Month: December 2023

A survey published this week by the German Central Council of Jews reports that a third of Jews in Germany have experienced some type of antisemitic attack since October 7th. The attacks have ranged from antisemitic graffiti to personal insults, and almost all communities report increased psychological pressure, receiving threatening calls and threatening emails. 

A stunning 80% of the Jewish religious congregation leaders surveyed stated that life has become more unsafe for Jews—specifically Jews who wish to express their faith in public in any form—since the October massacre.

Central Council president Josef Schuster called the reports “shocking” and noted the growth of the trend, telling Die Welt, newspaper, “Since October 7, we have been experiencing an increase in anti-Semitic statements and actions from left-wing, unfortunately also academic circles.”

While noting that ‘far-right’ antisemitism had not gone away he added, “It’s just that the others have the louder voice right now. I name this because it affects us. We want to live freely in Germany, in our country.”

Schuster said that the situation had become worse in several major cities, such as Berlin, and several others in the North Rhine-Westphalia region saying, “There, Jews who wear a kippah or a Star of David on their chains have to fear being insulted or even attacked.” Noting a persistent indifference to the threats to Jews, he said,

Hamas proclaims the day of rage, parents are afraid to send their children to Jewish kindergartens or to sports, but a lot of people don’t care at all. They don’t think anything. They don’t say anything. The hatred of us does not affect them. This silence is bitter.

Left-wing activists and even politicians have engaged in antisemitic, anti-Israel, or pro-Hamas statements across the Western world since October 7th. This trend is not limited to Germany.

Shortly after the attacks, many left-wing politicians refused to outright condemn Hamas’ actions as a terrorist attack, such as former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis who stated:

Those who try very hard to extract from people like me and DiEM25 a condemnation of the attack by the Hamas guerillas will never get it. And they will never get it for a very simple reason. Those who care about humans without any discrimination, those who care equally about a Jew and an Arab, must ask themselves a very simple question: what exactly is their idea of the cessation of hostilities? That Palestinians are going to lay down their arms and go back into the largest open-air prison in the world where they are constantly suffocated by the apartheid state?

In the United States, the Washington Post newspaper also highlighted the issue last month, calling on Democrat President Joe Biden to call out antisemitism on the Left. The op-ed notes,

while antisemitism exists across the spectrum, right-wing antisemitism is largely a fringe phenomenon. You don’t see students at Ivy League schools holding neo-Nazi rallies. Left-wing antisemitism, by contrast, is an elite phenomenon.

The author, columnist Marc A. Thiessen, also highlighted antisemitism in academia, saying:

On campuses where kids complain that speech is violence, students have celebrated actual violence against Jews: women and girls raped and mutilated; children slaughtered and burned; fathers with eyes gouged out; victims decapitated with farm equipment; even terrorists’ mass slaughter of youths their own age at a music festival. ‘They’ve got tanks, we’ve got hang-gliders, glory to the resistance fighters!’ a crowd of students at George Mason University chanted.

Left-wing antisemitism predates October 7th, with the Jerusalem Post newspaper warning in August of this year of its growth on the European Left.

The newspaper notes that, while most German political parties on the Left do condemn antisemitism, the situation on the ground and on the streets is very different for Jews. The newspaper continues,

Terror attacks against Israeli civilians are celebrated as anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist resistance. And they say ‘Palestine should be free from the river to the sea,’ which is little more than a call to wipe Israel off the map. 

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/germany-shocking-rise-in-left-wing-antisemitic-acts/

A decision by the European Commission to give a vaccine-production contract to US pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer has raised eyebrows within the European Parliament.

The firm has found itself at the centre of numerous controversies over the past few years. They include a scandal involving “secretive” texts sent between its CEO Albert Bourla and EC President Ursula von der Leyen, enraging many within the European Union.

European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly had previously described the EC as being guilty of “maladministration” over the incident, although she had no power to enforce penalties.

Writing to the EC, a representative of Marine Le Pen’s French Rassemblement National party MEP Virginie Joron questioned its decision to award another vaccine contract, valued at nearly €1 billion, to the drugs firm.

“Why has the Commission selected Pfizer, which already received an avalanche of public funds during the COVID crisis, and whose behaviour during the crisis was far from exemplary,” Joron asked.

