BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s allies in Bavaria stepped up criticism of her open-door refugee policy on Sunday, 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 insistence that Germany can cope with the refugee crisis as towns struggle to house migrants, many having fled war in the Middle East and Africa. Horst Seehofer, the combative Read more [...]

Around 1.1m migrants are estimated to have arrived in Germany in 2015State governor has said the Chancellor should drastically limit numbersHorst Seehofer claimed maximum amount each year should be 200,000By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:56 GMT, 3 January 2016 | Updated: 23:33 GMT, 3 January 2016 66 View comments Angela Merkel’s open-door migration policy Read more [...]

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s allies in Bavaria stepped up criticism of her open-door refugee policy on Sunday, 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 insistence that Germany can cope with the refugee crisis as towns struggle to house migrants, many having fled war in the Middle East and Africa.Horst Seehofer, the combative Read more [...]

Days before Taoiseach Enda Kenny travels to Bavaria, its premier Horst Seehofer has demanded that Germany cap asylum applications at one-fifth of the 2015 total – and that other EU states accept more of the burden. Horst Seehofer has warned that Germany is still struggling with the one million people who arrived last year. In Bavaria, first point of arrival for those fleeing war, tensions are high after a New Year’s Eve alert forced the shut-down of Read more [...]

An Iraqi citizen went to the police in Germany's southern state Baden-Württemberg, claiming that his brother, who lives in Iraq, knew that militants were going to strike Munich, in neighboring Bavaria. The man passed on this information a week before the New Year, on December 23, German public broadcasters SWR and BR reported on Sunday. Baden-Württemberg's prosecutors subsequently ordered an investigation and police interviewed the man, who said attacks would be carried out on January 6 or Read more [...]

The governor of the German state of Bavaria has called on the government to limit the number of refugees to no more than 200,000 a year, arguing that his country can only integrate that figure. "In Germany, we have no problems with the influx of 100,000 to more than 200,000 asylum seekers and refugees from civil war per year. This number is manageable," he said before going to add that, "Anything that goes beyond that, I think is too much." Horst Seehofer said, according to AP. Speaking Read more [...]

Germany only has capacity for a maximum 200,000 asylum seekers a year, about a fifth of the number it received in 2015, Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer said Sunday. "In Germany, the arrival of 100,000 to a maximum 200,000 asylum seekers and war refugees a year would pose no problem," Seehofer, who heads the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), told Bild newspaper. The CSU, which has been up in arms Read more [...]

BERLIN -- For 70 years since the Nazi defeat in World War II, copyright law has been used in Germany to prohibit the publication of "Mein Kampf" -- the notorious anti-Semitic tome in which Adolf Hitler set out his ideology. That will change next month when a new edition with critical commentary, the product of several years' work by a publicly funded institute, hits the shelves. While historians say it could help fill a gap in Germans' knowledge of the era, Jewish groups are wary and German authorities Read more [...]

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer on Sunday urged to rethink the mechanism of economic sanctions against Russia and deescalate tensions between Moscow and Berlin, in an interview to local media. "Sanctions are doing enormous damage to the Bavarian economy and the national economy," the coalition partner of German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Bild am Sonntag. The European Union imposed sanctions on main Russian economic spheres – energy, defense and banking – Read more [...]

By our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online         Berlin (dpa) - The head of Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s Bavarian sister party has called for an annual cap of 200,000 on the number of refugees entering Germany, less than a fifth of the number that arrived in 2015, mass circulation newspaper Bild reported Sunday.Horst Seehofer, head of Bavaria‘s Read more [...]