Senior citizens are sent out to pasture as the German government welcomes its new generation of migrant workers. As Germany vows to continue spending heavily on its liberal migration policy – more than €36 billion in 2023 alone – an increasing number of the country’s senior citizens are reported to be at a growing risk of poverty.
Despite a news blackout, up to 28% of the citizens of eastern Germany are ready to vote for the anti-migrant right-wing Alternative for Germany party in the elections, writes Der Freitag, referring to the results of pre-election polls. The publication recalls that the leaders of the AfD have already spoken about the need to become a people’s party in the east of the country.
Germany’s left claims ‘socially marginalized persons’ are behind soaring knife attacks in country’s biggest state. Social Democrats hesitate to name the perpetrators as migrants despite 12 attacks occurring every day in the German state.
Germans are increasingly opposed to more immigration: A new poll shows that a majority of Germans are turning against mass immigration, with 52 per cent saying that they believe Germany should take in fewer refugees, an increase of 12 points since January 2020.
With the closure of Germany’s last three nuclear power plants, the country’s 60-year era of nuclear power generation has come to an end. The move was originally planned for the end of last year. However, due to uncertainty over energy supplies caused by the back-firing 12,600 sanctions against Russia, the green coalition government reluctantly extended the deadline until after winter.
For the sake of their beautiful pictures, top German officials spend taxpayers’ money without an account.
The German chancellor will be investigated for allegedly helping a Jewish-owned bank hold onto millions of ill-gotten euros. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be investigated by parliament for his alleged role in helping the Hamburg-based Warburg Bank avoid repaying $48 million in illegal tax refunds. Scholz has already been probed for his possible links to the affair, and as expected his party insists the latest investigation is politically-motivated.
Easter peace marches are planned this weekend in many German cities, the main theme of which will be the Ukrainian conflict, reports Der Tagesspiegel. The organizers of the events are convinced that the supply of weapons to Kiev and the bellicose rhetoric turned the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) into a ‘part of the killing machine’ and now it is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people and the fact that millions have become refugees. They call for a ceasefire, peace talks and Berlin’s participation in the Chinese peace initiative.
America’s policies create the impression that Washington does not need allies, only vassals, German MP Sevim Dagdelen said. Berlin must break with the existing relationship of extreme subservience to America and its foreign policies marked by breaches of international law, Sevim Dagdelen, the deputy head of the Left Party’s faction in the Bundestag, said on Friday. Germany must demand that US forces stationed on its territory be withdrawn, along with America’s nuclear weapons, the MP insisted.
Hans Massaquoi grew up in National Socialist Germany. Born on January 19, 1926 in Hamburg where his grandfather had been Liberian consul general, Hans experienced Hitler’s rise to power and life in Germany during the war.
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