Apart from demonstrating a “lack of transparency” over the pandemic, the MEP also claimed that the company engaged in practices aimed at “maximising profits” and “aggressive tax relief”.

In addition, it showed a “lack of responsibility on the matter of compensation for victims” of side effects of COVID jabs, she said.

Jovon also queried the EC’s decision to award contracts to other Indian and US vaccine producers rather than opt for one of Europe’s domestic manufacturers.

Replying to that, the EC claimed the new contracts with Pfizer – as well as with manufacturers in India and Spain – were “in full compliance with the public procurement rules”.

It added that the companies were selected due to each having the ability to produce “at least 50 million doses” of a chosen vaccine annually, while keeping the entire manufacturing chain within the boundaries of the EU and European Economic Area.

“The companies that were selected complied with those requirements,” Health and Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides stated on behalf of the body.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2023/12/ec-takes-heat-over-new-pfizer-vaccine-contract-after-secret-texts-scandal/

The University of Toronto invited a trans-identified male to speak at a memorial ceremony dedicated to the women who lost their lives during the École Polytechnique massacre. Despite it being the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada, the speech instead focused on “addressing transmisogyny.”

Hosted by the University’s Sexual Violence Prevention and Support Center, the event was held today at the St. George Campus in downtown Toronto. While the official announcement claimed the event was intended to memorialize the 14 women slaughtered during the École Polytechnique massacre, the keynote speech was almost completely unrelated to the horrific shooting.

The event was first introduced by two students of the University who began with a speech suggesting that pre-colonial Indigenous cultures did not practice any form of violence against women. The speakers, one of whom identified herself as a “racialized queer non binary femme,” also invited people to partake in “mindful doodling” if they became distressed by the subjects being discussed.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and Vice-Provost Sandy Welsh also spoke before the keynote was introduced, with Welsh giving out a number of awards “recognizing individuals who’ve shown a commitment to ending gender-based violence.”

The keynote address was delivered by trans-identified male Kai Cheng Thom, who focused on the “rise in transmisogyny and violence against queer and trans women globally.” Thom, a writer and former prostitute, identifies as a “non-binary trans woman,” and has contributed an advice column to Xtra Magazine for a number of years. He is also a prison abolitionist, and frequently speaks out against the incarceration of even the most violent criminals.

During his speech, Thom read his poetry and subtly condemned those who opposed his platforming at the event.

“I am affected to my core by transphobia and misogyny. They keep me up at night, haunting me with questions for which I do not have answers,” he said, later offering words on transgender pediatric care and trans-inclusive washrooms.

The vast majority of Thom’s speech referred back to trans-identified males and their experiences with violence, despite the fact that no trans-identified males have been murdered in Canada since the earliest existing recordings began in 2008.

During the keynote, the University of Toronto provided audience members with a website link they could use to propose questions for Thom to be asked during the Q&A. The submission link was quickly shut down after a barrage of inquiries were submitted asking why Thom had been invited to speak on transmisogyny on a day intended to commemorate a femicide.

“Why did you invite a male to give a keynote address during an event intended to commemorate femicide?” one question read, while another asked: “How do you deal with male pattern baldness in a gender-affirming way?”

The questions were quickly scrubbed as they came through, and the form was eventually shuttered.

The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada was first inaugurated by Parliament in 1991 as a way to honor the lives lost during the École Polytechnique massacre, which took place on December 6, 1989 in Montreal, Quebec. On the campus of the scientific university, a man identifying as an “anti-feminist” targeted female students for slaughter. 

Prior to shooting all of the women in a mechanical engineering class, Marc Lépine, born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi, told the male students to leave the room. He then told the women he was “fighting feminism” and expressed a hatred of women’s rights to an education.

“You’re women, you’re going to be engineers. You’re all a bunch of feminists. I hate feminists,” Lépine said, before opening fire on the female students. Lépine later committed suicide on the campus after taking 14 women’s lives, and injuring 10 more people.

In total, Lépine murdered 14 women in an act that has since been recognized an act of terrorism.

This represents the third year in a row where an event commemorating the massacre centered a trans-identified male speaker focusing on transphobia rather than the femicide.

In 2022, Fae Johnstone, a trans-identified male, gave a keynote address at Durham College in North Oshawa, Ontario, during the 33rd anniversary of the massacre.

