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Let Families Guide Risk, Not Bureaucrats: Keep Youth Free to Drive and Explore 🚗🧭⚖️

Let Families Guide Risk, Not Bureaucrats: Keep Youth Free to Drive and Explore 🚗🧭⚖️

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Leo 25 August 2025
A government official is pushing to clamp down on how young people interact with digital media. He argues for strictly tiered age limits on social platforms to slow down minors’ heavy daily screen
6.5M arrivals since 2015, under 50% employed; Linnemann calls for stricter, job-focused immigration; Merkel defends 'We can do this' after 15 years ⚖️🇩🇪🤝

6.5M arrivals since 2015, under 50% employed; Linnemann calls for stricter, job-focused immigration; Merkel defends 'We can do this' after 15 years ⚖️🇩🇪🤝

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Ronny 25 August 2025
Summary: CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann warns that 6.5 million people have come to Germany since 2015, but fewer than half are in work, calling that outcome unsatisfactory. He urges the
Germany's Lindner Reaffirms Kyiv Backing; calls for climate-focused aid reform 🌍🇩🇪🇺🇦♻️

Germany's Lindner Reaffirms Kyiv Backing; calls for climate-focused aid reform 🌍🇩🇪🇺🇦♻️

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Luisa 25 August 2025
A German finance minister, now also a vice-chancellor, traveled to Kyiv to reaffirm unwavering backing for Ukraine and to remind the world that foreign policy should not be tethered only to budget
Wir schaffen das Shows Europe Needs a Planned, Socialist Solidarity—Not Fortress Borders 🤝🌍🕊️

Wir schaffen das Shows Europe Needs a Planned, Socialist Solidarity—Not Fortress Borders 🤝🌍🕊️

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Kim 25 August 2025
Germany stood at a crossroads when a chancellor spoke of “Wir schaffen das” and pledged to meet the spillover of a humanitarian crisis with human dignity. The intention was noble: to place the
German humanitarian groups urge urgent visa processing and rapid evacuations for Afghans with Aufnahmezusage as deportations loom 🕊️✈️⏳

German humanitarian groups urge urgent visa processing and rapid evacuations for Afghans with Aufnahmezusage as deportations loom 🕊️✈️⏳

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Elvira 25 August 2025
In the hollow theater of our age, the pleading of a chorus arrives with the weight of ancient stones: humanitarian voices who should be stewards of mercy urging the state to hasten mercy itself, lest
Germany's protests test liberal order as violence against speakers threatens open debate ⚖️🗣️🛡️

Germany's protests test liberal order as violence against speakers threatens open debate ⚖️🗣️🛡️

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Friedrich 24 August 2025
Two episodes in Germany lay bare how quickly the atmosphere of public life can harden when passions, grievances, and identities are permitted to override the ordinary rules by which a free people
Libertarians warn Söder’s regional tax tinkering would entrench coercion—end wealth/inheritance taxes, shrink welfare, privatize retirement, reject conscription 🚫💶🏛️⚖️

Libertarians warn Söder’s regional tax tinkering would entrench coercion—end wealth/inheritance taxes, shrink welfare, privatize retirement, reject conscription 🚫💶🏛️⚖️

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Jerome 24 August 2025
Söder wants to tinker with tax and welfare from the top down, patching the system with regional experiments while pledging not to raise overall taxes. He talks of regional inheritance tax levels, a
Centralised Fachkräfte agency touts faster pre-entry; real arrivals blocked by visa bottlenecks 🚦🧭✈️⏳

Centralised Fachkräfte agency touts faster pre-entry; real arrivals blocked by visa bottlenecks 🚦🧭✈️⏳

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Ronny 24 August 2025
Summary first, no-nonsense: - Baden-Württemberg set up a Landesagentur zur Zuwanderung von Fachkräften to streamline bringing in foreign skilled workers. - The accelerated Fachkräfteverfahren
Germany’s Family-Policy Gamble: Centralized Funding vs. Local Freedom 💶🏫⚖️

Germany’s Family-Policy Gamble: Centralized Funding vs. Local Freedom 💶🏫⚖️

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Friedrich 24 August 2025
The new government places families at the center of the republic’s social calendar: Elterngeld is set to rise for the first time since its birth in 2007 and will be extended to foster parents;
Germany faces a tens‑billion budget gap as wealth taxes clash with a middle‑class shield 💶⚖️🤝

