Iraqi couple Ahmad (L), 27, Alia, 26, and their four months old baby Adam pose while walking on a railway line near the northern Serbian town of Horgos. When the Iraqi refugee couple who survived a hellish journey through the Balkans crossed the border into Germany with their baby, they celebrated that their dream of a “beautiful Read more [...]

Gov. Jack Markell(Photo: File photo)TagsJack MarkellGov.Jack Markell heads to Germany next week for his first foreign trade mission in two years.Starting Tuesday, Markell will be overseas to meet with small and medium-sized businesses to tout the advantages of doing business and incorporating in Delaware, and to try and secure increased investment from one of the world's largest economies.The trip, which will cost $50,000, includes numerous meetings with companies, entrepreneurs and startups in the Read more [...]

Muslim fundamentalists waste no time radicalising their latest Islamist recruits, approaching new arrivals as soon as they arrive in Europe, according to German security services. A spokesman for the Bavarian security service said Islamists were taking advantage of immigrants who were disorientated or without friends in their new country, reports TheLocal.de. He said of the situation: “Salafists are trying to talk with unaccompanied youths who have come to Germany without their Read more [...]

In just a week, a single photograph of dead child has become iconic. The image of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, who died en route from Syria to Europe — his small body washed ashore on a Turkish beach, his red T-shirt, his water-soaked shoes, and his twisted, lifeless arm — have come to represent all that is broken in Europe's response to the ongoing refugee crisis.But likewise, in the last week, another image has emerged as an unlikely counterpoint to this: That of the good and grinning German Read more [...]

Photo by Simon Goldsworthy in the Londonist Flickr poolIf ever there was a stereotypical doff of the trachten hat to Bavaria, it's Oktoberfest — that annual insanity of lager-soaked, lederhosen-saturated, cleavage-steeped, oompah-marinaded carousel. This year Oktoberfest happens in Munich from 19 September-4 October, but what has that got to do with London? you rightly ask.  Well, even as we speak, breweries over London are busily crafting their own beers for the occasion, plus there are a number Read more [...]

Berlin (dpa) - The flood of refugees reaching Germany is spiralling out of control, senior politicians of Bavaria‘s Christian Social Union (CSU) said, warning of "devastating consequences" in remarks published in Friday‘s German press."We have lost control," Hans-Peter Friedrich, a former interior minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s broad coalition government told the Passauer Neue Presse daily.Friedrich‘s remarks were seen as a clear indication of a major rift opening up on the Read more [...]

PHOTO: AFP BERLIN: Muslim radicals in Germany are trying to recruit some of the growing numbers of asylum seekers reaching the country, according to intelligence services quoted by the German news agency DPA. The extremists “are trying to approach the young unaccompanied refugees, who arrive in our country without their families and are particularly looking for contacts and support,” a spokesperson for the intelligence service in the southern state of Bavaria told DPA. Read: German Read more [...]

Viator brings travelers to the heart of Oktoberfest with reserved tent seating, tours of the festival grounds, multi-day itineraries including visits to famous breweries and other top sights in Munich, and more. San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) September 10, 2015 Every year, millions of travelers come together with millions of liters of the world’s finest beer in a Bavarian meadow to celebrate Oktoberfest. To help travelers enjoy this 205-year old tradition (Sept. 19 – Oct. 4), Viator, Read more [...]

For all its progressive thinking, Munich tends to look to the past when it comes to lifestyle. The capital of meat-eating, beer-swilling Bavaria is a place where dinner takes the shape of knödel dumplings and pig’s trotters, washed down with local beers by the liter. And although the residents ham it up for Oktoberfest (September 19-October 4 this year), you’ll catch them breaking out the trachten—as they call their traditional outfits—for special occasions year-round. It’s all done Read more [...]

Beervana, meet Bavaria. From Mt. Angel to downtown Portland, Oregonians throw some mean Oktoberfest parties each September, solidifying our place among the planet's best destinations for beer, while paying homage to the country that made it famous first. Between watching films at Portland's German Film Festival and drinking fresh brews at the Hood River Hops Fest, head out to one of our local Oktoberfest celebrations, cozy up next to a stranger on a wooden bench and drink merrily to the Read more [...]