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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Nov. 20 that she would seek a fourth term in elections next year to defend democratic principles in the face of looming threats at home and abroad.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party suffered its second electoral blow in two weeks on Sept. 18, slumping to its lowest level since 1990 in a Berlin state vote that rejected her open-door refugee policy.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has refused to step back from her migrant policy despite frustrations at her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's humiliating loss in a regional vote, instead praising the European Union's recent deal with Turkey.

A nationalist, anti-migration party powered into three German state legislatures in elections on March 13 held amid divisions over Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal approach to the refugee crisis. Merkel's conservatives lost to center-left rivals in two states they had hoped to win.

Three German states hold elections for regional parliaments on Sunday which are expected to show strong performance of The Alternative for Germany (AFD), a right-wing group opposed to Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door policy on refugees.

Two ministers from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government have voiced support for Turkey's European Union bid, two days before elections in three federal states will prove if Merkel has lost ground or not due to her open-door migrant policy that came under criticisim especially from nationalist parties.

A German court has ruled against deportation of refugees to Bulgaria if they had been registered there first upon entering the European Union because Bulgaria wasn't a safe country of origin.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Jan. 30 tried to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees, insisting that asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended. 

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) ruling party of Germany is critical of Greece again reports Deutsche Welle. German general secretary of CDU’s financial council Wolfgang Steiger lashed out against Athens stating that the government is not sticking to the time chart of reforms.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the Minister-President of Bavaria Horst Seehofer are expected to discuss the refugee crisis during the latter's visit to Bulgaria on Friday.

Bavaria is the first German state on the way of refugees coming from the Western Balkans route.