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• Report: Berlin fears German being groomed as suicide bomber

  1 July 2008, by Earth Times
  Police fear that a convert, Eric B, 20, is being groomed by Jihadists to become the first German suicide bomber, according to the news magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday. German police had lost track of B several weeks ago in the wilds in or near Afghanistan, where he was in training with Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an Uzbek-origin terrorist group regarded as just as threatening as Arab-based al-Qaeda.

• Islamist Angst: How Germany Is Dismantling Civil Rights amid Terror Fears

  30 June 2008, by Spiegel Online
  Germany has so far been spared a bloody Islamist terror attack. But it only took two planned attacks in Germany to persuade a majority of the population to support a massive dismantling of civil rights.

• Fraunhofer Symposium Future Security

  25 June 2008, by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
  These annual conferences were initiated by defence research institutes. They hope that the internal security programme launched by the federal government in 2006 will make good for the shrinking defence research contracts.

• Europe’s internal and external borders

  25 June 2008, by cilip
  It offers an excellent comprehensive update of the emerging border control regimes in Europe with particular reference to Germany

• Ein Blick in die Mitte. Zur Entstehung rechtsextremer und demokratischer Einstellungen in Deutschland

  24. Juni 2008, von Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Berlin
  Im November 2006 publizierte die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung die Studie «Vom Rand zur Mitte». In dieser Repräsentativbefragung wurde mit einem Fragebogen das Ausmaß rechtsextremer Einstellungen in Deutschland erhoben. Erneut unter der wissenschaftlichen Leitung der Leipziger Wissenschaftler Dr. Oliver Decker und Prof. Dr. Elmar Brähler ist nun eine Nachfolgestudie im Auftrag der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung entstanden, die die Frage nach den Ursachen für rechtsextreme Einstellungen vertieft behandelt.

• German Government Approves Plan To Share Information With US

  9 June 2008, by NSDAQ
  Germany Wednesday approved a disputed plan to share more information on terror suspects with the U.S. in a deal Washington hopes will be a model for cooperation with other countries. Separately, the cabinet also granted sweeping new powers to federal police for online searches of computers to prevent terror attacks and other serious crimes, in a second measure that has raised hackles among civil libertarians.

• Islamic Terrorism Biggest Threat to Germany, Minister Says

  4 June 2008, by DW World
  Islamic terrorism is the greatest threat to the security and stability of Germany, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in Berlin on Thursday, May 15. Germany had been lucky to escape terrorist attacks because of preventive measures taken by the security services, the minister said in presenting the annual report of the nation’s domestic intelligence service.

• Germany: Threat of Islamic terrorism ’consistently high’, says report

  3 June 2008, by Adnkronos
  The threat of Islamic terrorism in Germany remained high in 2007, according to an annual report by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The report said Islamic militants are increasingly setting their sights on Germany and view the country as an «operational area» and that Islamists regard Germany as a «crusader» and as an ally of the United States and Israel. American, Israeli and British institutions were at high risk, said the report, as well as Russian targets, due to the ongoing conflict in Chechnya. As an example, the report mentioned the arrests of militants on 4 September 2007, when three individuals allegedly planned attacks on American institutions in Germany and were caught with bomb-making material.

• German Islamist Appears in New Jihad Video

  2 June 2008, by Spiegel Online
  Two short films have appeared on the Internet featuring the German Islamist Eric B. in which he calls his «brothers» to join the jihad. The authorities have been hunting him for weeks, fearful that he could be preparing a terrorist attack in Kabul. The video messages are fanning those fears. The news spread like wildfire through the offices of Germany’s intelligence agencies.

• German Federal Constitutional Court : Judgment 7 May 2008 (2 BvE 1/03)

  20 May 2008, by Besselink Leonard F. M.
  The deployment of German soldiers in AWACS aircraft above Turkey in the war against Iraq in spring 2003, required the consent of the Bundestag (the German Federal Parliament).

• Trittbrettfahrer der sozialen Frage

  5. Mai 2008, von Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund
  Die DGB Broschüre antwortet auf in jüngster Zeit festgestellte Tendenzen wonach die eigenen Gewerkschaftsmitglieder besonders anfällig für autoritäre Krisenlösungen sind (siehe Bodo Zeuner und andere). Der Text arbeitet heraus, wie NPD und andere rechtsradikale Strömungen versuchen, die soziale Frage mit nationalistischen Antworten gegen Migranten und Globalisierung zu vermischen.