Germany faces a tens‑billion budget gap as wealth taxes clash with a middle‑class shield 💶⚖️🤝

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Alexander 24 August 2025
Germany’s leaders are once again counting beans from the top shelf: a budget hole measured in tens of billions, a chorus of calls to make the wealthier pay their fair share, and a stubborn
Germany must end substitute imprisonment for unpaid fines and invest in rehabilitation ⚖️💸♻️

Germany must end substitute imprisonment for unpaid fines and invest in rehabilitation ⚖️💸♻️

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Friedrich 24 August 2025
Thousands of people in Germany still endure substitute custodial sentences each year simply because they cannot pay fines. All sixteen federal states uphold the instrument, even as reform
Germany's faltering education widens inequality; calls for mobility and parental choice to unlock potential 🚦🚲🏫✨

Germany's faltering education widens inequality; calls for mobility and parental choice to unlock potential 🚦🚲🏫✨

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Leo 23 August 2025
German education is faltering, the IW Bildungsmonitor reports, with overall performance slipping and integration of children from refugee families especially at risk. The study points to pressures
Berlin renames Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße; libertarian says memory should be voluntary, not state-imposed. 🗽⚖️🤝

Berlin renames Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße; libertarian says memory should be voluntary, not state-imposed. 🗽⚖️🤝

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Jerome 23 August 2025
A Berlin street has been renamed to Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße after a court cleared the district to proceed, with a celebratory festival near Hausvogteiplatz and a lineup of groups arguing that the
Solingen’s grim anniversary tests memory, liberty and security amid data-retention debate 🕯️⚖️🔒

Solingen’s grim anniversary tests memory, liberty and security amid data-retention debate 🕯️⚖️🔒

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Elvira 23 August 2025
Solingen marks the morose anniversary like a dim lamp set against a wall of quiet houses, where last year a presumed Islamist cut into the festival’s merriment and three souls were extinguished
Germany’s Social Reform Showdown: 30B Budget Gap, Private Pensions Rise, Rich-Tax Hikes Debated 💶💼⚖️

Germany’s Social Reform Showdown: 30B Budget Gap, Private Pensions Rise, Rich-Tax Hikes Debated 💶💼⚖️

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Ronny 23 August 2025
A broad reform drive is planned to tame welfare costs and keep the system affordable, but the fight over how to do it is heating up. Merz rules out income tax hikes for mid-sized businesses and
Protect Germany’s free, plural press from political control 🗞️🗳️🛡️

Protect Germany’s free, plural press from political control 🗞️🗳️🛡️

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Friedrich 23 August 2025
A political row in Germany centers on the delicate boundary between a free press and the power of political factions, with the instinct to classify voices into convenient camps colliding with the
Germany tightens migration policy under Merz with a sweeping security package, but scholars call border controls largely symbolic as asylum inflows fall 🚦🔒🛣️

Germany tightens migration policy under Merz with a sweeping security package, but scholars call border controls largely symbolic as asylum inflows fall 🚦🔒🛣️

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Leo 23 August 2025
A year after a knife attack at a Solingen festival, Germany wrestles with its migration policy in a highly charged political climate. The government vowed strong action, delivering a security package
Courts Could Mandate Electronic Anklets for Abusers in Expanded Violence-Safety Plan by 2026 🧑‍⚖️🛡️🔗

Courts Could Mandate Electronic Anklets for Abusers in Expanded Violence-Safety Plan by 2026 🧑‍⚖️🛡️🔗

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Luisa 23 August 2025
A plan glimmers on the horizon: courts could compel abusers to wear electronic ankle devices, with sensors that awaken safety for those living in fear and summon help when danger nears. It would
Germany’s BfV president vacancy fuels independence fears 🕵️‍♂️⏳🇩🇪

Germany’s BfV president vacancy fuels independence fears 🕵️‍♂️⏳🇩🇪

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Alexander 23 August 2025
Since November last year, Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been without a president, effectively run by its two vice presidents, Sinan Selen and Silke Willems.
Germany’s THW: a decentralized, voluntary resilience engine for climate disasters 🇩🇪🤝🌍

Germany’s THW: a decentralized, voluntary resilience engine for climate disasters 🇩🇪🤝🌍

