German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom Time magazine chose as Person of the Year, largely for her decision to welcome immigrants into the country, said Sunday that multiculturalism is a “grand delusion.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she wanted to “drastically decrease” the number of refugees coming to Germany, signalling a compromise to critics of her open-door policy from within her conservatives on the eve of a party congress. Merkel has
BERLIN (AP) — The latest on the influx of people into Europe. All times local: 3:50 p.m. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reinforced her opposition to setting a limit to the number of refugees the country can take in. The
Contents: Decaying stadiums from 2004 Athens Olympics have new lives housing migrants; Greece transports migrants from Macedonian border back to Athens; Migrants blocked from Macedonia face difficult choices
It not only passed over Donald Trump for Man of the Year–Time Magazine also is releasing an unflattering gif of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump slams Time Magazine and its decision to name German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the Person of the Year.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named Time Magazine‘s person of the year for 2015. The choice is bound to cause controversy, given the German Chancellor’s decision to open her country’s borders to Syrian migrants, thus exacerbating the continent’s migrant
Highly respected, former communist professor and historian Jörg Baberowski has warned that “everything dear to [Europeans]” will soon disappear because of his government’s policies towards mass migration. The stark warning is sure to echo around Europe, the United Kingdom, and indeed the
Close to half of the German population doesn’t want the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to serve another term, a new poll has found. The result indicates a major fall from grace on the part of the Chancellor, mainly due to
Yesterday in Brussels, the European Union (“EU”) announced a groundbreaking deal with Turkey in which the EU would provide Turkey with $3.19 billion and relaxed visa requirements for Turkish citizens traveling within the EU in exchange for the Turkish government’s promise to curb the flow of migrants in Europe through its western border with Bulgaria and Greece.
Germany’s Interior Minister — a key ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel — has called for more deportations and said ‘refugees’ who were initially grateful to be inside the safe and affluent nation are now demanding to live in specific areas
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is refusing to drop her open door migration policy, insisting that the first priority following the terrorist attacks on Paris is to protect “innocent” refugees and restore “hope” to them. Merkel has come under fire within her
Beyond the horrific deaths, injuries, and panic from seven coordinated terror attacks in Paris, the consequences of France’s 9-11 will likely be a serious deflationary recession and right-wing nationalism spreading across Europe.
Germany’s finance minister has warned that an ‘avalanche’ of migrants has been triggered, just as it was revealed that Germany should expect up to 10 million migrants by 2020. According to the calculations of another member of German Chancellor Angela
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has knocked U.S. President Barack Obama into third place in this year’s World’s Most Powerful People list published by Forbes Magazine. For the third year in a row Russia’s President Putin has taken first place. Having been
A senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has called for a burqa ban and stricter immigration rules for Germany. Guido Wolf, a senior politician in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg, made the call in an
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that building border fences across Europe could spark war in the Balkans as she ups her rhetoric justifying opening Germany to an unstaunchable invasion of Middle East migrants. Speaking at a conference in Darmstadt in the south
Turkish President’s Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party, or AKP, has declared victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election. After 95 percent of the votes were counted from the 175,000 polling stations, AKP is estimated to have won over 50 percent.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called an emergency meeting of coalition leaders after Bavarian Premier Horst Seehofer demanded she stem the flow of migrants entering the country. The meeting is set to turn on new initiatives for controlling the flood and deal
Figures released today by global polling company YouGov have confirmed what many across Europe were already begin to realise through Germany political polling: Angela Merkel’s migration policies are killing her government, with the new numbers showing her government’s approval rating dropping
From the Financial Times: At the beginning of this year, Angela Merkel had a good claim to be the most successful politician in the world. The German chancellor had won three successive election victories. She was the dominant political figure
The European Commission is allegedly suppressing a critical report into the worsening civil rights situation in Turkey, ahead of national elections next Sunday, November 1st. German newspaper Die Welt Am Sonntag reports the Commission, headed by Jean-Claude Juncker, is sitting
European leaders traded threats and reprimands on Saturday as thousands more migrants and refugees streamed into the Balkans on the eve of European Union talks aimed at agreeing on urgent action to tackle the crisis. Concern is growing about hundreds
German will toughen up its asylum rules on Saturday, a week ahead of schedule, as it faces an unprecedented number of migrants arriving from Syria and elsewhere. The new bill, adopted by parliament at exceptional speed, had been expected to
Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister, Silvan Shalom, has called on the European Union (EU) to stop paying aid to Palestinian agencies until terror is renounced in the Palestinian territories . Mr Shalom, who as well as being Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister is the
Contents: A cynical Turkey rejects Europe’s ‘concentration camp’ refugee proposal; As winter approaches, thousands of European refugees may be trapped in the cold
Tens of thousands of supporters are expected to gather in Dresden, Germany this evening to mark the first anniversary of anti-Islamisation movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA). The German government once again denounced the “hate” movement
Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives has fallen to its lowest since May 2013, a poll showed on Sunday, as her coalition partner said Germany must win over refugee skeptics or else risk “planting social explosives in our nation”.
Contents: Zambia prays for divine intervention in copper prices; Germany’s Angela Merkel begs for refugee help from Turkey
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday hailed progress in helping Ankara deal with the refugee crisis and vowed to push forwards its long-stalled EU membership bid, as Slovenia warned it would have to slow a rising influx of migrants. Merkel
The refrain is often thus: “We can do it” – almost an automatic, Obama-esque, vacuous response to those who question the wisdom of throwing open Europe’s borders to seemingly ceaseless numbers of migrants. Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is perhaps the most guilty
For decades Turkey has adopted a policy of pawning off its Kurdish problem on Europe. Indeed since the 1960s waves of Kurdish migrants and refugees made their way to the European mainland. Now, a senior European Union (EU) source has
German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Istanbul on Sunday desperate to secure Turkey’s help in stemming the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe, but without being seen to sacrifice their human rights. Dubbed a “punch-bag” for her own
Contents: Russian troops may take control of Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan; European Union agrees to terms in exchange for Turkey’s help with refugees; Hungary closes the border with Croatia; Polls show British voters more willing to leave European Union; Turkey’s president Erdogan ridicules Europe over refugee crisis
Germany must be ready to pay a hefty price for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to lay out a welcome mat for any and all Middle East migrants who make it across the country’s borders. A German economist has warned that cost
A regional congress of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Germany has seen Angela Merkel criticised by her own party regarding her open border response to the migrant crisis. Adding to her increasing woes, last night the regional congress of the
The depth of German opposition to Angela Merkel’s response to the migrant crisis is worse than previously thought, with a poll finding a third of respondents wanting her resignation. An INSA poll for the website of German news magazine FOCUS does
Twenty migrants have sued the Berlin State Office for Health and Social Affairs because they had to wait more than a week to register their asylum cases and receive welfare handouts. They are demanding instant payment. Germany is struggling to cope
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s invitation to migrants to come to her country has been described as “insane” by U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has predicted more violence will follow in the country as a result. Donald Trump, the Republican Party
For the first time in 25 years, the French President and German Chancellor, now Hollande and Merkel, came to address the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The feeling was very different to those days when Kohl and Mitterand, monsters that they
