My earlier post on upset students behaving badly that morphed into your now standard ‘immigrants behaving badly’ BikeBQ in downtown Brussels this evening gave the home of the European Union a little taste of the misery they’ve been so willing to inflict on their member states for over a decade.
Then again, the Belgian capital, by its own admission, has an overly large non-Belgian population consisting of non-Europeans.
…The Brussels-Capital Region has the smallest proportion of people from a neighbouring country: 13.4% compared to 18.7% at national level. This region also has the largest proportion of people with a nationality of origin outside the European Union: 61.6%, compared to 59.8% in Flanders and 41.2% in Wallonia.
And the overall figures of foreign-born in the city could well be what we consider ‘stratospheric.’
...According to Statbel (the Belgian Statistical Office), in 2020, taking into account the nationality of birth of the parents, 74.3% of the population of the Brussels-Capital Region was of foreign origin and 41.8% was of non-European origin (including 28.7% of African origin). Among those aged under 18, 88% were of foreign origin and 57% of non-European origin (including 42.4% of African origin).
In one sense, that’s not surprising – the city is, after all, the capital not only of Belgium but of the far-flung European Union. Naturally, it attracts families from across the world. On the other hand, it is ground zero for the most disastrous immigration policies ever foisted on willing and semi-willing countries and seems to have collected more than its fair share of supplicants from African and Middle Eastern countries.
Or maybe what it deserved.
YMMV.
This attitude permeates every facet of the EU operation, from the Brussels Brahmins to their courts in Luxembourg.
The Germans, who have been grappling with their collective guilt over immigrants wearing out their welcome, still retain an inexplicable fondness for the East German hag whose scheme originally opened the floodgates for millions of welfare beneficiaries to pour into their cities and towns. These once-welcome, still coddled, mostly unassimilated immigrants have changed the face of many of those places, quite possibly forever.
Many Germans, reluctant to say so out of both a feeling of guilt and a vindictive federal government that arrests people for doing so, would like them to leave. If they can’t leave immediately, they want them off a lucrative and comfortable public dole that has left taxpaying Germans stranded and freezing to death in their dotages, which the state once promised to see them through.
There had been early hope that the German chancellor they elected as a compromise, Friedrick Merz, would follow through on his promises to begin deportations (or remigrations), but he went back on that promise almost as soon as his butt hit the chancellor’s chair.
Immigration reform efforts have come in fits and spurts since, all under the withering crossfire of the populist Alternativ for Germany’s (AfD) party leader, Alice Weidel, whose rise in the polls to, at the time, the second most popular party in the country was based on their hardline migrant stance.
Under tremendous pressure from the German people growing restless at the enormous national treasure being spent on welfare recipients, the economic pressure of paying for beneficiaries who did nothing to help sustain themselves, and rising crime rates solely attributable to specific newcomer nationalities, Merz, his Christian Democrat Union (CDU) party, and coalition partners began to hammer out the beginnings of reform to the migrant issues.
Mind you, all of this was being done in the Bundestag without any consultation or cooperation from the Number Two party in the country – the AfD. The cordon sanitaire or firewall was holding fast, isolating the right-wing group from exercising any part in governing.
One obvious fix they settled on was to cut the very generous German benefits of migrants with deportation orders as well, reflecting their temporary status.
Makes sense, no?
In 2022, a young Afghan man was facing deportation, had his bennies cut, and he filed a lawsuit over it.
The European Court of Justice has finally ruled on the case, and once again, the German people lose.
Make sure you read what the lawbreaker – which is why he was being deported – was still receiving vice what had been taken away before the ECJ ordered it to be restored.
Even when European countries manage to take some minuscule action against asylum seekers and the various pull factors that keep illegal immigrants coming to Europe, the continent’s highest court is often there to overturn the will of governments and voters.
In this case, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg has ruled that the reduction of social benefits in Germany for rejected asylum seekers violates European Union law.
…The legal battle originated from a lawsuit filed against the Bavarian district of Schweinfurt by a young Afghan man. In 2022, following a deportation order to Romania, his benefits were reduced. While he continued to receive food, heated accommodation, hygiene products, and healthcare, he was denied any financial allowance for clothing and household products.
In their final ruling, the judges in Luxembourg clarified that clothing constitutes one of the “most elementary needs.” Furthermore, the court emphasized that cash benefits intended for daily requirements, such as transportation tickets, communication devices such as phones, or personal care items, are absolutely necessary to ensure a “minimum level of participation in social and cultural life.”
Holy CRAP.
Now, just because he was ordered deported doesn’t mean on a plane to Romania overnight. It can take literally years, if ever, and look at how the Germans have to subsidize this criminal.
