People belonging to extremist organisations, including the far-right AfD party, will be blocked from taking up government ...

Germany's Civil Service Association, which has some 1.3 million members, is similarly skeptical. The German Trade Union Confederation even believes the reform could backfire, because those ...

Education minister Karin Prien told officials that they must stop inserting the ‘gender asterisk’ into nouns and written ...

Germany denies 'structural' far-right extremism issue 10/06/2020 October 6, 2020. A new report shows that less than 1% of German civil servants have far-right sympathies — but there were still ...

Some politicians and civil rights activists also want new background checks and a full investigation of the civil service. “Germany hasn’t seen this kind of moral panic since the ’60s, when ...

Germany may reintroduce a form of national service for civilians to help the army deal with a future disaster. The role of civilians is part of a new civil defence strategy to be discussed by the ...