By Georgina Prodhan MUNICH (Reuters) - Thousands more refugees were expected to arrive in Germany on Monday after 20,000 came in over the weekend, piling pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel whose open-door policy has made the country a magnet for people fleeing civil war in Syria. Christoph Hillenbrand, a senior official in Bavaria, where migrants have been arriving by the train-load from Hungary via Austria, told reporters that 2,500 new asylum seekers were likely to Read more [...]

The German government agreed early Monday to spend an extra €6bn to cover the cost of the expected record influx of refugees this year. €3bn will be added to the federal budget and a further €3bn will be given to states and local governments. Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's external broadcaster, reports that Simone Hilgers, a spokeswoman for the government of Upper Bavaria, said some 8,600 people had arrived at Munich's main train station since Sunday morning. Hilgers said Munich Read more [...]

Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition has agreed to include 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) in the 2016 budget, and has set aside a further 3 billion euros to help states and local governments. During late night talks in Berlin, the leaders of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party Bavaria-based Christian Social Union (CSU), along with the Social Democrats, discussed whether asylum seekers should be given material assistance rather than cash. The topic had been a key point of Read more [...]

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By Georgina Prodhan and Irene Preisinger MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Munich has cranked up a formidable administrative machine to meet a tidal wave of refugees, taking in 18,000 exhausted human souls at its central station and getting most of them to shelter this weekend while still keeping the trains running on time. But the region said on Sunday night that migrants were arriving faster than it could find new accommodation. It had asked the German railway operator to Read more [...]

___10:40 p.m.Austria will roll back the measures that allowed migrants to cross the border in their thousands from Hungary over the weekend.Chancellor Werner Faymann says the emergency measures will be lifted "step by step" in order to "ensure the common security of the (European Union's) external borders, safeguard fair asylum procedures and achieve a fair distribution of asylum seekers by means of a European quota."Faymann spoke after discussing the migrant situation Sunday with German Read more [...]

Germany's Federal Police doubled its earlier prediction of 5,000 migrants for Sunday, with many more people bypassing Austria and coming north to Germany than previously expected. A spokesperson for the government of the Upper Bavaria region, which includes Munich, said Sunday evening that more than 10,000 refugees were due to have arrived in Munich by day's end. A day earlier, Munich greeted some 7,000 refugees; more than half of them were given a bed for the night in the Bavarian capital, in Read more [...]

The newest information as nations throughout Europe deal with the arrival of hundreds of migrants and refugees. All occasions native (CET): ——— four:55 p.m. In style French far proper chief Marine Le Pen, urgent her anti-immigration platform, says the extensively shared photograph of a lifeless Syrian refugee is getting used to make Europeans “really feel responsible.” In a sweeping speech Sunday at a Nationwide Entrance get together gathering in Marseille, Le Pen decried Read more [...]

The Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavaria-based sister party of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) has criticized the chancellor's decision late on Friday to temporarily open up Germany's borders to thousands of migrants who had been stranded in Hungary. The mass-circulation "Bild am Sonntag" newspaper reported in this Sunday's edition that Bavarian state Premier Horst Seehofer and other CSU leaders had agreed in a conference call on Saturday that Merkel's green light to ease the entry of Read more [...]

COURTESY: RT's RUPTLY video agency, RKA Mission Control Center NO RE-UPLOAD, NO REUSE - FOR LICENSING, PLEASE, CONTACT http://ruptly.tvAround 300 protesters marched through Wurzburg in Northern Bavaria on Saturday in support of asylum seekers. Starting at Wurzburg's main train station, the protesters marched to Vierroehrenbrunnen, the city's central square, where they held a rally and made speeches. People waved flags and plaques with slogans such as 'refugees welcome' and 'freedom of movement Read more [...]