While taxpayers’ money is being poured into housing for migrants, Berliners are facing a severe housing shortage. Germany’s largest cities are short an estimated 800,000 apartments. At the same time, office vacancy rates are at record highs, with enough empty office space to create around 152,000 homes nationwide.
‘In the past few weeks, the economic situation has deteriorated dramatically. The facts are undeniable. Germany is in a serious economic crisis. A comparison with other countries shows that this crisis is primarily homemade.’
The Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines connecting Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea have been inactive since 2022 due to EU sanctions and sabotage, which Russia insists was orchestrated by Western intelligence agencies.
The suspended designation would have empowered the BfV to carry out broad surveillance of the AfD’s activities (which it does anyway). The lower-level designation also allows surveillance, but under stricter judicial oversight.
A socially conservative chancellor, Merz describes his stance as economic liberalism. This much is to be expected of a 69-year-old multimillionaire who has the charisma of a dead fish and whose curriculum vitae describes him as a corporate lawyer and banker.
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