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German exports in freefall as numbers to hit lowest EVER – COVID-19 unleashes ‘full fury’
Germany’s export industry is in free-fall with forecasters predicting figures to plunge to the lowest rate ever recorded amid the current coronavirus pandemic. Despite being one of the strongest in the world, Germany’s economy has been hit hard by the COVID-19 outbreak. Although Germany’s death toll has not reached the levels experienced in Italy and Spain, the Institute for Economic Research (IFO) lowered the export market expectations from -19 to -50 in April. The number is now at the lowest value ever measured.
The IFO said: “The coronavirus crisis is striking the German economy with full fury.
“Demand for industrial products has collapsed.
“Companies have never been so pessimistic about the coming months.”
The institute also revealed last week the business climate index of firms from across the economy dropped to 74.3 in April.
This represents two horrific drops in the country’s business climate index over the last two months.
In February, the index stood at 96 before it dropped to 85.9 in March as the virus began to take hold of Europe’s largest economy.
Due to the lockdown across the country, the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) said unemployment in the country is set to rise by 520,000 and will exceed three million this year.
The country’s stock market, the Dax performance Index is still recovering from a monumental fall in February.
Germany should pay illegal migrants €1,500 in coronavirus aid and grant them amnesty, demands leftist party
Over two dozen members of Die Linke, Germany’s leftist party, signed a letter asking Chancellor Angela Merkel and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer demanding the state to not only grant €1,500 in anti-coronavirus aid to each person illegally staying in Germany but also to offer them all amnesty.
“Even people without papers are part of the German population,” Der Spiegel quoted leftist MP Lorenz Gösta Beutin, who initiated the letter and believed that illegal migrants must get full state aid for humanitarian reasons.
Moreover, the signatories demand the German government to legalize these people.
The MPs call on the government to provide an “immediate general amnesty for all illegal residents” and want all deportations to be suspended.
“The coronavirus crisis has created a new situation. People without papers have no access to the healthcare system, but are very at risk,” Die Linke leader Bernd Riexinger explained.
The letter, signed by 27 of the 69 of the leftist party’s MPs, also says: “Because of the increased police presence on the streets, people without papers hardly dare to leave their homes, which further increases their marginalization in society”.
Die Linke estimates that there are between 200,000 and 600,000 illegal immigrants in Germany. The party demands an end to all deportations as well.
In recent years, the number of deportations has been decreasing. At the end of 2019, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees reported around 250,000 asylum seekers who should leave the country.
Germany already pays enormous sums for migrants in the country, including social benefits, housing, and education.
The German government recently released figures highlighting just how much Germany has spent on migrants, including a record €23 billion in 2018, including rent subsidies, jobless payments and other benefits.
Cities have also been on the hook for additional billions, with Hamburg alone spending €5.35 billion on migrants between 2015 and 2019.
In terms of workforce integration, a significant study released by German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) about a year ago found that 65 percent of the 7,500 migrants they interviewed were still out of work.
Germany’s Die Linke party has been active in calling for the country to accept more migrants, but it is far from the only one. Prominent politicans across the political spectrum say that Germany has more room to take in migrants despite Germany being one of the most densely populated country in Europe.
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Riots erupt in Rouen in the wake of Paris unrest
Riots in France continue. After a biker crashed into the door of a police car in Villeneuve-la-Garenne on April 18, tensions erupted not only in several immigrant social housing districts in the suburbs of Paris, but also elsewhere in the country.
On the night of Sunday April 26 to Monday April 27, the city of Rouen was the scene of urban violence. Rubbish bin fires and construction equipment were arsoned in various places and an impressive police presence had to be deployed to repel provocative rioters, reported the Actu.fr site.
It all started in the late afternoon, northeast of Rouen. Many urban rodeos were first reported with dozens of motorcycles, quads and cars driving at high speed in the streets. The situation calmed down with the massive arrival of police, but tensions quickly resumed overnight.
Actu.fr reported that groups of individuals were running around the neighbourhood, provoking the police. Officers were targeted with projectiles, “rocks” according to one of them. Fireworks were also fired at the police, while residents watched from their windows.
According to information from Actu.fr, two backhoe loaders were also set on fire around 10:30 pm. Finally, calm returned at around midnight. Firefighters put out the fires while security forces secured the premises.
A note had circulated on Friday, April 24, urging French police units “not to intervene in neighbourhoods with a high concentration of inhabitants following Ramadan”.
The note was sent by the Chief of Staff of the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) of Calvados to the department heads, reported French daily Le Figaro. In this telex, it was specifically stated that there was “no need to intervene in neighbourhoods with a high concentration of inhabitants following Ramadan, for noise disturbances or to control a group of people gathered after sunset to eat”. It was added that these instructions obviously did not concern “attacks on persons or serious damage to property”.
