What started out as an order in the duchy of Munich became Bavaria’s law of the land on April 23, 1516, after reunification.In 1871 Bavaria insisted on national acceptance before unification with Germany, ending the market for beer from Northern Germany which contained spices and cherries.The law limits the ingredients in brewing beer to water, barley, and hops. Yeast was later added for its role in fermentation.It was originally introduced to prevent wheat and rye needed for bread being used for Read more [...]

Picture: Focus Information Agency Sofia. “Bavaria has always strived to good cooperation with Bulgaria.” That is what State Minister of the Interior, Public Works and Transport of the German State of Bavaria Free State Joachim Herrmann, said after signed a Declaration for Police Cooperation, a reporter of FOCUS News Agency announced. Deputy Prime Minister Rumyana Bachvarova signed the Declaration on behalf of Bulgaria. Minister Joachim Herrmann said that Read more [...]

Picture: Focus Information Agency Sofia. Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior Rumyana Bachvarova and State Minister of the Interior, Public Works and Transport of the German State of Bavaria Free State Joachim Herrmann signed a Declaration of Police Cooperation, a reporter of FOCUS News Agency announced. The ceremony took place at the Council of Ministers. Minister Joachim Herrmann is on two-day visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of Deputy Prime Read more [...]

Merkel was said to have made her comments during a meeting with her conservative allies in Bavaria. Members of the CSU, the Bavarian sister party to Merkel's Chrstian Democrats, said she had criticized the decision by Vienna to limit the number of people allowed to claim asylum there this year. Austrian authorities want to limit the number to less than half of the 90,000 claiming asylum in the country in 2015. Two participants who attended the discussions in Kreuth near Munich told journalists Read more [...]

* Says won't help bring EU-wide solution on migrants * Merkel under pressure to limit migrant influx * At odds over strategy with Bavarian coalition ally (changes slug, releads with Merkel, adds Gabriel, quotes) By Irene Preisinger KREUTH, Germany, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Germany said on Wednesday Austria's decision to cap the number of refugees it will let in and tighten border controls was "not helpful" to Read more [...]

Merkel has already been under pressure for her original declaration that German's doors were open to refugees from Syria, leading to 1.1 million refugees registering in 2015. The record number of arrivals — five times that of 2014 — included 428,468 Syrians, 154,046 Afghans, followed by 121,662 Iraqis. The number included just under 3,000 Moroccans and Algerians. The sheer volume had created a huge administrative backlog, the ministry admitted, which has reached over 470,000. Merkel's Read more [...]

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Heirs of Felix Mendelssohn will not recoup a Pablo Picasso painting sold under duress by the composer's family during the Nazi era. A Supreme Court decision on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that stated the German state of Bavaria was entitled to sovereign immunity in ownership of the artwork even though it was sold in the U.S. Picasso's "Madame Soler," valued at about $100 million, was sold in 1934 under the Nazi regime by Berlin banker Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to German Read more [...]

News - National | 2016-01-20Page no: 1Dead German women identifiedby Luqman CloeteTHE German mother and her daughter, believed to have committed suicide at the Fish River Canyon early this month, came from a small village called Cronheim in Bavaria.A German community newspaper, Altmuehlbote, identified the 47-year-old mother as Cornelia P but could not identify the 29-year-old daughter. The Namibian has however established that the two booked at the Canyon Village Lodge as Cornelia Elisabeth Hirschbeck, Read more [...]

 Email  Print Dotted with fairy tale castles, graced by medieval towns, with dark mountain forests and lush, rolling meadows in between, Bavaria offers lucky travelers to its interior a trip across time. Straubing - Theresien square with city tower © German National Tourist Office It isn’t really about voyaging across the planet. Nowadays, Read more [...]