Overview

• Between January and May, schools recorded 195 right-wing extremist incidents, a year-on-year decrease of about one third.
• Cases of xenophobic acts dropped to 57 (down 8 percent) and antisemitic incidents were halved to 13 over the same timeframe.
• Police registered 519 politically motivated offences at schools last year, including 336 right-wing crimes up 30 percent, underscoring a disconnect between school and law enforcement data.
• The education ministry has made reporting of extremist, antisemitic, or racist incidents to school authorities mandatory and shifted youth-program funding to support the Strong Teachers, Strong Students initiative.
• Minister Steffen Freiberg has urged greater recognition of youth associations as partners in political education beyond the classroom.