Topic: Germany

Green Ideology Over Reason June 25, 2025 Thomas Kolbe The bankruptcy of battery cell manufacturer Northvolt has become a symbolic end to the dream of a government-driven green transformation economy. 
Germany’s march into the debt state June 24, 2025 Thomas Kolbe German budget policy has become a farce. What we’re witnessing are expertly staged accounting tricks, media distractions, and the desperate attempt to defer structural reform of the welfare state -- whatever the cost.
Germany self-sabotages again June 2, 2025 Thomas Kolbe Instead of a supply-side overhaul, deregulation, and state withdrawal, Berlin delivers another dose of central planning.
A ‘wind lull’ across Germany is costing millions May 15, 2025 Olivia Murray But “experts” say there’s no cause for “climate change” alarm, because this also happened 50 years ago.
Germany’s Fiscal Suicide May 13, 2025 Thomas Kolbe Germany’s general state debt spiral should be a constant feature in daily headlines.
European democracy is dying May 14, 2025 Jonathan Schiff The German intelligence agency’s attempt to label the AfD as extremists is yet another example of the EU moving steadily toward tyranny.
Fresh after a first round of elections, Germany's ruling parties seek to ban their rising AfD conservative rivals May 3, 2025 Monica Showalter Then they had the nerve to tell Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who criticized them, that they were just banning Nazis.
The intifada in Germany claims another victim April 13, 2025 Andrea Widburg What happens in Israel doesn’t stay in Israel, and being tolerant is not a workable defense.
Birth Rates and the Future of Civilization April 9, 2025 Steve McCann Societies that do not have children will die, and while many countries have gone too far down that road, America can still turn back.
NATO and the German straitjacket March 21, 2025 Bill Ponton The reassertion of Russian military strength and Trump’s determination to make NATO allies pay their fair share has changed everything for Germany.
Report: Chinese wind turbines purchased by the West may become weapons of political coercion March 10, 2025 Olivia Murray German progressives remind us how slow on the uptake they are.
The German central bank agrees with President Trump! February 17, 2025 Jack Hellner Bundesbank president Joachim Nagel admits that America’s economy has suffered under unfair trade practices of Germany and that Trump’s tariffs will level the playing field.
Make Germany okay again January 29, 2025 Eric Utter The alternative to the Alternative For Germany (AfD) Party is societal suicide.
National Socialism was a leftist ideology, that’s why the Hitler slur isn’t sticking to Elon Musk January 28, 2025 D. Parker The Hitler accusation doesn’t work anymore because people are aware of the historical fact that he was on the far left of the political spectrum.
First World War Guilt and the ‘Crown Council Myth’ January 10, 2025 Neil M. Tokar How much of what we’ve been taught about history isn’t accurate?
Lessons From Germany's Economic Contraction January 6, 2025 John Klar Germany’s once-envied efficient economy is in freefall, and the climate change cult and European Green Deal are directly to blame.  
Elon Musk antagonizes European leaders January 8, 2025 Susan Quinn I’m excitedly watching to see how Musk’s efforts will shake things up, and how European leaders will respond.
‘Hands off our Democracy’ say the German elitists to the people January 7, 2025 Bill Ponton Progressive German politician wants Elon Musk to stop stating the obvious.
Musk backs the AfD December 23, 2024 Bill Ponton Elon may already be undertaking the “Free Europe” process too.
The Saudi Christmas killer: Was he or wasn’t he (Muslim)? December 21, 2024 Andrea Widburg Only Allah knows for sure, but there are indications that the claim that he’s an ex- and anti-Muslim is untrue.
Terror strikes a Christmas market in Germany — yet again December 21, 2024 Eric Utter This is becoming a commonplace occurrence in Europe, now. When are they going to wake up?
Another Islamic terror attack on a European Christmas market December 20, 2024 Andrea Widburg This is becoming an ugly Christmas tradition, with the real question being whether Europeans will continue to put up with this madness.
