By not deporting them.
A few thousand, tops. While an average of 250,000 flow in each and every year.
It’s a joke. But fewer and fewer Germans are laughing.
How does Germany deport people? – Germany does not have masked ICE officers or an equivalent agency, but both Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his predecessor have done all they can to accelerate deportations. Here’s how the process works…
That means “head money,” as in bounty.
Bounty offered over Berlin power grid attack – German authorities have offered a €1 million bounty for tips related to this month’s massive Berlin blackout.
German authorities have issued a €1 million ($1.1 million) reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for an attack on electricity infrastructure in Berlin.
The arson attack on January 3 targeted high-voltage cables. It left some 45,000 households in south-western Berlin without electricity and heating during sub-zero temperatures earlier this month. It took more than four days to reconnect all residents back to the grid, making it the longest power outage in the city since the Second World War.
Who can actually speak German.
Many police applicants in Berlin fail due to insufficient German language skills – The Berlin police cannot find enough suitable applicants. This was stated by Police President Barbara Slowik Meisel on Monday in the Interior Committee of the House of Representatives.
“We have a very significant problem with German language skills, regardless of nationality,” said Slowik Meisel. “I don’t want to bash schools, but there is a problem with the level of education that young people are leaving school with.” Many applicants fail the computer tests, and 80 percent of the time this is due to their German language skills.
Get it? Bored instead of Board?
Merz says Germany won’t join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ – German Chancellor Merz said the current form of US President Trump’s “Board of Peace” prevented Germany from joining for “constitutional reasons.” But Merz said he was open to “new formats” of cooperation with the US.
They ought to consider putting together a real army first.
The German bomb: Much ado about very little – Discussions about a “German bomb” are like Dracula. No sooner has one killed the Transylvanian vampire than he rises again from his coffin. Since the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, when candidate Donald Trump seemed to indicate that the U.S. might no longer be willing to protect its allies, some German observers have argued that an eventual loss of the U.S. “nuclear umbrella” would make a national nuclear arsenal indispensable…
Alas, the debate about German nuclear weapons is back again. Fueled by transatlantic disagreements, most recently over Greenland, the idea of Germany acquiring its own nukes appears to have again gained salience. Proponents argue that thinking about a German bomb must no longer be a political taboo, since it is the logical consequence of a ruthless realpolitik assessment of the situation. But is it?
That means Northern Lights.
In Southern Germany?
Severe (G4) geomagnetic storms rock.
Aurora borealis spectacle over Bavaria: incredible photos also from the south of Munich – Many people couldn’t believe their eyes – auroras of this intensity are not normally seen in Bavaria.
For your forty-four hour stay in Greenland.
Hope you had a nice Tikittarfik back home.
This time it’s ice floes on the Elbe. In the winter!
Bizarre natural spectacle: icebergs on the Elbe River – Just outside Hamburg, meter-high icebergs pile up near Geesthacht. A fleet of icebreakers stationed there battles a massive ice barrier at the weir, breaking up the ice cover into smaller icebergs.
All 15 of them.
It’s getting too hot there.
And it’s way too cold there too.
Greenland row: German military ends short deployment – German soldiers departed Greenland as scheduled. It comes amid President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and his claim that Greenland should belong to the US.
“It’s about the sausage” or “it’s down to the sausage” means it’s now or never.
Germany’s economy is so bad even sausage factories are closing – High costs and stagnant spending are putting businesses through the meat grinder.
Observing Hermann 