Apollo News

Apollo News reported that Suraj Mailitafi had been nominated for the state-funded German Engagement Prize despite his role as a spokesperson for opposition during the partially violent protests against the AfD party convention in Erfurt. After an inquiry from the media, he has now faced the threat of exclusion from the competition. https://t.co/OpMJSRwlqB #Protest #AfD #Engagementpreis (translated)

Apollo News reported that nine ministers from union-led agricultural departments had called for the complete abandonment of the planned sugar tax. Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Daniel Günther had previously advocated for the levy several times but failed with his demand at a CDU party conference. https://t.co/Q3MiXCHp8G #Zuckersteuer #Agrarpolitik #CDU (translated)

Apollo News reported that the left-wing politicians Vanessa Emden and Cansin Köktür demonstrated on Saturday in the Berlin government district together with the activist Ibrahim Ibrahim, who is described as close to Hamas. At the rally, the chants "Free Palestine" and "Fuck you Israel" were shouted. https://t.co/UEcNOoxPTJ #FreePalestine #Berlin #Demonstration (translated)

Apollo News wrote that the chairman of the CDU district association in Mannheim, Lennart Christ, criticized the policy of the federal party in an open letter. Christ disagreed with the assessment of Education Minister Prien that the CDU was too conservative and instead pointed to a lack of credibility as a problem. https://t.co/JKccDDMAzT #CDU #Politik #Bildung (translated)

Apollo News wrote that the ZDF comedian Kurt Krömer does not want any AfD voters to be present at his reading tour. On Instagram, he insulted them with a derogatory term and stated that his shows are and will remain "halal." https://t.co/8a94PLbfJR https://t.co/G1BCUwFz2i #KurtKrömer #AfD #Comedy (translated)

Apollo News reported that on Friday evening in Stade, around 50 men with Syrian and Kurdish nationality reportedly clashed with each other outside a sports hall using batons and knives. Six people were injured, four of them seriously. https://t.co/IbgLVXGJj7 #Stade #Gewalt #Syrien (translated)

Apollo News reported that the Bavarian constitutional judge and left-wing internet lawyer Chan-jo Jun urged CDU representatives to rule out cooperation with the AfD before the election of the Prime Minister in Saxony-Anhalt through a "penal notice of cessation." https://t.co/1eU6TQ88Nb https://t.co/ijsfogPxIS #SachsenAnhalt #CDU #AfD (translated)

Apollo News reported that Horst Seehofer sharply criticized Chancellor Merz and accused him of lacking trust. Seehofer described broken election promises and the discussion about an allegedly missing work ethic among Germans as particularly serious. https://t.co/4hU0DExiTc #Politik #Deutschland #Wahlen (translated)

Apollo News reported that a 67-year-old business owner was repeatedly attacked by youths in Berlin-Kreuzberg. He had hung posters in his shop window against anti-Semitism and about the Hamas massacre on October 7th. The attackers sprayed him with pepper spray and beat him. https://t.co/quLDzLcXTW #Berlin #Judenhass #Hassverbrechen (translated)

Apollo News wrote that the Merz government is promoting a "migration change." New figures showed that family reunification has hardly decreased and even increased in the third quarter. At the same time, significantly fewer individuals subject to deportation were expelled. https://t.co/704OjjssVf #Migration #Familiennachzug #Politik (translated)

Apollo News reported that a 16-year-old Afghan suddenly stabbed a 17-year-old German in the back at a street festival in Dielheim. According to the investigators, as cited by the media, an 18-year-old compatriot had previously urged the youth to arm himself and come to the crime scene. Both are now in pre-trial detention. https://t.co/gQcu1XsMTw #Dielheim #Gewalt #Kriminalität (translated)

Apollo News wrote that the Tagesschau categorized the more than 30 reported arson attacks on German churches in a fact check and pointed out that often only minor damage had occurred and that in no case had a Christian-hostile motive been established. The affected monitoring body referred to this as "biased journalism." https://t.co/4HiscXw0K8 #Faktencheck #Journalismus #Kirchen (translated)

Apollo News wrote that Sören Pellmann, the parliamentary leader of the Left Party in the German Bundestag, glorifies Che Guevara, whom the media called a mass murderer. Furthermore, Pellmann claims that Guevara's spirit lives on in all his comrades. https://t.co/h82mEibthS #Politik #Linkspartei #CheGuevara (translated)

Apollo News reported, citing a recent Insa poll, that the CDU would come in at 13.5 percent without the CSU, making it only the fourth strongest party behind the SPD and the Greens. The AfD would achieve 30.5 percent, also placing it ahead of the entire Union. https://t.co/4mXROZLxxr #CDU #CSU #Wahlen (translated)

Apollo News reported that CDU Senator Günther-Wünsch sharply criticized the SPD, Greens, and Left after the parties in Berlin agreed on a way to deal with anti-Semitism. She accused them of having "left the foundation of a free democratic order." https://t.co/995fVB2rcC #Antisemitismus #Demokratie #Berlin (translated)

Apollo News reported that Federal Minister Karin Prien called for a leftward shift in the Union. The approach of "pure CDU" has failed, and the Union has become too conservative – that is part of the problem, Prien said. https://t.co/80MroebRXq https://t.co/gKatJi0Z2r #CDU #Politik #Deutschland (translated)

Apollo News reported that the European Parliament voted on Thursday by a majority in favor of a motion to prevent Islamist infiltration. The German representatives from the SPD, Greens, and Left voted unanimously against it. https://t.co/auZpB8gdMa https://t.co/rmRWsSWs6K #EUParlament #Islamismus #Politik (translated)

Apollo News reported that during the local elections in Lower Saxony, thousands of mail-in ballots were opened prematurely in the Hanover region. AfD lawmaker Dirk Brandes announced that he would file a complaint against the election results. https://t.co/SRrWiU2yvI #Niedersachsen #Wahlen #Politik (translated)