Free Fuellmich, the Unsung Hero Who Called Out the ‘Plandemic’ September 30, 2024 Janet Levy In Germany, Part II of the COVID takeover is playing out, as the government uses foul means to incarcerate a leader in the fight against COVID tyranny.
German Gov. to Foreign Criminals: Rape a 14-Year-Old; Get €1000 To Start A New Life September 4, 2024 Colin C. Cortbus Having unwisely invited into Germany Muslims who have no interest in assimilating, the German government is now paying the worst of them to go away.
Germany’s fascinating left-right Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance September 2, 2024 Andrea Widburg The weekend’s election results in the former East Germany show that Germans, especially young Germans, are getting sick of immigration and green policies.
German ‘diversity’ festival awash in blood as a diverse immigrant slaughtered attendees August 24, 2024 Andrea Widburg The useful idiots who keep leftism afloat inadvertently offered a blood sacrifice on the altar of diversity in Solingen, Germany.
Five percent of all the global Syrian population now lives in Germany, 53% of them are on the public dole August 6, 2024 Olivia Murray “Despite promises that Syrians would integrate into the German economy, the numbers still tell a very different story….”
The German Government Uses Anti-Nazi Laws To Crush Speech It Opposes July 24, 2024 Colin C. Cortbus Ironically, in typical dictatorial fashion, the government has ignored the strong procedural safeguards built into those laws and summarily wiped out a publication.
Dhimmitude in Germany, where rapists go free and their critics go to jail June 24, 2024 Andrea Widburg Nothing more clearly exposes how European countries have submitted to their Islamic masters than what happened after a Muslim gang rape in Hamburg.
No driving on the weekends? May 19, 2024 Eric Utter A bad move from a totalitarian-minded leftist leader in Germany is sure to give Joe Biden ideas.  
More narrative collapse: Fewer than one-in-five Ukrainian ‘refugees’ living in Germany are working, because it’s simply ‘not worth it’ May 14, 2024 Olivia Murray Is it just me, or do “Germany” and “socialism” not belong in the same sentence? Frankly, socialism doesn’t belong anywhere except as an encyclopedic example of an “idiot plot.”
Solar panel manufacturers in the West close without government intervention—they just can’t compete with China’s slave labor and coal-fired energy May 10, 2024 Olivia Murray If only this were enough to convince the progressive Democrats that solar panels are not a viable industry, but that’s just wishful thinking.
Germany’s leftist government tries to browbeat Botswana and Namibia into submission April 5, 2024 Olivia Murray But the Africans aren’t going gently—kudos—and decided to make absolute fools of the German eco-colonizers.
In Germany, a problem of clan crime among its migrants March 16, 2024 Eva Kneifel Germany is importing migrants who bring their clan crime with them.
In Germany, anti-Semitic riots, too November 5, 2023 Eva Kneifel More than half a century after the Great War ended, the anti-Semites in Germany are still around, marching against Israel, and the German response is mixed.
In Germany, what passes for 'expertise' on U.S. 'democracy' is pathetic September 12, 2023 Eva Kneifel A recent bestseller in Germany claims America's democracy is finished -- based on the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.
'Liberalism' itself is now fading in Germany August 24, 2023 Eva Kneifel Liberalism in Germany is a complex and multifaceted concept that has never really taken hold in Germany, except in a semi-tyrannical way.
In Germany, passage of the trans-friendly Self-Determination Act is fraught with dangers June 10, 2023 Eva Kneifel A German plan to enforce gender delusions on passports and other legal documents effectively places a ban on reality.
German foreign policy is grotesque May 16, 2023 Eva Kneifel In Germany, the Ukraine dilemma has forced a reckoning. But Germans continue to avoid hard realities.
China is starting to P.O. its business-partner allies in Europe February 7, 2023 Monica Showalter Seems China isn't the good neighbor it claims to be, according to a report about China-Germany tensions.
German police arrest Santa Claus for not wearing a mask at Christmas market December 14, 2021 Thomas Lifson The land that gave us the Gestapo is illustrating its native son Karl Marx's dictum that historical phenomena appear two times: "first as tragedy, then as farce."
