Politics

Update, September 23rd, 2018, 9:30 p.m.: The heads of the coalition in Berlin agree on moving Maassen to the Interior Ministry, but not as an undersecretary. Also he will not receive a higher salary in his new position as a special adviser. You couldn't make this up: Hans-Georg Maassen, the director of the Federal Office for the Protection of…

Update September 19th, 2018: The Social Democrats are angered by the fact that another undersecretary, Gunther Adler, an SPD member, is supposed to be…

During a general debate at the Bundestag, Germany's federal parliament, Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the rampage seen at protests organized by radical…

The German Social Democrats (SPD), who are Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior partner in her current grand coalition, have already pressed home rent control measures. But since their effect turns out to be rather meager, they now insist on more steps. Living in large cities is almost impossible for Germans with average or below-average salaries,…

An attack on 'Schalom', a kosher restaurant in Chemnitz, took place almost two weeks ago, on August 27th, 2018. The information surfaced only now. The incident…

Since a majority of British voters supported leaving the European Union in the Brexit Referendum on June 23rd, 2016, more and more Britons living in Germany…

The world is asking itself what is going on in Germany. Germany itself is asking itself the same thing. Photos of Nazis giving the Hitler salute appeared all over the place, along with reports about a radical mob hunting down people it identified as foreigners. In Chemnitz, the latest events are worrisome indeed. A young man gets stabbed and…

Several people were injured during two protests in Chemnitz on Monday evening. Some 2000 residents took part in a demonstration organized by the radical…

The Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Heiko Maas, has laid out a new strategy in dealing with "America First", meaning the United States…

Last week, a protest against Chancellor Angela Merkel was staged in Dresden, the capital of Saxony. During that demonstration organized by the radical right-wing Pegida movement (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West), a TV team for the prominent ZDF magazine 'Frontal 21' worked on site, by filming protesters walking by. ZDF,…