing in Germany has increased in recent months, despite a drop in the total number…
While Washington wants to put more troops in the war-torn Middle Eastern country, Moscow wants to organise a summit with European leaders. Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during the joint news conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Russia has urged European leaders to join it in rebuilding Syria. Photo: EPA Russia is urging Germany…
At a nondescript community centre in the city of Wiesbaden on Sunday, dozens of Jews got together to officially form the Jewish faction of the rising right-wing political party in Germany: Alternative for Deutschland (AfD)…writes Orit Arfa/JNS. Members of the new Jewish factions for Germany’s far-right AfD Party sing the traditional Jewish song “Shalom Alechem”…
What an election in one German state could reveal about immigration politics across Europe. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, the chairman of the CSU party, addresses a news conference in Berlin on September 19, 2018.FABRIZIO BENSCH / REUTERS When Germany’s southern state of Bavaria holds its regional election on Sunday, its ruling Christian Social Union (CSU)…