• German constitutional challenge on Data Retention

  22 April 2008, by Lodge Juliet
  The complaint challenging the German data retention law in front of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has become the biggest constitutional case in German history with the submission of more than 34000 signatures backing up the action. The Working Group on Data Retention has also prepared an amicus curiae brief that it wants to submit to the European Court of Justice in the case Ireland vs. the Data Retention Directive and that can be signed by other NGOs.

• Provisional decision to block partially the German data retention implementing act

  8 April 2008, by Bundesverfassungsgericht
  After 30,000 Germans filed a class-action suit, Germany’s constitutional court in Karlsruhe blocked large parts of a new data-collection bill lawmakers say will help stop terror attacks. Opponents say it goes too far. A court in Karlsruhe unplugged a new German data-collection law that would have allowed the government easy access to phone and internet records. Germany’s highest court has dramatically limited the scope of a German data-collection law which politicians said would help prevent terrorist attacks.

• Berlin Exhibition Closes after Muslim Threats

  3 April 2008, by Spiegel Online
  A Berlin gallery has closed an exhibition of satirical art by the controversial Danish group Surrend after receiving threats from a group of Muslims. The men were objecting to a picture of the Kaaba at Mecca under the title «Dumb Stone.» Eighteen months ago, the severed head of Muhammad was enough to get an opera temporarily cancelled in Berlin. This time around, it’s an irreverent image of the Kaaba in Mecca that has caused an exhibition in the German capital to shut its doors.

• Rechtsstaat unter Bewährungsdruck

  2. April 2008, von Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
  Der Rechtsstaat steht unter Druck. Schon die Bekämpfung der so genannten Organisierten Kriminalität hat den staatlichen Zugriff auf die private Kommunikation erheblich erweitert – Stichwort: Großer Lauschangriff. Der nach dem 11. September 2001 ausgerufene «War on Terror» bedeutet eine neue Dimension im Verhältnis von staatsfreier Privatsphäre und einem präventiv handelnden «Sicherheitsstaat».

• Biometrie in der Zutrittskontrolle

  2. April 2008, von Baier Konrad
  Es ist davon auszugehen, dass biometrische Systeme in den kommenden Jahren zur Standardausstattung eines modernen Unternehmens gehören werden. Der dicke Schlüsselbund gehört dann der Vergangenheit an.

• Public Image and Social Acceptance of Nanotechnologies

  2 April 2008, by Könninger Sabine, Ott Ingrid, Papilloud Christian, Zülsdorf Torben
  To understand the motives of the public to support technological innovations is essential for several reasons. On the one hand, it enables to build an «acceptable social balance » but it allows to consider the civil society as an active partner in the diffusion of technological innovation as well. In the case of nanotechnologies, defective information exists about the way in which the public constructs a relationship to such abstract technologies. These defectives have to be rounded out by paying attention to the

• Fünf Jahre Hartz - Eine Bilanz aus Sicht des DGB

  1. April 2008, von Buntenbach Annelie
  The paper establihs a balance, five year aftre the vote of the so called Hartz-legislation (about flexicurity on the german labour market). The author, member of the federal direction of the german union DGB, underlines the strong, structural changes due to the new legislation, although the main aim of the Hartz comission to reduce the unemployement rate by 50% has been failed.

• Solidarität und Ausgrenzung. Benachteiligte Gruppen im Meinungsbild der Bevölkerung. Eine soziologisch-empirische Studie. Sachsen-Anhalt

  28. März 2008, von Fokus
  The sociological study is based on an empirical inquiry among eastern-german voters in the region of Sachsen-Anhalt. Il intends to show the social visions of voters as a contribution to the comprehension of extreme right-wing motivations, such as seen in the regional elections of Sachsen-Anhalt since 2000.

• EU Judicial Cooperation: Member States’ initiative on «in absentia» judgments

  25 March 2008, by European Council
  Initiative of the Republic of Slovenia, the French Republic, the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Slovak Republic, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany with a view to adopting a Council Framework Decision 2008/…/JHA on the enforcement of decisions rendered in absentia and amending Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States

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