Creative:The bus had been chartered by the Bavarian town of Landshut in protest of what one local politician described as the municipality’s exhausted capacity to receive more migrants. Peter Dreier, a county commissioner in Landshut, had warned Ms. Merkel in October he would stage such an action if the numbers of refugees didn’t decline.“I told [Ms. Merkel] then: If nothing changes and we have to continue taking in 70 migrants in Landshut every week, we will go under,” Mr. Dreier told Read more [...]

A bus that carried 31 Syrian refugees to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in protest returned on Friday to the small town that organised the road trip widely condemned as a political stunt. The Bavarian district chief behind Thursday’s journey to Berlin, Peter Dreier, had called it an “act of desperation” as his southern rural area buckled under the strain of a mass influx that brought 1.1 million migrants to Germany last year. The coach had arrived on Friday evening after a 570-kilometre Read more [...]

More than 1,000 migrants went on the rampage in the city centre on New Year's Eve, raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of women in a planned attack that shocked the world. Mrs Merkel, who has tried to strike a more bullish tone in light of the allegations, issued a statement today saying she understands the pressures that local regions in Bavaria are under. However, her spokesman Steffen Seibert added that the government is providing financial support to the areas most affected by mass migration. More Read more [...]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- The latest on the continuing flow of people into and across Europe. All times local: 6:55 p.m. Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders is calling for the European Union to be united and work together to deal with the influx of refugees. The Netherlands took over the rotating EU presidency in January and Koenders says reducing the number of refugees coming is a key goal and his country's presidency will be "extremely pragmatic and operational" to achieve it. But Read more [...]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - The latest on the continuing flow of people into and across Europe. All times local: 6:55 p.m. Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders is calling for the European Union to be united and work together to deal with the influx of refugees. The Netherlands took over the rotating EU presidency in January and Koenders says reducing the number of refugees coming is a key goal and his country's presidency will Read more [...]

The Bavarian district chief behind Thursday's journey to Berlin, Peter Dreier, had called it an "act of desperation" as his southern rural area buckled under the strain of a mass influx that brought 1.1 million migrants to Germany last year. The coach had arrived Friday evening after a 570 kilometer (350 mile) trip outside the chancellery building of Merkel, who declined to send her staff to negotiate with the provincial official. Berlin city representatives instead went on board and offered the Read more [...]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - The latest on the continuing flow of people into and across Europe. All times local: 6:55 p.m. Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders is calling for the European Union to be united and work together to deal with the influx of refugees. The Netherlands took over the rotating EU presidency in January and Koenders says reducing the number of refugees coming is a key goal and his country's presidency will Read more [...]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- The latest on the continuing flow of people into and across Europe. All times local: 4:25 p.m. Greek authorities say a baby has been found dead after a boat full of migrants reached the small eastern Aegean Sea island of Farmakonissi, while 63 people were picked up alive. The incident raises to four the number of deaths that Greek authorities recorded Friday, as migrants continue to make the short but dangerous sea crossing from nearby Turkey to Greece's Aegean islands Read more [...]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - The latest on the continuing flow of people into and across Europe. All times local: 6:55 p.m. Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders is calling for the European Union to be united and work together to deal with the influx of refugees. The Netherlands took over the rotating EU presidency in January and Koenders says reducing the number of refugees coming is a key goal and his country's presidency will Read more [...]

The busload of migrants sent on a seven-hour journey to Angela Merkel's office by a Bavarian governor in protest over the influx of refugees have been sent straight back.The Syrian refugees were put on a coach yesterday in the southeastern town of Landshut and transported 340 miles to the German capital in an 'act of desperation' by Peter Dreier who warned the Chancellor: 'We can't manage'.The bus, carrying 31 migrants, arrived shortly after 6pm (5pm GMT) in front of Merkel's chancellery in the centre Read more [...]