Merkel has rejected an upper limit on those seeking refuge in Germany. Bavaria wants migrants to be forced to settle in the first European Union country in which they arrive. ‘Refugee inflow should be limited’ . “We need to be very vigilant, so I repeat my demand to Berlin to limit immigration”, he added, calling for better protection of the EU’s external borders. He said the influx was not posing a terrorism threat, but “it’s a question of criminality in the broadest sense”. He says Read more [...]

The Manchester Oktoberfest festival has been forced to move venue due to high demand. Organisers have confirmed that all tickets purchased for the event, originally planned for Albert Square , will now be valid for the new First Street location. The festival will celebrate all things Bavarian culture, including Oktoberfest is the annual celebration of Bavarian culture, including: German beer served in giant stein glasses, customary food, Schlager music and, of course, lederhosen. And there will Read more [...]

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--Xplore Technologies Corp., (NASDAQ: XPLR), manufacturer of the world’s broadest range of high-quality rugged tablet computers, today announced its chairman and CEO, Philip Sassower, will present at the fourth annual OktoberINVESTFest on October 13,2015 at the New York Academy of Sciences, New York City. The conference is hosted by Invest in Bavaria, the investment and location marketing organization of the Read more [...]

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Since September the SolarMax group (Ellzee, Germany) manufactures solar photovoltaic (PV) string and central inverters of the brand SolarMax for grid connected solar power systems in the Bavarian town Burgau. The group, which has been established in July 2015, overtook all the trademark and production equipment of the insolvent Sputnik Engineering AG (Biel, Switzerland). Following the building up of the five-language hotline and the start of the service network, the SolarMax group transferred Read more [...]

The German government is set to announce how and where transit zones will be established to deal with migrants. The aim is to help authorities cope with the huge numbers and to decide who should remain in Germany. “Transit zones are not a German invention they are planned according to European Union guidelines. And I think, facing this situation we have, we shouldn’t exclude any possibility when it is better to decide between people we want to save and have to save because they are being pursued, Read more [...]

MoreHow Oktoberfest Was Celebrated in the 1960sGermany Ensures the Refugee Crisis Doesn’t Stop OktoberfestThese days, Oktoberfest is a 16-day beer-for-all at Munich’s historic fairgrounds—but when it got its start 105 years ago, it was simply the world’s best wedding reception. When Bavaria’s Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen on this day, Oct. 12, in 1810, Munich residents celebrated with horse races and several days of drinking and feasting. It went Read more [...]

If refugees who wish to remain in Germany are sent back to Austria, then you have to expect riots ultimately. Speaking after the Bavarian Cabinet meeting, Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the state could consider emergency measures such as returning refugees to Austria if Berlin does not act. The Bavarian government demanded to reject refugees directly at the German border, if the other EU states failed to meet their European commitments and to take over the incoming refugees. The Read more [...]

Ms Merkel chose to answer growing criticism of policies which have allowed an estimated 300,000 refugees to enter Germany over the past month, by appearing as the sole guest on a political chat show chaired by Germany’s ARD television channel journalist Anne Will. Nearly one in two Germans (48 percent) believe that Merkel’s decision to open the country’s doors to those fleeing war was wrong. “If the requirements of the EU’s Schengen and Dublin agreements can not be promptly implemented Read more [...]

The Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), threatened to take the federal government to the Constitutional Court over its refugee policy last week. Thomas de Maizière described the violence as shameful and said the figure represented “a massive increase of xenophobic attacks against asylum seekers”. About 20 percent of the refugees that have come to Germany are Syrians, with about 18 percent coming Read more [...]