JTA - In a letter emblazoned with the insignia of the U.S. House of Representatives, 29 members of Congress reprimanded the German state of Bavaria for neglecting its historical responsibility to victims of the Nazis. “The Free Read more [...]

David Cameron may not have dressed up in bibbed Lederhosen, but the venue chosen for him to renew an old friendship with his right-wing German political allies could hardly have been more Bavarian.  Surrounded by pine-clad, snow-sprinkled sunlit mountains, in a spa resort that still belongs to the family of the late “Mad” King Ludwig of Bavaria, the Prime Minister today made his latest effort to win support in Germany for a “new deal” for Britain in Europe. Before flying on to Read more [...]

Please direct your complaints to my colleague NOMINALLY they are allies. But Angela Merkel, the German chancellor and leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and Horst Seehofer, the premier of Bavaria and boss of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), have been at loggerheads for months over the refugee crisis. Mr Seehofer demands fixed “upper limits” on the number of migrants that Germany admits. Mrs Merkel, given the 1.1m refugees who arrived in 2015, agrees Read more [...]

As the British prime minister is pushing EU leaders to improve London's membership terms before a referendum, a new opinion poll suggests a majority of Britons want to leave the bloc.The ORB poll indicated that opposition to the EU is growing in the UK with 43% Britons want to leave against 36% of those still in favor of staying with the 28-nation bloc.According to pollsters, if 21% undecided voters are taken out of the survey, 54% Britons actually want ‘Brexit’, Read more [...]

David Cameron has insisted he still hopes to complete his EU membership renegotiation next month after his Hungarian counterpart said he was "sure" British concerns about benefits abuses could be accommodated. At a joint press conference after talks in Budapest, Viktor Orban sharply denied that Hungarians were "parasites" on the UK taxpayer. Prime Minister David Cameron held informal talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel But he said Read more [...]

BERLIN – British Prime Minister David Cameron sought to push forward his campaign for changes to the European Union during a visit to Germany on Thursday, arguing that his proposals would benefit the bloc as well as the U.K. Cameron was in the Alps for a meeting of the Christian Social Union, the Bavaria-only sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives. He also met Merkel at the gathering Wednesday evening. Cameron has committed to holding a referendum on Britain’s EU membership Read more [...]

By our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online         Berlin (dpa) - Prime Minister David Cameron feels "very heartened" by the support he has received from conservative parties in Germany for his EU reform proposals ahead of an in-out referendum to be held in Britain before the end of 2017.Cameron was speaking at the party conference of Chancellor Read more [...]

The UK Prime Minister David Cameron is visiting Bavaria Thursday for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leader of her sister party, the CSU, Horst Seehofer. Ahead of the talks, Cameron told the Bild newspaper he was aware that support for the continued membership of the EU within Britain was waning and that changes to UK membership were vital if a Brexit were to be avoided. A ORB International poll released on the day of Cameron's visit to Germany showed that — excluding Read more [...]

David Cameron chose one of Germany's most prominent platforms, the widely-read "Bild" newspaper, to drum up support for his proposals on what needs to be changed in the European Union to prevent the United Kingdom from leaving the bloc. The publication of a guest editorial in the top-selling tabloid-style publication coincides with Cameron's visit to a meeting of Christian Social Union (CSU) leaders in the Bavarian town of Wildbad Kreuth. The CSU is the Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Read more [...]