Germany sets up 'Meet a Jew' program November 30, 2021 Eric Utter Proponents of the program likely had good intentions, and it is a nice gesture, but calling the undertaking "Meet a Jew" seems, to use a term progressives favor, problematic.
Germany's Merkel publicly warns that Trump's de-platforming is 'problematic' while Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a fool of himself January 12, 2021 Thomas Lifson Some people raised in the aftermath of the horrors of Nazism understand its meaning for today, while others get it exactly backwards.
Good news: Ric Grenell won't return to Berlin as US ambassador May 25, 2020 Thomas Lifson No official word on the bigger things that lie ahead for this fearless warrior, but two other news items offer an intriguing clue.
London Calling – Anyone Listening? September 21, 2019 Brian C. Joondeph London is calling out, but the media is not listening, instead pushing their agenda regardless of the realities on the ground.
Grenell schools Germans about wearing the Jewish kippa May 26, 2019 Monica Showalter Germany's anti-Semitism commissioner advised Jews not to wear the kippa head covering in public. Grenell smacked that bad idea down with the moral clarity that was needed.
An Iranian regime spy is caught in Germany January 20, 2019 Hassan Mahmoudi It's not very well known, but the Iranian regime has significant espionage operations targeting the West. One was recently revealed in Germany.
A disgrace by German leftist parliamentarians June 17, 2018 Eileen F. Toplansky In death, a young Jewish girl, Susanna Maria Feldmann, is dishonored by German leftists in the Bundestag.
Saudi Arabia bans German firms from further government contracts May 26, 2018 Thomas Lifson Once again, as with the crime wave engendered by allowing in a million "refugees" (mostly military-age young Muslim males), German citizens and companies are learning that there can be a heavy cost to virtue-signaling.
Why Obama's Iran deal got Trumped May 14, 2018 Lowell Ponte Obama rolled out a fatally flawed, unsecure JCPOA that was in fact a red carpet to Iranian nuclear weapons. Now he tries to prevent Trump from being a new King Leonidas with his 300 Spartans stopping the Persians again at Thermopylae.
For Eastern Europe, Germany Is the Trouble December 1, 2017 Alex Alexiev Defense, energy, and migration are among the issues causing a growing rift between eastern and western Europe.
Germany allowing Palestinian terror organization to run in election September 2, 2017 Thomas Lifson Germany has no problem banning political parties with repellant programs.  The lack of action against the PFLP is a positive statement of tolerance when that violence and violent rhetoric are directed at Jews.
Ostpolitik Redivivus? Germany Throws Its Sympathy East August 29, 2017 Alex Alexiev With the election of President Trump, Germany has turned toward an Ostpolitik-like orientation.  It didn't work out so well last time.
President Trump and the German car imbroglio May 26, 2017 Monica Showalter President Trump reportedly criticized Germany for making too many cars.  It didn't quite happen as reported.  His issue is with the roadblock that is the European Union.
Study finds 92% of left-wing activists arrested by police live with their parents February 8, 2017 Thomas Lifson The infantile nature of much left-wing activism has been confirmed.
Hell no, we won’t go: Thousands of Muslim ‘migrants’ in Germany evading deportation July 18, 2016 Thomas Lifson Germany has become a Roach Motel: Muslim “migrants” check in but they don’t check out, even when asked politely.
German police admit rape gangs are an Arab game called 'Taharrush' January 12, 2016 Thomas Lifson They’re not celebrating diversity in Germany quite as enthusiastically as Frau Merkel might prefer.
Largest newspaper in Germany charges police covering up crimes by refugees January 2, 2016 Thomas Lifson Charges are sensationalistic -- and plausible.
Germany's 'wilkommen' to Muslims will include publishing <em>Mein Kampf</em> October 16, 2015 Thomas Lifson German government that invited in Muslims is paying for the publication.
