According to the statistics of the German Police “the number of recorded violent crimes in Germany increased disproportionately in 2023”, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. Almost ten percent more knife attacks and 17 percent more robberies compared to the previous year, while “under-age suspects are over-represented, but also people who do not have a German passport and are suspected of crime.” “This”, as the Munich newspaper comments, “constitutes a warning”.

“The question has to be asked,” SZ continues, “what is happening in the country? What the AfD always predicted? Are our lives threatened at every bus stop because, along with immigrants, a wave of violence is sweeping the country?’ The statistics, however, according to SZ, say that it is not that refugees and immigrants have become more criminals, but that their number in Germany has increased significantly.

Of course, as the newspaper notes, “especially young men who have escaped from the ends of the earth and have few prospects in Germany are at greater risk of becoming criminals than people who have been socialized into welfare and legal security. This is indisputable.” As SZ concludes, “immigration can and should be controlled – criminals should be prosecuted, wherever they come from. However, only those who invest in prevention, social work and schools can ensure less violence. Because the vast majority of those who appear today in the police statistics will be in the country tomorrow.”

Chancellor Soltz is heavily criticized for his economic policy

UK: Solz’s economic policy failed

“Two lost years for the economy,” the president of German industrialists, Siegfried Rösswurm, characterized the actions of the Scholz government, with the economic newspaper Handelsblatt agreeing with him and commenting that “Soltz is stoically ignoring all the warnings that Germany is losing competitiveness her”.

“For Soltz, business representatives, as well as other professional groups critical of his economic policy, fall into the category of ‘ignorant nuisances’.”

But the facts, according to the UK, speak for themselves: “Industrial production in Germany has stagnated since 2019. Germany’s economy is the only one among the G7 countries to shrink in 2023. For years, almost no other industrial country it has lost as much investment as Germany. Potential growth has shrunk to 0.5 percent per year. In the eight years or so that Soltz has been finance minister and then chancellor, even Greece and Portugal have grown more dynamically,” the newspaper comments.

“However, Soltz can get lucky. The economy will likely pick up again briefly in the middle of the year. But make no mistake: If the economy recovers, it won’t be because of, but in spite of, the federal government.”