Germany's refugees, minorities fear the future after far right's breakthrough

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The Federal Republic of Germany is still the EU country in which the most asylum applications are registered. However, according to the EUAA agency, the figures fall significantly – most recently by almost 30 percent.

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Thousands of asylum seekers and refugees are stuck in emergency shelters in Berlin: in a tent city some sleep with up to 18 people in a room. Others are housed in a gigantic former hotel complex. Bureaucracy, housing shortages and political blockades prevent quick solutions.

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As a refugee to Germany, our author has followed the Bundestag election with concern. Using the example of Turkey, he knows how the extreme rights can come to power.

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Why even parts of Berlin are moving right

‘Berlin is more East than West’, said Thilo Sarrazin. A member of the centre-left SPD, in 2010 he published Germany Abolishes Itself, a book which warned about the impact of mass immigration. It sold over one million copies in a year but it went down less well with his own party, which tried to kick

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Germany's Five Shaky Pillars

These newcomers [to Germany] helped reduce Germany's demographic deficit, due to a declining birthrate, but also created huge cultural, religious and security problems that foment xenophobia. An immigrant who has fled a war-torn country isn't the same as

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Germany's refugees, minorities fear the future after far right's breakthrough

The AfD’s historic score in German elections worries refugees and minorities, such as the 2SLGBTQ+ community, who fear rollback of their rights.