Tag Archives: German

Time to say goodbye?

September 21, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

“Lieber ein Ende mit Schrecken als ein Schrecken ohne Ende.”

“Better to have an end with fright than fright without end.”

Migrants say Germany’s ‘welcome culture’ has soured as far-right parties rise – On Sunday, voters in the eastern German state of Brandenburg will vote for a new regional parliament. The anti-migrant far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, could win the most votes. On 1 September the AfD won a major German election for the first time, coming first in the eastern state of Thuringia. In Brandenburg polls show the AfD leading with 28%.

To undermine support for the AfD, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s left wing-led government on Monday introduced checks for migrants on all of Germany’s borders. He also wants to increase deportations of people whose application for asylum is unsuccessful. Opposition conservatives meanwhile want the borders closed to asylum seekers altogether.

German of the day: “mach den Biden”

September 20, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helections, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means to do the Biden. To a politician.

To toss him out, in other words.

Germany’s Scholz risks Biden’s fate – If the chancellor’s SPD party loses a crucial regional election to the far right on Sunday, it could lead to his ouster from the top spot.

As German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sunday, his political future will likely be decided at home in a regional election 6,000 kilometers away.

One more defeat at the hands of the far right this weekend will almost certainly spell the end, and Scholz could very well share the fate of U.S. President Joe Biden — thrust aside by his panicking party to make way for a candidate who can avoid a massacre in a national election next year.

German of the day: Stichproben

September 18, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means spot checks or spot controls.

German police reintroduce spot controls at all borders – Germany is reintroducing border checks at all its borders for at least six months. The aim is to help restrict migration.

Checks are being temporarily reintroduced at Germany’s borders with France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Denmark. They are due to run until March 15, 2025. Such controls have already become part of daily life at the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland.

Temporarily? We’ll see about that.

German of the day: Abfallwirtschaft

September 14, 2024 By in Helplessness, High Art, Hard Facts, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means waste management.

And some waste managers really mean business over here.

A work of art by the “Sprayer of Zurich” at the Museum Church of St. Cecilia in Cologne has already been restored once. Now the spray-painted skeleton by Harald Naegeli has to be renewed once again – because workers overdid it with the cleaning.

German of the day: Sprengung

September 13, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means blasting, the blasting or demolition of.

Another section of the Carola Bridge in Dresden collapsed during demolition work on Friday night.

It is the section of the bridge near the riverbank that had already collapsed into the Elbe on Wednesday night, according to a police spokesperson in the morning. Streetcar tracks and a cycle and footpath run over the so-called bridge span. It had collapsed over a length of around 100 meters. Two other bridge sections (A and B), including lanes for cars, are still standing.

German of the day: LAF

September 11, 2024 By in Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That stands for Landesamt für Flüchtlingsangelegenheiten Berlin. And that stands for Berlin’s State Office for Refugee Affairs.

And it’s a been a LAF a minute over at the LAF these days, having now run out of room to house the growing number of refugees.

Berlin plans new mass accommodation for refugees – Immigration has become a hot-button issue in Germany. Refugee accommodation centers in Berlin are full to overflowing, but there’s a desperate lack of housing. Now, authorities are coming up with bright ideas…

Over 30,000 refugees in Berlin are living in accommodation facilities run by the LAF. Many have already had their asylum claims approved but are stuck in state-run facilities because they can’t find affordable accommodation on the capital’s fiercely competitive real estate market.

Irregularity

September 10, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helections, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

And it shows.

Germany steps up controls at borders in response to ‘irregular migration’ – New regulations come into force next week following spate of suspected Islamist attacks.

Germany’s interior minister has announced that controls at all of the country’s land borders are to be stepped up in an attempt to confront what it called “irregular migration” after a recent spate of suspected Islamist attacks.

The new regulations are due to start next Monday and to be in place for an initial six months, before being reviewed, Nancy Faeser (SPD) said in a statement.

The move comes after Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), campaigning heavily against migration, this month became the first far-right political party since the Nazi era to win a state election in Germany. It comes ahead of a second round of emergency talks on migration policy due to be held on Tuesday in Berlin between the coalition government, opposition parties and federal states.

German of the day: Straftäter

August 30, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means offender, criminal.

More German of the day: Handgeld. That means “hand money” as in token payment or signing bonus.

A new business model is born. Come illegally to Germany, get free room, board and medical for years, commit felonies, get more free room, board and medical for years, then get flown back home (to Kabul) with 1,000 euros hand money as a reward.

The plane has taken off (the first one in three years) – Germany deports numerous criminals to Afghanistan.

The German government has deported 28 Afghan criminals to their home country. This was confirmed by the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. Spiegel” had previously reported on this. According to the report, a charter flight took off from Leipzig to Kabul at 6.56 a.m. on Friday morning.

The Afghans had been brought together from various federal states. The deportation was organized by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, with the support of the Chancellery. According to the report, each of the deportees received 1000 euros in hand money, according to the authorities. A doctor accompanied the flight.

German of the day: Den Angaben zufolge

August 28, 2024 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means “according to the information provided.”

You know, like “according to the information provided, the attacker was a 26-year-old German.” Right. Of course. Stay tuned.

German police fatally shoot knife attacker in Moers – Suspect killed after attacking pedestrians with knives in Moers.