Thomson ReutersMigrants rest before passing Austrian-German border in AchleitenBERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's police chief has said that the uncontrolled influx of refugees into the country posed a domestic security threat as more than 8,000 streamed over the Austrian border to Bavaria on Wednesday alone. Germany is struggling to cope with the arrival of an expected 800,000 to 1 million migrants this year, many from war zones in the Middle East, and officials are openly worrying about Read more [...]

Image copyright EPA Image caption Some 6,000 people arrived in the Passau area alone on Thursday, police said Germany is to restrict the number of entry points for migrants arriving via Austria, in a bid to control the flow as thousands Read more [...]

Bilaterals with India around 15% of Indo-German trade In a bid to woo more investments, Bavaria, one the largest states of Germany with Munich as its capital and Germany’s strongest and fastest growing economy, aims to invest €2 billion Read more [...]

BERLIN, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Germany and Austria have agreed on Friday to limit the number of border crossing points for refugees to five in order to better deal with the refugee flow, according to German media reports. A spokesperson for the German Interior Ministry told DPA that refugees who enter Germany through Austria would be brought across the German-Austrian border to the southern German state of Bavaria via only five crossing points in the future. Transfer and control points, the spokesperson Read more [...]

AFP BERLIN (AFP-Jiji) — With only two months to go before the copyright of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” expires, debate is raging over whether the anti-Semitic manifesto should again be published in Germany, where all reprints have been halted since the defeat of the Nazis. Authorities in the southern Bavaria region were handed the copyright by Allied forces after World War II. For seven decades, they have refused to allow it to be republished out of respect for victims of the Nazis and to prevent Read more [...]

Less welcome than they were BAVARIA has long taken pride in being different from other Teutonic places: warm, flamboyant and hostile to anybody who tries to incorporate the region into a bigger, centralised realm—from Charlemagne in the eighth century to Otto von Bismarck in the 19th. At certain times, including most of the past few decades, its idiosyncrasy was a harmless cultural joke; at others, it has had real political consequences. This week felt like a moment of transition from the Read more [...]

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's police chief has said that the uncontrolled influx of refugees into the country posed a domestic security threat as more than 8,000 streamed over the Austrian border to Bavaria on Wednesday alone. Germany is struggling to cope with the arrival of an expected 800,000 to 1 million migrants this year, many from war zones in the Middle East, and officials are openly worrying about a potential rise in right-wing radicalism amongst Germans. "The Read more [...]

FRANKFURT German state-owned landesbank lender BayernLB [BAYLB.UL] said Austria would pay it 1.23 billion euros ($1.3 billion) to settle a dispute over Austrian "bad bank" Heta [HAABI.UL].BayernLB, 75 percent owned by Bavaria, bought a majority in what was then Hypo Alpe Adria for 1.6 billion euros in 2007, only to have it nationalized by Austria two years later after a Balkan expansion spree went awry.The failure of Hypo, whose assets Heta is winding down, had sparked multiple lawsuits in Austria Read more [...]

In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse newspaper, he accused Austria of failing to coordinate the influx of refugees at its borders with Bavaria. “Unfortunately, it’s much worse, it’s so bad that even Bavaria couldn’t have predicted it”. Merkel has insisted there will be no limits and that Germany can cope. “Also, a fence has a gate”, Read more [...]

With only two months to go before the copyright of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf expires, debate is raging over whether the anti-Semitic manifesto should again be published in Germany, where all reprints have been halted since the defeat of the Nazis. Authorities in the southern Bavaria region were handed the copyright by Allied forces after World War II. For seven decades, they have refused to allow it to be republished out of respect for victims of the Nazis and to prevent incitement of hatred. But Read more [...]