About a third of refugees arriving in Germany who claim to be from Syria are actually not from that country, a spokesman for the German interior ministry has said. “Thirty percent of those asylum-seekers who claim to be Syrian are not Syrians according to this estimate,” Tobias Plate said at[…]
One million people may arrive in Germany seeking refugee status this year, up from the record 800,000 arrivals its government had earlier predicted, vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said. “There are many signs that Germany this year will take in not 800,000 refugees, as forecast by the interior ministry, but one[…]
Germany re-imposed border controls on Sunday after Europe’s most powerful nation acknowledged it could scarcely cope with thousands of asylum seekers arriving every day. A day before deeply divided European Union ministers tackle the migrant crisis, the U.N. refugee agency also called on every member state to take in a[…]
OPINION by Noah Barkin – Returning from her summer break in mid-August, German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised some eyebrows by describing Europe’s refugee problem as a bigger challenge than the Greece crisis, which had overshadowed all else in the first half of 2015. No one in Germany is questioning her[…]
Struggling to cope with record numbers of asylum seekers, Germany told its European partners on Monday they too must take in more refugees, as police in Hungary used pepper spray on desperate migrants who broke out of a reception center at the border. Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking after a weekend[…]
France’s President Francois Hollande has announced his country will take in 24,000 refugees over the next two years, while it is understood Germany will take 31,000 additional people under a European plan which is strongly opposed by Hungary. The figure revealed by the French leader on Monday represents France’s share of[…]
Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as European Union asylum rules collapsed under the strain of a wave of migration unprecedented in the EU. As thousands of men, women and children – many fleeing Syria’s civil war – continued to arrive from the east,[…]
A school sports hall converted into an emergency refugee shelter has caught fire in the German town of Nauen, in what police suspect was an arson attack. The hall in the eastern town of Nauen, located 15km west of the capital Berlin, had been redesigned to house about 130 asylum[…]
OPINION by Geoffrey Aronson – Refugees are by definition unlucky. They have been uprooted from homes and families, suffering the horror and tragedies that befall those tossed like flotsam atop the waves of history. They have lost what much of the Arab world as a whole risks losing as a[…]
The German foreign ministry has warned about possible attacks on Istanbul’s underground rail network and bus stops in the wake of Turkey’s assault on Kurdish armed groups in northern Iraq. “There could be increased attack activity by the PKK,” the foreign ministry said in a statement on its website on[…]
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