The presence of police on boundaries increases – DW – 05/08/2025

German’s newly-tested Chancellor Frederick Merz spoke to US President Donald Trump over the phone for the first time on Thursday.

The pair never found in the person. But Merz has expressed apprehension about the future of the transatlantic relationship under Trump.

On the night of the election, the new Chancellor said that Europeans should “get real freedom from America.”

The continent celebrates the victory in Europe Day (VE) on Thursday, a symbol of Nazi Germany’s defeat which ended the Second World War in 1945.

Many parade and other events are planned throughout Europe, which is uniquely in countries that defeated Nazi Germany.

In the United Kingdom, a service is planned at Westminster Abe in London, as well as with a large concert, the pubs are allowed to be open for a long time.

In France, President Emmanuel Macron Arc D Triumph will celebrate a traditional laying of an antelope on the tomb of an unknown soldier. A military parade is planned on the Champs-Lis.

Paris on Thursday marked with a traditional laying of a wreatrath

President Emmanuel Macron on the grave of unknown soldier

Arc de Triumph and Champs Elies with a military parade.

Germany is therefore planning events to mark the day.

The newly elected German Chanman Chanman Freedrich Merz will attend a rate laying ceremony at Berlin. Bundestag also wants its memory service.

The new Foreign Minister of Germany Johan Wadeful paid tribute to the “huge sacrifices of the Allies” in helping the Nazis to help Germany. He insisted that millions of people were “dissatisfied and persecuted by Nazi regime.”

He said in a statement, “Hardly any day has shaped our history more than May 8, 1945.” “In the memory of our historical responsibility for this violation of civilization and millions of victims of World War II, Nazi Germany, we get a mandate to protect peace and freedom in Europe today.”

For a survey on whether Germany’s democracy is at risk with statement, more than half of a survey on it.

The survey was conducted by YouGov and Sinus Research Institute, which included some 2,200 people, including 64% who said that democracy is at risk.

In the 1930s and 1940s, some 60% of the reactions between the present -day Germany and the status of affairs expressed similarities, when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party came to power and then ruled Germany.

Among the people involved in the survey, some 43% thought that the rule of a writer was likely to recur, while 59% expressed concrete apprehensions of a adjacent third world.

The survey coincides with a win in Europe (VE), which marks the necklace of Nazi Germany, which led to the end of World War II.

Some 15% of the surveyed 15% still see this day as a necklace for Germany, less than half of the population (45%) has been seen as the day of liberation of Germany.

While 67% believe that Nazi era still continues to shape the self-image of Germany, 34% see that the country’s role in WWII is given a lot of attention. Some 23% said that the role of the country in the war was rarely paid.

More than half of the reactions (57%) agreed with this statement: “We focus a lot on the dark chapter of German history.”

The survey was conducted online between 21 and 24 March, resulting in representing German adult citizens who are 18 and older.

The German police strengthened their presence on the southern and western borders of the country after the instructions of the new internal minister of Germany, police officials on Thursday told the German news agency DPA.

A Munich police spokesman told the DPA that Bavaria’s federal police in the southern state of Bavaria said that the borders with Austria and Czech Republic were tightly controlled, “

The Saalbrücke near Salzburg wants to re -install a certain outpost on the bridge.

The DPA reported that in the northern Rhine-Westphalia state, which is located on the western borders of Germany along the Netherlands and Belgium, stated that they “significantly” raise their forces on borders, the DPA.

The agency said its reporters did not inspect any stringent measures along the Netherlands on the western borders. Public broadcaster WDR said its reporters did not see any measures on the Belgian border.

A police spokesperson told DW that several border checks in NRW follow the mobile system concept.

The spokesperson said, “If you don’t see us, it is good, because it is the mex that we need to survey, so we will not see,” the spokesperson said.

On Wednesday, and on its first day in the office, Conservative Christian Social Democrats (CSU) internal minister Alexander Dobrid announced that Germany would return to shelter seekers, except the “weak” groups discovered as pregnant women and children.

According to the instructions of the new internal minister Alexander Dobridt, the new government of Germany raced on the ground with an increase in border checks in the south and west of the country, which announced yesterday that the country would return to shelters.

Megils in Berlin, officers Victory Day (VE) and Nazi are preparing to mark the necklace of Germany, while the new Chancellor Merz has braces the bracese for his first call with US President Trump.

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