That’s infuriating, right? Well, multiply that times the people who have been ordered to leave the country but are still hanging around because the living is so easy.
In 2024, that number was over 70,000 grifters and leeches, who have just now been legitimized by the EU court.
More than 70,000 people who were legally required to leave Germany were still receiving state benefits at the end of 2024, according to federal figures, exposing the scale of a benefits system that is no longer fit for purpose.
The data, cited by the Merkur news outlet after inquiries to federal authorities, show that 12,005 recipients of benefits under the Asylum Seekers’ Benefits Act were subject to enforceable departure orders. A further 58,705 recipients had “tolerated status” while also being legally obligated to leave the country.
Together, that meant over 70,000 people who should, at least in principle, no longer remain in Germany were still being supported by the state at German taxpayers’ expense.
As of Feb. 28, 2026, Germany’s Central Register of Foreigners recorded 235,485 people as required to leave the country. Of those, 194,131 had “tolerated status,” meaning deportation had been temporarily suspended, while 41,354 had no such protection. Tolerated status can apply for several reasons, including war in the country of origin, fear of political persecution, serious illness, or family ties inside Germany.
The largest national groups among those required to leave were from Turkey, with 25,652 cases, followed by Iraq with 20,770, Afghanistan with 12,888, Russia with 11,938, and Syria with 10,718.
Under German law, many of those individuals remain eligible for support through the Asylum Seekers’ Benefits Act, which provides a lower level of assistance than the citizen’s benefit and is intended to cover basic needs such as accommodation, food, and medical care. Those with tolerated status are legally entitled to reduced support even if deportation remains the formal objective.
Germans finally manage to get their limp-wristed, sclerotic government moving on migrants, only to get kicked in the teeth at the next level independent of the Germans paying for it.
They are starting to feel differently about the collective guilt that led many of them to agree with the AfD but vote for the CDU as the ‘safe’ and socially acceptable alternative.
More and more Germans want the bricks in the firewall preventing AfD from participating in government removed.
I can’t imagine why.
It’s also exposing the division between the two halves of the country. East Germans have been where West Germany is taking the country, and they have no intention of going there again.
Germany’s long-running “firewall” that sees the country’s legacy parties exclude cooperation with the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) is moving further out of step with a large section of the electorate, with new polling showing voters now evenly divided over the governing CDU’s refusal to work with the nationalist party.
According to the latest Deutschlandtrend survey by Infratest Dimap for ARD and Welt, 47 percent of Germans now say the CDU’s exclusion of cooperation with the AfD is not right, while the same proportion say it is right. That marks a significant shift since September 2024, with opposition to the stance rising by 12 points and support falling by 13 points.
The figures come as the AfD remains Germany’s strongest party in the national polling. Infratest Dimap puts the AfD unchanged on 27 percent, ahead of the CDU/CSU on 23 percent, with the Greens on 14 percent, the SPD on 13 percent, and the Left Party on 10 percent. The FDP and BSW would both remain below the five-percent threshold for entering parliament.
The CDU’s position still has clearer backing among its own voters, with 62 percent of CDU/CSU supporters saying the exclusion of cooperation with the AfD is right. However, the wider national picture suggests the policy is no longer backed by a clear public majority.
The east-west divide is particularly stark on the AfD question. In western Germany, a narrow majority still supports excluding cooperation with the AfD (50 percent in favor to 45 percent against). In the east, where the AfD has built some of its strongest support, a clear majority opposes the CDU’s stance (58 percent against to 38 percent in favor).
The poll also points to a deeper crisis of confidence in Germany’s established parties. Only half of respondents said they support their preferred party out of conviction, while 46 percent said their choice was driven by disappointment with the alternatives. When the same question was asked in 2018, 61 percent said conviction was the main reason for their party preference.
There is also the problem of explaining to the voting public how and why the most popular political party in the country, and previously voted in with the second most seats, is iced out of its rightful place in the process by a coalition made up of parties that it seems only about three people voted for. Some barely got enough votes to make the cut for seats in the Bundestag at all.
🇩🇪 Germany Poll shows an AfD far ahead in 1st place 🇪🇺
The latest poll puts the AfD (ESN) firmly in first place, 7 points ahead of CDU/CSU. If replicated in an election, it would mark the strongest result in AfD’s history. 📊
🔵 AfD (ESN) on 29%
⚫ CDU/CSU (EPP) on 22%
🌹 SPD… pic.twitter.com/lfLGd96h8c— EU Made Simple (@EU_Made_Simple) June 3, 2026
As long as the European Union and its legal arms continue to enforce EU law on citizens of what used to be sovereign countries, parties like AfD are only going to get stronger.
The peasants slaving in the collective are restless and tired of paying with treasure, their standard of living, their national identity, and their very lives for the great social experiment.
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