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
