Germany ‘Will Be Oblliged’ to Curb Migration Flow After Bavaria’s Threats

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German vice chancellor tries to calm coalition tensions over refugees

Germany's vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel on Saturday accused the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives of playing on "fears" over refugees.Gabriel, a member of the Social Democrats who, like the CSU, are coalition partners with Merkel's CDU, told the mass circulation Bild daily that Germany did not have a "drawbridge that we can raise" to prevent the flow of migrants.He hit out at the "panic" he said Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU) was trying to spread and accused Read more [...]

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In a statement on Friday the Bavarian government threatened to go to the German Constitutional Court to compel the federal government to impose a cap on asylum seekers.According to an interview with Bild newspaper, Seehofer said the state would take "self-defense measures to limit migration".At a Friday news conference in Munich, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said if Berlin fails to better control Germany's borders from a "mass influx" of migrants and asylum-seekers, Bavaria will introduce Read more [...]

Germany ‘Will Be Oblliged’ to Curb Migration Flow After Bavaria’s Threats

BERLIN (Sputnik) — On Friday, authorities in the southern German state of Bavaria slammed Chancellor Angela Merkel for "not doing enough to address the crisis on the southern German border." Bavaria is the entry point for hundreds of thousands of economic migrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East that have come to Germany since the start of the year. "The Berlin government will be obliged, despite all the criticism against us, to take measures to restrict migration. Read more [...]

1ST LEAD Bavarian leader takes dig at Merkel in widening row over migration By …

Berlin (dpa) - Bavaria‘s premier accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of "surrendering the state of law" on Saturday, deepening a rift within the chancellor‘s conservative bloc over how Germany should handle streams of migrants seeking safety and economic betterment."Simply saying a 3,000-kilometre border cannot be protected is a surrender of the state of law in the face of reality," Horst Seehofer said during a political event for Bavaria‘s Christian Social Union (CSU), the sister party Read more [...]

Migrant crisis: Bavaria threatens Merkel with court over refugees

The German state of Bavaria has threatened to take the Angela Merkel to court unless she curbs the influx of refugees. The Bavarian Minister-President Horst Seehofer said in an interview the state would take "self-defence measures to limit migration". The Bavarian government met in an emergency meeting on Friday 9 October to discuss measures that included "sending people back to the border with Austria". If the German government fails to deal reduce the number of migrants entering through the state, Read more [...]

German vice chancellor scolds Bavaria in political row over migration

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has reprimanded the southern federal state of Bavaria for threatening to file a lawsuit with the German Constitutional Court over migrant arrivals. Gabriel told the German daily newspaper Bild that any such legal action, if it were to be initiated by Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), the sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), would only incite panic and not solve anything. Gabriel told Bild on Saturday that trying Read more [...]

Merkel under pressure within Germany amid refugee crisis

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Merkel comes under increasing pressure within Germany amid refugee crisis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel may need to brace for a constitutional challenge, as the southern German state of Bavaria threatened in the refugee crisis with a complaint at Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Friday in Munich after a meeting of the cabinet. "If the federal government does not soon take effective measures in order to limit the further influx of asylum seekers and thereby impair national legal capacity of states, Bavaria reserves the right to use legal procedures at Germany's Read more [...]

Germany’s Bavaria threatens to close door on refugees

The Chancellor said that as head of a Christian party she refused to take part in a “competition” to discover “those who are the most unfriendly to refugees, will stop them coming in”. Seehofer told Bild newspaper that the meeting would examine how to integrate refugees. Seehofer stopped short of a previous threat to close Bavaria’s borders – which as the state’s minister-president he does not have the legal power to do – while saying if the government did not act to improve Read more [...]