An elected official from from Bavaria, where most of the migrants joining Germany go, announced that Thursday he had sent a bus with 51 Syrian refugees on board to the chancellery in Berlin to protest against Angela Merkel's reception policy."None of us can exactly predict economic developments", she said, adding there were unknowns about the costs of integrating migrants and fighting the causes of the influx of refugees.Germany is aiming for a balanced budget this year but there is some uncertainty Read more [...]

BERLIN (AP) — A bus carrying 31 Syrian refugees arrived from southern Germany in Berlin on Thursday night as a district councilor in Bavaria followed up on his pledge to Chancellor Angela Merkel that he'd send refugees her way if his district could no longer provide accommodation for them.The act comes amid ongoing concerns about how Germany will deal with the 1.1 million asylum-seekers that flooded in a year ago."It's time we set a limit", the local citizens had told him, according to Yahoo News."None Read more [...]

Bernd von Jutrczenka Merkel's migrant troubles flare but chancellor stands firm FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2015 file picture German Chancellor Read more [...]

BERLIN -- A German state has launched a program to teach refugees the basics of law in their new host country, with about 800 judges, prosecutors and judicial officials as their teachers. Read more [...]

Merkel’s migrant troubles flare but chancellor stands firm

Geir Moulson, Associated Press

January 17, 2016
Updated: January 17, 2016 10:16am

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 said he would send the federal government a written request within the next two weeks to restore "orderly conditions" at the nation's borders, through which one million migrants and refugees passed last year Read more [...]

January 16th, 2016 International, Recommended 3 comments InternationalMedia and demonstrators waving a German national flag (R) and holding a banner wich reads "Mrs. Merkel your children are coming! Bravo." stand next to a bus with refugees from the Bavarian town of Landshut, after its arrival to the Chancellery building in Berlin, Germany, January 14, 2016. An irate local politician in Germany's southern state of Bavaria has dispatched Read more [...]

January 16th, 2016 International, Recommended 3 comments InternationalMedia and demonstrators waving a German national flag (R) and holding a banner wich reads "Mrs. Merkel your children are coming! Bravo." stand next to a bus with refugees from the Bavarian town of Landshut, after its arrival to the Chancellery building in Berlin, Germany, January 14, 2016. An irate local politician in Germany's southern state of Bavaria has dispatched Read more [...]

BERLIN – A prominent ally of Germany’s Angela Merkel threatened on Saturday to take her government to court over its “open doors” refugee policy as political pressure grows for the chancellor to reduce the number of new arrivals. Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer said he would send the federal government a written request within the next two weeks to restore “orderly conditions” at the nation’s borders, through which one million Read more [...]

BERLIN, January 16 (Sputnik) — Authorities in the southern German state of Bavaria threatened in October to take the federal government to court if it did not manage to curb the record inflow of refugees into the country. "In the next 14 days we will officially demand from the federal government to reintroduce certain legal relations on the borders," Seehofer told the German Der Spiegel newspaper, adding that "the Bavarian government will have no other choice than to appeal to the Read more [...]