A leading German MEP has warned that a ‘No Deal’ Brexit would hit the European Union hard, and that the bloc should not be too keen to pursue a “masochistic” negotiating strategy.
The Christian Social Union (CSU) is projected to win the Bavarian election but the allies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has seen huge losses in support while the Green Party has surged.
(AFP) — Britain, France and Germany insisted Sunday that “light must be shed” on the whereabouts of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as they called for a credible investigation into his disappearance.
A migrant from Lebanon with a long record of convictions has been arrested for murder after being released from prison following appeals against a prior conviction.
Germany and Denmark have both elected to continue emergency border controls that were first instated during the migrant crisis for a further six months.
Fresh polls ahead of Bavarian elections on Sunday could spell disaster for the Christian Social Union (CSU) who look set to face their worst result in decades, as the left rally around the Green Party.
Weak punishments of as little as one year and eight months, suspended, for a migrant rape gang which targeted a 13-year-old girl have sparked outrage in Germany.
Angela Merkel will distribute €6.85 billion (£5.98 billion) to Germany’s regions to help pay for accommodation, social housing subsidies, and language classes for migrants, according to a Reuters source.
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s top security official says he’s decided to nix height requirements for police recruits in order to expand the pool of potential officers in the German capital.
Stressing that Europe was “founded on tolerance”, Angela Merkel has warned members of the public in Trier against “hatred” and envy of refugees, local media reports.
Police in the German city of Munich have filed charges against a 42-year-old man after he punched a migrant in the face who sexually assaulted his daughter.
The industrial association that represents some of Germany’s largest businesses has revealed the anxiety felt throughout the continent at the prospect of a no-deal Brexit in comments which could strengthen Britain’s negotiating hand.
German factory production dropped in August for the third straight month in a disappointing trend for Europe’s largest economy.
Bulgarian police are investigating the rape and slaying of a television reporter and presenter whose body was dumped near the Danube River.
CORTE MADERA, California — Sonia Orbuch, who survived the Holocaust as a teenager in eastern Europe by joining a resistance group that was sabotaging the Nazis, has died in Northern California, a newspaper reported. She was 93.
ROME (AP) – Italy’s interior minister has vowed to close the country’s airports if Germany follows through with reported plans to send dozens of asylum-seekers back to Italy.
The Islamic State has released new threats against European countries in propaganda that shows the terrorist group may target mass transit systems in Germany.
George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) has completed its move from Budapest to Berlin, where the international grantmaking network is reportedly set to boost staff numbers from 80 to 150.
The left-wing environmental activist who murdered Dutch anti-Islamisation politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002 has had his probationary restraints lifted and is now free to start a new life in Germany.
The number of foreign-born prisoners in Berlin is increasing according to new figures that show 90 different countries are now represented in the German capital’s prison system. Convicted criminals without a German passport are now a majority in the German
A 21-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who stabbed three in Ravensburg town centre has been taken to a psychiatric facility, with officials saying he may not be found culpable for his actions due to mental illness.
A German court says it has approved the extradition of an Iranian diplomat wanted in Belgium on suspicion he was part of a failed plot to bomb an Iranian opposition rally near Paris.
President Donald Trump on Saturday hit out at countries that rely on the U.S. “subsidizing” their military capabilities, pointing to Saudi Arabia, as well as Japan and South Korea as culprits. In doing so he linked them to NATO allies in Europe that rely on U.S. defense capabilities while neglecting their own.
The state minister for integration has warned Germans against the “hatred and malice” of anyone who might draw political conclusions after an Afghan migrant stabbed three people in Ravensburg town centre.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was welcomed with a chilly reception from German political leaders this week with Angela Merkel saying the two countries have “profound differences.”
(AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to open one of Europe’s largest mosques in Cologne on Saturday as he wraps up a controversial visit to Germany, with police deploying in force amid planned protests.
Germany’s Angela Merkel, once hailed as the new “leader of the free world” by the anti-Trump left-liberal establishment, was forced to plead she is “still alive” in front of an audience in Augsburg, Bavaria.
Danish police launched an unprecedented operation to lock down Zealand, the nation’s largest Island, on Friday afternoon amid reports that officers were urgently hunting for a Swedish Volvo car in relation to a kidnapping.
ISTANBUL – Turkey’s newspapers on Friday blasted the decision of UEFA to award the Euro 2024 football tournament to Germany over a rival Turkish bid, saying it had been “stabbed in the back” and taking particular aim at UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin.
Jewish supporters of the right wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) are forming a faith-based group to represent Jewish issues in the party.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – Leading German economic institutes have sharply reduced their latest forecast for this year’s growth, citing trade worries, weakening demand from abroad and companies’ difficulty finding workers with the right skills. The fall version of the twice-yearly
The German government ministry responsible for processing refugees and asylum seekers referred over ten thousand cases of suspicious migrants to the security services in 2017, a significant rise on the previous year.
President Donald Trump proclaimed as he spoke to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday that he does not like that “OPEC and OPEC nations are, as usual, ripping off the rest of the world.”
German parliament president Wolfgang Schäuble doubts that failed asylum seekers will be deported and claims that instead, they should stay in Germany and integrate into society.
When authorities told Angela Merkel how the border could be quickly “sealed off” at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, the Chancellor shook her head and vowed to never “build any fences”, a former minister has revealed. In
German police have arrested a 20-year-old woman on suspicion of serving in the Islamic State group.
More than 200,000 asylum seekers in Germany who have come to the country since 2014 share the birthday of January 1st because they arrived without any form of identification.
BERLIN (AP) – A decision to give a new government job to Germany’s domestic intelligence chief, who was removed from that post after appearing to downplay recent far-right protests, is causing discontent in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition. Hans-Georg Maassen was
Polish President Andrzej Duda raised alarms Tuesday at the White House to the danger of a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany that President Donald Trump alerted to at a summer NATO summit.
German police in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and North Rhine-Westphalia raided several properties belonging to members of the far-left scene arresting one man thought to have been involved in the Hamburg G20 riots last year.