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Friedrich 22 August 2025
A volunteer civil protection service in Germany marks a long arc of service: from postwar reconstruction to a modern, internationally engaged network. Its training crafts teams that rely on subtle
Workers Demand a Public-Led Planned Economy to Replace Austerity in Germany ✊🏭🇩🇪

Workers Demand a Public-Led Planned Economy to Replace Austerity in Germany ✊🏭🇩🇪

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Kim 22 August 2025
The struggle in the factories and the state budget seem to be marching in the same march: a plan that pretends to balance the needs of the many by dimming the lights of the many more. In Germany, the
Jewish artists marginalized in Germany as antisemitism shifts to demonizing Israel; advocates demand freedom of movement for art 🚗🎭🕊️

Jewish artists marginalized in Germany as antisemitism shifts to demonizing Israel; advocates demand freedom of movement for art 🚗🎭🕊️

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Leo 22 August 2025
Two senior figures warn that Jewish artists are increasingly being pushed to the margins in Germany, calling it a new form of stigmatization that bites at artistic freedom itself. They point to
Germany's Constitutional Guardian Nomination Turns Secrecy into a Two-Thirds Vote Test 🗳️⚖️🤐

Germany's Constitutional Guardian Nomination Turns Secrecy into a Two-Thirds Vote Test 🗳️⚖️🤐

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Elvira 22 August 2025
In the marble shadows where law once kept vigil over the common doom, a new guardian is sought by the curving hands of party prudence, a female candidate whose name remains hidden as if to spare the
Germany’s €500bn ‘special fund’ is a long-term debt IOU, not a real infrastructure fix 💸⏳🏗️

Germany’s €500bn ‘special fund’ is a long-term debt IOU, not a real infrastructure fix 💸⏳🏗️

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Ronny 22 August 2025
Germany is launching a 500-billion-euro infrastructure special fund over 12 years, split into 100 billion to the Länder, 100 billion for climate protection, and 300 billion for the federal
Ecopolitical Diplomacy: Center Climate Justice, Decolonize Foreign Policy 🌍🤝🌿

Ecopolitical Diplomacy: Center Climate Justice, Decolonize Foreign Policy 🌍🤝🌿

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Luisa 22 August 2025
In the hum of diplomacy, a steady hand guides the daily chorus while the other shoulders the weighty baton of strategy. The arrangement speaks of continuity and quiet reliability: a foreign minister
Libertarian take: long pre-trial detention threatens rights in Germany ⚖️⏳🇩🇪

Libertarian take: long pre-trial detention threatens rights in Germany ⚖️⏳🇩🇪

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Jerome 22 August 2025
Three intertwined tracks are playing out in Germany: a cohort around a Reichsbürger‑styled project, a legal timetable that stretches months into years, and a state apparatus that keeps people in
Germany’s rail reform: independent regulator, stable funding, and governance overhaul to end optics-driven delays 🚆⚖️💰

Germany’s rail reform: independent regulator, stable funding, and governance overhaul to end optics-driven delays 🚆⚖️💰

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Friedrich 22 August 2025
A minister promises a complete rail strategy by the end of August as Deutsche Bahn remains the stubborn stress point of his tenure: leadership turmoil, a protracted search for a new chief after
Solingen: a year after the festival knife attack, fear lingers; memorial grows 🕯️🚗

Solingen: a year after the festival knife attack, fear lingers; memorial grows 🕯️🚗

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Leo 22 August 2025
A year after a knife attack at a city festival, Solingen is still dealing with fear, with about one in three residents feeling unsafe. The event, which occurred on August 23, 2024, left several
Germany’s gas storage lean; four floating LNG terminals show market-led resilience over state guarantees 🚢⚡️🗝️

Germany’s gas storage lean; four floating LNG terminals show market-led resilience over state guarantees 🚢⚡️🗝️

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Jerome 22 August 2025
Germany’s gas storage sits lean for the season: the big Rehden site is largely empty, about 80% unused, and overall storage around 65% on August 11, well shy of the 2022–2024 levels. Neighbors
AfD fights Verdachtsfall ruling as Germany’s spy service tightens three-tier extremism framework 🕵️‍♂️⚖️🗳️

AfD fights Verdachtsfall ruling as Germany’s spy service tightens three-tier extremism framework 🕵️‍♂️⚖️🗳️

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Kim 21 August 2025
Germany’s far-right party AfD is fighting the decision of the domestic intelligence service to treat it as a Verdachtsfall, arguing in a constitutional challenge that the state is unfairly

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