
Germany Plans Secret Home Raids and Teenage Informants
A draft law would hand Germany’s domestic intelligence service sweeping new powers to hack computers, manipulate data and covertly enter private homes.

A draft law would hand Germany’s domestic intelligence service sweeping new powers to hack computers, manipulate data and covertly enter private homes.

A new intelligence report on extremism has prompted fresh accusations that the political elite is targeting the country’s largest opposition party, the AfD.

The charge of Islamophobia has served Islamists well. It has allowed them to dodge scrutiny and isolate their critics, often with state approval.

European security services are investigating suspected Iran-linked attacks on synagogues, Israeli sites, and opposition groups.

Perfectly legal acts of political opposition to the establishment can lead an individual to suffer real, painful measures of state coercion.

In a historic expansion of municipal power, a new draft law would allow local mayors to look into intelligence files on prospective property buyers before a sale is finalized.

A court in Cologne found no clear evidence that the AfD’s overall political direction amounted to an “anti-constitutional tendency.”

Germany’s BfV blames Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea for online sabotage.

Authorities are hunting suspected members of the left-wing extremist Vulkangruppe after an arson attack plunged tens of thousands of homes in Berlin into darkness for days.

We Berliners now know what life without fossil fuels looks and feels like.