Angela Merkel and Bavarian state premier and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehof

A €160m loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) will help to finance the construction of a 33 km motorway section in Southern Germany. A total of €410m is provided by loans from KfW IPEX-Bank, commercial banks and the EIB. Connecting Pastetten and Heldenstein, the section will be part of the A94 project which, once finished, will improve the traffic flow between the Bavarian capital Munich and the Austrian city of Linz. The 4-lane motorway section will be built on the basis Read more [...]

The CSU, the Bavarian sister party to Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), has ramped up pressure on the chancellor over her open-door refugee policy that saw 1.1 million migrants arrive in Germany last year alone.CSU leader Horst Seehofer told Der Spiegel magazine in a weekend interview that he would send the federal government a written request within the next two weeks to restore "orderly conditions" at the nation's borders.Bavaria is the main entry point to Germany for refugees."I Read more [...]

Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer threatens court action on Germany's Angela Merkel and her government over the open door refugee policy.  Reuters reports that Premier Seehofer's Bavaria, a conservative state that borders Austria to the south, is the main entry point for migrants and refugees.  It is also home to Seehofer's Christian Social Union (CSU), sister party to Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), making them both close political allies.Like Us on Facebook Premier Seehofer Read more [...]

Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer threatens court action on Germany's Angela Merkel and her government over the open door refugee policy.  Reuters reports that Premier Seehofer's Bavaria, a conservative state that borders Austria to the south, is the main entry point for migrants and refugees.  It is also home to Seehofer's Christian Social Union (CSU), sister party to Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), making them both close political allies.Like Us on Facebook Premier Seehofer Read more [...]

Germany should completely close its borders to refugees if it is to solve to migrant crisis, a former President of Bavaria has said. Edmund Stoiber — an elder statesmen in the Christian Social Union (CSU), Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian sister party — said Germany had to change direction fast, and gave the Chancellor just two months to solve the problem. “Angela Merkel must now change her position, otherwise there will be disastrous consequences for Germany and Europe,” Mr Stoiber Read more [...]

And back she goes again. On Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel is heading to the Bavarian town of Wildbad-Kreuth for the second time this year. Two weeks ago – for the first time as chancellor – she faced the regional committee meeting of her sister party, Bavaria's Christian Socialist Union (CSU. Now – also for the first time as chancellor – she's attending the CSU's closed conference in the Bavarian state parliament. She needs to get her message across. Germany is boiling. Much of the Read more [...]

WhatsApp Chief Executive Jan Koum at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) conference in Bavaria. Image Credit: WSJ Popular mobile messaging service WhatsApp has announced that it will drop its US$0.99 (S$1.42) annual subscription fee, and be made available for free from now on. The Facebook-owned service, which has a user base of 900 million users worldwide, is a messaging service for mobile devices, and can also be used to make voice calls over a phone’s Internet connection. Read more [...]

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of tour company Butterfield Robinson next summer as the organization's founders lead six-day bike rides through the pastoral villages and medieval towns of Bavaria, Germany.  Co-founders George and Martha Butterfield and Sidney Robinson will guide two groups, completing a journey that was a half-century in the making. Highlights include bike rides through forests, fields and villages, visits to an organic cheese farm, a mountaintop cable Read more [...]

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of tour company Butterfield Robinson next summer as the organization's founders lead six-day bike rides through the pastoral villages and medieval towns of Bavaria, Germany.  Co-founders George and Martha Butterfield and Sidney Robinson will guide two groups, completing a journey that was a half-century in the making. Highlights include bike rides through forests, fields and villages, visits to an organic cheese farm, a mountaintop cable Read more [...]