German Foreign Minister Wadephul:

We provide a great deal of military support, but we also expect things to be purchased from German defense companies, so that there is also a return to German industry and German value creation.

PISA 2025 scores hit record lows across the OECD.

Germany dropped to historic lows (combined ~472), now sitting right at the OECD average — a stark fall for a country that once saw itself as an education powerhouse.

Meanwhile Türkiye improved and now scores above the OECD average (science 494, combined ~476), overtaking Germany in science and sitting comfortably ahead overall.

Estonia leads Europe by a wide margin.

PISA 2025 — Top 10 Europe (combined avg)

🇪🇪 Estonia — 511
🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 498
🇮🇪 Ireland — 493
🇨🇭 Switzerland — 490
🇵🇱 Poland — 487
🇫🇮 Finland — 482
🇦🇹 Austria — 480
🇧🇪 Belgium — 479
🇨🇿 Czechia — 478
🇹🇷 Türkiye — 476

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German AfD Leader Alice Weidel:

We need to significantly limit our payments to the EU.

Every week, almost one billion euros flows to Brussels, but only a fraction of it comes back.

We want our money back!

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel:

Deindustrialization is sweeping across our country with growing momentum.

Germany is losing 12,000 industrial jobs every month.

Last year, 190,000 companies in Germany gave up.

Retail sales are collapsing to the level of the Corona lockdowns.

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel on Ukraine:

The United States is making another attempt to end the murderous war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, you are intensifying the war propaganda and escalating the confrontation with Russia.

You are even burning the last remaining bridges in order to distract from your own catastrophic political record.

Finally, commit yourselves to peace negotiations, just as the United States is doing.

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel:

The German auto industry is dying. The decline of Volkswagen is an omen.

Fifty thousand jobs are on the chopping block, and four plants are facing closure.

Germany’s small and medium-sized business sector and its middle class are dying quietly.

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel:

We must end the failed energy transition and begin the process of returning to nuclear power — with the resilience of our energy supply in mind.

But for that, we also need cheap natural gas from Russia.

We will work toward that.

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel:

The so-called energy transition is the biggest millstone crushing our economy and dragging it into the abyss.

Expensive, dysfunctional parallel structures are being subsidized while proven and cost-effective infrastructure is being systematically destroyed.

Germany’s most modern and cleanest coal-fired power station in Moorburg was deliberately destroyed without ever having operated for a single hour on the grid.

Our nuclear power plants, which supplied extremely cheap and CO₂-neutral electricity around the clock, were shut down one after another.

WATCH: Iran fired 20 ballistic missiles at the U.S.-hosting Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan overnight.

Dramatic Patriot launch footages show massive Patriot salvos, with OSINT counts estimating 60–100+ interceptors fired in minutes.

At $4–5M per PAC-3 MSE round, that's roughly $240–500M+ burned in a single night.

Germany’s Chancellor Merz:

The AfD’s actual election goal in Saxony-Anhalt was to win a majority of the seats.

They did not achieve that.

56% of voters did not vote for the AfD, ladies and gentlemen.

Germany’s Chancellor Merz:

Nobody threatened Russia. Not NATO. Not the European Union. Not Germany.

Ladies and gentlemen, the only thing that truly threatens Russia and Putin is the radiance of democracy.

Ukraine was on its way into the European democratic family, and that is precisely the real danger to Putin’s regime in Russia.

And you in the AfD know that this is the case.

Germany’s Chancellor Merz:

I personally had actually expected growth of more than 1% only next year. We have already achieved it this year.

1.3% economic growth for 2026 shows that our first measures are working.

Germany’s Chancellor Merz:

The word "remigration" is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color.

Germany’s Chancellor Merz:

One in six employees in the skilled trades has a foreign passport.

If the people who work in Germany have to leave the country because you put "remigration" on your banner, then the skilled trades in Germany will no longer be able to function.

Not a single nursing home would function anymore. Not a single hospital in Germany would function anymore. Not a single restaurant could continue operating in Germany.

Germany’s Chancellor Merz:

Why all of this? What is, so to speak, the overarching idea? What is the story behind it? What is the purpose of these reforms?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, perhaps that is the answer we have failed to provide more than any other. I do not exclude myself from that criticism.

We will have to provide an answer — especially to the younger generation in Germany.

We have to give the younger generation a convincing answer as to what our country stands for and where our society is supposed to be heading.

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel:

Mr. Merz, you have made it clear that you did not understand the message in your tragic, strange press conference on Monday.

You did not understand the message that voters in Saxony-Anhalt sent you last Sunday.

That is no longer particularly relevant, because your time is over anyway.

The citizens want a change in policy, and they will get it.

WATCH: Iranian ballistic missiles hitting the Bazan refinery complex in Haifa Bay in June 2025.

The worst hit came in an early morning salvo of ~40 missiles.

Three workers died trapped in a shelter from smoke and heat, the on-site power plant was destroyed, and the refinery fully shut down.

Israel's military censor delayed releasing impact footage and location details until now.

Lt. Gen. Norat Ter-Grigoryants — who served as Armenia's chief of General Staff in 1992 and helped build the country's army from scratch during the First Karabakh War — says he's surrendered his Armenian passport and will never return.

Living in Russia, he accused the current government of betraying Armenians and working to destroy them "with the help of the Turks."

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signaled the state will use its anti-BDS law (Act 710) to block public contracts with any company that complies with the UK's newly announced ban on trade with Israeli settlements.

Her father, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, warned of a "huge economic impact" on British firms across multiple states.

The UK ban — covering settlement imports and services like construction, financing, and real estate — won't take effect for 6–9 months, and no companies have actually been cut off yet.

But Arkansas's law defines "boycott of Israel" broadly enough to include Israeli-controlled territories, meaning UK compliance could technically trigger it.

The White House said Huckabee's comments weren't coordinated with the administration.

Greek PM Mitsotakis will visit Kastellorizo (Meis) this Saturday — Greece's easternmost island, just 2 km off the Turkish coast.

He'll also visit the islets of Ro and Strongyli, which are central to Greece's EEZ claims linking Greek and Southern Cypriot maritime zones.

Source: Parapolitika GR