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 [...]

FREILASSING, Germany (AFP) - Honking cars with stressed drivers banked up for kilometres (miles) at an Austrian-German road crossing Monday, hours after Berlin reimposed border checks in the face of a massive refugee influx. Two German police officers checked the identity papers of the steady stream of drivers and passengers on a bridge where the traffic bottle-necked into a single lane. "It's like being back in the 1980s," complained one of the drivers caught up in the snarl, 71-year-old German Read more [...]

DOVER, Del. (AP) - Gov. Jack Markell is leading a trade mission to Germany in hopes of drumming up business for Delaware.    Officials say a primary goal of the trip, which starts Tuesday, is to strengthen ties with small- and medium-sized businesses in Bavaria, and that Markell will meet with business and government leaders in Munich and Berlin.    The visit follows the launch of a state initiative this year focused on helping Delaware companies increase exports, building on Delaware's global Read more [...]

Our client is a well established privately owned manufacturer of character plush and stationery located in Northern Bavaria. The company creates its own characters as well as taking character licenses, and it develops up to 1000 new SKUs each year, with new launches each month. This enormous volume of product development is accomplished by a team of 20 designers and developers . A Director of Design Development is to be recruited who will direct, lead and manage this vital work. Read more [...]

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BERLIN (AP) — The latest developments as European governments rush to cope with the huge number of people moving across Europe. All times local (CET): ___ 1:30 p.m. Austria's interior minister says the country will follow Germany in introducing border controls to manage the flow of people coming in from Hungary. Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said the Alpine nation "will proceed as Germany does." Speaking in Brussels, she said the checks would be introduced "as soon as possible" on the Read more [...]

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Sunday announced that Germany temporarily reinstates border control amid the ongoing refugee crisis. Border controls will take place mainly in Bavaria, the minister said. "The aim is to limit the refugees influx." "The action will not solve all problems. We need more time and a degree of order on our borders," said Thomas de Maiziere. De Maiziere also said that the introduction of border controls is compatible with the Schengen Agreement. Under the Read more [...]

Germany will reinstate controls at its southern border with Germany and Austria, the media reported. The Bavarian state government has asked for mobilisation of federal police to accomplish the task, Xinhua cited the German newspaper Bild as reporting on Sunday. The German government would send 21 groups of hundreds of riot police to Bavaria to help secure the border, said the report. The police will also expand their dragnet controls to the borders with the Czech Republic and Poland in order to Read more [...]

BERLIN, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Sunday announced that Germany temporarily reinstates border control amid the ongoing refugee crisis. Border controls will take place mainly in Bavaria, the minister said. "The aim is to limit the refugees influx." "The action will not solve all problems. We need more time and a degree of order on our borders," said Thomas de Maiziere. De Maiziere also said that the introduction of border controls is compatible with the Schengen Read more [...]

Migrants and refugees arrive at a tent village at the Donnersberg bridge close to the central train station in Munich, Germany, yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and others are still making their way slowly across Europe, seeking shelter where they can, taking a bus or a train where one is available, walking where it isn’t. — AP MUNICH: Authorities in Munich said they were overwhelmed by the influx of refugees streaming into the Bavarian capital, with more than Read more [...]