I'm not familiar with "The Local" media publication. When I encounter new sources I have taken to researching them since there is so much non-credible sources being cited recently.

For everyone's FYI, this how "The Local descibes itself: Our philosophy
We believe that the better you understand the world around you, the more you can contribute to it. People who live and think internationally are agents of progress. They spread ideas and knowledge, connect minds and resources, and increase tolerance and understanding.

The Local supports these modern pioneers by boosting their understanding of the countries they live in, move to, visit or do business with.

Balanced and accurate local reporting is fundamental to democracy and to our individual audience members' ability to participate in their community. We recognize our responsibility to cover our countries faithfully and we will challenge willful misrepresentations of these countries by other media, commentators or politicians.

Our audience
The five million people who read The Local each month are well-educated and well-informed. They have influential jobs in forward-looking sectors and an outward-facing perspective on life that makes them internationally adaptable. They want their news to be sourced locally, not delivered through the filter of a national news brand thousands of miles away.

Similarly, news desks around the world trust The Local's coverage as the basis for their own foreign news articles, regularly citing our reports and seeking guidance from our journalists.
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The Local is a multi-regional, European, English-language digital news publisher with local editions in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Each site, while alike in appearance, has separate editorial teams, each focused on its respective market. Coverage is purely domestic in each country, and includes current events, politics, business, sports and culture, as well as analysis and opinion.

The parent company The Local Europe AB, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, also owns English-language discussion forums in Germany (Toytown Germany) and Switzerland (English Forum).

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Apparently, controlled immigration is racism nowadays. Many people want to hold on their cultures while the globalist economy wants to flood European countries with cheap labour. The extremists are a natural response to this. They tend to think of immigrants as the enemy when it is really their governments who are obeying the dictates of big business.

It’s very worrying...not just in Germany but in most of the Eastern European countries which were formerly Warsaw Pact countries prior to the fall of communism.