I am aware of that regarding /r/germany (thus my mention of the constant "I want to move to Germany" posts); that said, there is no shortage of English-language news coverage of the issue. Same for /r/europe.

While I do not have personal experience with /r/germany's moderators as I do with /r/europe's, if they are similar (likely, given how much inbreeding there is in big subreddits' mod teams), I suspect that submissions of said news coverage is being suppressed to avoid blurring The Message(TM).