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Germany’s new book-burners target online memes

Europe is in crisis, but nowhere is the collapse more evident than in Germany. Once the continent's economic powerhouse and cultural lynchpin, Germany is now a scene of policy failure, social decline and warnings of creeping authoritarianism. In Germany, Orwell's “thought crime'' has jumped out of the pages of fiction and descended into reality as […]

Germany’s Angela Merkel Laments Trump’s Win Left Her Feeling ‘Sad’

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has lamented that she felt “sad” after President-elect Donald Trump's landslide victory in the 2024 election. In an interview with a German news magazine der spiegel Published on Friday – and first reported Ahead of the publication of her memoir, Reuters reported – Chancellor Merkel said her victory struck a […]

High Security and Metal Detectors at Germany’s Oktoberfest After Attack

MUNICH (AP) — Security has been stepped up at Oktoberfest following last month's deadly knife attack in the western German city of Solingen, and authorities have warned visitors to expect longer lines at the entrances as metal detectors are being installed for the first time in the Bavarian beer festival's 189-year history. Authorities say there […]

Germany’s Stasi-style crackdown on free speech

While American leftists worry they have a Hitler among them, Germany seems to be taking its cues from a more recent leader, East German socialist dictator Erich Honecker. Honecker maintained power through fear, coercion and a vast network of informants in the name of defending the state. Decades later, this thinking has returned with more […]

Germany’s Anti-Nuclear Policies Resulted in More Pollution: Report

Germany could have cut carbon dioxide emissions more effectively while saving hundreds of billions of euros if it had invested in nuclear power instead of green energy projects, a shocking report has found. The left-wing government in Norway, Europe's largest economy, made a disastrous error by moving away from nuclear power and focusing on so-called […]

Germany’s suicidal, rape-friendly immigration policy

If Ireland's decline is a tragedy, what's happening in Germany is the equivalent of experimental theatre: difficult to understand and even harder to explain. It's a darkly comical display of how a nation can simultaneously fully embrace absurdity and extreme injustice: a Germany once praised for its order and intellectual prowess, now finding itself in […]

Germany’s AfD Party Celebrates Big Victory

Germany's right-wing populist party celebrated “historic victories” in two state elections on Sunday. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won about a third of the vote in the eastern state of Thuringia, beating Germany's three governing parties and the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) by a wide margin, according to the BBC. The AfD came […]