German police said Tuesday they had registered about 2,000 new migrants and arrested over 40 traffickers in the southern state of Bavaria since border controls were reintroduced late Sunday to slow a record wave of asylum-seekers.

FREILASSING, Germany, Sept 15, 2015 (AFP) – Rolling hills give way to fog-shrouded Alpine peaks at the latest German migrant flashpoint, with war-scarred refugees unbowed by Berlin’s shock decision to impose border checks. Around 1,000 asylum-seekers have crossed the frontier from Austria since Germany announced its policy U-turn Sunday, albeit at a slower pace than in recent weeks, federal police spokesman Rainer Scharf told AFP in the southern German town of Freilassing. About 10 suspected Read more [...]

3 hours ago A Guide to Oktoberfest 2015 Oktoberfest 2015 is the world’s biggest beer festival and another great reason to visit Munich and beautiful Bavaria this autumn. Munich’s Oktoberfest ceremonially cracks open the first barrel at 12 noon on Saturday 19th September this year. There’s been some talk recently (when we say ‘talk’ we mean ‘whining’) about the two week long celebration of brewed deliciousness, fish-on-sticks and Lederhosen becoming, Read more [...]

by Reuters15 Sep 20150 BERLIN (Reuters) – The interior minister of the southern German state of Bavaria said on Monday that temporary border controls could remain in place “for weeks at least” as the country grapples with an unprecedented influx of refugees. Europe’s largest and richest economy has been a magnet for many people fleeing war and poverty in Syria and other parts of the Middle East and Africa, with most crossing the border from Austria into Bavaria. With Read more [...]

Freilassing (Germany): Around 1,000 migrants still arrived in southern Germany from Austria today despite a shock decision to reimpose border controls, German federal police said. Hundreds of refugees and migrants are still crossing the frontier, albeit at a slower pace than before the policy U-turn announced by Berlin yesterday, police spokesman Rainer Scharf told AFP in the southern German town of Freilassing. “The federal police department of Rosenheim has recorded around Read more [...]

Today’s focus: European countries, including Germany, stregthen security at their borders, wildfires destroy hundreds of buildings in California, Egyptian security forces accidentally kill tourists, and a Japanese volcano erupts in the “Ring of Fire”. Dozens of helmet-wearing officers, backed by soldiers and police on horseback, stood on a railway track near Roszke where tens of thousands of migrants have been making their way into the European Union in recent weeks. The border controls Read more [...]

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Elchingen, Germany — Elchingen, in the German state of Bavaria is not used to foreigners. And when townspeople in the village, hemmed in by corn fields, found out in late 2013 that they were going to be hosts to dozens of asylum seekers, many fought back, going door-to-door gathering some 800 signatures to say “no.”“I felt so ashamed to be an Elchingener,” says Renate Willbold-Vajagic, a local.So when asylum-seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Read more [...]

“The journey began on 9/11 and ended on 11/9,” said Jamil with a wry smile. A smuggler driver, contacted weeks earlier, rang on September 10th last year and asked, “Are you ready?” “When?” Jamil demanded. “Tomorrow.” EU agrees to relocate 120,000 refugees EU ministers fail to agree relocation Read more [...]

Many revelers at this year’s festivities may not even know that they’re in essence commemorating a wedding. Back in October 1810, Bavaria’s crown prince (the future King Ludwig I) married Princess Therese of Sachsen-Hildburghausen. Bavaria, in present-day southern Germany, had become a kingdom just four years earlier. So to build up national unity, the royal family invited all of Munich, the capital of Bavaria, to celebrate on the fields just outside the city gates. Over the course of six Read more [...]