Economist Podcasts — An interview with Alice Weidel
56 claims analyzed
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No Syrians have been sent back from Germany to Syria.
No other country has spent as much as Germany on financial and military support for Ukraine.
The rocket system referred to as the Eggis rocket system can carry nuclear devices.
The German government does not enforce the existing requirement for people with rejected asylum applications to leave Germany.
Germany's crime rate has been skyrocketing since the border opening in 2015.
Syrians and Afghans are the main group responsible for crimes such as rape and killing people in Germany.
People automatically receive a German passport after staying in Germany for five years.
German companies and residents had the highest energy costs in the world at the time of the interview.
The destroyed Nord Stream pipelines were worth almost thirty billion euros.
A few years ago, Muslim-descended policemen in Berlin did not shake hands with female coworkers.
A few years ago, Muslim-descended policemen in Berlin did not do swimming practices because women had previously been in the water.
Germany has spent over a hundred billion on financial and military support for Ukraine.
Rocket systems were placed near the Russian border in Romania.
Germany was paying roughly forty billion in interest at the time of the interview.
Germany's social welfare payments, mainly for foreigners, added up to fifty billion.
Under German asylum law, refugees have to return to their country when their reason for coming to Germany is gone.
A Syrian foreign minister said Syria was not taking back Syrian citizens because they are a strategic asset in Germany.
Over ninety percent of children grow up in a family comprising a man, a woman, and children.
The Alternative for Germany's program states that it would like to reform the European Union.
Donald Trump had talked with Vladimir Putin about further deliveries of diesel, oil and gas by the time of the interview.
The destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines was a state terror attack on German infrastructure.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Germany needed to send back eighty percent of Syrians.
Hundreds of thousands of qualified Germans are leaving Germany.
A German law allows people to change their gender once a year, starting at a young age.
German law requires people whose asylum applications have been rejected to leave Germany.
Syrians are the biggest group of foreign-born doctors in Germany.
The Saxony-Anhalt party manifesto calls for removing refugee children from school classrooms.
The German chancellor's party was polling below eighteen percent at the time of the interview.
Germany had nineteen nuclear power plants in the past.
Germany had zero nuclear power plants at the time of the interview.
Germany was the main financier of the European Union at the time of the interview.
When the euro was introduced, German people were promised that Germany would never take on other countries' debt.
German people were never asked about introducing the euro.
Germany's new debt program had already led to rising capital-market interest rates at the time of the interview.
Germany's debt brake was lifted in part to enable a large increase in defense spending.
About a hundred thousand German doctors are over the age of sixty.
Doctors over the age of sixty make up about a quarter of German doctors.
A recent manifesto by the party's colleagues in Saxony-Anhalt says Germany should not rely on 'culturally alien skilled workers.'
The Saxony-Anhalt party manifesto calls for removing disabled children from school classrooms.
The Saxony-Anhalt party manifesto calls for punishment for offending the German state.
The Saxony-Anhalt party manifesto says an intact family consisting of mother, father, and children is proven to be the best prerequisite for good and healthy child development.
The AfD had reached over thirty percent in federal-level polling at the time of the interview.
The Alternative for Germany came top in recent state elections in Saxony-Anhalt.
The Alternative for Germany came top in recent state elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
The Alternative for Germany was the biggest opposition group in the Bundestag at the time of the interview.
The Alternative for Germany's manifesto from the year before the interview said Germany should leave the euro.
The German government said it would reach NATO's target of spending three and a half percent of GDP on hard defense by 2029.
Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022.
Ukraine had not held an election for a new president by the time of the interview.
The American president called for a new Ukrainian presidential election.
Zelenskyy has offered an energy ceasefire.
Ukrainian representatives were in Florida talking about peace deals.
Russia emphasized its concerns about NATO's movement toward the Russian border several times.
Björn Höcke was found guilty and fined for using Nazi slogans.