Tag: Germany

Germany: New Strategy to Combat ‘Political Islamism’
By May 27, 2021 Read More →

Germany: New Strategy to Combat ‘Political Islamism’

The largest parliamentary group in the German Bundestag has approved a wide-ranging strategy to contain the spread of political Islam in Germany.

Posted in: Germany, Islam in Europe
Europe: Anti-Israel Protests Descend into Anti-Semitism
By May 20, 2021 Read More →

Europe: Anti-Israel Protests Descend into Anti-Semitism

Pro-Palestinian demonstrations in cities across Europe descended into unrestrained orgies of anti-Semitism after protesters opposed to Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip called for the destruction of Israel and death to Jews.

Germany: Covid-19 Triggers New Wave of Anti-Semitism
By February 24, 2021 Read More →

Germany: Covid-19 Triggers New Wave of Anti-Semitism

The number of anti-Semitic hate crimes in Germany surged to a two-decade high in 2020. The anti-Semitism is being fueled by far-left anti-Israel activists, by mass migration from the Muslim world and by far-right conspiracy theorists, who are blaming the Coronavirus pandemic on both Jews and Israel.

Posted in: Coronavirus, Europe
Germany: Meet Angela Merkel’s Second Successor
By January 27, 2021 Read More →

Germany: Meet Angela Merkel’s Second Successor

Armin Laschet, premier of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, has been chosen as the new leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He is now in a position to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor after general elections this September.

Posted in: Europe, Germany
Germany’s “Shameful” Two Years on the UN Security Council
By January 1, 2021 Read More →

Germany’s “Shameful” Two Years on the UN Security Council

During its two-year stint on the UN Security Council, Germany voted for dozens of resolutions — many of which smack of anti-Semitism — that singled out Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East.

Posted in: Europe, Germany
U.S. “Driving Stake Through Heart” of German-Russian Pipeline
By December 28, 2020 Read More →

U.S. “Driving Stake Through Heart” of German-Russian Pipeline

The United States is ratcheting up the threat of sanctions against European companies in an effort to deal a death blow to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany.

Posted in: Energy, Geopolitics
Europe Confronts Second Wave of Coronavirus
By December 16, 2020 Read More →

Europe Confronts Second Wave of Coronavirus

Economists are warning that the second coronavirus lockdown has increased the risk of another recession in Europe’s largest economy.

Posted in: Coronavirus, Europe
Germany: U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell’s Legacy of Success
By May 28, 2020 Read More →

Germany: U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell’s Legacy of Success

On a wide range of geopolitical issues — from relations with China, Iran and Russia to anti-Semitism, climate change, defense spending (NATO), energy dependence (Nord Stream), globalism, Hezbollah, Huawei and mass migration — U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell embarrassed German leaders by showing that their words and actions do not match.

Germany Takes Back its Sovereignty from the European Union
By May 18, 2020 Read More →

Germany Takes Back its Sovereignty from the European Union

An obscure ruling by Germany’s Constitutional Court, which seeks to reassert national sovereignty over bond purchases by the European Central Bank, has called into question the legitimacy of the EU’s supranational legal and political order.

Coronavirus: Lockdown for Europeans, Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants
By May 12, 2020 Read More →

Coronavirus: Lockdown for Europeans, Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants

European governments are using the coronavirus pandemic to grant mass amnesties to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Posted in: Coronavirus, Europe
Coronavirus: European Leaders Cower in the Face of China
By May 7, 2020 Read More →

Coronavirus: European Leaders Cower in the Face of China

In Europe, where the pandemic has killed more than 100,000 people and caused economic devastation on a scale not seen since the Second World War, political leaders have been deafeningly silent on demanding accountability from China.

Posted in: Coronavirus, Europe
Germany’s Ban of Hezbollah: A Half-Measure
By May 2, 2020 Read More →

Germany’s Ban of Hezbollah: A Half-Measure

Germany’s ban on Hezbollah is a compromise measure between German lawmakers who want to take a harder line against Iran and those who do not. The ban appears aimed at providing the German government with political cover that allows Germany to claim that it has fully banned the group even if it has not.

Posted in: Germany, Islam in Europe