Hanover, Germany – Continental AG has invested in new foundry facilities at A-Z Formen- und Maschinenbau GmbH, which has been part of the group since late last year. The circa €6-million project, expands capacity and improves flexibility of the Runding, Bavaria-based business, to produce “extremely detailed” tread patterns, said a 2 Sept Conti announcement. The investment, it added, has created 20 new jobs. According to the tire maker, its acquisition of A-Z at end of 2014 “highlights Read more [...]

By our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online         Rome (dpa) - Italy has offered to step up police checks at the border with Austria in order to limit the flow of undocumented migrants towards Germany, its German-speaking northern province of South Tyrol said Wednesday.Revising a previous statement, the province said the measure will not imply Read more [...]

A record 104,460 asylum seekers arrived in Germany last month, a Bavarian official said today, part of an unprecedented wave of refugees and migrants straining the resources of German towns and villages. Germany, with relatively liberal asylum laws and generous benefits, is the EU's biggest recipient of people fleeing war in the Middle East and economic migrants from southeastern Europe. From January to August, around 413,535 people registered on Germany's Easy system, said a spokesman for Bavaria's Read more [...]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A senior member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc on Wednesday welcomed the introduction of temporary border controls between Italy and Austria, saying it followed a request from the southern German state of Bavaria. "I do not think Schengen is over," Stephan Mayer, a conservative expert on interior affairs, said of the code which removes border controls between most European states. "But I certainly see the danger that if it is Read more [...]

Following a request from Germany to help stem the flow of refugees, Italy reimposed identification checks in its northern region of South Tyrol on Wednesday. The bilingual province on the border with Austria is the last stop in Italy for migrants who arrive in the country from northern Africa, hoping to travel on other nations in Europe. The regional capital Bolzano said it was ready to "reactivate" controls at the Alpine town of Brennero just as it did for the G7 summit in June, but that it Read more [...]

The two women, aged 37 and 17, were attacked after visiting a festival in the Bavarian town of Erding, northeast of Munich, police reported. As they walked to their car at around 12.30am, a 23-year-old man launched himself at the mother and pulled her to the ground. The 37-year-old fought to escape, while her daughter struck him with her handbag. The man then forced his tongue into the mother's mouth – but biting down hard, she managed to sever part of the tongue.  Severely injured, Read more [...]

For those looking to while away a Saturday with friends over a few beers, the Grand Prospect Hall’s new beer garden will definitely make your dreams come true.

The Brooklyn Bavarian Biergarten, which opened in July, is essentially the backyard locals never had. Trees and leafy plants abound. There’s a fountain and so much space guests will…

There was no ribbon, no pair of giant scissors - but maybe that's because there was no time. The government of Bavaria has rushed through its plans to speed up the deportation of asylum seekers from the Balkans, and on Tuesday the state's social affairs minister, Emilia Müller, arrived in Manching, near Ingolstadt, to open Germany's first one-stop reception center (pictured above) exclusively for people from what the German government deems "safe" countries of origin. This comes barely a month Read more [...]

The remark from Joachim Herrmann of the CDU party came during a panel discussion about refugees on the television show “Hart aber Fair” (“Tough but Fair”) on Monday, The Local reported.Herrmann chimed in after one of the panel members, Focus magazine editor-in-chief Ulrich Reitz, turned the topic to migrant success stories.READ MORE: Greece for Puerto Rico? German finance minister jokes about trading ‘bankrupts’ with US Referencing the Tunisian-born singer, Herrmann said that “Roberto Read more [...]

A migrant sits with her children outside the main railway station in Munich, Germany, September 1, 2015. — Reuters picBERLIN, Sept 1 — German police have registered a record 3,500 migrant arrivals in a southern border region with Austria since yesterday morning, federal police said. The arrivals have spiked as passenger trains, each packed with hundreds of refugees, headed from Hungary through Austria into Germany’s southern Bavaria Read more [...]