Germany's vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel on Saturday accused the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives of playing on "fears" over refugees.Gabriel, a member of the Social Democrats who, like the CSU, are coalition partners with Merkel's CDU, told the mass circulation Bild daily that Germany did not have a "drawbridge that we can raise" to prevent the flow of migrants.He hit out at the "panic" he said Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU) was trying to spread and accused Read more [...]

In a statement on Friday the Bavarian government threatened to go to the German Constitutional Court to compel the federal government to impose a cap on asylum seekers.According to an interview with Bild newspaper, Seehofer said the state would take "self-defense measures to limit migration".At a Friday news conference in Munich, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said if Berlin fails to better control Germany's borders from a "mass influx" of migrants and asylum-seekers, Bavaria will introduce Read more [...]

BERLIN (Sputnik) — On Friday, authorities in the southern German state of Bavaria slammed Chancellor Angela Merkel for "not doing enough to address the crisis on the southern German border." Bavaria is the entry point for hundreds of thousands of economic migrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East that have come to Germany since the start of the year. "The Berlin government will be obliged, despite all the criticism against us, to take measures to restrict migration. Read more [...]

Berlin (dpa) - Bavaria‘s premier accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of "surrendering the state of law" on Saturday, deepening a rift within the chancellor‘s conservative bloc over how Germany should handle streams of migrants seeking safety and economic betterment."Simply saying a 3,000-kilometre border cannot be protected is a surrender of the state of law in the face of reality," Horst Seehofer said during a political event for Bavaria‘s Christian Social Union (CSU), the sister party Read more [...]