Following his speech, Johnstone was confronted by Jennifer Anne, a Canadian women’s rights advocate who has been working to secure the release of the analysis that was done on gender self-identification legislation in Canada. After Anne attempted to question why Johnstone was permitted to give the address, her question was quickly dismissed and she was prohibited from speaking again.

The previous year, in 2021, the Prince Edward Island Advisory Council on the Status of Women invited Anastasia Preston, a biological male who identifies as a woman, to speak on “gender-based violence” at a vigil honoring the women murdered in the École Polytechnique massacre.

Preston, a “trans community outreach coordinator” at a sexually transmitted disease resource service, became the subject of widespread outrage on social media after he was interviewed by the Prince Edward Island branch of the CBC and claimed that trans-identified males were not given enough opportunities to speak on violence against women.

“For decades, trans women have been kept out of the conversation around gender-based violence,” Preston was quoted as saying, going on to assert that he intended to “speak about some of [his] experiences of harassment on P.E.I.” at the event memorializing the 14 women who were murdered.

After the article began to circulate, CBC P.E.I was so inundated with backlash they had to turn off their Twitter comment section. Johnstone defended Preston at the time, calling him a “hero and a champion.”

https://reduxx.info/university-of-toronto-invites-non-binary-trans-woman-to-give-keynote-speech-on-transmisogyny-during-anniversary-of-mass-femicide/

By Olivia Murray

Julius Malema, one of South Africa’s most notorious anti-white political figures, is threatening destruction if he and his ideologues don’t get a seat “at the dinner table.” Now, I’m not exactly sure from when this video is, but over the past few days it’s been making the rounds on X (formerly Twitter); it can be seen below:

This is what it is all about:
“We are fighting to sit at the dinner table. White people, you will no longer eat alone. We are coming to sit at the dinner table, and if you are refusing us to sit at the dinner table, we are going to destroy that dinner table!” pic.twitter.com/UA3pADxjzW

— Boer (@twatterbaas) December 3, 2023

Well, let’s look at the facts now shall we? For decades, the South African government has made “land reform” a priority, which really just meant redistribution from white to black, and it’s been a total and utter failure. From a Los Angeles Times article in 2010, after more than 15 years of “reform” and reparations:

Michael Zulu trundles a wheelbarrow along the track to his farm homestead, where chickens peck at the carpet and skinny cats curl sleeping amid the bird droppings.

He’s the farmer now, not just a tractor driver for a white farmer named Engelbrecht, like he used to be.

But he has a shirt full of holes, the roofless ruins of a dairy and a stretch of farmland whose only crop is cow manure, bagged up and stacked against a wall as a substitute for firewood.

‘I thought I’d be much better off. But I think it was better with Mr. Engelbrecht. We lived high with Mr. Engelbrecht. We got money from him and we could look after our children.’

The land program had noble intent: redressing the wrongs of apartheid, when blacks were denied access to farmland, and lifting black rural people out of grinding poverty by buying farms from willing white owners and giving them to blacks.

It has done neither.

Nearly another 15 years on, things are still the same. One in-depth analysis, published in January of this year, revealed just how bad “reform” has been for everybody, with the data to prove it:

The South African government has been buying farmland for black farmers. It’s not gone well

The main findings were that the performance on most farms bought under the acquisition scheme had been disappointing. More than half the current beneficiaries were not reporting any substantial production. The same percentage were evaluated as having a low capacity to achieve commercial status.

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More than half the current beneficiaries were not reporting any substantial production, and more than half the beneficiaries were evaluated as having a low capacity to achieve commercial status.

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Nearly half (47%) of the farms that had been acquired were found to have some degree of degradation, while 13% were seriously or severely degraded.

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Of concern is the significant number (350) of farms that produced no commodities.

Of course, opponents of the results, like a journalist for The Guardian last year, will suggest that the “system was stacked” against the black farmers, but the analysis referenced above debunks that too, asserting this:

Most farms acquired under the initiative had high potential. It’s therefore possible to dismiss the myth that the land acquired for land reform was of poor quality.

The assessment showed that land acquired through the programme was generally of good or fair quality, and 98% of farms had fair to good natural resources.