The director of the DDSP of Calvados finally specified that it was necessary “to show discernment in this matter, in order to avoid breaches of the confinement rules degenerating and causing more disturbances leading to urban violence”.
The director of the National Police (DPGN) visibly irritated by the note in Calvados, soon reaffirmed that “the National Police intervenes at any point on the territory to ensure the security of people and property whatever the circumstances. The DPGN requested that an explanatory report be sent to it”.
In the entourage of Interior Minister Christophe Castaner a source spoke of the “incomprehensible local initiative” . The source cited by Le Figaro recalled that “the national guidelines were clear”.
On Friday morning, the Secretary of State for the Interior, Laurent Nunez, also confirmed that no instructions to loosen police controls had been given on the territory.
Meanwhile, to protest the call to prayer launched on March 25 from the minaret of the Grand Mosque of Lyon, Génération identitaire projected messages on the walls of the place of worship.
The Imam of the Great Mosque in the capital of Gaul, Kamel Kabtane, had wanted to join the Catholics who were ringing the bells of their churches at the same time to show their solidarity with the medical staff mobilized to fight the Coronavirus.
But is was especially a way to occupy French public space, declared illegal elsewhere. Since street prayers and wearing the Islamic veil have become difficult, the imam tried audio. In the days that followed, other places of Islamic worship followed the example of the Grand Mosque of Lyon.
But a little less than a month later, the activists of Generation Identity carried out a media coup in three acts to protest against these new episodes of appropriation of public space. On April 20, a message was projected on the wall of the mosque: “Lyon, Strasbourg, Marseille, Germany, Spain…”
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Bill Gates praises China, blasts U.S. on coronavirus response
By Monica Showalter
“I hate Bill Gates” is a common expression among Windows users, based on the balkiness of Gates’ signature Microsoft program.
Now. he’s given everyone a new reason to hate him:
According to the Daily Wire:
Left-wing billionaire Bill Gates attacked the United States during a CNN interview on Sunday while praising communist China, claiming that China “did a lot of things right at the beginning” of the coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan.
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria asked Gates: “How would you respond to the charge that the Chinese covered this up, they essentially deceived the rest of the world, and as a result, they should be held in someway responsible for this?”
“Well, I don’t think that’s a timely thing because it doesn’t affect how we act today,” Gates claimed. “China did a lot of things right at the beginning. Like any country where a virus first shows up, they can look back and see where they missed some things.”
China “did a lot of things right at the beginning”?
Such as throw infected people alive into furnaces, and leave Wuhan residents screaming in despair from their balconies? Tossing residents into collective sick pens like livestock against their will? Throwing the doctor who sounded the alarm into prison and only exonerating him after he died of the virus in prison?
Or was Gates most impressed by China keeping U.S. medical researchers out, and scrubbing dlown the wet markets where the virus was said to originate to paper over the evidence?
Was China’s buying up of medical supplies worldwide to keep a stash solely for itself, while releasing five million people from the city of Wuhan to spread the virus around the country, and world, what Gates liked best?
Or was it China’s refusal to share its lab data, and the growing suspicious that the virus was released from a lab, either incompetently, or on purpose.
It defies belief that anyone could be so out of touch with the atrocious perforance of China in the early days of the pandemic. Their mismanagement in fact, is why it seems to be the only place out there that is regularly releasing pandemics.
Whatever it was, Gates is way off base, and it’s strange stuff, given that he’s usually a rational center-left voice of reason on many issues.
Maybe that comes of living the billionaire life and not having to weigh the things that ordinary people do.
Maybe it’s some kind of profit motive – the old ‘China market’ argument.
Maybe it’s Trump derangement syndrome.
Whatever it is, to praise China and then to criticize the U.S. demonstrates a profoundly strange and incompetent ability to distinguish something unpleasant from shinola. China has much to answer for for its dishonest and inhuman response to this pandemic, and it probably will have to.
To praise China, while blasting the U.S., and then making pious noises about saving the blame for later, is the height of hypocrisy.
Police on alert at the funeral of a member of a criminal Arab clan in Berlin, Germany
Major operation for the Berlin police! Today, Monday, the deceased mother of clan leader Issa Remmo is to be buried. It is expected that numerous members of the well-known Arabic Remmo clan will be present at the funeral service.Do they adhere to the currently valid Corona measures? And what other guests will be present? After there had been riots in the days before in front of a hospital in the Kreuzberg district and in front of the Remmo property in the Alt-Buckow district, this time the group should be at the Sehitlik Mosque on Columbiadamm from 9 am. The police were on duty at this location with 150 officers. In the mosque the ablution of the body is supposed to take place according to Islamic rite. Then the body will be wrapped in a white shroud and taken to the New Twelve Apostles Cemetery.
