STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) – German left-wing demonstrators clashed with police on Saturday as they tried to break up the first full conference of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany where Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policies came under attack. Police counted up
German Deputy Chancellor Horst Seehofer has warned against the proposed visa-free entry for Turkish citizens, saying Turkey will only bring its problems to Europe. Seehofer, who is the head of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and coalition partner of German
President Obama criticized the growing emphasis on border security in response to the Syrian migrant crisis in Europe, calling for more acceptance and empathy from Europeans for the plight of migrants.
President Obama defended German Chancellor Angela Merkel for willingly embracing Syrian refugees in her country, praising her for being on the “right side of history” on the issue.
Obama acknowledged there was popular opposition. “People are unsettled by globalisation,” he said. “People visibly see a plant moving and jobs lost and the narrative develops that this is weakening rather than strengthening the position of ordinary people and ordinary workers.”
Contents: Europe goes on charm offensive with Turkey on migrant deal; Bangladesh in shock after university professor hacked to death; FBI offers to help investigate Bangladesh murders
TEL AVIV – Two days after the bus bombing in Jerusalem, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement posted a chilling video on its Facebook page calling on young Palestinians to become martyrs by carrying out stabbing attacks against Israelis.
Ex-Senator and best selling author Thilo Sarrazin says Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy is a disaster for Germany. Thilo Sarrazin came to prominence in Germany in 2010 after he wrote a book entitled, “Germany Abolishes Itself.” His work broke sales records for non-fiction
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party is joining forces with the environmentalist Greens and the center-left Social Democrats to freeze out a nationalist party in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Merkel’s Christian Democrats came first in last month’s
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partner says new integration deal is good but doesn’t go far enough and maintains his threat to take Merkel to court if she doesn’t act to close borders. Horst Seehofer, leader of the Bavarian Christian Social
The Turkish community in Berlin has rejected out of hand plans by the German government to forcibly integrate Muslims. A new plan was revealed Thursday by the German coalition government to tie migrant benefits to their willingness to learn German
(Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government agreed on Thursday to require migrants granted residence rights to show willingness to integrate by learning German and seeking work or see their benefits cut. Ending months of disagreement, Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU),
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats agreed on Wednesday to hold coalition talks with the Greens in one western state, a party spokesman said, potentially fuelling a debate on whether the two could form a national government
Europe’s suicidal green energy policies are killing at least 4o,000 people a year. That’s just the number estimated to have died in the winter of 2014 because they were unable to afford fuel bills driven artificially high by renewable energy tariffs.
The Turkish state is pushing to have a satirical video mocking president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan banned in Germany, summoning Germany’s top diplomat in Turkey the foreign ministry for a dressing down. The catchy “Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan [Erdo-how, Erdo-where, Erdoğan]” song
At least 34 people are dead and many more injured as a result of the latest Islamist terrorist atrocity in Europe – in Brussels, this time. But apparently – so the left-liberal tastemakers assure us – it is too early to make political
Contents: EU will start returning migrants to Turkey on Sunday; UN and others object to EU-Turkey deal on humanitarian grounds; Greece’s refugee camp at Idomeni becomes disgusting an explosive
(Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday a draft European Union deal withTurkey would be decisive to easing Europe’s migrant crisis but made clear the bloc would not compromise democratic principles to win over Ankara. Speaking on the
German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood firm Monday on her refugee policy, despite a drubbing in regional elections described as a “debacle” in which disgruntled voters turned to the anti-migrant AfD. Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was at the receiving end
(Reuters) – There is no question that Germany has benefited from the closure of the Balkan migrant route north into Europe, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday, though she vowed to press ahead with her quest for a Europe-wide solution
The President of Macedonia has laid into the German Chancellor for exposing all of Europe to jihadi terror and a migrant influx — which could potentially reach 20 million — due to her open invitation to so-called ‘refugees’. “The refugee
Sunday’s Politico.EU notes that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s reign as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and therefore of her country may not be long for this world. While the odds of the powerful Mrs. Merkel being deposed are
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party suffered a major setback in key state polls Sunday over her liberal refugee policy, while the right-wing populist AfD recorded a surge as it scooped up support from angry voters. Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
(AFP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party braced for a backlash at key state polls Sunday over the German leader’s liberal refugee policy, while the right-wing populist AfD prepared to scoop up the protest vote from angry voters. More than 12
(AFP) – Populist party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) began life at the height of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis in 2013 on an anti-euro platform. But as fears over a potential euro collapse waned and concerns turned to the 1.1 million
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germans vote in three regional state elections on Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives at risk of setbacks that would weaken her just as she tries to push through a deal to resolve Europe’s migrant crisis. Migration
A key coalition partner in the government of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the new visa-free travel deal with Turkey will lead to a surge of new migrants. Domestic Policy spokesman for the Christian Social Union of Bavaria
On hate speech, social media companies are enthusiastically liking, retweeting, and faving national governments. In December, the German government announced that they had secured the co-operation of Facebook, Google and Twitter in removing “hate speech” from their platforms. A wave
Contents: Bizarre EU-Turkey one-for-one refugee deal meets strong opposition; Europe faces two additional major crises: Grexit and Brexit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said “closing borders” is “not an option” and demanded a sentence declaring the “western Balkans [migrant] route closed” is crossed out in a statement from the European Union (EU) summit with Turkish leaders today. EU
Contents: Number of women and children refugees to Europe surges; EU and Turkey meet in Brussels for major showdown over refugees; Death of Nancy Reagan reminds us of generational differences
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, saying it stirs up prejudice and polarises society. Her comments, made in an interview with the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, reflect growing unease among Germany’s mainstream parties
(Reuters) – Greece needs to deliver quickly on its promise to provide accommodation for 50,000 refugees and the European Union should help Athens with this task, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a media interview published on Saturday. Austria, one
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has refused to back down over her open borders migration policy, saying in a televised interview that there is “no point in believing that I can solve the problem through the unilateral closure of borders.” “I
Mark Zuckerberg praised Germany for their “inspiring” refugee policies during a visit to the country and reiterated his commitment to combating “hate speech” on Facebook.
Contents: Greece facing humanitarian crisis with thousands of refugees on Macedonia border; Tsipras: ‘Greece will not become a warehouse for souls’; Greece recalls ambassador to Austria as refugee crisis worsens
German authorities do not know the whereabouts of 130,000 migrants, the government confessed today. It means that more than one in ten unvetted new arrivals from the Middle East have disappeared, somewhere in Europe. Of the 1.1 million migrants who registered
GOP front runner Donald Trump tells Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon that Germany’s Angela Merkel is “a catastrophic leader” and that “she’ll be out if they don’t have a revolution.”
Contents: Car bomb attack on military in Ankara Turkey kills 28; Erdogan slams US, UN policy, renews demand by Syria ‘safe zone’
The chairman of the centre-right Free Democratic Party of Germany, Christian Lindner, said Angela Merkel’s credibility will be “badly tarnished” if she fails to win a European deal for the migrant crisis at the next European Union (EU) summit, such that she