Couldn’t the South Africans like Malema take a hint from what Zimbabwe already did? Under Robert Mugabe, white farmers were violently (often murderously) evicted from their homesteads, and eventually, food production came to a grinding halt, with food insecurity reaching crisis levels just a few years back. Now, white farmers are returning, and lo and behold, people are being fed. From a Telegraph article this past September:

‘Agriculture is taking off in Zimbabwe again and it’s because the government has realised [sic] you need the best people on the land, regardless of what colour [sic] they are,’ said one white farmer who declined to be named.

This isn’t to suggest at all that a black man can’t be as successful as a white man at farming, but any man (regardless of color) who views the world as Malema does? He’ll never contribute anything more than violence and hate. Riddled with envy, clinging to a status of victimhood, Malema isn’t suggesting earning “a seat at the dinner table,” but rather he’s coming to conquer, and the whites better move aside. As someone in the comments noted, “This is why they stuck at where they are. No build[ing]. Only destroy[ing].” Progress and prosperity comes with personal responsibilty and initiative.

The irony is, Malema and his like-minded comrades have had a seat at the dinner table… which is why the dinner table is bare, and much of the farmland is now desolate and non-arable.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/south_africas_julius_malema_threatens_destruction_if_antiwhite_demands_arent_met.html

A father and son accused of injuring 17 people when they intentionally burned down their poorly performing fashion business to claim on the insurance are standing trial in Germany.

Both are charged with 13 counts of attempted murder, among other counts of grievous bodily harm, and arson.

The regional court in Aachen heard how the son, 22-year-old Karsan K., poured 13 liters of gasoline into the fashion store in Eschweiler back in March this year and set it on fire, causing a mass explosion that left dozens injured.

The store was a terraced building with residential apartments above other commercial outlets on both sides. The detonation destroyed 28 properties, five cars, and goods from 12 neighboring shops, according to WDR.

It was reported that the resulting inferno and a blast radius of 50 meters resulted in four people being hospitalized in critical condition. A mother and her two-month-old baby were injured in the blast.

Firefighters initially suspected the fire was a result of a gas explosion, however, a further investigation led to suspicions of foul play.

According to the public prosecutor’s office, the explosion caused damage estimated at €2.3 million, and the owners of the store sought to claim €100,000 from their insurers.

“It is entirely due to chance that no other people were significantly injured or suffered fatal injuries as a result of the act, especially flying parts of the building, glass or metal splinters,” the indictment read.

At the trial, the son has remained silent, however, his 56-year-old father, known as Sherwan K., has proclaimed his own innocence and accused his son of acting alone.

With the help of an interpreter, the older defendant incriminated his son, insisting he had simply rented the store to the younger defendant and didn’t have a key for it. He claimed not to have been on the premises at any point in the lead-up to the explosion.

“No one accuses him of being present when the crime was actually carried out,” the father’s defense attorney, Rainer Dietz, told the court.

“The prosecution says he was the head of the family. He has authority. Nobody does anything against their will or without their will. And from this, one concludes that he must have been the driving force. The evidence will not prove that,” he added.

The trial has also focused on the complex relationship between an extensive Islamic family. The father is understood to be married to three women across Germany. Local media also reported that both defendants are drug addicts.

A verdict by the court is expected on Jan. 5.

https://rmx.news/crime/father-and-son-stand-trial-for-13-attempted-murders-after-insurance-fraud-plan-to-blow-up-clothes-store-left-dozens-injured/

London 2023 has become Berlin 1938. And it’s not just London.

Shocking. Two women beat a Jewish woman unconscious in London, then continuing to beat her limp body while passers-by ignore the whole thing. Echoes of history pic.twitter.com/gSvcwE3oiJ

— Jake Wallis Simons (@JakeWSimons) December 8, 2023

A series of accidents on medium distance trains in Madrid have shown the neglect of the central government for the Spanish capital’s basic infrastructure. 

Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the president of the Madrid region, promised on social media to do everything she could to protect citizens in the face of the lack of investment by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’ government. 

Ayuso, one of Spain’s most popular politicians and a member of the center-right Partido Popular, has been a consistent thorn in the side of the socialist Sánchez since she took the strongest stance of any regional governor to his pandemic restrictions after ousting his party from the regional government. 

Her regional government has also asked for an emergency meeting with Sánchez’s new ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, responsible for the upkeep of the train lines that connect the capital with the rest of the region.  

This request comes after two derailments occurred in just nine days in the Cercanías-Madrid commuter train network causing light injuries to passengers and disruptions in service in five lines. The last accident also occurred just before Spain’s Constitution Day on December 6th, a public holiday that is also one of the biggest travel days of the year.   