At the cemetery, officers of the Berlin police, federal police, ambulance and police officers in plain clothes were at the entrance. In total there were 250 officers. There were barriers and vehicle checks everywhere – in both directions from Sachsendamm. All vehicles trying to enter the area were stopped and checked. The police occupied a room in a house from which they can record and take pictures. Around 10.30 a.m. the first, about 80 mourners, gathered at a police cordon on Sachsendamm, about 150 metres from the entrance. The police stopped them. Special forces and officers will question them and point out the Corona distance rules. At the same time, the influx from the direction of Südkreuz increased. From here, mourners arrived on foot.
Shortly before, the hearse, accompanied by special forces and flashing blue lights, had already arrived at the cemetery. From an Audi car that followed the funeral procession could be heard a loud funeral song.
‘Demonizing Hungary is wrong’, writes Justice Minister Varga after German minister calls for sanctions
After a top German government official called for sanctions on Hungary, Justice Minister Judit Varga wrote for Die Welt in response that demonizing Hungary at a time when all European governments are doing what they think is best to combat the coronavirus pandemic is simply wrong.
Varga’s guest column on the portal of German national daily Die Welt was directed at a guest column of Michael Roth, the minister of state for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who called for sanctions against Hungary for “going against democratic principles and the rule of law” and claimed that the government has taken on unjustified powers.
“I am very tempted to explain in detail once more how wrong the statement of the German politician is, but I have already done it many times and in many places and it seems that Michael Roth neither wants to hear nor see these arguments,” Varga wrote. “The question is what are his reasons and where this is supposed to lead.”
She said Roth’s attack against Hungary was clearly designed to discredit Hungary as much as possible at a pivotal time when a decision about the European Union’s budget for the next seven years is set to be made and consequently reduce the country’s bargaining position.
Varga says Roth is attacking Hungary exactly a time when all member states should strive for consensus, without which there can be no agreement.
“It is quite inconceivable that money should be taken away from emerging states and that money given to the richer states. This strategy requires the demonization of the countries concerned,” Varga said, adding that just two months before Germany is scheduled to assume the revolving residency of the European Union that this is clearly not the way to go.
As Remix News has previously reported, a number of other countries have implemented similar measures as Hungary to combat the coronavirus crisis. Furthermore, many of Hungary’s restrictive measures have made pains to ensure certain elements of civil liberties remain in place for Hungarian citizens. Italy has canceled elections and Spain is using drones to warn violators of the country’s curfew and social distancing rules. Nobody is claiming that these countries are dictatorships or deserve sanctions.
Despite Roth’s polemical attack on Hungary during a time when all countries are seeking to combat the coronavirus outbreak, Varga still wants to maintain a strong relationship with Germany.
“Germany, as neutral mediator, has often managed to forge consensus regarding sensitive issues at critical times. [Germany] can continue to count on Hungary as a reliable partner with shared interests and basic values,” Varga wrote.
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Islamic State cell planned to murder critic of Islam in Germany
A cell of Tajiki members of the Islamic State terrorist organization planned to execute a critic of Islam in Germany.The German paper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported in mid-April that the now-arrested Islamic State cell “planned to assassinate the Islam critic Amir Masoud Arabpour M. from Neuss. The ex-Muslim, who converted to Christianity, repeatedly questioned the teaching of the Koran in YouTube clips. M. has been a considered an enemy of the radical Islamic Salafist scene since the beginning of 2019.”
The paper added that “On March 14, 2019, a member of the cell evaluated the surroundings of the targeted victim. According to the federal prosecutor, the goal was to shoot the Islam critic.”The Iranian-born Amir Masoud Arabpour lives in the city Neuss near the major city of Düsseldorf in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia,According to the prosecutor, the Islamic State cell “planned a murder attempt on a person who, from the perspective of the accused, had made public statements that were critical of the Islam. Against this background, the targeted murder victim has already been spied on by the accused Farhodshoh K. US Air Force bases in Germany were also scouted.”The German authorities arrested a total of five Islamic State members involved in the plots to carry out attacks against US forces in Germany, Amir Masoud Arabpour M, and an assassination in Albania.
Dozens arrested in Berlin anti-lockdown demonstration
Dozens of people have been arrested at a Berlin demonstration protesting the German government’s lockdown regulations and demanding that the government “restore freedom.” The protest was unauthorized; a maximum of 20 people are allowed to congregate, and the demonstration was attended by around a thousand people, including both right- and left-wing groups.
Germany has currently 157,120 confirmed cases of coronavirus, up by 607 from yesterday. Almost 6,000 people have died of the epidemic, with just 19 dying in the last 24 hours.
