
Merz Clashes With Minister Over Syria Deportations
The chancellor’s call to send migrants back sharply contrasts with his foreign minister’s claims that Syria remains unfit for their return.

The chancellor’s call to send migrants back sharply contrasts with his foreign minister’s claims that Syria remains unfit for their return.

The tale of a failed asylum seeker known to the authorities committing crime has become an all too familiar occurrence.

Wadephul’s comments about asylum returns harm Syria and Germany alike.

AfD co-chair dismissed the government’s news security package as “window dressing”.

Friedrich Merz’s frank comments on urban decay caused by mass migration ignited a political storm between the ruling coalition partners.

When the conservative center is silenced, the true extremists inherit the stage.

The chancellor didn’t say too much about German “cityscapes”—he didn’t say enough. Yet his own party is losing its head, anyway.

The French president keeps talking about the ‘coalition of the willing’ but no one is listening.

Germany scraps Bürgergeld and its three-year citizenship rule, yet Merz’s “turning point” barely alters the system he vowed to overhaul.

Though Germany’s divisions appeared larger than ever on a day designed to commemorate unity, these divisions are not geographical but political, cultural, and social.