A senior parliamentarian from Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has spoken out in favour of a deal with migrants which would emphasise the give and take nature of immigration, urging ‘integration contracts’. Under the proposal put forward by
Facebook’s Global Government Requests Report was released on Wednesday, and it showed a tremendous surge in requests for user account data from governments around the world, topped by the government of the United States. The governments of Turkey and India were cited as the most aggressive in censoring Facebook pages.
Berlin police say they’ve raided 10 buildings in the German capital as part of a crackdown on hate speech on social media networks. Police said Thursday that the morning raids involved 60 officers, who confiscated smartphones and computers as evidence,
German police have arrested a 24-year-old Syrian migrant on Wednesday for a string of attacks on German women, including sex assaults. Striking in the East German Saxon town of Mittweida, the man attacked women in the early hours. A police spokesperson
Germany has been forced to admit it has failed to keep track of migration to the country, with the shortcoming in government bureaucracy inadvertently highlighted by a written question by the Green party. Renate Künast requested information on the number
A 22-year-old Libyan migrant is suspected of breaking into 26 cars in one night in the German capital Berlin. Police believe the man broke into a row of parked cars on Storkower Strasse on Wednesday night in search of valuables.
A German nightclub has found itself at the receiving end of angry pro-migrant campaigners after exercising its door policy to protect lady patrons from unwanted attention. The ‘Brucklyn’ nightclub in Bad Tölz, Germany took the precaution of refusing entry to a group
Around 20 youths rioted in a migrant camp near the German city of Bremen on Tuesday, in the latest incident of migrant violence to hit Germany. Local news site NWZ Online says that two large grounds of groups started fighting
Eleven youths were injured in a brawl at a migrant centre for unaccompanied minors on Monday evening. Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers, all aged under 18, used iron rods, broom handles and clothes hangers to beat a group of Syrians
A convicted people smuggler has avoided a lengthy jail term because a district court judge believed he was working in the interests of the German state’s policies of mass migration. The Serbian human trafficker, who was part of a gang
The war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has reportedly presented an old gun shop in the Iraqi Kurdistan capital of Erbil with opportunities for new streams of revenue.
Three people needed hospital treatment after a fight between Christian and Muslim migrants at a German asylum centre on Friday. Around 15 migrants were involved in the brawl at the centre in Bad Fallingbostel, which started when “heavily intoxicated” residents
The influx of more than one million asylum seekers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East is placing unprecedented strain on Germany’s healthcare system. Hospitals, clinics and emergency rooms across Germany are being filled to capacity with migrants suffering maladies
Germany needs to send a message to the world that it’s reaching the limit of its capacity to help Europe’s flood of migrants, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said on Sunday, as he advocated restricting family reunions for Syrian refugees.
The German interior minister has announced his intention to drop educational standards in the country to help migrants get into school or find a training place. One of the greatest barriers to integration for new migrants is access to jobs, which
Germany has thrashed out a common strategy with Austria and Slovenia which will see it take 7,200 migrants a day. The idea is to facilitate the registration of those migrants applying for refugee status through more regulated means, reports EurActiv Germany. In
The German government assured Friday there had been no changes to its refugee policy for Syrians, after the interior minister said they would be given a lesser status that excluded family reunifications. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said “a change” to
Several IKEA stores in Germany and Sweden have run out of beds and mattresses due to a surge in demand caused by the influx of migrants, the Swedish furniture chain said Friday. “There is some shortage in several stores in Germany
The German government is to downgrade the status of Syrian migrants so that those granted refugee status can only stay for two years and are not entitled to bring their families with them. According a report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine
A square in the Leipzig old town named for 19th-century German romantic composer Richard Wagner may be renamed to help promote a “cosmopolitan and tolerant” city. Initially suggested by a group of hard-left anti-borders activists masquerading as a “citizens’ initiative”, the
BERLIN (Reuters) – German industrial orders dropped unexpectedly in September due mainly to weaker foreign demand, in a sign that Europe’s biggest economy may lose steam at the end of this year. Contracts for ‘Made in Germany’ goods were down
Angela Merkel’s open-door immigration policy will lead to “civil war”, a senior member of the anti-mass migration Alternativ for Deutschland (AfD) party has said. Hansjörg Müller said Germany could end up a “banana republic without any government” if high levels
Three Syrian migrants have been injured in a fight with two Afghans in an asylum centre in the city of Mühlhausen in central Germany. Local paper Göttinger Tageblatt reports that the three Syrians, aged 15, 30 and 37, were physically
Plans to establish extra-territorial holding and assessment transit zones for the hundreds of thousands of migrants coming to Germany have been rubbished by a leading Catholic bishop who compared them to concentration camps. Liberal churchman Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck, bishop of Essen
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
