German Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit the White House next week

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel leads the weekly Cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) President Trump will host German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House on April 27, … Read More

Rappers who call for “another Holocaust” win top German music award

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Munich and Bavaria Jewish community leader says decision to award trophy to Kollegah and Bang is “devastating” Bang and Kollegah A German-Jewish leader condemned a music award given to two popular rappers as a “devastating” example of the normalcy of anti-Semitism … Read More

Syrian refugees leaving Germany over family reunification policy

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Syrians granted limited asylum but denied the right to fetch relatives are departing Germany for Turkey by using smugglers, say German media. The cases, if confirmed, bizarrely reverse the “Balkan route” drama of 2015. Thousands of Syrian refugees are attempting … Read More

Germany requests border control extension for Austrian frontier

Germany’s interior minister has defended a request to continue checks by accusing the EU of failing to protect its external borders. Germany is one of six countries that reimposed controls in the visa-free Schengen zone. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer … Read More

Do Angela Merkel and Germany have a joint future?

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The new German government is in operation since a few weeks now but there is trouble brewing afoot in Berlin. Unexpectedly, the right wing AfD is pretty quiet at the time. The CSU remains the arsonist Those who have hoped … Read More

Mourners lay flowers at scene where driver, 48, ‘with far-right links’ mowed down and killed two diners before shooting himself dead – as German authorities reveal attacker was ‘well known to police’

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  Driver ploughed through crowds outside the popular Grosser Kiepenkerl bar in Münster, west Germany  He shot himself dead inside the vehicle, leaving two others dead and 20 injured in the attack at 3.27pm  Reports claim he was Jens R., … Read More

Trump’s trade war against China could see allies in Macron and Merkel

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File photo of French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. REUTERS BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron will attempt a pincer movement on Donald Trump, with China emerging as the likely target of … Read More

Thousands of deportations fail due to lack of papers

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Last year there were 65,000 people whose lack of travel documents prevented them from being deported from Germany. Now, though, people who don’t cooperate in obtaining new passports will be punished. Then 41 and from Nigeria, John (not his real … Read More

Angela Merkel is beleaguered but she is far from finished

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As she begins her fourth and final term as Germany’s chancellor, her party remains Germany’s strongest, and she is more popular than the party. Germany’s economy will continue to expand. Unfortunately, Europe and the world need more leadership than a … Read More

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