A German town has sent a bus carrying 31 Syrian refugees to Chancellor Angela Merkel's office in Berlin in protest at her open-door migrant policy. Landshut in Bavaria said it was buckling under the strain of an influx that brought 1.1 million migrants to Germany last year. The town's mayor Peter Dreier said he organised the seven-hour Read more [...]

BERLIN—Criticism of Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy in Bavaria, the southern German state where most migrants enter the country, erupted on the German chancellor’s doorstep on Thursday in the shape of a busload of 31 refugees.

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…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption All the Syrian men on the bus have been recognised as refugees A Bavarian mayor angry about Germany's asylum policy has sent a busload of Syrian migrants to Chancellor Angela Merkel's office Read more [...]

BERLIN An irate local politician in Germany's southern state of Bavaria has dispatched a bus filled with dozens of refugees on a 7-hour journey to Chancellor Angela Merkel's office in Berlin as a protest against her open-door refugee policy. A spokesman for Peter Dreier from the southeastern town of Landshut confirmed to Reuters that 31 refugees were making the 550 kilometer trip to the capital and were likely arrive in the afternoon.A video on the online site of German newspaper Die Welt showed Read more [...]

An academic edition of Mein Kampf is turning out to be a surprise hit in Germany. Adolf Hitler’s notorious manifesto is legally back on German bookshelves for the first time since the end of World War II, after the copyright to the book expired. And despite the hefty €59 ($64) cover price of the academic edition, there were more than 15,000 advance orders placed (paywall)—nearly four times the initial print run. The new 2,000-page page annotated version of the Nazi text is set to land Read more [...]

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German local officials on Thursday sent a bus with 51 Syrian refugees on board to Chancellor Angela Merkel's office in Berlin, in a protest against her migrant policy. The district administrator behind the road trip, Peter Dreier, said his rural area was buckling under the strain of a mass influx that brought 1.1 million refugees and irregular migrants to Germany last year.   The coach, filled with refugees aged 21 to 45, left the Bavarian town of Landshut around 0900 GMT for the 570 kilometer (350 Read more [...]

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When visiting a Siemens plant in Amberg, he invited Bavarian Minister-President Horst Seehofer (CSU) to Prague."I think that the view of migration held by Bavaria has long been closer to the stance of the Czech government," Sobotka said."When I take a look at the attitudes of the governments in Western Europe, Bavaria is one of the countries that have held the positions closer to those of the Czech government and the Visegrad Four (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia)," Sobotka (Social Read more [...]

At this halfway point, dry January has got to be hard going. However, if you are taking part, and if you have swapped to an alcohol-free version of your usual tipple, then take heart from the fact that you are ahead of the curve. You hipster. While the UK dealcoholised drinks market is tiny (alcohol-free beer is worth a mere £51.3m annually, compared to about £17bn for beer proper), its popularity is growing, especially among younger drinkers. AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer, has pledged Read more [...]