Horst Seehofer

Albania, Kosovo Top German 2015 Asylum List

Albanians were the largest single national group seeking asylum in Germany after Syrians last year, according to a German ministry report.

Some 54,762 people from Albania sought asylum in Germany in 2015. Kosovars made up the next largest group, filing 37,095 requests. Citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq came fourth and fifth.

Bavaria PM Links Montenegrin to Paris Attacks

The premier of the German region of Bavaria, Horst Seehofer, on Saturday said they suspected that a Montenegrin national arrested last week with weapons in southern Germany was linked to the Islamist terrorists who killed more than 128 people in Paris on Friday night.

"There is reason to believe that this is possibly linked" to the attacks, Seehofer said.

Merkel warns of war if Germany closes its borders

German chancellor Angela Merkel speaking to supporters of her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) in Darmstadt on Monday she defended the deal on transit zone and said that if Germany closed its border it could result in military conflicts adding that Social Democrats (SPD) need to support the transit zones.

Germany and Refugees

No good deed goes unpunished.

Two months ago  Chancellor Angela Merkel amazed the world by opening Germany's borders to all the genuine refugees (mostly Syrians and Afghans) who could get that far. She must have known her own people well, because  ordinary Germans showed extraordinary sympathy and generosity to the new arrivals. 

Germany's Merkel 'to Run for 4th Term' in 2017

Angela Merkel will seek a fourth term as head of Germany's government in the 2017 elections, Der Spiegel reports.

Sources quoted by the prominent weekly suggest that Chancellor Merkel has already discussed her campaign with members of the leadership of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU), but is not to announce her bid before the beginning of 2016.

Vucic wants Germany to give less money to asylum seekers

Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic's proposal to provide false asylum seekers with smaller financial support "is more applicable in practice than some others."

This is what Bavarian Minister-President Horst Seehofer said on Monday after his meeting with Vucic in Munich, speaking about other proposals that emerged in Germany in the ongoing debate on migrants.

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