Germany halts arms exports to Saudi Arabia January 25, 2015 Thomas Lifson Saudis not feeling the love from Germany, as Obama drops everything to honor late King Abdullah.
Spies Like U.S. July 15, 2014 Michael Curtis The shock and stress Germany experienced on learning that some of its information had been divulged to American intelligence agents have a theatrical air.
Our Weimar Republic February 26, 2014 Bruce Walker Two of the most notorious changes in the German nation as it moved from Weimar Germany to Nazi Germany bear an eerily similarity to what is now occurring in the USA.
Germany Announces Military Rearmament February 5, 2014 Chriss Street Germany requires only a few minor adjustments to the status quo...
Green Energy Not Fit for the Grid February 4, 2014 Viv Forbes Germany's wind and solar power generation came to a standstill in late 2013.
EU backing away from warmist agenda January 20, 2014 Thomas Lifson The persistent failure of the earth's weather to fulfill the catastrophic predictions of the warmist climate modelers for the last 17 years is taking its toll.
Surprise! Guess who loves the Iran deal? December 3, 2013 Thomas Lifson Sheer coincidence, right?
A Judgment on Intelligence October 28, 2013 Herbert E. Meyer What could we possibly hope to learn from Angela Merkel's cellphone conversations that's worth the risk of offending one of our country's most important allies?
The Euro-Socialist Death Spiral October 22, 2013 Mark Petrina Do we really want to be like ultra-civilized Europe?
Jews, Germans, and Poison Gas September 20, 2013 Shoshana Bryen The lessons of the Holocaust for Germany may have been broad but not deep.
Whatever happened to German efficiency? August 25, 2013 Thomas Lifson Germany twice humiliated itself badly this week, at least when it comes to airports
Helmut Kohl Endorses Same-sex 'Unions' July 25, 2013 Andrew E. Harrod Germany goes for gay marraige mit eine affenzahn.
Same-sex Marriage meets German Politics July 8, 2013 Andrew E. Harrod A German attempt to meld same-sex marriage and conservative principles simply raises more questions.
Sunset for Solar Subsidies June 11, 2013 Viv Forbes Green energy policies have destroyed the reliability and economics of power in Europe for zero benefits for the climate or the environment
Family 'Diversity' Goes Over the Top in Germany May 29, 2013 Andrew E. Harrod The German Pionierbemühung in support of same-sex parenthood has worked out about as well as could be expected.
Die Freiheit: the German Freedom & Anti-Islam​isation Party May 25, 2013 Paul Austin Murphy One clear sign that Europe is not quite ready to surrender.
Survey Says: Islam is a Global Menace May 12, 2013 Andrew E. Harrod European nations are very nervous about Islam's compatibility with the West.
Dangerous Times: Milton Friedman just won his euro bet May 11, 2013 James Lewis Even as President Obama is following in Eurosocialist footsteps, the 14-year utopian experiment on a single currency is collapsing.
Silencing Speech on Islam May 4, 2013 Andrew E. Harrod The German government acquiesces to limitations on freedom of expression. When have seen this before?
Homeland Security Prosecutes German Homeschool Family April 22, 2013 Howard Richman Homeland Defense, tackling the dirty jobs.
Defining Deviancy Down in Germany February 22, 2013 Andrew E. Harrod Germany, leading the way into social chaos.
A German Victory for Free Speech October 27, 2012 Andrew E. Harrod Dr. Armin Geus had run afoul of German authorities because of his book The Sickness of the Prophet, which argued that Islam's prophet Muhammad was not divinely led, but rather psychologically disturbed.
Germany Cracks Down on Terry Jones and Innocence of Muslims September 18, 2012 Andrew E. Harrod Stopping blasphemy of Islam at the border's edge: Germany's Interior Ministry Sunday banned the entry into the country of internationally-known Koran burner Terry Jones
Israeli Deterrence and Dolphins February 10, 2012 Jonathan F. Keiler Israel appears to be in the process of creating the world's first nuclear counter-strike force based on small conventionally powered submarines armed with long range cruise missiles