The Austrian interior minister inspected troops and police and looked on as the newly formed border patrol unit held exercises to demonstrate their readiness Tuesday, in a move that has been interpreted by some as a political challenge to German leader Angela Merkel.
The crisis which could see the toppling of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has heightened after she was unable to secure any consensus or deal at an informal European summit on migration over the weekend.
An investigation into Germany’s Federal Agency for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has found that career criminals with records of murder, rape, and drug dealing have been allowed to stay in the country under the asylum law.
Austria has said it will close its border with Italy if Germany begins turning back some migrants at its border with Austria, while Italy and Malta have rejected another migrant ferry — but Spain’s new leftist government is going in the opposite direction and relaxing migration controls.
A 22-year-old asylum seeker from Mali has been found guilty in a German court of strangling a Romanian woman to death after robbing her.
Anti-mass migration national leaders in Central Europe and Italy are openly defying Germany’s Angela Merkel, who is facing political oblivion amid an asylum scandal and threats by Bavarian conservatives to walk out of her coalition government.
Almost half of German voters want Chancellor Angela Merkel to quit, according to a new poll, more than those who want her to stay on.
During the peak of tensions at the Group of Seven (G-7) summit, Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer said that Trump tossed candy onto the table in front of Angela Merkel and said, “Don’t say I never give you anything.”
BERLIN (AP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian allies responded skeptically Wednesday to the German leader’s agreement to a future eurozone budget, adding to a conflict over migration that has shaken the government. Bavaria’s Christian Social Union party is locked in
France and Germany have agreed to introduce a single Eurozone budget and shared emergency funds for the bloc, as the European Union (EU) races towards deeper, globalist integration after the Brexit vote.
The era of Angela Merkel may be coming to an end as longstanding disagreements on migration policies between her and her Bavarian allies threaten to come to a head and potentially unseat the German leader, who has been at the country’s helm since 2005.
A group of between a dozen and twenty asylum seekers armed with various weapons launched an attack on police officers attempting to move a 20-year-old Liberian to another facility.
The four people smugglers who abandoned a truck containing 71 migrants who later died by the side of a road in Hungary, in an incident which sparked the migrant crisis of 2015, have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
A failed Nigerian asylum seeker attempted to wrestle a firearm away from a police officer in the German city of Landshut leading to condemnation of the country’s migrant policies from the police union. The GdP union slammed the German federal government following
Call it “Sitting Bull in a china shop.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau started without Trump at 8:14 a.m., apologizing that they were “somewhat limited on time.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has largely abandoned support for the European Union’s migrant quota system, instead, pushing for what she has termed “flexible solidarity” and a “Marshall Plan” for Africa to prevent illegal migration.
The Czech Republic has rejected Angela Merkel’s call for external border protection to be denationalised and handed over to a Brussels-directed EU agency, stating that Europeans do not want mass migration from the third world.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been implicated in the ongoing Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) scandal with the former president of the agency claiming to have informed Merkel twice about the ongoing problems.
BERLIN, Germany: Tackling NATO nations failing to meet their alliance obligations is a key priority for President Trump, his right-hand-man in Europe has revealed in major and unprecedented remarks on the credibility of the military of the European Union’s largest economy.
Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) bankrolled by billionaire open borders campaigner George Soros, is lobbying Germany’s Angela Merkel to crack down on the Hungarian government.
Germany has vowed to preserve the “rule-based international order” of “open societies” and combat populism through the United Nations (UN) when it takes up a position at the Security Council.
BERLIN (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday it would be wrong to cancel the nuclear agreement with Iran, highlighting it as one of her main differences of opinion between Berlin and Washington. President Donald Trump announced last week
BERLIN (AP) – German economic growth slowed to 0.3 percent in the first quarter, its weakest performance in more than a year, official data showed Tuesday. The quarter-on-quarter economic growth reported by the Federal Statistical Office compared with an expansion
ASSISI, Italy (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel lamented Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull his country out of the Iran nuclear accord was making the situation in the Middle East “even more difficult” and warned Europeans to be skeptical of “easy” solutions promised by populists.
Emmanuel Macron has demanded closer and faster EU integration towards a superstate, in a speech where he vowed to “yield nothing” to conservative eastern members which believe in a Europe of strong nations.
Chanel Creative Director Karl Lagerfeld is threatening to renounce his German citizenship if Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy of open borders continues.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The leaders of Germany, France and Britain are ready to push back if the Trump administration does not permanently exempt the European Union from new import taxes on aluminum and steel imports, German Chancellor said Sunday.
“I was very honored by the report. It was totally conclusive, strong, powerful,” Trump said Friday.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) will vote to confirm Ric Grenell as the next U.S. ambassador to Germany, ensuring the confirmation of what will be the highest-ranking ever openly gay person to serve the United States government. Grenell was nominated last year to the position by President Donald Trump.
France, Germany, and the EU demand American cooperation on the Iran deal while they try to undermine President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Germany, protecting Iran and Hezbollah, fails to note the lessons of the two world wars it started: If you wish to prevent a world war, you shouldn’t empower forces that seek to initiate one.
Nearly 13 per cent of residents in central-European powerhouse Germany are now foreign-born according to the national statistics bureau, in news that comes shortly after the revelation that nearly a quarter of all Germans possess a migrant background.
A senior politician in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Union has said that Islam “makes little contribution” to the foundation of Europe and that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “holds the key” to solving the EU’s migrant problems.
Three quarters of Germans said that Islam does not belong to Germany in a new poll, in direct opposition to recent comments by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Angela Merkel has again insisted Islam is part of German culture, speaking out to contradict Interior Minister Horst Seehofer after he stressed the nation’s Christian heritage.
BERLIN (AP) — Police say a man from Afghanistan who tried to reach German Chancellor Angela Merkel as she exited Parliament has been committed to a psychiatric clinic.
Angela Merkel has been sworn in for her fourth term as German chancellor. Parliament speaker Wolfgang Schaeuble administered the oath of office to Merkel, who pledged to “dedicate my efforts to the well-being of the German people, promote their welfare
Fed up with living in Greek camps, a rising number of illegal third world migrants have been heading to Germany by aeroplane, authorities warn.
BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel has welcomed the decision by members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party to support a coalition government with the long-time chancellor.
