(REUTERS) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said the European Union needed to establish migrant deals with African countries such as Egypt and Tunisia along the lines of the agreement it already has with Turkey.
After a series of shock defeats to the anti-mass migration AfD party, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised to “stop illegal immigration” and send failed asylum seekers back to their home nations.
(REUTERS) – Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Germany needed “viable solutions” to integrate refugees into the workforce faster after she met blue-chip companies that have hired just over 100 refugees since around a million arrived last year.
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(AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party on Monday digested another stinging poll loss, in Berlin state elections, and the relentless rise of the right-wing populist AfD which rails against her liberal refugee policy.
The Christian Democratic Union, the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have had their worst election result ever in the German capital of Berlin.
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives look set to suffer a second electoral blow in two weeks in a Berlin city vote on Sunday as a growing number of voters are expected to express their unease with her
Britain will invoke Article 50, triggering the process to leave the European Union, in January or February EU Officials have claimed, following confidential talks with the Prime Minister Theresa May. Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, told a
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Germany needed “viable solutions” to integrate refugees into the workforce faster after she met with blue-chip companies, which have hired just over 100 refugees since around a million arrived in the country last year.
This week’s terror arrests in Germany are a direct result of Angela Merkel’s decision to open the borders to over a million migrants last year, the Bavarian Interior Minister has said. Joachim Herrmann, who is a member of the Christian
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government dismissed charges on Monday that it has become “incapacitated” because of its failure to agree on a strategy on the refugee question that has sent Chancellor Angela Merkel’s approval ratings falling to five-year lows.
(REUTERS) – Germany, France and Italy should not be allowed to dictate the European Union’s response to Britain’s planned exit from the bloc, Austria’s finance minister said, adding he was surprised how relaxed the EU response to the vote has been.
Chancellor Angela Merkel hit back at critics of her open-door migrant policy on Wednesday after her conservative CDU party was humiliated in a regional vote, urging all parties to fight the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) with facts.
Donald Trump has labelled mass migration to France and Germany a “disaster”, stating that open borders policies are “destroying Europe”.
After the Alternative for Germany (AfD) populist party handed Angela Merkel’s CDU party a humiliating defeat in her home state Sunday, the victors are saying that the Chancellor brought this on herself with her woeful immigrant policy.
(AFP) Europe is “close to limits” on its ability to accept new waves of refugees, EU President Donald Tusk said Sunday, urging the broader international community to shoulder its share of the burden.
A year after suspending EU rules and inviting “no upper limit” of migrants to Germany, Angela Merkel has admitted she made a mistake.
(Reuters) – The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) has overtaken Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) in a pre-election poll in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cicero magazine said on Wednesday. The poll, conducted by the Insa Institute for
Support for Angela Merkel’s conservatives has slipped as more voters turn to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), a poll showed on Wednesday, a year after the chancellor prompted criticism by saying Germany would cope with the migrant crisis.
More than 300,000 of the million plus ‘refugees’ who entered Germany illegally last year are working illegally in the country.
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel says the influx of migrants won’t fundamentally change Germany, a year after she first insisted that “we will manage” the refugee crisis. Merkel said in an interview with the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung published Wednesday
Bavaria’s finance minister has recommended Germany send migrants home, as integrating such a large number of people from such foreign cultures is impossible. Markus Söder said that rather than facilitating family reunions, politicians should push for the “return of several hundreds of thousands
The TTIP negotiations, designed to forge a trade deal between the EU and the USA have collapsed, German’s economy minister has announced.
(AFP) – The refusal of some EU countries to accept Muslim refugees is “unacceptable”, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday as Germany called for quotas to divide the influx throughout the bloc. “That’s not right at all that some countries say:
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top migration official expects fewer than 300,000 migrants will come to the country this year. Frank-Juergen Weise says his agency is planning for between 250,000 and 300,000 new arrivals in 2016. The head of the Federal
A man has allegedly attempted to “assassinate” German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a trip to the Czech Republic, which was marked by a series of anti-mass migration and anti-EU protests.
European Union (EU) leaders are storming ahead with their plans to create a pan-EU army, insisting that a joint defence force is necessary to combat Islamic terrorism and other threats. Standing on the deck of the Italian aircraft carrier the
(AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Tuesday on the EU and North African countries to do deals modelled on a controversial agreement with Turkey to stem migrant flows to Europe. Under the EU-Turkey agreement, Ankara agreed to take back
The leaders of Germany, France and Italy will meet on Monday to discuss how to keep the European project together in the second set of talks between the premiers of the euro zone’s three largest economies since Britain’s shock vote to leave the bloc.
(REUTERS) – Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited executives from some of Germany’s biggest listed companies to attend a summit next month where she will urge them to hire more refugees, the newspaper Bild reported on Saturday.
Approval ratings for German Chancellor Angela Merkel fell sharply last month, a poll showed on Friday, in the second sign of a voter backlash to her refugee policy since Islamist militant attacks in Germany last month.
Germans are ‘fleeing’ to Hungary to escape Angela Merkel’s open door mass migration policy, saying that they fear “civil war”. Hailing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the German ‘immigrants’ say that he has protected his country against “Muslims, intruders and economic migrants”.
Instead of rectifying migration policy, the establishment will adapt its security measures. Then, the peoples of Europe will not only be harmed by the horrible wrong of mass migration but also by an ever-expanding surveillance state
Politicians have admitted that Germany’s recent influx of migrants is set to cost taxpayers at least €30 billion a year.
Angela Merkel and her “very dangerous” migrant policy are more of a threat to European democracy than Islamic State, U.S. professor claims.
Immigrant members of the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) “Union of Diversity” network have warned that the governing party has been infiltrated by Erdoğan loyalists. The 131 page report, which looks at the influence of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkish
(REUTERS) – Bavaria’s premier, whose state bore the brunt of recent attacks in Germany, took aim at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy on Saturday by rejecting her “we can do this” mantra.
MUNICH/BERLIN, July 30 (Reuters) – Bavaria’s premier, whose state bore the brunt of recent attacks in Germany, took aim at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy on Saturday by rejecting her “we can do this” mantra. The comments from Horst
While politicians and journalists rush to tell Europeans that rejecting mass migration from Muslim countries “is what ISIS wants”, police in Italy and France are investigating Mohamed Bouhlel’s links to No Borders activism.
A satirical German magazine has published a front cover mocking Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by depicting him with a fake penis – after Chancellor Angela Merkel approved the prosecution of German comedians who insult the Islamist leader.
