On September 18th 2025, Svenja Schulze, a member of the German Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party (SPD), made the following statement during the second reading of the 2025 federal budget: “Every two minutes, a person in Germany becomes a victim of domestic violence. Last year alone, there were more than 265,000 affected individuals.” This…
Dominik Kettner, entrepreneur and precious metals expert, and Dieter Bohlen claim in an interview published on 15 November 2025: “Over 270.000 Germans emigrated last year. And we know that these are high achievers: engineers, entrepreneurs, doctors.” (time stamp: 28:05) According to Bohlen, the reason for the emigration is the dissatisfaction of Germans due to the…
On February 20, 2025, three days before the federal election in Germany, Alice Weidel, party leader of the AfD, claimed during the “Wahl 2025 Schlussrunde” on ARD and ZDF that the reason for the steadily rising health insurance contributions are the millions of people who were allowed into the statutory health insurance system by political…
In the FDP party`s election program for the federal election in February 2025 the party addresses the question whether the speed limit would make German highways safer and save a lot of carbon dioxide. The party declares: „No, both is not right.” This factcheck focuses on the second part of that claim. Especially because the…
On May 27, 2025, Thorsten Frei, Head of the German Chancellery, stated on the ARD talk show Maischberger: “Everyone who works full-time earns enough to live on”. This statement is false. The Context: A Heated Debate on Work and Wages On May 27, 2025, CDU politician and Head of the German Chancellery Thorsten Frei appeared…
On January 8, 2025, Friedrich Merz, the Federal Chancellor of Germany, stated in an interview with the newspaper Welt that “Dual citizenship will thus become the rule in our citizenship law” and that “it will bring additional problems into the country.” To assess this statement, we first examine whether dual citizenship has indeed become the…
On January 11, 2024, the German extreme-right party „Alternative for Germany“ published an article in its digital member magazine afdkompakt.de claiming that immigration costs Germany €6 trillion, which is seen as evidence for the need of remigration. The source for this statement is a study published in January by economist Bernd Raffelhüschen. The AfD’s interpretation…
On 20 July 2024, the former Federal Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Sigmar Gabriel, stated on X that many young people being a part of GenZ and the Millennials are not willing to work. He said: “At the top and at the bottom:…
In an article by “Welt.de” from May 2025 a squirrel aid-worker (in Berlin, Germany) is being quoted saying: “Es ist dramatisch – bei den Eichhörnchen ist der Beginn des Aussterbens da” (English: “It’s dramatic – the squirrels are on the verge of extinction”). This claim turns out to be mostly false. In order to verify…
In a letter dated June 25, 2024, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claimed: “Many Member States are looking at innovative strategies to prevent irregular migration by tackling asylum applications further from the EU’s external borders.” However, a closer examination shows that very few countries are actively pursuing such plans and concrete results are…