According to the regional government, incidents on the regional train lines are not isolated accidents but a generalized problem. 

“We are not talking about specific delays or service failures, but incidents that affect user safety,” regional Minister of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure Jorge Rodrigo said.

“Far from being exceptional, it has become a custom,” he said of accidents and disruptions in service.

“You still haven’t invested in this infrastructure,” he added, referring to Sánchez.

The central government is responsible for regional train service and maintenance.  

Rodrigo continued:

So far this year, there have been 708 incidents that have affected the railway network and caused serious damage to Madrid citizens. Getting to work or a trip on time has become a lottery for them.

He also said that the regional government has launched a plan to help travelers affected by disruptions on commuter lines, including buses that can be put into use if necessary and reinforcing the service in Metro Line 1. 

In the latest major incident, which took place on December 5th, a commuter train derailed just after two-thirty in the afternoon at the entrance to Madrid’s main railway station, Atocha, disrupting services across the network. Injuries, fortunately, were slight with five people suffering mild bruises, although 137 people had to be evacuated from the train.  

The week before, another train derailed while leaving the Atocha train station. Several carriages dislodged from the rails of track 4 and fell onto the adjacent track, causing chaos on the Madrid commuter network. Thirty-seven people had to be evacuated from the train. 

The week between the two accidents was also marked by several minor incidents and restrictions on train circulation.

“We will do everything necessary to protect the people of Madrid from Sánchez’s lack of concern for the Cercanías [commuter trains],” Ayuso pledged on social media.

Ayuso’s party has blamed the problems on the socialist government’s failure to implement the transportation plan of the last government led by the PP under former prime minister Mariano Rajoy. Before it was toppled by a no-confidence vote in 2018, Rajoy’s government had approved a plan to make improvements to medium distance trains throughout the country. 

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/madrid-socialist-neglect-leads-to-two-train-derailments/

After a homicide in a psychiatric facility in Dortmund, the mentally ill suspect was transferred to the forensic centre in Lippstadt-Eickelborn.

A 67-year-old man became the victim of a gruesome crime in a psychiatric facility in Dortmund.

According to the Dortmund public prosecutor’s office, carers spotted the 42-year-old kneeling on the chest of another patient on Saturday evening.

He had shouted prayers out loud. The 67-year-old victim from Lünen fell into a coma and later died in hospital.

According to the autopsy results, the cause of death was an injury to the respiratory tract.
The case is being investigated for manslaughter. The public prosecutor’s office currently assumes that the 67-year-old was presumably an accidental victim.
There is no evidence of an argument between the Syrian-born attacker, who lived in Mülheim an der Ruhr, and the man from Lünen.

Dortmund: Mord in der Psychiatrie – Mann kniet sich auf Brustkorb und betet! (tag24.de)

The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Saxony (SOPCS) has designated the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as an “extremist” group.

The decision comes after a four-year review process. The SOPCS claimed to have “conclusively” demonstrated the AfD’s State association pursued what it said were anti-constitutional goals.

The president of regional domestic intelligence service Dirk-Martin Christian said: “There is no longer any doubt about the right-wing extremist orientation of the AfD Saxony.”

“The State association of the AfD may be heterogeneous in terms of personnel but in terms of content and programme, the so-called solidarity-patriotic camp predominates,” he said.

Christian stated this camp emerged from the former so-called “Flügel” –  “whose spiritual father and leader is the right-wing extremist Björn Höcke and which now forms and dominates the character of the entire State association”.

Leading AfD figures and elected officials are accused of making right-wing extremist remarks without the party publicly distancing itself from or, at the very least, “engaging in spirited discussion” about it.

According to the SOPCS, the party seems more a “monolithic bloc”.

It said numerous substantive positions of the AfD State association were directed against the basic principles of the free democratic order.

For example, on the migration issue, against the guarantee of human dignity enshrined in the Constitution. The party represented “typical völkisch-nationalist views”, it said.

The Saxony branch of the AfD also was accused of propagating widespread anti-Semitic, primarily conspiracy-theory based, viewpoints. For instance, talking about “globalism” and “international financial elites”, are, according to the SOPCS, coded messages.

The Saxon State Association of the Young Alternative, a youth organisation, had already been identified as a legitimate right-wing extremist group back in April.

