Munich train stations have reopened, as Bavaria's top security official said that the warning about Islamic State extremists intending to blow themselves up in the German city was no longer acute.Munich newspaper TZ reported that police believed several groups of attackers could strike at different locations in the city.But German investigators, acting on information from "friendly countries" including France, said they have so far failed to substantiate the threat.Bavaria's interior minister Joachim Read more [...]

“We all know there is a danger of attacks in all of Europe and also in Germany and here in Bavaria”. He added: “It’s a bit weird, though, that we have a terrorist warning and people are firing off their fireworks”. The “concrete tip” indicated a group of up to seven Islamic State militants was planning a massacre involving suicide bombers targeting train Read more [...]

A digger showed up at the house in Bogen, near Passau, shortly after the death of the 53-year-old businessman who owned it, broadcaster Bayerische Rundfunk reported on Tuesday. As the clods of earth were thrown aside, plastic bags filled with millions of Euros in cash and gold bars were revealed. Normally, anything found on the property would go to the dead man's heirs. But the digger hadn't been ordered in by his family or executors, but by a 69-year-old man who claimed he had agreed with Read more [...]

Senior government figures in Germany are voicing their growing support for David Cameron’s campaign to rewrite the terms of Britain’s EU membership, including backing the most contentious point – curbing benefits for non-national European citizens working in the UK. The prime minister goes to Bavaria on Wednesday to attend a conference of the German state’s governing Christian Social Union, sister party to Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats. Manfred Weber, a deputy head of the CSU and Read more [...]

By our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online         Munich (dpa) - Bavaria‘s interior minister said Tuesday that 33,300 refugees have entered the country through the borders of the southern German state in the last 10 days - more than 10 times as many as the equivalent period a year ago.Interior Minister Joachim Hermann - a member of Chancellor Read more [...]

German politicians do not seem to enjoy much freedom of expression without being severely criticized by their counterparts. For instance, Bavarian politician Seehofer was labelled by SPD-politician Markus Rinderspacher as "an accomplice of Putin's plans" only for pointing out the negative affect of anti-Russian sanctions. Earlier Seehofer called for the abolition of the anti-Russian sanctions in defense of German businesses, which have significantly suffered under the restrictions. "Sanctions Read more [...]

BERLIN (AP) — The governor of Bavaria in Germany wants to limit the number of refugees the country takes in each year to 200,000 and says the United States is partly to blame for the crisis.Horst Seehofer told German weekly Bild am Sonntag that the country can only integrate 100,000 to 200,000 refugees a year.Bavaria was the first point of entry for most of the 1 million asylum seekers who came to Germany last year. Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected a cap on refugees.Seehofer said in the Read more [...]

BERLIN – German authorities in Bavaria announced on Monday that there is no concrete evidence of the imminent risk of a jihadist attack in the German state on the feast of the Epiphany (Three Kings Day) to be celebrated on Jan. 6.The German authorities in Bavaria were on alert for a terror attack on New Year’s Eve.Joachim Herrmann, the minister of the interior of Bavaria, told the morning TV show ZDF that there is no definite evidence of a terror threat on the feast of Read more [...]

Posted by: : Shayne HeffernanPosted on: January 4, 2016 German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s allies in Bavaria stepped up criticism of her open-door refugee policy yesterday, with their leader demanding a cap of 200,000 migrants a year, about a fifth of last year’s level. Merkel faces splits in her conservative bloc and coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) over her Read more [...]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that she did not support a proposal from her Bavarian sister party to cap the number of refugees entering the country in 2016. "This is not the chancellor's position," Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday. "We do not believe that a limit on refugee numbers can be achieved by one country acting alone." The suggestion had come from Horst Seehofer (pictured above with the chancellor in December), leader of Bavaria’s Christian Socialists Read more [...]