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Migration Waves and Terrorism to Dominate Davos Get-Together

PARIS (AFP) – Europe’s migrant crisis and devastating terror attacks will combine with the plunging oil price and China’s economic slowdown to give the elite of the political and business worlds plenty to talk about when they gather in Davos from Tuesday.

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Merkel Ally Threatens Legal Action Over Refugee Policy

A prominent ally of Germany’s Angela Merkel has threatened to take her government to court over its open door refugee policy as political pressure grows for the chancellor to reduce the number of new arrivals. Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer

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Crackdown: Austria Signals Tougher Line on Migrants

VIENNA (AFP) –  Austria’s interior minister signalled Friday a tougher line on migrants, saying that from next weekend it will follow Germany’s lead and turn back any new arrivals seeking to claim asylum in Scandinavia. “Right now on the Austrian-German border

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EU States ‘Failed to Deliver’ on Migrants: Juncker

BRUSSELS (AFP) –  European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said EU member states have “failed to deliver” on efforts to resolve the migrant crisis, including on a deal to relocate thousands of asylum seekers from Italy and Greece. So far just 272

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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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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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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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Guardian: Mass Migration Pushing UK Wages Down

The growth in wages for UK workers is set to stall at just two per cent next year thanks to the large number of migrant workers waiting to fill vacancies, the Guardian has admitted. Referring to data from the Chartered

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Over One Million Migrants Reach Europe by Sea in 2015: UN

GENEVA (AFP) – Over one million migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in 2015, nearly half of them Syrians, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said Wednesday. The milestone marks an almost five-fold increase over 2014 figures, when UNHCR recorded

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Hungary Accuses Austria of ‘Stupidity’ in Refugee Crisis

Hungary has accused Austria of confusing “solidarity and stupidity” after Vienna said that nations which do not accept their share of refugees under European Union quotas should face sanctions. Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann had said that countries who did not

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Report: EU Border Agency Warns Of Fake Passports Risk

The head of the European Union’s border agency has said the large number of refugees entering Europe poses a security risk, with civil war making it harder to check the authenticity of Syrian passports. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing

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Danish MEP Quits Ruling Party Over Tougher Asylum Policies

A European lawmaker for Denmark’s ruling right-wing party said Saturday he was leaving the party over its controversial asylum policies, which include plans for police to search asylum seekers’ luggage for valuables. “Denmark is currently experiencing a norm and value

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EU ‘Complicit’ as Turkey Deports Migrants to Syria and Iraq

The European Union (EU) has been accused of “complicity” in the illegal deportation of migrants back to Syria and Iraq, following the recently-brokered EU-Turkey deal to reduce the flow of migrants into Europe. A report published by Amnesty International claims migrants who reached

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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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Croatia Goes To The Polls Facing Migrant Invasion, Economy Woes

Croatians began voting in a general election today with conservatives aspiring to return to power, as the European Union (EU) nation faces a wave of migrants and slowly emerges from six years of recession. Opinion polls predict a tight race between

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