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 US President Donald Trump doubled down on Tuesday on the false assertion that immigration is driving up crime in Germany, casting doubt on the country's official statistics. https://www.thelocal.de/20180619/trump-insists-crime-rising-in-germany-questioning-official-data Tue, 19 Jun 2018 19:44:45 +0200 trump-insists-crime-rising-in-germany-questioning-official-data Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday to fire off two tweets about the “tenuous” state of politics in Germany. Not for the first time, he showed his ignorance of developments in German society. https://www.thelocal.de/20180618/why-trump-is-wrong-again-on-migrants-and-crime-in-germany Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:17:04 +0200 why-trump-is-wrong-again-on-migrants-and-crime-in-germany Germany lurched into a brief panic on Friday as several media outlets fell for a satirical tweet that claimed Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition had collapsed in a bitter row over immigration. https://www.thelocal.de/20180615/satirical-tweet-about-collapse-of-merkels-coalition-prompts-brief-panic-in-germany Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:45:32 +0200 satirical-tweet-about-collapse-of-merkels-coalition-prompts-brief-panic-in-germany The office of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party mate Bettina Kudla was attacked after she posted a controversial tweet using a Nazi-invented term. https://www.thelocal.de/20161005/cdu-politicians-office-attacked-after-her-nazi-tweet Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:01:44 +0200 cdu-politicians-office-attacked-after-her-nazi-tweet