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Merkel Says Germany Must Have Frank Talk About Integration

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday Germany must have a “fundamental” debate about how to integrate newcomers, as police identified 16 people suspected of a shocking rash of sexual assaults blamed on migrants. As outrage grew in Germany over the assaults,

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WATCH: Migrants Launch Fireworks Into Crowds in Cologne

Video footage continues to emerge of the mass sexual assault committed by migrants on women at the New Year’s Eve celebrations in the German city of Cologne. Breitbart London broke the story of the attacks in the English-speaking media after

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Merkel Under Fire on Migrants After New Year Sex Attacks

BERLIN (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel came under mounting pressure Wednesday for her welcoming stance toward migrants, which opponents have linked to a shocking rash of apparently coordinated sex attacks in Cologne on New Year’s Eve. Police in the western

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Police Check Suspicious Package Found at German Chancellery

BERLIN (AP) — Police say they’re checking a suspicious object found during a routine security check at the entrance to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in Berlin. German federal police spokesman Thorsten Peters said the main entrance to the chancellery in

Syrian migrants wait aboard the Turkish Coast Guard ship Umut after being rescued while attempting to reach the Greek Island Chios on the Agean Sea near Izmir in the night of December 9 to December 10, 2015.

Germany Should Limit Migrants to 200,000 Annually: Bavaria

BERLIN (AFP) – Germany only has capacity for a maximum 200,000 asylum seekers a year, about a fifth of the number it received in 2015, Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer said Sunday. “In Germany, the arrival of 100,000 to a maximum 200,000 asylum

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Britain Deserves Truth On Immigration

One of the best scenes in the BBC’s political sitcom ‘The Thick of It’ shows the main character, Malcolm Tucker, trying to hide an overspend right down low in the news agenda, over-complicating it with false facts and figures, and

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Europe Feels Fallout From Merkel Migrant Magnanimity

Angela Merkel may have won praise from the world for Germany’s open-door policy on refugees, but a confused and divided Europe is feeling the fallout from the decision, analysts said. The German chancellor’s sudden move in early September to welcome

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Merkel’s Party Says Burqa Should Not Be Worn In Germany

BERLIN (Reuters) – Under pressure to toughen their stance on migrants, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives called on Thursday for an effective ban on the burqa, saying the full body covering worn by some Muslim women should not be worn

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Merkel Approval Rating Plummets 26 Points

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been looking unusually vulnerable as she prepares to meet the world’s top leaders this week, struggling to slow a huge influx of migrants amid mounting demands to do just that. Merkel’s optimistic

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Burqa Ban Call From Senior Ally Of Chancellor Merkel

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

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Hundreds Of Migrants Absconding From Asylum Centres EVERY WEEK

Migrants are walking out of German asylum registration centres and either disappearing into the countryside or travelling on to other countries in Europe, an official in the eastern state of Brandenburg has warned. On Wednesday alone some 600 people absconded and that number is

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EU And Balkans Leaders Hold Crisis Migrant Summit

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) – European Union and Balkan leaders hold emergency talks on Europe’s migrant crisis today amid threats from three frontline states to close their borders if northern EU countries stop accepting migrants. The mini-summit called by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, groups