GERMANY Ruling Coalition Fails to Set Migrant Deal

The leaders of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition failed to reach an agreement during a crisis meeting on how to handle the influx of refugees and migrants into the country.

Sunday’s meeting took place against the backdrop of a simmering rebellion on the right wing of Ms. Merkel’s conservative alliance of Christian Democrats, or CDU, and the Bavarian Christian Social…

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 An official in Bavaria told Angela Merkel that he's worked out how many asylum seekers his area should receive, and he's prepared to put any extras he gets on a bus and send them straight to the Chancellery in Berlin.An official from the Bavarian town of Landshut has threatened to send buses of migrants to the German Federal Chancellery in Berlin if more than 1,800 asylum seekers are settled in his area."If Germany takes one million refugees, then mathematically 1,800 should be sent to my Read more [...]

An official from the Bavarian town of Landshut has threatened to send buses of migrants to the German Federal Chancellery in Berlin if more than 1,800 asylum seekers are settled in his area. "If Germany takes one million refugees, then mathematically 1,800 should be sent to my district," Peter Dreier, head of the Landshut administration, reportedly told Merkel in a telephone call on Wednesday. "I will take them, but any more I will send by bus to the Chancellery in Berlin," said Dreier, Read more [...]

"We are importing Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, national and ethnic conflicts of other peoples, as well as a different understanding of society and law." — From a leaked German intelligence document. "We need to be clear that there must be limits and quotas for immigration -- we cannot save the whole world." — Markus Söder, Finance Minister of Bavaria. "The migration crisis has the potential to destabilize governments, countries and the whole European continent. ... What we have been Read more [...]

BERLIN—The leaders of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fractious broad governing coalition failed to reach an agreement during a crisis meeting Sunday on how to handle the dramatic influx of refugees and migrants into the country.

The meeting, held Sunday morning in the chancellery, took place against the backdrop of a simmering rebellion on the right wing of Ms. Merkel’s conservative alliance of Christian Democrats, or CDU, and the…

Headed by Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology Ilse Aigner, the 130-strong delegation comprises representatives from across a wide range of industrial enterprises mostly those active in the area of the automobile industry and electrical devices, News Sentinel reported on Sunday. The German business leaders will stay in Iran for five days to sit down with their Iranian counterparts and discuss development of bilateral trade ties.  Iran is an “attractive and profitable” Read more [...]

Sunday's Berlin talks culminated a week in which German voters heard heated rhetoric from the three parties - the CDU, the CSU and the SPD - that comprise Merkel's two-year-old coalition. The consultations coincided with a Frankfurter Allgemeiner Sonntagszeitung report that Merkel at a recent EU summit had acknowledged that Germany's intake of migrants traveling through the Balkans would reach one million. Her government's previous official estimate was 800,000. 'Transit camps' strictly rejected One Read more [...]

BERLIN: Nearly 10,000 refugees continued to arrive in Germany daily, police said on Saturday, highlighting the scale of the challenge facing the country´s stretched border staff ahead of a crunch meeting between Angela Merkel and a Bavarian ally on the crisis.  Chancellor Merkel will discuss refugee policy on Saturday evening with Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer, head of the Christian Social Union (CSU) and who has criticised her asylum policy and handling of the crisis.  The CSU, sister party Read more [...]

Thomson ReutersFile photo of German Chancellor Merkel congratulated by Seehofer of CSU after being re-elected as chancellor during a Bundestag meeting in BerlinBy Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - In December 2012, Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer vowed his Christian Social Union would be a "purring kitty, not a roaring lion" in coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU). Lavishing praise on Merkel, he told the CDU party congress in Hanover: "We are proud of Read more [...]