According to the Saxon Green parliamentary group, it must now also be examined to what extent the civil servants who are functionaries of the AfD “should be removed from the civil service”.

In response to the charges, Jörg Urban, the leader of the AfD’s State and parliamentary group, said: “The upgrade was foreseeable because the AfD is currently the strongest force in the new federal states. However, there is no factual foundation for the upgrade.”

Urban added: “It’s obvious that the Government is using this protection purely for electoral purposes. Thus, it is detrimental to democracy.”

Carsten Hütter, a spokesman for security affairs and a member of the Parliamentary Control Commission, said: “Spying on and ostracising our party using the intelligence service shows how desperate people in the CDU/SPD/Greens coalition must be in the year before the State election in Saxony.

“It is an admission of their own failure. A failure that is as obvious as the political instrumentalisation of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

“Hardly anyone has believed in the neutrality of the authority in the Free State since the unlawful storage of MPs’ data came to light a few years ago.”

The AfD in Saxony is the third State association to receive the “extremist” designation, following Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt.

The AfD had 27.5 per cent of the vote in the 2019 State elections in Saxony.

The party’s support in the State, according to recent polls, is now at 33 per cent or above, equal to or ahead of that for the mainstream  Conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The other parties all rate much lower.

Eilmeldung: Der #Verfassungsschutz hat die #AfD Sachsen als "gesichert Rechtsextrem" eingestuft!

Wir alle: pic.twitter.com/ccZAUUnpAP

— Staudawirt 👌 Ungeimpft 👌 (@LaDolceVita2262) December 8, 2023

https://brusselssignal.eu/2023/12/afd-in-saxony-classified-as-extremist/

The German capital of Berlin pays €1.5 million per day to house migrants in 12 buildings, consisting of 10 hotels and 2 migrant arrival centers, according to data released for the first time in response to a request from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) faction in the Berlin Senate.

The overall costs for housing these migrants amount to €547 million for 2023 alone. That is over half a billion in just one German city, and it does not even capture the full costs of housing migrants in Berlin, as it only covers the 12 buildings in question. These buildings include the two migrant arrival centers at Tempelhof and Tegel airports, both of which are decommissioned airports, as well as 10 hotels that are being rented by the government to house migrants.

The data was produced in response to AfD MP Gunnar Lindemann’s request. Tegel Airport is where most of the money is going, costing €1.172 million per day, and currently houses 3,408 Ukrainians and 1,333 asylum seekers, primarily from Muslim countries.

If the figures are broken down, the state is spending €7,411 per migrant in this single facility per month just on housing, operations, catering, rent, and security. However, this does not include healthcare, education, and welfare payments, known as “citizen’s money,” provided to migrants in Germany.

While the cost per migrant in the hotels is much lower, at Tempelhof Airport, it still costs over €5,000 per migrant per month.

Overall, the German government announced it expects to spend €35 billion in 2023 on migrants. Earlier this year, the AfD also obtained data from the federal government showing that 28.1 percent of the German elderly are at risk of poverty, a figure that is higher than the EU average of 27.4 percent and far greater than its Western European neighbors of France (19.1 percent), Belgium (17.4 percent), and Luxembourg (9.3 percent).

Germany is currently struggling with a budget crisis and has increasingly taken on huge debt loads to finance its record-high migrant population. Even as the left-liberal government pushes for more immigration, a clear majority of Germans say they want a pause on immigration and that immigrants bring more problems than benefits. Berlin, in particular, is facing a serious housing crisis, which has led to soaring rental increases and inflated housing values.

Germany’s pro-migration path is in stark contrast to countries such as Poland and Hungary, who have countered the European birth rate decline by introducing family-friendly policies and tax cuts to entice couples to have more children. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also announced in 2023 plans to mobilize economically inactive Hungarian citizens who want to work, prioritizing them to fill the gaps in the country’s workforce ahead of mass low-skilled migration, which risks both the security and the cultural heritage of the nation.

A recent study from the Netherlands shows that migrants have cost the Dutch state €400 billion from 1995 until 2019, adding to the growing body of evidence showing that mass immigration has been an enormous drag on the public finances of European social welfare states.

https://rmx.news/article/germany-berlin-pays-e1-5-million-every-single-day-to-house-migrants-in-just-12-buildings-nearly-half-a-billion-per-year/