https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Are we expats or immigrants? Foreigners living in Germany are often divided into two camps as to how they refer to themselves. https://www.thelocal.de/20161014/expats-or-immigrants-in-germany-is-there-a-difference Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:30:33 +0200 expats-or-immigrants-in-germany-is-there-a-difference A new microcensus shows that more than one-fifth of all Germans have some sort of 'immigrant background' - a record high for the Bundesrepublik. https://www.thelocal.de/20160920/one-in-five-germans-now-have-immigrant-background Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:05:06 +0200 one-in-five-germans-now-have-immigrant-background A report this week showed that the number of crimes committed by refugees and undocumented immigrants dropped nearly 20 percent in just three months. The Local looks into why. https://www.thelocal.de/20160610/why-refugee-crime-numbers-have-plummeted Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:53:33 +0200 why-refugee-crime-numbers-have-plummeted Tens of thousands of people gathered in Dresden to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the anti-immigrant Pegida movement - but a large number also came to oppose the right-wing group. https://www.thelocal.de/20151019/thousands-flood-dresden-in-right-wing-pegida-rally Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:34:37 +0200 thousands-flood-dresden-in-right-wing-pegida-rally A 55-year-old man from Ghana died from multiple organ failure in Hamburg earlier this month after five different hospitals refused him surgery. https://www.thelocal.de/20150923/migrant-dies-after-hospitals-deny-him-treatment Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:56:28 +0200 migrant-dies-after-hospitals-deny-him-treatment The German government increased their estimates of how many asylum-seekers will be applying in Germany by the end of this year to up to 800,000, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150819/number-of-asylum-seekers-to-reach-750000 Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:33:11 +0200 number-of-asylum-seekers-to-reach-750000 Migrant workers in Germany sent $14 billion (€12.5 billion) back to their families last year, according to a report published on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150615/migrant-workers-send-14-billion-to-families-back-home-spain Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:43:38 +0200 migrant-workers-send-14-billion-to-families-back-home-spain Ash Wednesday's traditional beer-drenched, political slagging match descended into an EU-bashing fest for some, with Bavarian state president Horst Seehofer launching a scathing attack on Brussels. https://www.thelocal.de/20140305/euro-eurosceptic-afd-csu-germany-meet-for-ash-wednesday-summits-in-bavaria Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:36:00 +0100 euro-eurosceptic-afd-csu-germany-meet-for-ash-wednesday-summits-in-bavaria A German job centre will have to pay a jobless Spanish family unemployment benefits, a court ruled on Thursday, in an apparent contradiction of German law. https://www.thelocal.de/20140206/german-court-grants-eu-immigrants-benefits Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:55:00 +0100 german-court-grants-eu-immigrants-benefits Migrants in Germany would rather send their children to schools with fewer other migrants, a study published on Wednesday revealed. Parents fear that attending a school with too many other foreigners could hinder their children’s education. https://www.thelocal.de/20131204/migrant-parents-prefer-schools-with-fewer-foreigners Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:08:00 +0100 migrant-parents-prefer-schools-with-fewer-foreigners